Map Reading Skills
Learn more about map reading skills, symbols, contours and grid references
Secret Treasure Box
This activity is good to do at the end of a term or academic year. This activity will help your group stretch their imaginations and making gifts for each other, bring the group together by focussing on shared memories of past achievements, celebrate and recognise what they have achieved together and evaluate things they would […]
Stereotype Labels
Game to look at how we interact with people
Make Your Mark
What to do Divide the group into groups of four or five. Give each group a sticker and tell them to place it in the highest place possible, as quickly aspossible. No climbing on furniture – just using each other. Now give them five minutes or so to plan and then do the activity again. […]
Leader’s Challenge
This activity will encourage Pioneers and their Group Leaders to think about ways in which they all learn new skills from each other, skills acquired at Woodcraft and to have fun setting up a tv-style quiz! What to do Explain to the Pioneers that they are going to challenge the leaders today. Create a number […]
Goldilocks and Baby Bear
Through a conflict between the fairy tale characters Goldilocks and Baby Bear, participants discover the steps of a mediation process.
Bookshelf Audit
Look through your books and think about who is represented in the stories you read.
Check your Privilege
In this activity young people explore what privilege means, and what it means to check your privilege. They look at white privilege in particular, and think about how this manifests in their lives (or not).
Build a Miniature Campsite
Help your group prepare to go to camp by making a camp for teddies, lego figures or dolls before you go. Before you start Prepare the group by asking them to bring a toy to ‘go to camp’ to group night. Leaders can bring some spares in case people forget. Have different craft options on […]
Values and Valuables: A Balloon Debate
Discussion about individuals and groups values
A Good Yarn
Discuss your own life timeline to help think about how past events shape the future, and plan what the group can do to see the future they want.
Mini Zine
Find out what a zine is and be inspired by their radical history – then make your own mini zine on a subject you care about.