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 […]
Bookshelf Audit
Look through your books and think about who is represented in the stories you read.
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 […]
Colour Portrait
Making a colour self portrait helps us to recognise that we all have different coloured skin, and this is something that makes us special.
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.
Animal Farm: Celebrating Difference
Explore how our differences are our superpower, and no one is the best at everything!
Occupy / Den Building
Learn about how to occupy spaces and squatting spaces as a tactic. Learn about laws about squatting. Have fun and build a den – feel ownership over the space.
The Bunny and the Rabbit
An activity which uses storytelling to think about how to overcome prejudices.
Lava Pit
Tell the group that they are escaping a dragon’s lair and must cross a steaming pit of lava to get away. They need to get from one side of the room to the other but can only step on the stepping stones provided. The space that the Elfins need to cross must be considerably longer […]
Follow My Leader
Group game, one child leads an action and another child has to guess the “leader”
One two Three
Counting to three is not always easy