Scouts
Whilst we are not meeting face to face we have plenty to keep the Scouts busy at home…
Orienteering

On the attached map there are twelve Way Points with their Grid Reference. Each Way Point is a lamp post. On each is an easily visible piece of masking tape with a number and two letters. Simply write them down.
You don’t have to do this all at once but they do make up a nice little walk.
We’ll meet on Zoom to go through the answers.
There will be prizes for those completing the challenge.
The route is along footpaths but it does cross roads so please be careful.
Go with an adult or with an adult’s permission
Taskmaster Challenge!

Step 2: Download the tracking sheet: Tracking Sheet
Step 3: Complete a challenge, tick it off and send photo of the outcome to a leader
How many challenges can you complete?
District Challenge
Sunflower Competition

Open to Beavers, Cubs, Scouts and any friends and family wishing to take part.
Camping at home

If you have a tent, get them to help you put it up and sort out their own sleeping area, as this goes towards badges too (have a look at the Outdoor Challenge requirements). And if you really want to go all out, why not cook outside too? Or at the very least toast a marshmallow over a candle 😉
How to view and update Badges at Home on OSM
- Login to OSM here: https://www.onlinescoutmanager.co.uk/login.php
- Click on your child’s name on the left
- Click on Badges
- You will then be able to see all the badges, just choose one to click on
- Once your child has completed some of the requirements, go back to the relevant badge and click on ‘Badges at home’
- You will then be able to upload photos and make comments about what have been done
Badge Ideas
Theme 1 : Photographer, Hobbies,Artist, Craft.
Research on the internet about the moon phases this month, work out how you can take some photos, draw a map of the moon naming the visible craters, then make a ink stamp out of a potato of the moon. See if you can see the meteor shower 20th – 22nd April from 10pm
Theme 2: Communicator, DIY, Artist, Writer
Communicator – Learn the Phonetic Alphabet, and SOS in Morse Code. Figure out a way to send SOS by Morse Code. DIY – Make a bug house in the garden/ back yard out of available material. Artist – Draw what ever used your bug house. Writer – keep a diary for 3 weeks of all the bugs. Send a message using the Phonetic Alphabet to describe one of the bugs.
Random Ideas!
Just on the off chance that anyone wants to give it a go. How many flights of stairs do you need to climb/decend to walk up Snowdon? Well here’s the calculator that you’ve been waiting for 🥴 https://www.homehikingcalculator.com/