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Below are some programme ideas that we've used in the past.
| Activity | Nights | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| Backwoods Cooking | 1 | Probably best if you can arrive early and set fires up as they take a while to bed down. |
| Bike night | 2 | Spend one night doing basic bike maintenance and talking about road safety. On the second night get them cycling around some quiet roads. |
| Chess | 1 | If you set the boards up in a line then the winner of each game moves one way and the loser the other. |
| Climbing / Abseiling | 1 | |
| Cook a Breakfast | 1 | Cook and serve a simple fried breakfast. |
| Fire Lighting | 1 | Can be combined with campfire songs or cooking. If cooking then beware that it takes Cubs a long time to get a fire lit and ready for cooking. |
| First Aid | - | Activities include CPR, making emergency calls, dealing with minor cuts and burns and wasp stings. Can also get them to act out an incident. |
| Healthy Eating | 2 | Explain about good / bad food and how food is labeled. Plan a healthy menu for a weekend camp. Talk about food hygene. |
| International Cooking | 1 | Examples include pasta making, curry, Chineese, paella and kebabs. |
| Knots | 2 | Learn some basic knots and make a small knotting board using string and cocktail sticks. |
| Music Making | - | Make "mucical" instruments from things such as youghurt pots, cans, bottles etc. |
| Orienteering | 1 | Get them to find various control cards using map and compass |
| Road Safety | 1 | Walk through town concentrating on road safety. Possibly end up at a park for games. Traffic sign bingo (you give the meaning they cross off the sign on a card) also works. |
| Rock Pooling | 1 | Check the tide times! |
| Science | - | Examples include the effect of exercise on pulse / breathing rates, simple electronics, electromagnets, string telephones, rockets (these can either be done using lemonade bottles part filled with water then mounted on a foot pump or using film canisters, vinegar and Alka Seltzer tablets), fire triangle (put a small candle under an upturned glass and watch it go out) and making a simple compass from magnets floating in water. |
| Swimming | 1 | Visit local pool to work on Swimming badges |
| Tent Pitching | 1 | Useful to do before camp. Can be combined with a talk on tent care. |
| Tracking | 1 | Get them to lay and follow a track. Best done in woodland. Tracking symbols can be found in the old Cub Scout Handbook. |
| Wood Collecting | 1 | Teach them how to collect good firewood |
| World Faiths | - | Visit local places of worship or have people come and talk to the children about different religions. |
This is a copy of the programme we used for a 4 night summer camp at Bentley Copse.