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| Incident hike for a meeting |
Activities to be held at people’s houses / gardens or local park etc. Need four to six stations, each within 5 minutes walk or so of each other. Provide a street map with addresses for each group - can they bring their own? Or use a site like multimap or Ordnance Survey (both UK based) to get a printed map for each patrol - laminate before use if possible. If there are four stations and four patrols, patrol one goes to stations 1, 2, 3 and 4 in that order. Patrol two goes to 2, 3, 4, 1, patrol three goes to 3, 4, 1, 2 and patrol four goes to 4, 1, 2, 3. Make sure this is clear so they don't overlap at a theme. Depending on the area each patrol could be unsupervised between stations, or an adult (parent?) could accompany each group. Keep an adult at a central point (eg. meeting hall) at all times, particularly if the patrols are unaccompanied. Make clear if they have trouble they can go to any of the stations or back to base. Base all the stations round a theme? Eg. food! (4-8) or camp (1, 4, …) Scoring Marks out of (say) 10 at each station. Extra marks for route – mark on map? Points for getting there promptly! Example timetable: 19:30 Meeting starts. Explain what’s happening. Emphasize staying together, road safety, only going to given addresses. Back to hall if any problems – there will be a guider / first aider there at all times. Be PROMPT leaving activities, particularly the last one. If you meet other patrols, no discussion allowed! 19:40 Send patrols off, each to a different station 19:45 First activity. Finishes 19:55 20:00 Second activity. Finishes 20:10 20:15 Third activity. Finishes 20:25 20:30 Fourth activity. Finishes 20:40 Back to hall. Should be back by 20:45 Collect score cards (brought back by last patrol at each station), add up scores, give out prizes! Incident ideas: Ideas in italics are my 4 current favourites! 1. pack a rucsack provide – rucsack, stuff to pack, including inappropriate items. Points for neatly folded clothes, suitable ordering, leaving out inappropriate stuff. Maybe one for camp & one for an indoor sleepover. 2. Identify models or silhouettes of cars 3. Music Provide a tape recorder (with new batteries) get them to record a song with instruments provided – paper combs, dustbin lids, bottles with water, etc. Could provide entertaining listening for next week! 4. Cooking on a fire Have a fire already lit (barbecue?) and provide flour, water. Challenge them to cook something using no man-made utensils at all. Leave green sticks lying handy! 5. Get peeling - Each member of the patrol to peel a potato or apple, blindfolded! 6. Taste test 7. Make a cup of tea in an egg cup 8. Build a tower to support an egg 9. Devise a method of timing 1 minute as accurately as possible They can use their watches to test it. Staff check it’s accuracy with a stop watch. Provide all sorts of stuff including useless! 10. Catching exercise Put guides on one side of a wall & a leader (or the PL) on the other. Throw balls over. Points for how many they can catch. 11. Fill a matchbox With as many whole items as possible in the time. At the park? 12. Safety inspection Set up a kitchen / garden / campsite with many faults. They have to spot as many as possible. 13. First Aid Set up a first aid incident to deal with. Remember to notify police etc. if the public are likely to see it. Ideas: person lying on floor at back of house with ladder – obviously fallen off while cleaning windows, etc. Broken “glass” in kitchen. Car accident. 14. Code Solve a code to reveal a message (and carry out the instructions?) Make it simple – eg a-> b, c -> d etc. Or over the top text message code! thnx for thanks, etc. 15. Navigate in fog! Basic compass directions: If you have some really large sacks (not plastic!) or cardboard boxes, then you can put one over a pair of Guides, so they can see their feet, but not where they are going. This is a good simulation of fog. You can then send them off on an easy course - say a triangle, and see who ends up nearest to where they should be. Best done out of doors in a LARGE open area, 'cos they're bound to go the wrong way! |