| Healthy Lifestyles - Excercise and Fitness Out and about in meetings |
| Sandra's guide pages |
| Trails Get one patrol to lay a trail and others to follow at intervals while you make the most of only having half the guides at the hall! You could use tracking signs (see some signs on the British Guides in Foreign Countries site) or chalked arrows or even breadcrumbs. After dark try reflective tape and give the girls torches to spot it with. Scavenger hunt Give the girls a list of things to collect & send them out in groups. Make rules like boundaries, minimum number of girls in group and time limits clear. For a last minute scavenge tell them to bring something for each letter of the alphabet (give extra marks if anyone manages something for x or z!), or something for each letter of the phrase “Guides is great”. Scavenger hunts for older guides (on this site) An environmental scavenge from GSUSA Penny hike Set out from your meeting place in small groups, with a penny (or other coin!) and each time you get to a junction or somewhere else you could turn off, toss the coin. If it lands heads, go right and if it lands tails go left (obviously you’ll need to adapt this depending what sort of junctions you come to). Keep track of time and half way through put the penny away and come back. This can be made into an observation exercise if you ask them to draw a sketch map of the route once they get back. Mystery Walk An extended version of the penny hike. Go in patrols (each patrol with a guider if possible). At the beginning start a story. Girls will take turns to tell the next bit of the story. On getting to a junction, roll a die: 1=Prop, 2=Right, 3=Left, 4=Forward, 5=Backward and 6=Landmark. If one of 2-5 is impossible (or boring or you don’t like the look of), 1 is assumed. On 6, the next storyteller looks around and picks a landmark - bus stop, tree, lamppost, book shop, graveyard, 5 star hotel etc and incorporates it into the story. On 1, they pick a "prop" out of a bag of random stuff and incorporate that in. Props you could use include: a balloon, clothes peg, tea bag, bag of sweets, coded message, code breaker, bit of material, cuddly toy, shoe, strange hat, nail polish etc [this one was posted to GuidingUK but I can't remember who by - sorry!] Extra ideas… ? Try an incident hike, using parents’ houses or local parks as activity stations ? Play rounders or football (or almost any game) at the local park ? If you have the space then play a wide game ? Try blowing giant bubbles (see GuidingUK) ? Find a local watercourse and make mini rafts to float in it |