Here are some suggestions about some of the activities your group could do that fit into existing programmes. Alternatively, you could come up with something totally new!

Beavers

• The Friendship Challenge:
  – Take part in an activity to help the community
  – Raise funds for a good cause

• The Creative Challenge:
  – Act or mime a simple scene
  – Learn a new song and sing it
  – Make a model
  – Make an instrument

• Cooking section:
  – Make cakes or decorate biscuits (all these can be carried out incorporating a Scottish theme)

Cub Scouts

• The Creative Challenge:
  – Create something using IT skills such as invites to a Kilts for Kids event
  – Create and perform a musical performance, play or sketch – relating to Scotland, St Andrew or CHILDREN 1ST

• The Global Challenge:
  – Find out about a global issue such as child poverty and what you can do to prevent it in both Scotland and countries around the world

• Community Challenge:
  – Organise a fundraising event for CHILDREN 1ST

Scouts

• The Creative Challenge:
  – Perform a play, write a song or make crafts based on Kilts for Kids or CHILDREN 1ST

• The Global Challenge:
  – International issues: investigate child poverty in countries across the world and compare to child poverty in Scotland

• The Community Challenge:
  – Exploring the local community: find out about your nearest CHILDREN 1ST service and do something to raise awareness about it
  – Community service: organise a fundraising event for CHILDREN 1ST and invite your local community