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We’ve found 241 activities:
Famous faces
Can you put a name to a face? Learn about 10 inspirational women in this catchphrase-style quiz.
10 mins
Online
Le capitaine arrive
Learn some basic French while playing this adapted version of Captain’s coming.
10 mins
Indoors
Practice Semaphore signalling
Channel your inner Sea Scouts and test your secret Semaphore signalling skills.
30 mins
Indoors
Who do you think Scouts are?
Learn about the history of the World Scout Movement, find out what it does today, and set your sights on its future.
15 mins
Online
Drie blikkies
Discover this traditional game from South Africa and work as a team to score the most points.
15 mins
Indoors
Learn about affinity bias
Play the tag game and find out about the idea of affinity bias, then see what we all share in common.
20 mins
Indoors
Build your squad
Work together to guess your friends’ new identities and add them to your squad.
20 mins
Outdoors
Virtual hide and seek
Test your group’s online observation with some fast-paced, high-tech hiding and seeking.
10 mins
Online
Virtual guess who
Turn your online meeting into a game board, then narrow down your options before you guess who.
20 mins
Online
Virtual letter towers
Find objects around your home to spell out a word. Can you guess what everyone else’s words are?
10 mins
Online
Virtual scavenger hunt
Get searching for different items, solve the clues and bring them back to get points.
10 mins
Online
Footgolf
Practise your aim as you kick a football across a course. Will you get a hole in one?
20 mins
Outdoors
Duck, duck, goose
Encourage everyone to get active with this fun, traditional children’s game.
10 mins
Indoors
Play Capture the Keys
Practise your listening skills and try to stay still with this fun game.
10 mins
Indoors
Gridlocked people
Work together while you’re distanced to crack this life-size people puzzle.
20 mins
Outdoors
Rope spaghetti
Tackle a tangle in this rope coiling relay.
25 mins
Outdoors
It’s all in the name
Get active with these bug themed actions. How will you move?
10 mins
Indoors
Musical statues
Show everyone your dancing skills with this fun, energetic game.
10 mins
Indoors
Bug-gy behaviour
Get active and use your memory in this call and response game.
10 mins
Indoors
Shark-infested custard
Work as a team and solve problems to get everyone across the shark-infested custard.
10 mins
Indoors
Play Punchinella, little fella
Can you copy the person in the middle in this traditional Jamaican children’s game?
10 mins
Indoors
Watch out, fox is about
Put on your thinking hat and work out who’s missing from the group.
10 mins
Indoors
Apple, orange, or banana?
Get everyone running around with this fruity memory game.
10 mins
Indoors
Play Game of Aim
How good is your aim? Put it to the test with this fast-paced team game.
10 mins
Outdoors
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