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We’ve found 167 activities:
Staying safe
Learn the Green Cross Code and toast your safety skills with some toasted marshmallows.
45 mins
Online
Finding your way
How many physical activities can you do in a short space of time? Find out, then learn how to read a map to make exploring even more fun.
45 mins
Online
Pea prepared
Learn what to do if you come across someone who’s had an accident, then explore your local area with a nature scavenger hunt.
45 mins
Online
It’s a kind of magic
Learn a mind reading trick to use on your friends and family, then head out on an adventure where the roll of a dice controls every move.
45 mins
Online
Reading, signing, and winning
Celebrate your favourite books and learn different ways to communicate.
45 mins
Online
Noughts and crosses relay
Work as a team to win the relay in this giant version of noughts and crosses
10 mins
Indoors
Play red light, green light
Get hearts racing with this fast-paced traffic light warm up game.
10 mins
Indoors
Dancing in the dark
Work together and use LED wristbands and headbands to create a dance routine in the dark then show it to your friends.
30 mins
Indoors
Become a kindness champion
Champion kindness by making a pledge to do something kind for others.
1 hr 30
Indoors
Wartime weaving
Learn about Scouts contributions during the war and try your hand at weaving.
45 mins
Indoors
Make paracord poppies
Mark Remembrance together by crafting a paracord poppy.
1 hr
Indoors
Paint Remembrance pebbles
Paint a poppy on your pebble, then add it to a group picture, as a way to remember the people who have served and sacrificed.
30 mins
Outdoors
Make a Black history timeline
Get creative, get moving, and create a timeline of black British history.
1 hr
Indoors
Footgolf
Practise your aim as you kick a football across a course. Will you get a hole in one?
20 mins
Outdoors
Shark-infested custard
Work as a team and solve problems to get everyone across the shark-infested custard.
10 mins
Indoors
Get show pony ready
Discover how to get your pony ready for a show at your local stables.
45 mins
Outdoors
Re-enact your impact
Explore tourist location conservation and use your imagination to act out your impact.
45 mins
Indoors
Coasteering
Clamber, climb, scramble and swim across rocky coastline in this adventure where the land meets the sea.
3 hrs
Outdoors
Know how to lay a hedge
We often see hedges around the edges of gardens and beds of veggies. See how they’re laid and make one yourself.
1 hr
Outdoors
Fireflies at dusk
Develop your safety skills in the outdoors then use them in on orienteering course with your friends.
1 hr 30
Outdoors
Magnificent map masters
Learn orienteering map reading in this activity, because you get the best start by knowing where you are and where you’re going.
15 mins
Indoors
Satellite insight
Discover more about satellites and how useful they are as we try to create our own orbital objects.
45 mins
Indoors
Make astronaut pudding
Cook up something out of this world that an astronaut might enjoy, as we look at life on the ISS.
Supported by
UK Space Agency
45 mins
Indoors
Create a planetscape
Explore the impact meteorite showers have on Earth by recreating some mighty impacts of your own!
Supported by
UK Space Agency
30 mins
Indoors
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