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We’ve found 24 activities:
The Great Camp Upgrade
Use pioneering skills to solve real camp problems and build something useful for everyone.
5 hrs
Outdoors
Pioneer a clothes drying rack
Learn about fuel efficiency as you swap your tumble drying for a pioneered clothes drying rack suitable for camps or home.
Supported by
Gas Distribution Networks
45 mins
Outdoors
Try Jogo do Pau
Tap, step and move as you practise this traditional Portuguese martial art!
30 mins
At camp
Pioneering ballista
Build this ballista out of pioneering poles and see how far you can fire an object
2 hrs
Outdoors
Da Vinci’s unbelievable bridge
Create a pioneering structure by building a bridge with a difference. There are no ropes!
2 hrs
Indoors
Mind the gap
Get yourself across a raging river in this tricky pioneering activity.
4 hrs
Outdoors
Egg-ceptional towers
Hatch a plan to reach egg-streme heights and build a cracking tower.
40 mins
Indoors
Tripod football
Make a tripod then set it on the pitch. Can you work together to score a goal without abandoning your creation?
40 mins
Indoors
Tie, match and build
You’ll need to use all of your outdoor skills and work as a team to complete this outdoor skills relay race.
30 mins
Outdoors
Fly the flag
Develop that nautical knot knowledge and practise pioneering as we make flagpoles to hoist the colours.
Supported by
Trinity House
45 mins
Indoors
Quick contraptions
What can you make from four items? Craft some quick contraptions for use around the campsite in this creative challenge.
25 mins
Indoors
Build a bulletin board
Promote the programme and pin up handy updates after building your very own camp bulletin board.
45 mins
Outdoors
Aerial runway
Use your pioneering skills to build a runway that gets you from A to B. Will yours be up to scratch?
1 hr 30
Outdoors
Top of the table
Practise your table lashing skills and produce a perfect camp table for your peckish pioneers!
45 mins
Indoors
Knot your average pioneer
Be dope with rope and build to your heart's content with these smashing knots and lashings.
45 mins
Indoors
Simple seesaws
Pioneering has its ups and downs. See for yourself as we put together some straightforward seesaws.
45 mins
Indoors
Tripods ten ways
Use knots and lashings to create camp gadgets that take your site to the next level.
1 hr 30
Indoors
Make lollipop stick catapults
Put your pioneering skills to the test by creating a miniature catapult from lolly sticks. Ready, aim, fire!
25 mins
Indoors
Traditional rafting
Use your pioneering skills to craft a raft from barrels, poles, and rope, then head out onto the water.
2 hrs
Outdoors
Pioneering
Build anything from a flagpole to a windmill: all you need is some rope, poles, your imagination, and a knowledge of knots and lashings.
1 hr
Outdoors
Tiny tippy taps
Use simple knots and lashings to create a model tippy tap. You could even scale it up for use on camp!
30 mins
Indoors
Try knot-tying with strawberry laces
Learn and practise tying knots and diagonal lashings – with a tasty reward.
25 mins
Indoors
Chariots of water
Practice knots and lashings, then test your skills by building chariots and racing them outdoors.
1 hr
Outdoors
Build teeny tiny twig rafts
Build a miniature raft with twigs and leaves, then set sail. Will yours float successfully away?
30 mins
Indoors