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Volunteering at Scouts is changing to help us reach more young people

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Chief Scout Award activity scrapbook

Create a scrapbook, so you can remember all the brilliant work you did for your challenge awards.
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You’ll need

  • Glue sticks
  • Coloured pens or pencils
  • Scrap paper
  • Scissors
  • Scrap book - make your own or buy one and personalise it
  • Printed Challenge Award logos (optional)

Before you begin

  • Use the safety checklist to help you plan and risk assess your activity. Additional help to carry out your risk assessment, including examples can be found here. Don’t forget to make sure all young people and adults involved in the activity know how to take part safely.
  • Make sure you’ll have enough adult helpers. You may need some parents and carers to help if you’re short on helpers

Setting up the activity

  • Make sure everyone has a scrapbook they can use. Everyone can create a scrap book woven or bound together themselves, or you can buy a scrapbook or notebook for people to use.
  • Ask people to bring in lots of photos or gather lots of items from their time in Scouts so far. People can be as creative as they’d like, using photos, print-outs, badge work or souvenirs.

Run the activity

  1. Everyone should have a scrapbook, or everyone should make a basic scrapbook to use.
  2. Explain that this scrapbook is going to show people’s time in Scouts and what they did to achieve their Chief Scout’s Award. It’s going to be full of memories, personal challenges and photos showing the fun they have in Scouts. Each page can represent a different challenge award.
  3. You could have printouts of the Challenge Awards and Activity or Staged badges ready for people to either cut out and glue in or for people to copy and draw in their scrapbook.
  4. Now everyone should get creative!
  5. For each challenge, young people can then start to create their page, filled with photos, drawings, cuttings, objects, souvenirs that represent what they have done to complete and achieve the challenge award leading up to their Chief Scout’s Award. They might want to write about how each challenge was accomplished and what was felt while doing so.
  6. Remember, there’s no one-way of creating the scrapbook, people can decorate pages, draw and doodle, stick in pictures and, organise the pages as they choose.
  7. Once finished, a completed scrapbook, and all the wonderful memories, could be shown to the wider group to celebrate the person’s accomplishment. It’ll also inspire and encourage everyone, too!

Reflection

This scrapbook allows us to store memories and keepsakes of our time in Scouts. What do you think you might put in it? How will you feel when you look back into this scrapbook? What are your favourite memories of Scouts so far?

Safety

All activities must be safely managed. You must complete a thorough risk assessment and take appropriate steps to reduce risk. Use the safety checklist to help you plan and risk assess your activity. Always get approval for the activity, and have suitable supervision and an InTouch process.

Scissors

Supervise young people appropriately when they’re using scissors. Store all sharp objects securely, out of the reach of young people.

Glue and solvents

Always supervise young people appropriately when they’re using glue and solvent products. Make sure there’s plenty of ventilation. Be aware of any medical conditions that could be affected by glue or solvent use and make adjustments as needed.

Why not make a virtual scrapbook instead? See if you can create a presentation or digital art to show your time in Scouts.

  • If someone is struggling with the arts and crafts section of this activity, they could work with a partner, so they can help each other. There are lots of different ways to be creative. People can choose what works best for them, or just what they most enjoy.
  • Ensure that all the materials are at a level that can be easily worked on by wheelchair users.
  • If anyone needs help or struggles with fine motor skills, give them the opportunity to work in pairs with another young person, with a young leader or an adult volunteer. They could also use larger materials. You could swap out the items for something easier to handle.
  • People should share in whatever way works for them, whether that’s writing, drawing, speaking, or something else. Remember, people should only present back to other groups if they're happy and comfortable to. It’s OK if people want to keep some of their scrapbook private – they don't have to share everything they included.
  • Anyone who struggles with creating a design could be given paper with a pre-drawn image that they can glue or stick craft materials onto.

All Scout activities should be inclusive and accessible.

Chief Scout's Gold Award

Share your adventures with others in your Section and use your scrapbook to showcase the fun you’ve had in Scouts. You could inspire everyone, too. Use the book to encourage others and promote Scouts within the community.

This activity is youth led, so everyone can create however they want to. People can work on it as often as they’d like. It’s up to the as to what their scrapbook of memories and achievements looks like.