July 2026

Challenge yourself to avoid single-use plastics, and find out how they affect the environment, this Plastic Free July.  

Activities to try:

• Go fishing for plastic pollution.
• Play Microplastic mayhem.
• Have a go at plastic or prey.
• Weave goodbye to waste

A day to celebrate telling jokes, what is your best one?

Activities to try:

• Put on a gang show
• Try some blackout poetry
• Try some funny floating

Be inspired to learn about cars, as Formula One drivers take on the Silverstone Circuit in this annual motor race.  

Activities to try:

• Race some fruity cars in Grand prix   
• Change a tyre with Pit stop practice
• Explore how a car works in Team transformers
• Make an electric car

Get on your bike and learn about the world's biggest bike race.

Activities to try:

• Try some games to practice balancing in Bike balance gymnastics
• Take part in Le tour des scouts.
• Try to stay upright as you cycle slalom.
• See the bigger picture with some GPS art.

Enjoy an excuse to celebrate the sweet treat on World Chocolate Day.  

Activities to try:

• Make hot chocolate spoons.
• Delicious dreys. 
• Make some Scrumptious smores
• Make a Campfire banana

A lovely occasion for our younger members, based on the popular song ‘The Teddy Bears' Picnic’. 

Activities to try:

• Go on a Teddy bear’s picnic
• Build a den to eat your picnic in
• Make a bear paw stamp
• Make a brilliant bear mask

Celebrate our amazing non-binary young people and volunteers, and build a society where everyone is free to be themselves.

Activities to try:

• Learn about the rainbow flag in Prints for Pride
• Learn about squashing stereotypes
• Make a Pride windmill

A chance to reflect on how Scouts prepares you with #skillsforlife, including leadership and communication. 

Activities to try:

• Try teaching someone something new
• Try skills superstars
• I can do many things
• Show everyone your new tricks

Celebrate the little pictures that have become a key part of how we communicate. 

Activities to try:

• Try being a human emoji
• Play Emoji charades
• Help people find their way around with Emoji maps

Explore the diverse heritage and cultures of South Asia (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, The Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka).  

Activities to try: 

• Cook up some flavours of the world.
• Learn about henna with Henna hands
• Make onion bhajis in Flavours of the world
• Try a tea ceremony in Time for tea

Enjoy the perfect summer treat, whatever the weather, with our refreshing activities. 

Activities to try:

• Make your own ice cream with Ice cream in a bag
• Serve up some Fruity crumble
• Use your lollipop sticks to make a catapult

It's been 56 years since we landed on the moon, go out of this world with these moon themed activities.

Activities to try:

• Have a space themed movie night.
• Build an Apollo lunar lander.
• Make some biscuit moons
• Learn about how the moon affects the tides

Celebrate one of the oldest and most popular games in history. Set up a Scouts tournament or try some other strategy games. 

Activities to try:

• Play the life-size strategy game Gridlocked people
• Play a game of ninja
• Play human battleships
• Invent your own game

Strengthen and build new friendships on the International Day of Friendship.  

Activities to try:

• Make some kind signs.
• Have a musical session with friends in practice makes perfect.
• Connect with a Scout group abroad in Local to global  
• Learn how to tie a friendship knot (video)