110 Scout Activities for Distanced Groups

Tuesday, January 5, 2021

Found on Facebook and shared with the Troop

110 Scout activities for individuals and zoom distanced groups to present to your PLC or to use in patrol meetings. Now go get your hands dirty so you can wash them again.

• Practice your knots – maybe start a ‘Knot of the Month’

•  Practice your lashings

•  Invent and build a new camp gadget out of natural materials

•  Have a Yo-Yo trick night

•  Help someone with a difficult rank requirement

• Check out a piece of patrol cast iron, clean it, lightly season it and return it

•  Review Outdoor Cookbooks – look for something new to eat or a new way to cook on camping trips

•  Make a 5-minute outdoor meal and eat it

•  Build a no-match fire

•  Practice your compass and map reading skills

•  Exercise – have a push-up and sit-up contest

•  Work on a Patrol Cheer

•  Go on a Find-It Hike in the woods – see who can find the ugliest stick, the roundest rock, the biggest leaf, etc

•  Perform a ‘quickie’ service project for your CO – rake leaves, pickup trash, etc

•  Come up with a list of a dozen trip ideas for the Troop to consider in the future

•  With a fieldguide in hand, go on a hike and identify 10 plants and 10 traces of animals

•  Learn a new scout song to sing for the Troop

•  Work on a merit badge together

•  Learn how to juggle

•  Build a shelter out of natural materials

•  Make a first aid kit

•  Make a survival kit

•  Read Boys Life magazine

•  Work on first aid wrappings and carries

•  Make your own rope

•  Build and fly kites

•  Go on a stargaze – identify constellations

•  Make a horror film – show it at a Troop meeting

•  Make a fingerprint card - try to lift fingerprints from a glass

•  Make sculptures with modeling clay

•  Do soap carvings

• Learn to sew patches on your uniform

•  Build birdhouses and hang them in the woods

•  Do a pressed leaf collection

•  Put together a puppet show for the Troop

•  Leather stamp a belt or keychain

•  Write letters to military stationed overseas

•  Learn how to change a tire on a car

•  Learn to sharpen an ax and/or knife

•  Come up with a secret Patrol code and use it for messages

•  Make a Turk’s Head neckerchief slide

•  Tie a Monkey’s Fist knot

•  Whittle

•  Put together shoebox care packages for a local charity

•  Make a scout recruiting poster

•  Practice magic tricks – give a magic show for the Troop

•  Weave a basket

•  Learn the Scout Law in sign language

•  Make a nice walking stick – debark, sand, carve, stain, polyurethane

•  Learn Morse code – practice it using flashlights

•  Learn how to say ‘hello’ in 12 languages

•  Learn and practice semaphore

•  Make candles

•  Learn to build a rescue signal on the ground to be spotted from an airplane

•  Make a fuzz-stick – use it to start a fire

•  Go on a mini safari – rope off an area 3’x 3’ and identify as many living organisms as you can

•  Build a friction lock bridge 

• Play a round of Frisbee golf

• Grow a plant from seeds – take a picture of it each week over a year

•  Make a fishing rod out of natural materials – use it on the next trip

•  Make a slingshot

•  Vacuum the Scoutmaster’s car…jk glad you're still reading

•  Create or add to a Patrol Scrapbook to be passed on to future generations

•  Pack the perfect pack for a backpacking trip

•  Learn how to check tire pressure, oil, transmission fluid, washer fluid, and air filter on a car

•  Improve local trails and bike paths

•  Make and practice hanging a bear bag

•  Lash together a ladder

•  Design an orienteering course at the local park for the Troop to use

•  Learn how to dance the ‘Electric Slide’

•  Go sledding (with or without snow)

•  Learn and play a new card game

•  Design and build a ceremony prop for the Troop

• Invite a scout from another country to join your virtual meeting. 

•  Write an article for the newsletter or boy's life

•  Do some tin punch art

• Make a new patrol chuckbox - paint your existing chuckboxes

•  Do some fast and easy (and nonexplosive) science experiments

•  Create an obstacle course for the Troop to try

•  Make up a brand new original game for the whole Troop to play

•  Carve and paint a Patrol totem pole from a log

•  Build a model

•  Celebrate a patrol members birthday

•  Seam seal patrol tents

•  Scrub the Patrol cookware – again and again, and again

• Design a patrol flag

•  Make a sit & reach box for a Personal Fitness merit badge counselor

•  Create string artwork

•  Study the Leave No Trace principles

•  Burn the Scout Promise into wood

•  Carve and decorate Patrol neckerchief slides

•  Carve and paint a wood decoy

•  Practice building different fire lays – chimney, teepee, a-frame, friendship

•  Have a guest speaker on some topic of interest or invite a community member to your virtual meeting

•  Make archery stands out of PVC pipe

•  Learn how to play a tune on a harmonica

•  Perform a safety inspection of your home

•  Make hot air balloons out of trash bags, string and candles

•  Plant a tree to honor someone special

•  Make and bury a time capsule

•  Find some poison ivy, sumac and oak

•  Refresh your CPR skills

•  Read and discuss the meaning of the Declaration of Independence and Constitution

•  Have a show & tell of a collection you have made

•  Brew your own root beer

• Learn to change oil and sparkplugs of your lawnmower

•  Study and take the written driver’s test for your state

•  Plan a 10-mile hike and do it

•  Work with an Eagle Scout candidate on his/her project

• Keep calm and scout on