Scouting at Home - Activity Sheets

Activity Sheets

A week before each meeting, Scouts Victoria plans to email Section activity sheets to Leaders.

It’s your task to share it with your youth members at least a few days before your online meeting.

This email reminder to your youth members could include:

• The date and time of the next online meeting.
• A reminder on how to join your meeting.
• Anything they will need to have (an orange, pen and paper, a meerkat).
• The latest activity sheet.

 

The activity sheet is:

• Identified by Section name and week number (but not necessarily the word ‘week’).
• 4- 6 activities.
• Brief text (about 50-120 words each).
• Most would have a small illustration.
• Plus program icons as appropriate (new or old or both).
• Plus a panel each week: Help Other People.
• Plus a panel where they collect signatures that they’ve done the 4-6 activities for that week.
• So these activity sheets could be 1-2 pages.
• They will be visually strong.
• Age appropriate (eg Joey pages might be softer, native bush, random animals; Cubs might be more oriented toward action like bikes, surfing, skating etc etc; Scouts might be like a video game; Venturer sheets might be inspired by, but not promote, graffiti).

 

Help Other People Examples

Help Other People 1: at home

• Scouts of all ages help other people.
• This week, let’s do something extra at home.
• Cook dinner or make a cake, vacuum the living room, help someone with schoolwork.
• Just one extra thing that you don’t usually do.

 

Help Other People 2:

• nearby Scouts of all ages help other people.
• This week we think of people outside our own family.
• A relative or a friend or a neighbour.
• You could make them something, or run an errand or mow their lawn, or just say hello (from a safe distance).

 

Help Other People 3: further away

• Scouts of all ages help other people.
• People need company.
• But some people are not seeing many people at the moment.
• Who can you phone or Skype or Zoom to have a chat? Grandparents … cousins … a friend who has gone away?

 

Help Other People 4: health workers

• Scouts of all ages help other people.
• This is a busy time for hospitals, doctors and nurses.
• Let’s say thanks to those who looking after sick people.
• Make a card and send it to the team at your local hospital, or your family doctor, or a family friend who is helping look after other people.

 

Source: Scouting at Home - Manual