Scouting Games

Since Alexander has started with the local Beaver colony (5th Reigate, based in Merstham) I have been helping as an assistant leader (going under the nom de guerre 'Hawkeye'). These are the write-ups of some of the games that I have either played with the Beavers, or which I remember from my teenage years when I was an adult instructor with the 1st Glen Lusset's cubs and scouts.

One of the primary sorts of games are relay races with the beavers/cubs/scouts split into even sized groups.

• crackers - needs cream crackers and balloons (one per participant)
• penguins - needs one bean bag per team
• centipede - no props required

As the title suggests, games where the beavers/cubs/scouts sit in a circle.

• geese
• Chinese Whispers
• keys
• Catch / Don't Catch

Some other games, not involving racing within teams.

• Kim's Game - an old classic from Kipling, needs about a dozen random objects and a cloth to cover them up
• sweeties - needs dolly mixtures or similar sweets