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Program Ideas for Venturers
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Anything Goes ✔
Vic Gathering ✔
Hoadley Hide ✔
Armstrong 500 ✔
Scout shows ✔ ✔ ✔
Water slide games night ✔
Bowling and laser tag
$5 MasterChef. ✔
Each group has $5 (or a similar small amount) to
spend of ingredients for a dish they will prepare
on the night. The dish should be as interesting
and creative as possible, as well as edible. A
panel of judges decides the best judge.
Cooking night. ✔
Everybody brings ingredients and Unit members
try to make a meal out of the ingredients
Mystery cooking nights. ✔
There are two plain meals, but you have to add a
mystery ingredient
Backwards Cooking Master Chef Night. ✔
A cooking night using backwards cooking
methods. (Backwoods cooking is a method of
cooking without the use of kitchen implements)
Fishing night. ✔
Either learn how to do fishing knots or make
hooks even go fishing both options would be
better as it can help in a survival situation and is a
great life skill
Board games night.
Some people bring in their favourite board games
and play them
Lashing night. ✔
Use poles and lashing rope to construct a full-size
obstacle course
Shakespeare Night. ✔
Re-enact the Shakespeare plays in the modern-
day translation.
Joint night with another unit ✔
Paper clip night ✔
Ice-cream sculptures ✔
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Historical Tour- Lunatic Asylum ✔ ✔
Treasure hunt around the hall following clues.
Murder Mystery Night ✔
Sports night. ✔ ✔
Make up new games for younger members (e.g. ✔ ✔
joeys and cubs)
Make something useful out of paddle pop sticks. ✔
Bigger better challenge. ✔
Start with an item, go door to door, try and get
something better traded every time.
McFormal Night. ✔
Everyone dresses up in the fanciest attire and
have dinner at Maccas, bring along a nice
tablecloth, candles, flowers in a vase, anything to
make the table look fancy
Plan for a period of time ✔
A card game night.
Minute to win it.
Have numerous mini activities that have to be
completed in under one minute. the team with
the most points wins!
Scavenger hunt ✔
Deconstruction night. ✔
Bring some old junk to see how it works the try to
put it back together
Astronomy night. ✔ ✔
One night the whole unit stays late and does a
stargazing session.
Mock casino night
Paintball night. ✔
With people wearing torch lights so you can see
Firing Range. ✔
Go to the local rifle range and shoot some bullets
at a target in a controlled environment
Construction night. ✔ ✔
Grab sticks and ropes and build a catapult
Bigger and better. ✔
Start with something small (I.e. Apple), and you
go to one of the houses near the hall and ask if
they have something bigger or better. They might
give you a larger/better object (i.e. Broken
picture frame) and continue for a certain period
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of time that was agreed on by the majority of the
unit.
Geocaching in the city. ✔
An app can be used to indicate the location of
geocaches around the city in areas where
individuals may be unfamiliar with
Mystery Location City Orientation ✔
Mystery Box cooking Night ✔
3 Day Camp at Anglesea ✔
Jungle speed tournament
Hobbies night ✔ ✔
Painting without using paint night ✔
Laser tag ✔
Homemade slide. ✔
Acquire a tarp (must be slippery/smooth), lay it
down on a hill with a more or less comfortable
landing area. Apply a decent amount of
detergent (the more the better!) and leave a
hose running a steady stream of water down the
tarp and start sliding. Make sure everyone has
old clothes that can get wet/dirty and for extra
fun, rig the landing area so it becomes muddy
after a while. Best for a warm night.
Movie Night ✔
Music night. ✔ ✔
Learning simple instruments working together to
perform a song (not a full complex song but
maybe even a group sound or beat)
Movie night or documentary night ✔
Rope Night. ✔
Make a stretcher with rope and race with a
person on top, Make a working catapult with
rope and sticks
The "A-Z shopping challenge". ✔
$20 per group, buying items starting with each
letter of the alphabet
Construction themed Race
Play and construct giant versions of board games ✔
Drop and run night ✔
Laser tag
Hide and seek in IKEA ✔
Volunteering at a soup kitchen ✔
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Talent show ✔
Colour runs ✔
Master chef. ✔
All ventures cook something and there are 3
judging whose meal is the best.
MasterChef with a can of baked beans. ✔
Movie night ✔
All tied up with a twist. ✔
You have two ventures that are tied together at
the arms so you both only have one arm each to
use then you are given certain tasks to do. The
aim is to work together and communicate.
Formal Maccas. ✔
Go to Maccas dressed in formal clothes (suits and
dresses) or full scout uniform.
Mattress Smuggle. ✔
Venturers work in small groups to take a mattress
to a set destination while avoiding leaders driving
around in cars.
Soap trading. ✔
Trade up a bar of soap for an object then trade
up the object traded last.
Drop and run night. ✔
Leader drops venturers in random place and you
have to find your way back
Penny Hike Night ✔
Cooking Competition (Mystery boxes) ✔
Board game night. ✔
Each Venturer brings a different board game
Sport night. ✔
Each member will bring and learn a sport each
and will then teach the rest of the group then a
game of that sport would be played (shortened
game).
Music trivia. (or other type of trivia) ✔
Trangia cooking challenge ✔
Charades ✔
Amazing Race around the city. ✔
Set places to go and questions about each place,
and in groups race around the city to get to each
place
Mystery box cooking night. ✔
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Get venturers to cook only using the ingredients
provided to them in a mystery box.
Laser tag
Tie dye night ✔
Meeting up with a different unit to program so ✔
we can swap and share ideas
Improvisation night. ✔ ✔
Get an improvisation teacher in to learn and do
proper improvisation skits.
Gardening night ✔
Construction night ✔
A Tag with prizes and rankings
Drop and run. ✔
Venturers are blindfolded and driven to point A
and are given a list of instructions for how to get
to point B
Burger Building competition. ✔
Unit splits into teams of 2-3 people. Using
supplies either on hand, or purchased on the
night, teams create burgers and present to a
judge. Points are awarded for presentation, taste,
hygiene, technique, variety of ingredients and
punctuality.
A music performance ✔
Games night
Go dumpster diving and do a night on how much ✔ ✔
food gets thrown away.
Debating ✔
Water fight night ✔
Soap trading night ✔
Chair Soccer.
A game of soccer with six chairs. 6 people have a
chair and the aim is to hit another person’s chair
to get them out. The aim is to protect your own
chair
Movie night. ✔
Everybody chills out and votes for a move that
everyone will enjoy
Rock climbing ✔
Debating night. ✔
Two teams verse each other in debates over
topics
Tent game. ✔
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You get people into teams with a tent and tell
them to set the tent up in bazaar place like inside
Woolworths. And to prove that your team did it
take a photo with your teammates inside the
tent.
Market night. ✔
Each person gets some "Monopoly money" and
completes different activities to earn more.
Activities could include blackjack, climb rope to
the roof, tie notes, etc.
the person or group with the most money at the
end wins.
Going to the RSL for an insight and an ✔ ✔
information night about the RSL and what it does
Scavenger hunt ✔
Computer Engineering ✔
Drag night ✔ ✔
Team activities at the beach. (Teamwork ✔ ✔ ✔
development and fun)
Master chef challenge ✔
International themed night. ✔ ✔
Talk about a different culture, dress up as
another culture, cook food from another culture
Pizza and lazer tag
Drop night. ✔ ✔
Your unit is blindfolded and doped in a location
and the aim is to get back to the hall before the
night is out
Go around the neighbourhood and trade a paper ✔ ✔
clip then return to hall and show what everyone
has collected to leaders
Bridge building. ✔
Can only use yarn and sticks to get a ball across 2
meters
Pizza Baking Night. ✔
If facilities permit, everyone brings along some
ingredients for pizza and bake. Works well in
nights where planning needs to be done for
future events.
Get lost where you are dropped somewhere ✔ ✔
random and have to find a specific spot without
phones.
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Visiting a local community church and learn ✔ ✔
about their culture
Night sailing. ✔
Paint ball
Sports night. ✔
Each patrol picks a sport then learns all the rules
then all the patrols come together and play the
sports
Orange War.
Players get a spoon and a spatula, and they have
to try to keep their orange on the spoon while
trying to knock other players oranges off. Last
standing wins
The orange can be swapped put for other things,
like and egg or Hackey Sac
Competition on building tallest tower ✔
Cooking night. ✔
Have a master chef like competition in teams
Challenge Night. ✔
Each member works through a series of
challenges in small teams (e.g. egg drop activity,
construction)
The can challenges. ✔
Someone who is not participating in the night
such as a leader, buys a whole bunch of cans all
types like tomato soup, mushrooms, condensed
milk and so on, you have to take all the labels off
so people have to guess what the food is, and
then you have to make a 3 course meal out of the
cans that you have been given with no labels.
Amazing race themed night ✔
Go down to a shooting range ✔
Service Night ✔ ✔
Bring a friend night and go out to bounce ✔
Cooking Night. ✔
Where you need to make 1-3 different dishes for
you parents or leaders
MasterChef night ✔
Outdoor Cinema ✔
Bringing instruments and playing them. ✔ ✔
Blind food taste tasting ✔
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Parents and families bring in old TVs laptops DVD ✔ ✔
players etc and venturers can pull them apart and
learn about how they work etc
Use duct tape to try and create an arm sling. ✔
A mock tv shows night: ✔
mock/re-create a popular television show, i.e. the
Bachelor
Charades night. ✔
Everyone mimes a movie, show, or music song
and people have to guess it
See who can make the best pancake with the ✔
fewest ingredients
City Night Drop. ✔
Be taken to an unknown location in inner
Melbourne and find your way home with only a
myki
Chalk Chase. ✔
Two people run to a point, marking out chalk
arrows at every turn. 10 minutes later the rest of
the unit follows and try to catch up with the first
two before they make it to the destination.
Bike ride ✔
Mystery Food Night. ✔
Leader Involvement is required to allow this to
run, Leaders basically (or Unit Chairman) will
collect obscure *edible* items which will result in
some very mystery foods for the Venturers to eat
Catch a train or bus 30min away from hall and ✔
then return
Beach/water safety night ✔ ✔
Shooting range ✔
Chalk night. ✔
Two groups leaving 5 min apart. First group
draws direction on trees /footpaths, giving some
incorrect clues. Who wins is who makes it to a
particular meeting point.
Mystery drop night ✔
Cardboard nerf gun war
Hobbies competition ✔ ✔
In the program, we could go Go karting and have ✔
a lot of fun while doing it!
Visit a fitness centre ✔ ✔ ✔
Trangia cooking night. ✔ ✔
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Who can cook the most exciting and creative
meal. Venturers will get 1.30hrs to prepare/cook
meal and present to leaders. Leaders can judge
out of 10.
Using any materials, you can find as a group, you ✔ ✔
have to construct a certain object or thing that
looks like what the narrator has stated. This night
will test participants creativity and challenge the
mind.
Trivia ✔
Murder Mystery. ✔
Everyone takes on a fictional character's identity
on a dark and gloomy night.
Gym night to help them understand why fitness is ✔
important and what they can do to improve their
health and fitness
Party night. ✔
Venturers get to participate in part games such as
musical chairs, pass the parcel, etc and bring their
favourite party foods to share. Just some fun and
a break from school stress.
Rock Climbing (outdoor) ✔
A mapping night. ✔ ✔
In which the venturers are dropped off at a
location and have to find their way to a
designated spot
Movie night ✔
Hide 'n' seek in Ikea ✔
A blindfold night. ✔ ✔
Where you have to do activities with a blindfold
on.
Building a furniture or a kart for the unit to ✔ ✔
decorate and use
A bike ride to the city. ✔
You get exercise. you get some pretty cool views.
and at the end of it (at least this is applicable to
my unit) you get to go and get some food as a
reward.
Campfire cooking night ✔ ✔
Around the world night learn how to make ✔ ✔
different iconic foods from all over the world and
participate in traditions, songs and wear
costumes from chosen countries.
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Go carting ✔
Ikea scavenger hunt. ✔
Venturers split into group and find different
Swedish names and take a picture showing where
they are. Once everyone's reached the end, they
eat at the restaurant.
Bob Ross painting night, speed debating ✔ ✔
Nap and Yoga night ✔
Cooking challenge against other sections or ✔
groups
Cooking Night ✔
Astronomy Night. ✔
Book in with an observatory e.g. Mt Burnett, and
learn about the Night Sky above us while looking
through telescopes.
Bigger and better. ✔
Start with something small and walk around to
different houses and trade your item up for
something better
Sing a song and the other person has to guess the ✔ ✔
name of the song.
Going down to the local rock-climbing place ✔ ✔
Games night ✔
Formal Fast Food Dining ✔ ✔
Ice Blocking. ✔
Like toboggin in summer, using giant blocks of ice
to slide down a grassy hill.
Games and fun things ✔
You hide cards ace to however many people ✔
there are. Venturers go out of the room. The
cards get hidden and whoever gets the highest
chooses
Cultural night. ✔ ✔
Everyone brings a food from their culture and
dresses up and shares information about their
culture
Going to an activity that is interesting and people
would enjoy
Board Game Night ✔
Paintball ✔
Soft drink pong beer pong with soft drinks
Box Fort Night. ✔ ✔
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Have everyone bring some cardboard boxes to
set up box forts and play dodgeball or other
games with them.
Construction. ✔ ✔
Use lollipop sticks to create a bridge and different
sized weights to be placed on the bridge.
Go for a short hike and have a mock emergency ✔ ✔
in it
Messy night. ✔
a series of challenges that involve getting messy.
E.g. finding gummy lollies in a pile of whipped
cream just using your mouth.
One idea we could do for a late-night activity ✔ ✔
wold be making board games out of leaves, sticks
and branches from outside with only few
members in each group and are then pressured
to be doing it on time of about 10min. Later can
be presented to judges to pick a final winner.
Minute to win it night with every chair member ✔ ✔
running a different activity for small groups of
venturers
Cooking night ✔
Mystery hike night. ✔ ✔
no one knows where they are hiking, make clues
to the group/s indicating where they are to hike
to and have another clue there for the next spot.
Rock climbing/bouldering. ✔ ✔
Go to either an indoor or outdoor rock-climbing
centre and have a good shot at it, have a look at
the knots required to know for the activity.
Creative cooking night. ✔ ✔
Form teams of 4-6, run (safely) to the nearest
supermarket, collect ingredients for a 3-course
meal on a $15 budget. Needs working stoves and
clean cooking equipment, money, close
supermarket and willing participants. Makes it
more fun if there is no time to prep (i.e. to be
done as a "mystery night" so no teams have time
to research recipes)
Ghost game. ✔
This is where people sit in a circle and the lights
are all out or people are blind folded. Someone is
chosen to stand behind people, while another
watches the game making sure people go out. If
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you feel like someone is there, you raise your
hand. If the person is not there, you lose a life.
You have 3 lives. However, if there is a person
behind you and you raised your hand, that
person goes out and the game is over. The
person standing has 10 seconds before they can
move again once they have chosen that person. If
you get tapped by the person standing, you have
to go out.
Practice job interviews for ideals ✔
Go to the movies as a unit ✔
Trivia Night [A night of fun trivia that may lead to ✔
a debate]
Cooking competition, but it must include a main
ingredient (e.g., apples) ✔
Paint Twister. ✔
Playing twister with paint as the dots
Service in a soup kitchen ✔ ✔
Battle of the sexes. ✔
Each gender chooses 4 activities that they are
good at, then challenge each other to complete
each activity.
Fun games and learning stuff in the process ✔ ✔
Survival training night (rock climbing (actual ✔ ✔
rocks) and shelter making)
Lawn Bowls.
It's more fun than it sounds
Bottle rocket night. ✔ ✔
Make bottle rockets and see what one will trace
the highest
Paintball ✔
Shooting range ✔
A teamwork building exercise. ✔
Making a human pyramid.
Games night
Nerf war
Kitchen Wars - TD2 (Team Dessert 2). ✔ ✔
Teams of 3 are given the same limited ingredients
and are tasked to create their own dessert for the
judges (some leaders). Judged on creativity and
quality of the food
Tents in weird places. ✔
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Go around the city with a hiking tent, set it up in
a weird place and take a photo with the group in
the tent.
Go karting night ✔
Build the most efficient and appealing billy cart in ✔ ✔
2 hours
Trivia night ✔
Cards ✔
Make a movie ✔ ✔
Floor is lava night. ✔ ✔
Build platforms above ground and spend night
not touching the floor
Hobbies night ✔ ✔
Cheesy bacon night. ✔
Cook a lot of cheese and bacon in a trangia
without any recipe and see what happens
Blindfolded group jenga ✔
Massive game of Uno with multiple combined
decks.
M & M chopstick game. ✔
Where you have to move the m&m’s using
chopsticks from one bowl to another
Pancakes on the Move. ✔ ✔ ✔
This is a mobile trolley with BBQ and cooking
stuff to make pancakes while travelling around
the area.
Design and build a catapult using whatever ✔ ✔
materials are available, and then catapult
watermelons, melons etc. See who gets the
furthest. Materials could include rope, timber,
bike inner tubes.
MasterChef night ✔
An idea for a night program is a challenge night, ✔
where throughout the course of the night 1-
minute challenges are set, but the twist is that
each member of the Unit is given a disability for
the night, e.g. quadriplegia or blindness. This will
give the Ventures a small taste of what it is like
living with a disability.
Drop and run night. ✔ ✔
You drop 2-4 groups off in different places and
they have to navigate back to the hall without
using technology.
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A great idea for a program night is like doing ✔ ✔
construction or working towards a badge.
Blind Construction. ✔ ✔
A person instructs the people wearing the
blindfolds on what to do.
Drop and run e.g. a parent drops a group of ✔
venturers at some unknown location and they
have to find their way back.
Pancake art competition ✔
Rock Climbing ✔ ✔
Working at old person home (serving diner etc) ✔ ✔
to help with community service
Gnome night. ✔ ✔
Like a scavenger hunt but you have to
photograph a garden gnome in different places
Trivia night ✔
Knot tying competition. ✔ ✔
Fastest at tying knots, sturdiest knot, stretcher
race and question and answer with a tied knot
(what knot would you use to _____?)
MasterChef night, where some unit members ✔ ✔
behave like the judges.
Games night. ✔ ✔
Everyone brings a board game or card game or
similar for a large group to play.
Painting night (towards expressions badge), local ✔ ✔
artist comes down and teaches some basics.
Cake decorating night ✔
Trade up night. ✔
Take a clothes peg and go door to door asking to
trade an item of the same or higher value to get
the most valuable item for the duration of the
night
Watching a movie in the cinemas ✔
Trivia night ✔
Night hike ✔
Dinner at the hall ✔
Formal Maccas ✔
Escape room ✔
Dungeons and Dragons night ✔
A night-time bush walk, to view nocturnal ✔
animals
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Cooking Blind. ✔ ✔
Venturers are put into small groups (2 or 3 works
best) and are given a list of ingredients, the
ingredients, cooking equipment required and 2 or
more meals they have to make using the items
they have but they are not told which items are
for which meals and they don't get given the
recipe (all phones must be placed aside so that
nobody can look up the recipe). The more
difficult the meals are to prepare the better.
Adding extra items to their ingredients and
equipment that don't belong in any of the recipes
can lead to more unique outcomes.
A MasterChef mystery box challenge using only ✔
trangeas
Fishing night. ✔
Mini games night. ✔
A series of mini games and changes such as
marshmallow towers and target ball
Visiting the Melbourne magistrate’s night court. ✔ ✔
Craft night. ✔
Design and build a catapult using whatever ✔
materials are available, and then catapult
watermelons, melons etc. See who gets the
furthest. Materials could include rope, timber,
bike inner tubes.
Blind Construction. ✔ ✔
A person instructs the people wearing the
blindfolds on what to do.
Angry birds’ night ✔
Archery ✔
Air Activities ✔ ✔
American evening ✔ ✔
Acting ✔ ✔
Astronomy night ✔ ✔
Aboriginal Culture ✔ ✔
Amazing race
Alphabet night. ✔
All games, food and costumes to
start with a letter, e.g. “P”
Action sports in Box Hill. ✔ ✔
Cricket, netball and soccer.
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Archery, come and try night at Box Hill City ✔ ✔
Archers
http://www.bhca.net.au/
Aboriginal Culture, tours or talks ✔ ✔
Australian Citizenship practice test, then write ✔ ✔
your own question.
Belly Dancing ✔
Balloon Debate (The audience is invited to ✔
imagine that the
speakers are flying in a hot-air balloon which is
sinking and that someone
must be thrown out if everyone is not to die.
Each speaker has to make the case why they
should not be thrown out of
the balloon to save the remainder. Typically, each
participant speaks on
behalf of a famous person, profession, fictional
character, etc)
Badge sewing night ✔ ✔
Bike trails ✔
Bivouacking ✔
Barn Dance ✔
Buddhism: talk from practicing Buddhist ✔ ✔
Blindfold Meeting ✔
Boxing fitness class ✔ ✔
Bikram Yoga ✔
Bubble soccer ✔
Blood donation ✔ ✔
Bad taste night ✔
Bigger and Better challenge. ✔
Door knock and ask what junk is bigger and
better from each house.
Billiards night ✔
Blindfold wide game ✔ ✔
Boardgames ✔
Badminton ✔
Backwoods cooking night ✔ ✔
Ballroom Dancing ✔ ✔
Charity Collection ✔ ✔
Chocolate Tasting ✔
Casualty Makeup ✔
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Cycling ✔
Cycle Treasure Hunt ✔ ✔
Chinese Cookery ✔ ✔
Cameras (photography tips from Camera Club) ✔ ✔
Caving (Victorian Scout Caving team see ✔
information book
Chip appreciation night (judge on various criteria, ✔
cost /kg, taste, aroma, crunchy etc
Cooking competition. ✔
Best burger, best pizza
Christmas in July ✔
Cake decorating competition ✔
Choirs ✔ ✔
Croquet Kew Croquet $4 ✔
Costume making night ✔ ✔
Canada night. ✔ ✔
Decorate hall, cook food
CFA Visit ✔ ✔
Country weekend. ✔ ✔
Stay at Country Scout hall
Comedy night: ✔ ✔
• Passing Lollies along straws one to another
• Apple bobbing
• Find chocolate in flour
• Celebrity heads
• Thank god you're here
• Skits
• Old joke books to share
• Joke competition
• Play comedy film scenes
• Newspaper suits
• Blankety blanks
• Twister
• Clown face makeup
• Favourite cartoon
Chinese New Year ✔ ✔
Construction night ✔ ✔
Compass and mapping night ✔ ✔
Car Maintenance information night and demo ✔
Court Visit ✔ ✔
Dark Zone
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Dog training ✔ ✔
Drumming workshop ✔ ✔
Dessert night (each make favourite dessert to ✔
share)
D24 visit ✔ ✔
Duct tape night ✔
Disabled Scouts ✔ ✔
Dumpling night – make them ✔
Dumpling night – go out and eat them! ✔
Expeditions ✔ ✔
Environment. ✔ ✔
Ask Branch Commissioner to come
and speak to Unit
Escape rooms (there are 3 or 4 businesses that ✔ ✔
run, you go into a room and have to follow clues
to get out)
Fencing ✔ ✔
First Aid courses (see Training Calendar) ✔ ✔
French food/customs ✔ ✔
Fundraising discussion for the Unit ✔ ✔
Flower Arranging ✔ ✔
Fancy dress costume making ✔ ✔
Guide dog’s Open day ✔
Go-Karting ✔
Geocaching ✔
Gymnastics ✔ ✔ ✔
Golf driving range ✔
Great Victorian Bike ride (about 7 days in ✔ ✔ ✔
summer)
Glowstick hockey. ✔
Darken hall, put glowsticks on bats (rolled up
newspaper), on goal and make a puck out of
glowsticks)
Horse Riding ✔ ✔
Hockey ✔ ✔
Hinduism ✔ ✔
Historical Society – Kew Court House ✔ ✔
High Ropes course ✔ ✔
Human Hungry Hippo ✔
Halloween ✔ ✔
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Ice Skating ✔
Ice Sculpture ✔
Initiative night ✔
Ice blocking ✔
Italian night ✔
Japanese night ✔ ✔
Joey Scouts. ✔ ✔
Run a night, write a book
Judo ✔ ✔
Jamboree of the Air, Jamboree of the internet ✔
(3rd weekend in Oct)
Kite Making ✔
Knotting ✔
Karaoke night ✔ ✔
Kiddy Party ✔
Lightweight Cooking ✔
Lettering and calligraphy ✔ ✔
Lentil as anything – Abbotsford, donate cost ✔
Lip sync challenge ✔
LAN Party ✔
Mock Trial ✔
Map Reading ✔ ✔
Model Airplanes ✔
Meditation ✔
Mask making – masked ball ✔
Mini Olympics ✔ ✔
Meals on Wheels ✔ ✔
MCG Tour ✔
Melbourne Airport customs visit ✔ ✔
Melbourne Festivals – Comedy, Food and Wine, ✔
Moomba ✔
Minigolf ✔
Minigolf glow in the dark at docklands (Fri night) ✔
Motor mechanic night. ✔
Invite one to speak to unit – how to change a tyre
Movie making ✔ ✔
Murder Mystery with awards for best costume, ✔
character, solving (from box games, on my folder
weekly programs or order from website
http://www.mymysteryparty.com/
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Musical Evening ✔ ✔
Maccas in pyjamas ✔
Nuclear Debate ✔ ✔
Newspaper visit ✔ ✔
Night bike ride to city, home on train ✔
Orienteering ✔
Origami ✔ ✔
Op shop fashion parade: categories: ✔
formal, casual, cool, bad taste,
Personal training ✔
Photography. ✔ ✔
Tips from a photographer, and then a
competition
Pen Friends ✔ ✔
Promise & Law ✔ ✔
Public Speaking: tips from expert ✔
Palaeontology: guest speaker ✔
Parliament House ✔ ✔
Ping-Pong ✔
Parent dinner. ✔ ✔ ✔
Venturers cook for parents
Puppets. ✔ ✔
Making, performing
Pancake night. ✔
Best topping, pancake race, (relay and toss
pancake to next person) frisbee to
target, sculpture using pancakes, fruit and
toothpicks
Police Search and rescue visit ✔ ✔
Police air wing visit ✔ ✔
Police local station visit ✔ ✔
Play dough competition ✔
Pull apart night. ✔ ✔
Use old equipment and screwdrivers etc
Progressive Dinner (entrée at one venturer’s ✔
house, then walk to next house for main course
etc)
Paper night. ✔
Paper planes, paper quiz, make the
largest circle from a piece of newspaper, make
newspaper outfits, game: quarter the hall and
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throw paper into someone else’s quarter
Photo scavenger hunt ✔ ✔
Pinewood derby ✔
Pub games night (darts, pool, Ping-Pong, cards)
Pinatas and Mexican food ✔
Queen’s Scout Award: hear from previous QS ✔
about what they did
RAAF ✔ ✔
Radio Scout Radio and Electronics Service Unit ✔
Religions ✔
Rowboats ✔
Rock climbing. ✔
Courses and activities – See Info book
Recycling visit ✔
Ropes Course ✔ ✔
Raft Race. ✔ ✔
Help Scouts to build and then help run event
Rifle Shooting ✔ ✔
RSPCA guest speaker ✔
Rover visit ✔
Reverse dressing night (girls as boys, etc) ✔
Ride around the bay ✔
Sweet Making ✔
Surfing ✔ ✔
Skiing -See and Ski days ✔ ✔
Survival Techniques ✔ ✔
Swimming ✔ ✔
Square Dancing ✔ ✔
Scavenger hunt: Ikea ✔
http://scavenger-hunt.
Scavenger hunt – record sounds: siren, price
check at supermarket, parent reciting poem,
squeaky gate, 5 items being scanned at a
supermarket, order taken at a fast food joint, dog
barking, baby crying, car horn, radio sound but
not from house, car or smart phone, wonky
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wobbly shopping trolley, unusual sound,
doorbell, balloons bursting, venturers singing a
lullaby,
Scavenger hunt – take photos ✔ ✔
Scavenger hunt. ✔
Alphabet, collect items, 2 points
if litter
Sailing ✔
Sailboarding (Guide and Scout Water Activities ✔
Centre Sandringham – see Information book)
Star Wars ✔
St John’s First Aid: visit for Citizenship ✔ ✔
Superheroes ✔
Scuba diving (Branch has team) ✔ ✔
Synagogue visit ✔ ✔
Slingshot making and target competition
Sewerage farm visit ✔ ✔
Soap basketball, goal is a bucket of water
Supermarket scavenger hunt: i.e. most for 50 ✔
cents, shiniest object etc
Supermarket challenge 2, $15 to buy food ✔
starting with every letter of alphabet, bonus
points if scanned in alphabetical order.
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Selfie challenge in city: ✔ ✔ ✔
• with a policeman
• with a statue
• Fed square
• On city circle tram
• With tourists
• Human pyramid
• With water
• With a Street vendor
• With a busker
• In a lift
• With an animal
• Doorway to church
• Helping a little old lady across the road
• Under the clocks at Flinders street
• In a small space
• With a luxury car
Shooting ✔ ✔
Sculpture night (ice cream, glow sticks and spars ✔
and ropes)
S.E.S. visit ✔ ✔
Show and tell
Stop motion movie making ✔
Table Tennis ✔
Talent Competition ✔
Ten Pin Bowling
Theatre games (like “Thank God you’re here) ✔ ✔
http://www.breakawaycamp.org.au/Manuals/Br
eakawayTheatreSports.pdf
Two-minute noodle eat a thon
Trivia night ✔
Tram stop scavenger hunt. ✔
Must get off tram and find answer/thing before
next tram all the way to City
Trampoline at Bounce
http://bounceinc.com.au/
Tent stunt: ✔
set up tent in City and get
photographed
Trangia cooking night ✔
Trangia dessert night ✔
Theatre games ✔ ✔
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Talent Quest ✔ ✔
Volleyball
Water pistol battle
World scout dollar day 22 Feb, raise money for ✔ ✔
overseas charity
Wheels night – rollerblading, roller-skating
Wide game at a shopping centre ✔
Yachting ✔
Yabbying ✔
Zumba ✔
Zombie movie making ✔
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