Scout and Parent Mega Challenge

Date: 19th Apr 2020 Author: Nikki Benge

Members from both Bird & Animal Troops have risen to a “Mega Challenge” thrown down by the Scout Leaders.

Working with a parent and over one day – the Scouts had to chose a unique name and costume for their team and complete the following:

Mega challenge – Build a Ballista – a device to launch an object to hit a target. The bigger the better!
Puzzle challenge – Complete 10 different puzzle from a letter soup, sign language word search and Sudoku.
Sport challenge – Design a single player game with a rule using whatever you have in your house/garden and compete Parent verse Scout
Cookery challenge – Create an afternoon tea
Art challenge – Recreate a large scale, famous piece of art work.

Bird Troop put together a video showing their completed Ballistas in action – click on the link below to take a look – it’s pretty impressive:

Bird Troop On Target

The Photo Gallery also shows what a brilliant and fun day all those that took part had – check it out here…..

Big Thanks to Steve for instigating.

Dwayne Fields proudly holds the title of the UK's 11th Chief Scout

An explorer, adventurer and TV presenter, Dwayne's been seen in BAFTA nominated Channel 5 series Race to the Pole, on BBC Springwatch, Countryfile, National Geographic and Disney+.

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