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Program Ideas for Venturers Challenge Areas Activity Outdoors Community Creative Personal Growth 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 ✔ Where an item has ticks for more than one challenge area, only one can be selected for the activity. Challenge Areas Activity Outdoors Community Creative Personal Growth 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 Where an item has ticks for more than one challenge area, only one can be selected for the activity. Challenge Areas Activity Outdoors Community Creative Personal Growth 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 ✔ Where an item has ticks for more than one challenge area, only one can be selected for the activity. Challenge Areas Activity Outdoors Community Creative Personal Growth 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. ✔ Where an item has ticks for more than one challenge area, only one can be selected for the activity. Challenge Areas Activity Outdoors Community Creative Personal Growth 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. ✔ Where an item has ticks for more than one challenge area, only one can be selected for the activity. Challenge Areas Activity Outdoors Community Creative Personal Growth 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. Where an item has ticks for more than one challenge area, only one can be selected for the activity. Challenge Areas Activity Outdoors Community Creative Personal Growth 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.