Program Ideas for Venturers - Scouts Victoria...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

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Program Ideas for Venturers

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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.

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Cooking night. Everybody brings ingredients and Unit members try to make a meal out of the ingredients

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Mystery cooking nights. There are two plain meals, but you have to add a mystery ingredient

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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)

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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

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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

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Shakespeare Night. Re-enact the Shakespeare plays in the modern-day translation.

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Joint night with another unit ✔ Paper clip night ✔ Ice-cream sculptures ✔


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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)

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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.

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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

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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

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Astronomy night. One night the whole unit stays late and does a stargazing session.

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Mock casino night Paintball night. With people wearing torch lights so you can see

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Firing Range. Go to the local rifle range and shoot some bullets at a target in a controlled environment

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Construction night. Grab sticks and ropes and build a catapult

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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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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

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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.

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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)

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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

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The "A-Z shopping challenge". $20 per group, buying items starting with each letter of the alphabet

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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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Growth Talent show ✔ Colour runs Master chef. All ventures cook something and there are 3 judging whose meal is the best.

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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.

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Formal Maccas. Go to Maccas dressed in formal clothes (suits and dresses) or full scout uniform.

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Mattress Smuggle. Venturers work in small groups to take a mattress to a set destination while avoiding leaders driving around in cars.

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Soap trading. Trade up a bar of soap for an object then trade up the object traded last.

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Drop and run night. Leader drops venturers in random place and you have to find your way back

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Penny Hike Night ✔ Cooking Competition (Mystery boxes) ✔ Board game night. Each Venturer brings a different board game

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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).

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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

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Mystery box cooking night. ✔


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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

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Improvisation night. Get an improvisation teacher in to learn and do proper improvisation skits.

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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

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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.

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A music performance ✔ Games night Go dumpster diving and do a night on how much food gets thrown away.

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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

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Rock climbing ✔ Debating night. Two teams verse each other in debates over topics

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Tent game. ✔


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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.

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Going to the RSL for an insight and an information night about the RSL and what it does

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Scavenger hunt ✔ Computer Engineering ✔ Drag night ✔ ✔ Team activities at the beach. (Teamwork development and fun)

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Master chef challenge ✔ International themed night. Talk about a different culture, dress up as another culture, cook food from another culture

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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

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Go around the neighbourhood and trade a paper clip then return to hall and show what everyone has collected to leaders

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Bridge building. Can only use yarn and sticks to get a ball across 2 meters

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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.

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Get lost where you are dropped somewhere random and have to find a specific spot without phones.

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Growth Visiting a local community church and learn about their culture

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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

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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

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Challenge Night. Each member works through a series of challenges in small teams (e.g. egg drop activity, construction)

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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.

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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

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MasterChef night ✔ Outdoor Cinema ✔ Bringing instruments and playing them. ✔ ✔ Blind food taste tasting ✔


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Growth Parents and families bring in old TVs laptops DVD players etc and venturers can pull them apart and learn about how they work etc

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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

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Charades night. Everyone mimes a movie, show, or music song and people have to guess it

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See who can make the best pancake with the fewest ingredients

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City Night Drop. Be taken to an unknown location in inner Melbourne and find your way home with only a myki

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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.

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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

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Catch a train or bus 30min away from hall and then return

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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.

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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!

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Visit a fitness centre ✔ ✔ ✔ Trangia cooking night. ✔ ✔


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Growth 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.

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Trivia ✔ Murder Mystery. Everyone takes on a fictional character's identity on a dark and gloomy night.

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Gym night to help them understand why fitness is important and what they can do to improve their health and fitness

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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.

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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

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Movie night ✔ Hide 'n' seek in Ikea ✔ A blindfold night. Where you have to do activities with a blindfold on.

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Building a furniture or a kart for the unit to decorate and use

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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.

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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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Growth 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.

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Bob Ross painting night, speed debating ✔ ✔ Nap and Yoga night ✔ Cooking challenge against other sections or groups

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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.

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Bigger and better. Start with something small and walk around to different houses and trade your item up for something better

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Sing a song and the other person has to guess the name of the song.

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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.

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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

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Cultural night. Everyone brings a food from their culture and dresses up and shares information about their culture

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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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Growth 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.

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Go for a short hike and have a mock emergency in it

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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.

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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.

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Minute to win it night with every chair member running a different activity for small groups of venturers

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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.

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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.

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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)

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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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Growth 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]

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Cooking competition, but it must include a main ingredient (e.g., apples)

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Paint Twister. Playing twister with paint as the dots

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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.

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Fun games and learning stuff in the process ✔ ✔ Survival training night (rock climbing (actual rocks) and shelter making)

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Lawn Bowls. It's more fun than it sounds

Bottle rocket night. Make bottle rockets and see what one will trace the highest

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Paintball ✔ Shooting range ✔ A teamwork building exercise. Making a human pyramid.

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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

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Growth 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

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Trivia night ✔ Cards ✔ Make a movie ✔ ✔ Floor is lava night. Build platforms above ground and spend night not touching the floor

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Hobbies night ✔ ✔ Cheesy bacon night. Cook a lot of cheese and bacon in a trangia without any recipe and see what happens

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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

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Pancakes on the Move. This is a mobile trolley with BBQ and cooking stuff to make pancakes while travelling around the area.

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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.

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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.

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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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Growth A great idea for a program night is like doing construction or working towards a badge.

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Blind Construction. A person instructs the people wearing the blindfolds on what to do.

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Drop and run e.g. a parent drops a group of venturers at some unknown location and they have to find their way back.

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Pancake art competition ✔ Rock Climbing ✔ ✔ Working at old person home (serving diner etc) to help with community service

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Gnome night. Like a scavenger hunt but you have to photograph a garden gnome in different places

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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 _____?)

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MasterChef night, where some unit members behave like the judges.

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Games night. Everyone brings a board game or card game or similar for a large group to play.

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Painting night (towards expressions badge), local artist comes down and teaches some basics.

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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

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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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Growth 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.

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A MasterChef mystery box challenge using only trangeas

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Fishing night. ✔ Mini games night. A series of mini games and changes such as marshmallow towers and target ball

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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.

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Blind Construction. A person instructs the people wearing the blindfolds on what to do.

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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”

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Action sports in Box Hill. Cricket, netball and soccer.

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Growth Archery, come and try night at Box Hill City Archers http://www.bhca.net.au/

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Aboriginal Culture, tours or talks ✔ ✔ Australian Citizenship practice test, then write your own question.

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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)

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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.

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Billiards night ✔ Blindfold wide game ✔ ✔ Boardgames ✔ Badminton ✔ Backwoods cooking night ✔ ✔ Ballroom Dancing ✔ ✔ Charity Collection ✔ ✔ Chocolate Tasting ✔ Casualty Makeup ✔


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Growth Cycling ✔ Cycle Treasure Hunt ✔ ✔ Chinese Cookery ✔ ✔ Cameras (photography tips from Camera Club) ✔ ✔ Caving (Victorian Scout Caving team see information book

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Chip appreciation night (judge on various criteria, cost /kg, taste, aroma, crunchy etc

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Cooking competition. Best burger, best pizza

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Christmas in July ✔ Cake decorating competition ✔ Choirs ✔ ✔ Croquet Kew Croquet $4 ✔ Costume making night ✔ ✔ Canada night. Decorate hall, cook food

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CFA Visit ✔ ✔ Country weekend. Stay at Country Scout hall

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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

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Chinese New Year ✔ ✔ Construction night ✔ ✔ Compass and mapping night ✔ ✔ Car Maintenance information night and demo ✔ Court Visit ✔ ✔ Dark Zone


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Growth Dog training ✔ ✔ Drumming workshop ✔ ✔ Dessert night (each make favourite dessert to share)

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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

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Escape rooms (there are 3 or 4 businesses that run, you go into a room and have to follow clues to get out)

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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)

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Glowstick hockey. Darken hall, put glowsticks on bats (rolled up newspaper), on goal and make a puck out of glowsticks)

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Horse Riding ✔ ✔ Hockey ✔ ✔ Hinduism ✔ ✔ Historical Society – Kew Court House ✔ ✔ High Ropes course ✔ ✔

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Growth Ice Skating ✔ Ice Sculpture ✔ Initiative night ✔ Ice blocking ✔ Italian night ✔ Japanese night ✔ ✔ Joey Scouts. Run a night, write a book

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Judo ✔ ✔ Jamboree of the Air, Jamboree of the internet (3rd weekend in Oct)

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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

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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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Growth 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,

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Personal training ✔ Photography. Tips from a photographer, and then a competition

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Pen Friends ✔ ✔ Promise & Law ✔ ✔ Public Speaking: tips from expert ✔ Palaeontology: guest speaker ✔ Parliament House ✔ ✔ Ping-Pong ✔ Parent dinner. Venturers cook for parents

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Puppets. Making, performing

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Pancake night. Best topping, pancake race, (relay and toss pancake to next person) frisbee to target, sculpture using pancakes, fruit and toothpicks

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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

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Progressive Dinner (entrée at one venturer’s house, then walk to next house for main course etc)

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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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Growth 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

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RAAF ✔ ✔ Radio Scout Radio and Electronics Service Unit ✔ Religions ✔ Rowboats ✔ Rock climbing. Courses and activities – See Info book

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Recycling visit ✔ Ropes Course ✔ ✔ Raft Race. Help Scouts to build and then help run event

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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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Growth 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

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Sailing ✔ Sailboarding (Guide and Scout Water Activities Centre Sandringham – see Information book)

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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

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Supermarket challenge 2, $15 to buy food starting with every letter of alphabet, bonus points if scanned in alphabetical order.

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Growth 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

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Shooting ✔ ✔ Sculpture night (ice cream, glow sticks and spars and ropes)

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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

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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

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Trampoline at Bounce http://bounceinc.com.au/

Tent stunt: set up tent in City and get photographed

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Trangia cooking night ✔ Trangia dessert night ✔ Theatre games ✔ ✔


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Growth Talent Quest ✔ ✔ Volleyball Water pistol battle World scout dollar day 22 Feb, raise money for overseas charity

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Wheels night – rollerblading, roller-skating Wide game at a shopping centre ✔ Yachting ✔ Yabbying ✔ Zumba ✔

Zombie movie making ✔

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Program Ideas for Venturers - Scouts Victoria...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