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Description

Choose a word. Find an item beginning with each letter in that word. Everyone else needs to work out what your word is.
Taken from https://www.scouts.org.uk/activities/letter-tower/

Resources

Objects beginning with the letters in chosen word. One object per letter.

Instructions

Everyone except the person leading the game should mute themselves.

The person leading the activity should show everyone their example tower. They should explain that if people put the first letter of each item in the right order, they’ll make a word.

Everyone should take a few minutes to try to find the word. It may help to write their guesses on a piece of paper, starting with the names of the items, then rearranging the letters.

When the time is up, the person leading the game should around the group and ask people for their answers. Everyone should unmute themselves when it’s their turn to talk and mute themselves again once they’re finished.

People could just say ‘pass’ or read out the letters they were guessing with if they’re unsure.

Once everyone’s guessed, the person leading the game should tell them the answer and the names of the objects they chose.

Everyone should take it in turns to show off their tower. Everyone else should spend a couple of minutes writing down their guesses, a few people could share their guesses, then the person whose turn it is should reveal the correct answer.

Keep going until everyone’s had a chance to share their tower.


This activity needed everyone to problem solve while being independent by making their own decisions and building their own tower. Did people find it challenging to choose a word and find the right items around their house? Did anyone have to change their word? Why was it difficult to complete that word? People may have had tricky letters (such as Z or V) or maybe the same letter repeated too many times. Can anyone remember an especially creative item they noticed someone else using?

Change the level of challenge:
It’s up to you how long the word is – ask people to make a three or four letter word for a quicker, simpler game. If that’s still too complicated, you could give each person a letter – they should find as many objects as possible beginning with the letter, then everyone could guess the letter and how many objects there are.

Make it accessible:
If anyone doesn’t want to show their tower on the video call, they could ask their parent or carer to take a picture and send it to a leader so they can show everyone. Make sure people know that they can pass, or just say the letters they’ve found, if they don’t know the answer.

Tags

• Virtual Scouting
• Virtual Scouting At Home

Badge Links

• Skills - Problem solving