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Description

Where do different badges and activities belong on the cool wall? It’s up to your group to decide.

Courtesy of The Scout Association
https://www.scouts.org.uk/activities/cool-wall/

Resources

A4 paper
Sticky tack
Sticky notes
Emoji's printed resource (attached)

Take it further

This activity could contribute towards Scouts Scotland’s Youth Approved Award – Scouts in Scotland can find out more here: https://www.scouts.scot/members/youth-involvement/youth-approved-award/.

Instructions

Before you begin
- Take four pieces of paper, and put a heading on each one – seriously cool, cool, uncool, and seriously uncool. Use the templates provided, or create your own using your own images.
- Take the sticky notes or paper, and write some suggested badge or activity ideas, so everyone has some ideas to start them off. You may want to include badges and activities more than once, so more than one group can vote on each idea. You may also want to include images of badges and activities alongside the words.


Create your cool wall
1. The person leading the game should stick the headings across a wall to create a cool wall which ranges from seriously uncool to seriously cool. You might want to talk to people about what the categories mean. Their decisions should be based on how much they want to try the activity – not how cool its reputation is.

2. Players should split into groups of about five people.

3. The person leading the game should give each group a selection of the sticky notes (or paper) with ideas written on. If groups have pieces of paper, they’ll also need sticky tack.

4. Each group should discuss the ideas they’ve been given, one by one. Where do they belong on the cool wall?

5. Once everyone in each group has had their say, the group should agree on a decision and someone should stick the idea in the right place on the wall. This is a great chance for people to help anyone who’s new to join in.

6. Once a group has finished placing all of the ideas on the wall, they should get some blank paper or sticky notes, and add their own ideas. They can add seriously uncool ideas, as well as cool ideas.

7.At the end, everyone should gather back together and look at the cool wall. Are there any trends? Are there any activities in more than one section?
The person leading the game should take picture of the cool wall, or copy the ideas down, so that whoever plans the programme can listen to everyone’s opinions and ideas.


Change the level of challenge
Give each group a badge book, so they can look at the requirements for the badges they’ve been given. Groups could use their blank paper (or sticky notes) to suggest ideas for how they could complete each requirement.

Tags

• forum
• pack forum

Badge Links

• Team Leader - New cub
• Team Leader - Represent
• Teamwork - Pack forum