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Description

A twist on a Scout favourite, Kim’s Game. Can you remember all the badges that you need to get your Chief Scout’s Award?

Resources

You’ll need:
-Tray
-Towel or Blanket
-Badges or printouts of the Challenge Awards
-Badges or printouts of correct number of Activity or Staged Badges needed for the section’s Chief Scout Award
-Timer

Instructions

Setting up the game

1. Gather everyone together and explain that you’re going to play a version of Kim’s Game to help learn about the Chief Scout’s Award.
2. You might want to run the game in small groups, rather than as a whole group. Remember, you’ll need enough items and trays for one per group. Make sure you can remove an item from the tray without the Scouts seeing and can keep it somewhere out of sight!
3. Let everyone gather in their groups or around the tray as a whole group.

Play the game

1. Place all the items on the tray. You could say what each item on the tray is or let the group handle them if needed.
2. When everyone’s ready, give the group 30 seconds to look at the items and memorise what’s there.
3. After 30 seconds, cover the tray with a towel or blanket, so no-one can see the items.
4. Everyone should look away, or use their neckers as blindfolds, so they can’t see the tray.
5. The person running the game should remove an item from the tray and place it out of sight.
6. When ready, everyone needs to look at the tray again and work together to identify the missing item.
7. People can move at their own pace, so you don’t need to make it competitive unless it works for everyone. To give everyone a chance to play, people could write down their ideas and have a few moments to think, rather than it being a race to say the missing item first.
8. Return all the items to the tray and keep playing the game. When someone guesses correctly, the guesser can lead the game and choose the next item that’s taken off the tray. You could add different Activity or Staged Badges each time so the Scouts know how many badges are on offer to them and they can choose the ones they like most.
9. When you’ve finished playing the game, explain that people need to achieve the number of Challenge Awards and Activity/ Staged badges on the tray to earn their Chief Scout’s Award – however, remember it’s just the number of them, not the specific badges that might be on the tray.
10. Gather everyone back in a circle and chat about which badge or Challenge Award everyone would like to work towards next and how they can do it.

Tags

• acorn
• Badges
• bronze
• chief's scout award
• Diamond
• gold
• Guessing game
• kim's game
• Platinum
• Problem solving
• silver
• teamwork

Badge Links

• All Together - Games
• Membership - Badge Meaning
• Membership - Badges
• Membership - Badges
• Skills - Problem solving
• Skills - Problem solving
• Skills - Problem solving