Cubs Award Scheme - Handbook for Leaders - SCOUTS New Zealand

Activity List
Cornerstone: Outdoors
Campcraft
REQUIREMENTS EXPLANATION REFERENCES AND EXTERNAL
STANDARDS
Suggested Bronze Activities
1. Learn about fire safety and take
part in a Marshmallow Roast.
2. Make an outdoors stove.
3. Make a shelter.
Suggested Silver Activities
1. Light a cooking fire, cook a
sausage or damper.
2. Make a hot dog cooker /
toasting fork.
3. Camp out for a night with Cubs,
friends or family. This can be in
a caravan, hall or somewhere
else away from home.
4. While on camp, assist with
duties such as washing dishes,
tidy the campsite, or preparing
meals.
Suggested Gold Activities
1. Cook a meal in foil.
2. Cook a simple meal outdoors.
3. Camp under canvas with Cubs,
family or friends.
4. With a friend or a Six / team,
show that you can pitch a hike
tent, strike it and pack it away
correctly. Explain why tents
need to be aired and dried
completely before being put in
storage.
Learning to safely look after
themselves.
Scout Handbook and the Scout
website.
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