Lost Child Exercise @ Troop Meeting

[SeattlePioneer]

Last night the Troop had a very good practice exercise in doing a search for a lost child. The SPL did a good job of setting up the exercise, the Scouts found the lost child (a half gallon of ice cream), learned something about organizing on short notice and had a good time doing it.

 

 

One suggestion: a bag of potato chips might be a better choice than the ice cream!

 

I hope others will begin posting examples of troop/pack activities they've has success with.

 

 

 

Seattle Pioneer

[AK-Eagle]

Sounds like a great idea.

 

As to the ice cream vs. potato chips... With ice cream the sooner the "child" is found the better condition they'll be in.

Talk about some incentive to work quickly and throughly.

 

Still a bag of chips would work for the chow hounds here.

 

AK-Eagle

[mdutch]

How exactly is a lost child exercise run. (I want to try one of them for my troop)

[SeattlePioneer]

Frankly, I didn't pay too much attention to the details of how the exercise was run, which was decided by the SPL.

 

The adult leaders supplied the SPL with the ice cream, and he decided on a location on the church grounds to hide it and organized the teams to search for it in an orderly way.

 

The Scouts had fun doing it, but seemed to think more practice would help with their SAR skills.

 

With more patrols, you could make it a competition, with each patrol given a different "lost child" to find and see who finds their victim first.

 

 

 

Seattle Pioneer

[cubbingcarol]

My husband and I want to try this at our next roundtable meeting. Sounds like a great exercise. You can never be too prepared.

 

Carol