The Badge Archive

2011 – Senses – Halloween

Meeting idea – Most troops will be able to do this in a 90 minute meeting.

Meeting Outline

Do your normal troop opening.

Mystery Boxes (Requirement 5)

  • Make mystery boxes a head of time with items resembling monster parts. Note: Any boxes with a hole in them will do – no need to spray paint as in the website instructions.
  • Scouts will take turns feeling them and guessing what it really is. Have handwipes available as some items are messy to touch.

Spooky Halloween Sounds (Requirement 2)

  • Use a phone to play a video of spooky sounds. You can go with more realistic sounds that are still spooky or a Halloween mythical type sounds. Realistic sounds are usually more of a challenge for scouts.
  • Scouts guess what each sound they hear are.

Cauldron Experiment (Requirement 4)

  • Get small cauldrons from the dollar store and put baking soda in it, enough for each scout. Have small cups of vinegar. Note: Food coloring mentioned in the website is optional.
  • Scouts smell each ingredient and then combine it for a fizzy effect. They smell the end result and see if it was any different than the two ingredients or smelled more like one than the other.

Halloween Bingo (Requirement 4)

  • Have cards ready with M&Ms and Candy Corn as the markers. Note: Use skittles if there is a dairy allergy in the group.
  • Scouts play bingo but also taste test the two markers and compare the taste.

Halloween style Kim’s Game (Requirement 1)

  • Use Halloween looking objects for a round of Kim’s Game.
  • Scouts use their observation skills to try and win Kim’s Game. It can be individual competition, but it’s recommended to do the whole troop against the leader – see if their collective memory is better than one leader while the second leader runs the game.
  • Note: This is played last as you can do multiple rounds, slightly switching up the objects until any time remaining in the meeting is used.

NOTE:

Any of the above activities can easily be swapped out with something else. Some ideas are:

  • Sight – Halloween Scavenger Hunt
  • Smell – Fall scents guessing game
  • Smell – Smells in Potion Bottles they have to identify
  • Taste – Food given gross names to see if they can tell what it is, etc.
  • Taste – have a Carmel apple bar
  • Touch – Cut into a pumpkin and feel the different pieces
  • Touch – make pumpkin slime
  • Touch – Make some dimensional Halloween art
  • Sound – play Halloween music to dance with
Tia Kennard