The Badge Archive

Solo Fuel Movement

Activity Description: Scouts match energy-giving foods to fun movements and act them out to see how food helps fuel their bodies.

  • Fulfills Step 1 of GSUSA Me Time badge requirements.

Info Needed: Scouts learn that food gives their bodies energy for play and movement. Scouts pick a movement and a matching energy food, then performs the movement and sees how it feels “powered up.”

Items Needed:

  • Movement Prompt List
  • Food Energy List
  • Pen or pencil

Instructions (Estimated Total Time: 17–20 min):

  1. Pick and Perform (12–15 min)
    • Look at the Movement Prompt List. For each movement, choose a food from the Energy Food List that could fuel that activity.
    • Perform the movement with lots of effort, like the food powered you up.
      • Example: “Jump in place”: pick “Banana” for quick energy
    • Cross off the food once it’s used
    • Keep going until all 12 food items have been matched and used!
  2. Reflect (5–6 min)
    • Circle your favorite movement-food pair
    • Think about these questions:
      • Which foods felt like fast energy?
      • Which foods can help with strong or steady movements?
      • Are there foods you’d want to eat before playing or exercising?

Movement Prompts

  • Jump in place five times
  • Stretch up to the sky and hold for five seconds
  • Tiptoe from one wall to another
  • Wiggle your fingers and toes
  • March in a circle
  • Spin in slow motion
  • Stomp like a giant for five steps
  • Pretend to swim through the air
  • Walk heel-to-toe across the room
  • Bounce like a ball for five seconds
  • Slide side to side two times
  • Dance in place using big arm movements
  • Take three deep breaths with slow arm waves
  • Pretend to climb an invisible ladder
  • Do five squats like you’re picking something up

Energy Foods

  • Banana 🍌
  • Watermelon 🍉
  • Broccoli 🥦
  • Egg 🥚
  • Fish 🐟
  • Cheese 🧀
  • Bread 🍞
  • Pizza 🍕
  • Hamburger 🍔
  • Drumstick (chicken leg) 🍗
  • Ramen 🍜
  • Popsicle 🍧
Tia Kennard