One of Scouting America’s central objectives is to ensure Scout leaders plan, prepare, and present meetings and outings that are fun with positive outcomes. This book is filled to the brim with comprehensive examples, concepts, and approaches that aid in realizing this objective.
The contents of this book have stemmed from multiple decades of recording and writing about Scout life as a Scoutmaster and while volunteering in a variety of Scouting roles and positions. .
Amidst an ongoing effort to adjust to ever-changing conditions and circumstances, most all Scout troops find themselves in a perpetual state of building, reevaluation, and replenishment. Throughout their needs to acquire new or additional meeting materials and camping gear, to accommodate the current makeup of troop members, and to cope with conditions beyond their control, the points made, sample activities, and simple guidelines put forth in this book are ever-applicable.
With over a hundred, revealing, catch action photos, “Making Scouting Unforgettably FUN!” includes inspiring chapters regarding what fun is during Scout meetings and outings, and how to make it happen. Additional chapters present a catalogued array of over 140 Scout skill challenges, team building opportunities, patrol competitions, and troop games, each with a proven track record of helping to make Scouting more rewarding and fun.
While seeking to satisfy Scouting’s aims, having fun with positive outcomes is always the name of the game. Time and again, it’s been said, “Scouting is a game with a purpose.” Often without realizing it, Scouts will learn and benefit, while enjoying all kinds of well-planned opportunities and experiences that are truly and unforgettably fun.
When Scouts are engaged and entertained, they’ll keep coming back for more, and while they’re having incomparable fun, they can learn many useful things, including how to become the best person they can be.