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Wide Games!

More ambitious than typical outdoor Boy Scout games is the wide game (also known as field games, or cross-country games). Here is a collection of 84 different wide games from different sources!

 

 

42 Night Scouting Games  

A complete guide to nighttime Scouting activities and training.  Includes 42 night Scout games designed to train the senses in an environment in which the dominance of sight is greatly reduced.

 

 

 

 

 

Games from Ernest Seton's Birch Bark Roll!  

These are the original "Scouting" Games, some of which Baden-Powell "borrowed" for his book, Scouting for Boys.

 

 

 

Scouting Games
by Baden-Powell

The Seventh Edition of the classic book of Scout games by the guy who invented Scouting.  

 

 

 

 

Rough & Tumble Scout Games 
by Dan Beard!

 

 

 

 

Additional Outdoor Scout Games From Dan Beard's Handbook, The Boy Pioneers:

Renegade
Simon Kenton
Big Foot
Gander Pulling
Goose Hangs High
Raccoon Jumping
Running Indian Scouts
Running the Gantlet
Animal Tracking Game

 

 

Copy_of_gms4scts_small.gif (5963 bytes)Games For Boy Scouts:

by G. S. Ripley

Scout games "including selected War Games  
of the YMCA and the Army and Navy"

 Additional Scout Stalking Games  by Ripley

 

Laser Tag Alternatives

 

Relay Games

 

Native American "Indian" Games

 

Scout Games for Disabled Boys

 

Game Leadership The classic introduction by Charles F. Smith

 

Other Games, Activities, & Pastimes Arranged by Season (Mostly by Dan Beard):

Spring Activities For Boys:

Marble Games
Tops Games
Stilt Making! 
75 Kite Plans
Fishing Bait & Psychology
Pet Frogs
Hoop and Wheel Games 

 

Summer Activities for Boys:

Different Games of Ball
Bee Messengers
Boat Making & Sailing
Bugs
Rhymes for Choosing Up & Counting Out
Summer Games: Duck on a Rock, Hopscotch, I Spy, Jack Candles, Jack Stones, Jack's Alive, Kick the Wicket, Mumbly Peg, Skittles, Spirit Tortoise, Tipcat
Leapfrog Games
Swimming
18 Games of Tag

 

Autumn Fall Activities for Boys:

Boys' Ballista
Blowguns
Dogs
Elder Guns
Indian Games
Lasso (See also How to Spin a Rope)
Spring Shot
"Tally-Ho" and Other Cries
Taxidermy for Boys

 

Winter Activities for Boys:

Activities & Recreation:
Snowball Warfare Games
On the Ice
Sleds, Sleighs & Ice Boats
Skate Sails
Ice Fishing
Snow Houses
Snow Sculpture & Statuary

 

 

Winter Snow Games

Snowball Fights:
Snowball Warfare Games

 

 

 

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