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Scouter Paul from the Hudson Explorers explains a fun game his unit plays with paper boats...and fire.
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Whilst at Kander100, Scouter Ken met up with Scouter Paul from the Hudson Explorers, an Explorer Scout unit based in Sutton Coldfield, just outside of Birmingham. Some of the unit are regular listeners of the podcast, and that little meet & greet turned into an invitation to join them - and a few other contingents from various countries - in a game they called “Battleship”.
“Battleship” begins with the Scouts breaking into teams and folding 20 origami boats. While they’re busy with this, the Scouter set up a rectangular or square area outdoors, which the Scouts spread their boats around once they’ve got them made.
Each team then gets a metal garden spade, a flint & steel, and fifty cotton balls. The rest is fairly self-explanatory: they light each cotton ball in turn with the flint & steel, then use the spade to fling the fireball at an opposing team’s boat.
The team with the most undamaged boats left wins!
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Paul has been a Scout leader for 20 years, and has been awarded both the Queen Scout Award and Gold Duke of Edinburgh Award in that time. He's organized several international expeditions, and enjoys shooting and hill walking.
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