Equipment:

Out of Heavy paper or cardboard make cards with all the letters of the alphabet except for Q,X and Z.  Then make the following extra letters 3 -Bs, 3-Cs, 4-As, 4-Os, 4-Os, 5-Ls, 4-Ns.  There should be a total of 50 cards.

On a large piece of paper print the following names and post it on a wall:

• Olive Baden Powell
• Robert Baden Powell
• Crystal Palace
• Agnes Baden Powell
• Brownsea Island
• Scouting For Boys
• St. Catharines

To Play:

1. Players sit in patrols in a large circle
2. Put the letters in a pile in the middle of the circle
3. Read the first question
4. The patrol of the person who first answers picks a name from the list to try and spell out and starts picking out the letters.
5. While they are doing that, read the next question
6. As additional patrols start to try and spell words they can either pull letters from the first pile or try and steal them from another patrol.
7. First patrol who completes a name wins.

Questions:

1. Who Started Girl Guides and Boy Scouts? Lord Baden-Powell
2. What was Lord Baden-Powell? Robert
3. What book did he write for boys? Scouting for Boys
4. Where did he take boys on an experimental camp? Brownsea Island
5. Where did Girl Guides first appear? Crystal Palace Rally
6. What did they say they were? Girl Scouts
7. Where was the Crystal Palace? England
8. Who gave the girls’ organization the name “Guides”? Lord Baden-Powell
9. What city in Canada had the first Girl Guide unit? St. Catharines
10. etc.