Patrol Leader Resources
With Honor Comes Responsibility...
Troop 28 selects its scout leaders for six month terms. Supported by our adult leaders, these scouts are responsible for every aspect of the Troop 28 program and activities during their term of office.
Troop 28 scouts elected as leaders are generally among the more experienced of the troop. As a scout led troop, we strive to allow these leaders the opportunity to demonstrate the leadership skills they have acquired since joining the Scouts.
Being on the PLC is an opportunity to put into practice the vision of Scouting; to build leaders capable of making moral decisions.
Being selected is an honor.
Below is an overview of the annual troop planning conference, potential leader meeting plans, and meeting games and activities
Annual Troop Planning Conference
A Failure to Plan is a Plan for Failure (and boring Troop meetings)!
As part of a Patrol Leader's responsibilities, the scout runs the annual program planning process and helps in its communication, execution, and monitoring. This includes reviewing last year's plan, gathering input, establishing objectives, short and long term plans and appointing Positions of Responsibility (and enlisting their assistance).
Monthly
Planning
Troop meetings
Campouts / Campfires
Games / Competitions
Ceremonies
Courts of Honor
Don't forget School holidays
Annual
Planning
Volunteering Opportunities
Troop fundraisers
Troop recruiting events
Summer/Winter Camps
Camporees and Jamborees
High Adventure Activities
Important council / district meetings
Who
Attends
Main Planning Committee
Senior Patrol Leaders
All other Patrol Leaders
Troop Scribe
Support Committee
Scoutmaster
Assistant Scoutmasters
Other active adults
Interested scouts (optional)
Sample BSA Patrol Leader Meeting Plans
Sample BSA Meeting Games and Activities
“wide” = requires a large setting | “small” = only a small area is required | “in” = indoor activity | “out” = outdoor activity
Skill Challenges
COMPASS SKILL ACTIVITIES
Blindfolded Compass Walk (wide, i/on or out)
Compass Challenge Activity (wide, out)
Compass Facing (small, in or out)
Compass Points (wide, in or out)
Direction Facing (wide, in or out)
Flying Blind Relay (wide, in or out)
Three-Leg Compass Walk (wide, out)
FIRST AID SKILL ACTIVITIES
Bandage Relay (small, in or out)
First Aid Baseball (small, in or out)
First Aid Carry Relay (wide, in or out)
First Aid Scenarios (small, in or out)
Ice Accident (wide, in or out)
Kim’s Game: First Aid (small, in or out)
Stretcher Relay (wide, in or out)
GENERAL OUTDOOR SKILL ACTIVITIES
Bow Saw Relay (small, in or out)
Dining Fly Race (wide, out)
Flint and Steel (small, out)
Fuzz Stick Relay (small, in or out)
Lifeline Relay (wide, in or out)
Sloppy Camp (small, out)
Split the Match Relay (small, in or out)
String Burning Race (wide, out)
Supreme A-Frame Tarp Pitch (wide, out)
Supreme String Burning Race (wide, out)
Tent Mess Relay (wide, in or out)
Tent Pitching Race (wide, out)
Tent Striking Race (wide, out)
Trail Signs Relay (small, in)
Water Boiling Race (wide, out)
Wood Splitting Relay (small, in or out)
KNOT TYING SKILL ACTIVITIES
50-Foot Rescue Relay (wide, in or out)
Bowline Draw (small, in or out)
Bowline Sheet Bend Draw (small, in or out)
Cannibal Rescue (wide, in or out)
Eight Knot Contest (wide, in or out)
Horizontal Half Hitch Race (small, in or out)
Hot Isotope Transport (wide, out)
Knot Hoop Relay (small, in or out)
Knot Master Tug of War (wide, in or out)
Knot Trail (Knot Kim’s Game) (small, in or out)
Knot-Tying Relay (wide, in or out)
Lassoing the Steer (wide, in or out)
Log Hauling (wide, out)
One-Handed Knot Tying (small, in or out)
Pony Express Race (wide, in or out)
Remote Clove Hitch (wide, out)
Rescue Relay (small, in or out)
Rope Tackle Tug of War (large, in or out)
Rope-Toss-Log-Lift Challenge (wide, in or out)
Simple Square Knot Relay (small, in or out)
Square Knot Visual Challenge (small, in or out)
Taut Line Hitch Race I (large, out)
Taut Line Hitch Race III (large, in)
Two Person Square Knot (small, in or out)
LASHING SKILL ACTIVITIES
A-Frame Transport Race (wide, in or out)
Catch the Snapper (small, in or out)
Crossing the Alligator Pit (wide, in or out)
Everyone on the Tripod (wide, in or out)
Flagpole Race (wide, out)
Get’Im Up (small, in or out)
Joining Staves (wide, in or out)
Ladder Building (wide, in or out)
Lift Seat Procession (wide, in or out)
Reactor Transporter (wide, in or out)
Roman Chariot Race (wide, in or out)
Scout Stave Launcher (wide, in or out)
Self Standing Flagpole (small, in or out)
Snake Race (wide, in or out)
Patrol Games
PATROL GAMES – LARGE AREA
Balloon Bounce (wide, in or out)
Bucket Brigade (wide, out)
Christmas Card Game (wide, in)
Fire Bucket Relay (wide, out)
Hit the Can (wide, in or out)
Hula Hoop Horseshoes (wide, in or out)
Hunt the Candy (wide, in)
Log Rolling Relay (wide, out)
Nitro Transport (wide, out)
Obstacle Race (wide, in or out)
Pocket Rope Competition (wide, in or out)
Shoe Hunt (wide, in or out)
Spies in the Woods (wide, out)
Standing Jump Relay (wide, in or out)
Tire Roll Relay (wide, in or out)
Wheelbarrow Relay (wide, in or out)
PATROL GAMES – SMALL SPACE
Blindfold Battery Exchange (small, in)
Blindfolded Discoveries (small, in)
Blow Ball (small, in)
Can It! (small, in or out)
Four Square (small, in or out)
Hunker Down (small, in or out)
Hunter, Gun, or Rabbit (small, in or out)
Identifying Sounds (small, in)
Kim’s Game (small, in or out)
Kim’s Game Up and Down (small, in or out)
Life’s Little Lists (small, in)
Map Symbol Kim’s Game (small, in)
Nail Driving Relay (small, in or out)
Name That Fish (small, in)
Over-Under Relay (small, in or out)
Pass the Can (small, in or out)
Sky High (small, in)
Stepping Stones (small, in or out)
Trail Signs (small, in)
Wall Street (small, in)
What Happened? (small, out)
Team Building
All Aboard (small, in or out)
Amoeba Walk (wide, in or out)
Atomic Pile (small, out)
Blind Square (wide, in or out)
Blind Tent Pitch (wide, out)
Blind Train (wide, in or out)
Coal Mine Maze (wide, in or out)
Handicap Obstacle Course (wide, in or out)
Helium Stick (small, in or out)
Hi-Lo (small, in or out)
Hot Isotope Transport (wide, out)
Island Hopping (wide, in or out)
Lizzie Gator (wide, out)
Moon Ball (wide, in or out)
Night Crossing (wide, in or out)
Nitro Transport (wide, out)
Sky High (small, in)
Zulu Toss (small, in or out)
Troop Games
TROOP GAMES – LARGE AREA
Antelope Race (wide, in or out)
Blindfolded Soccer (wide, out)
Blindfolded Steal the Bacon (wide, in or out)
Capture the Flag (wide, in or out)
Catch Ten (wide, in or out)
Crack the DEW Line (wide, in or out)
Crowded Circle (wide, in or out)
Crows and Cranes (wide, in or out)
Deer Stalking (wide, out)
Flying Disc Soccer (wide, out)
Jump the Shot (wide, in or out)
Paper-Wad Tennis (wide, in or out)
Ring Ball (wide, in or out)
Shoot the Gap (wide, in or out)
Silent Signals (small, in or out)
Skedaddle (wide, in or out)
Stand By Sixes (wide, in or out)
Standing Staves (small, in or out)
Stratego (wide, out)
Steal the Bacon (wide, in or out)
Troopolo (wide, out)
True or False Steal the Bacon (wide, in or out)
Tug of War (wide, in or out)
Tug of War Steal the Bacon (wide, in or out)
Where’s the Whistle? (wide, in or out)
TROOP GAMES – SMALL SPACE
Blindman’s Bluff (small, in or out)
Buzz, Bing, Bang (small, in or out)
Captain on Deck (small, in or out)
Hawaiian Handclap Circle (small, in)
Hawaiian Handclap Line (small, in)
Hot or Cold (small, in)
Name That Merit Badge (small, in)
O’Grady (small, in or out)
Prisoner’s Escape (small, in or out)
Subway (small, in)
Thimble Finding (small, in)
Time Bomb (small, in or out)
GATHERING PERIOD ACTIVITIES
Find Your Pace (wide, out)
Four Square (small, in or out)
Guess that Height (wide, out)
Guess that Width (wide, out)
Hit the Bucket (wide, in or out)
Hitching Challenge (Race) (small, in or out)
Hula Hoop Horseshoes (wide, in or out)
Hunker Down (small, in or out)
Moon Ball (wide, in or out)
Name That Merit Badge (small, in)
Name That Plant (small, in or out)
Prisoner’s Escape (small, in or out)
Puzzling (small, in)
Ring Ball (wide, in or out)
Rope Toss (wide, in or out)
Signaling (wide, in or out)
Square Lashing Challenge (Race) (small, in or out)
Three-Leg Compass Walk (wide, out)