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BASIC SCOUTING PATROL CORNERS
PATROL TEAMS NEWSPAPER STUDY
Equipment: One issue of the same day’s newspaper for each Patrol. Pencils.
Method: Patrols in Patrol corners, each with the same day’s issue of a newspaper. On signal, Patrols start searching for articles or news items which illustrate some Scout Law. Items are torn or cut out of newspaper and Patrols write on the clipping the Scout Law involved along with their Patrol name.
Scoring: Clippings are collected by the Troop leaders and the Patrol with the most clippings in given time, wins.
VARIATION 1: Patrols cut out news items illustrating Scout Laws broken and/or kept. First to find clippings for all twelve Scout Laws, wins.
VARIATION 2: Leaders select one of the more difficult laws to illustrate. First Patrol to find specified law, wins.
Hap—py New Year! Heave Ho and away we go into 1949.