Learn how to play croquet…but don’t harm any hedgehogs in the process!
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Have your own mini-beast hunt to find some of the insects that hedgehogs like Harrison like to eat
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Fancy a technical challenge? Set up a motion sensor camera in your garden and see if you can film any hedgehog happenings!
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Hedgehogs are nocturnal…take a night hike and see if you can spot any hedgies along your journey
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Learn about road safety with the ‘Arrive Alive’ hedgehogs
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Design a game/activity to raise awareness of hedgehogs hibernating under bonfires
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Find out about hibernation, what it is and why hedgehogs do
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Find out about the 17 sustainable development goals from the United Nations. Do something to raise awareness of the goals and help make progress towards them.
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Research a celebration or religious festival from a country other than your own and celebrate it in your unit.
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Invite an animal handler to come and talk to you about hedgies - find out some fun facts and handle one for yourself
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Hold a Global party in your unit, dress up in national costume from around the world, play your games and try your international food.
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Find out about a day in the life of a child in different countries around the world. Create a short play to tell their story.
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Pack a bag for a journey and discuss with your leader what you packed and why?
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Make an international friend/pen-pal and write to them.
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Find out how long it would take to travel around the world using different modes of transport: on foot, by plane/train/car/bicycle.
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Plan a trip to 3 different destinations around the world, find out what there is to do in each destination and prepare a budget.
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Watch a cat themed film such as ‘The Lion King’, ‘Puss in Boots’ or ‘Cats’ the musical
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Find out about the big cats on the endangered species list. What can you do to raise awareness of endangered species or help raise money to support their breeding programmes?
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Get in touch with your local vets or pet shop and invite someone to come and talk to your unit about looking after cats
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Find out about a local cat shelter or home and raise some money to help them.
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Read a cat themed story or poem or have a go at writing your own
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Raise money to adopt a big cat at your local zoo, wildlife park or safari park?
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Hold a cat themed party at your meeting place. Invite your family and friends to join you
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Visit your local zoo or wildlife park and see some monkeys in real life. Find out some facts while you’re there, why not speak to one of the keepers?
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People born in the Chinese Zodiac Year of the Monkey are said to be intelligent. Find out your brain age and try out some memory tests/games
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The tip of a monkey’s tail is bare and acts like a human finger tip to touch and feel. Find out some interesting finger print facts
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Female monkeys teach their babies to floss their teeth. Invite your local dental hygienist or dentist to speak to your group and learn about the importance of dental health
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Each year, about 55,000 primates are used as test animals in the U.S., and about 10,000 are used in Great Britain. Japan uses millions of primates. Find out about animal testing. Do you agree or disagree with it? Debate this in your unit
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Find out the story of Hanuman the Hindu monkey god. Re-enact the story for your group
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Visit a tree top adventure course and swing in the trees
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Host a monkey themed party. Serve your guests some of your monkey food goodies and invite them with a banana shaped invite
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Learn to tie a Monkey’s Fist knot. Why not make it into a key ring and count it as a ‘Craft’ challenge too?
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Monkeys can understand written numbers and can even count. Learn to count in a language other than your own
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Find out about why we celebrate Christmas and tell others
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Find out what other faiths believe in/how they celebrate ‘Christmas’ and ‘New Year’
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Take part in the Samaritan’s Operation Christmas Child
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Go carol singing locally around your area. Why not see if you can visit a residential home - the residents will love to hear you singing?!
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Hold a Christmas concert in your unit with each member participating in some way
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Hold your own relaxing pamper night. Why not invite a local beautician to teach you how to massage?
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Find out which religion doesn’t eat pork and why
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March 1st is National Pig Day - celebrate and mark the day with some of your Year of the Pig activities!
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Pig squeals can reach up to 130 Decibels (Db) and a jet engine can reach 120Db. How loud can you be?
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Do a Random Act of Kindness for someone you don’t know. It could be as small as smiling at someone you don’t know or buying a hot drink for a homeless person
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Pigs are generous and considerate. Donate toys/games to a local charity shop
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Think of others and do a good turn each day of the week between your meetings. Record what you did and who you helped.
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Grow your own Marguerite flowers - the lucky flowers of those born in the Year of the Pig
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Hold a debate. Discuss the fox hunting ban in Britain, one team should argue the case for fox hunting and the other argue against
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Find out how many species of fox there are
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Find out about different animal prints and how to track animals using their footprints and other signs
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Foxes use the Earth’s magnetic field to help them hunt. Create your own compass and try navigating with it
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Watch a fox themed film i.e. ‘Fantastic Mr. Fox’, the animated ‘Robin Hood’ or ‘Fox and the Hound’
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Foxes use 28 different calls to communicate. Learn 28 different signals or words in a different language and try communicating with a partner
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Foxes are very active at night. See what it’s like and hold a meeting in the dark - try not to use torches.
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Foxes have great hearing and can hear a watch tick from 36.5 metres away. How good is your hearing? What noises can you hear from that distance?
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