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Promise & Law Resources

Developing these Promise and Law resources was a part of my Olave Baden Powell Award, and the key reason for developing this website. I'm very thankful to all the units and leaders who helped out by testing the activities or lending me their Guides to test things on - these lovely people are acknowledged at the bottom of the page.

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Activities are listed separately and have 3 types of tags to help you find what you are looking for.  Recuit/Guide tags indicate if the activity is suited to members who have recently joined or Guides who have already made their promise.  Age tags indicate the developmental stages I had in mind as suitable for the activity (including OP standing for lave Program).  And finally Individual/Patrol/Unit tags indicate the size group that the activity can work with.  Click on the tags to filter activities.

Promise Hand Game

Time: 5-10 minutes


Equipment:

  • Friends to play with

Instructions:

Hint: This one is Similar to “Down by the Banks of the Hanky-Panky”

  1. Sit in a circle, with hands palm up to your left and right. Your right hand should be on top of your neighbours left hand.

  2. The group begins the clapping chain by having one person move their right hand over to clap on their neighbours right hand. The neighbour then passes the clap on the person on their left.

  3. As the clap moves around the circle, the group says the words of the promise at the same time as each clap

  4. When it gets to the last word (“Law”), you need to try to avoid the clap., by pulling your right hand in towards yourself at the last minute. If you receive the law clap, you are out.

  5. If you are delivering the law clap, and your neighbour moves her hand in time to avoid it, you are out.The game is then repeated, starting from where it last finished.

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