100 Ideas
The following ideas and suggestions will help to give you a start in your
programme planning. There are, of course, many more exciting ideas you can dream up and all are valid challenges for completion of the top
portion requirement of the Centenery Badge.
Sections are advised to keep in mind at all times the policies of the association and the health and safety implications of any ideas that you choose to undertake
1. Plant 100 trees
2. Hike 100 Kms over Mountain Terrain
3. Help 100 Scouts get on the water
4. Sail a boat 100 Kms on lake or sea
5. Cycle 100 Kms on canal towpaths
6. Help deliver 100 Meals on Wheels dinners
7. Make a video about 100 years of Scouting and we will post it on scouts.ie
8. Make a podcast about the history of your Group
9. Organise a fund raising celebration bar – b – que with a 100 years of Scouting Theme
10. Build 100 sand castles on a beach each with a scout flag on them
11. Put together and publish a 100 year calendar
12. Accumulate 100 nights under canvas in your Patrol
13. Take 100 pictures of your Centenary celebrations
14. Take part in a Backwoods/Survival Adventure
15. Complete 2 Mountaineering events at Group/County/National Level
16. Take part in at least 2 National events
17. Bake a 100 year celebration cake in a cardboard box oven
18. Bake 100 celebration scones in cardboard box ovens for a parent night/event
19. Have your Patrol obtain and fill an ‘Aquabox’ for disaster relief
20. Make a necklace of 100 hand carved wooden beads
21. Construct a pioneering bridge
22. Construct a pioneering tower
23. Construct a 100 years celebration pioneering camp gateway.
24. Design 100 years of Scouting T-Shirts and print up t-shirts for your section
25. Collect/swap 100 neckerchiefs with Groups around the country
26. Explore nature in your locality and find/ photograph/collect 100 items of interest
27. Visit an Old Peoples home and talk to residents about their life when they where Scout age
28. Take part in the National Orienteering event
29. Make a Trek cart and carry your equipment to a local campsite.
30. Participate in a ‘Brownsea camp’ or re - enactment Scout event
31. Beavers - Make puppets and put on a Puppet show about 100 years fo Scouting.
32. Make 100 bird boxes for your local area.
33. Collect 100 acorns and seed them for planting later
34. Hold a special 100 years celebration Scouts Own
35. Make 100 friendship bracelets for non – scouts
36. Hold a bring a pal night to increase membership in your Patrols and sections
37. Organise a field day to promote Scouting in you locality
38. Undertake 100 good deeds
39. Set records for pitching 100 tents, hammering in 100 tent pegs, lighting 100 fires etc.
40. Gain 100 merit badges or proficiency badges in your section
41. Make 100 Turk’s head woggles.
42. Collect/exchange/swap 100 badges with scouts from 100 associations
43. Make a raft and take part in a raft race
44. Make a pioneering tent platform and camp on it overnight
45. Invite 100 people to a camp cookout and campfire
46. Land 100 arrows on target at an archery event
47. Build go-carts decorated with the100 year theme and race them in you locality
48. Abseil 100 metres over a number of abseils
49. Climb 100 metres of height on a rock face or climbing wall
50. Traverse a climbing wall or boulder face for 100 metres
51. Swim 100 metres as part of a team
52. Take part in a super person event – 25 kms canoeing, walking, cycling etc.
53. Take part in 100 scout games
54. Hold a 100 year celebration kite flying event – every Scout makes and flies a kite.
55. Hold a ‘bring and buy’ sale for charity. The task - 100 brings, 100 buys
56. Make a Scout Stave and carve your patrol emblem/totem on it.
57. Create a Patrol board or corner that has a ‘100 years of Scouting’ theme.
58. Raise some money for charity and distribute 100 euro notes to worthy projects locally.
59. Make 100 Pancakes and hold a pancake tossing event.
60. Make a hammock for camp and sleep overnight in it.
61. Take part in a Night drop event or night hike
62. Beavers - Go on a night walk - observe the stars and discover the stories about the star constellations
63. Bivouac in a number of unusual places
64. Hit a target with a pioneering based catapult 100 paces away.
65. Float 100 lighted candles in paper boats on a lake or river
66. Make and sell for charity candles displaying a 100 year logo
67. Build a commando obstacle course and complete the course in less than 100 seconds
68. Help the St. Vincent de Paul make up 100 food parcels
69. Make a simple spirit budget stove and cook a meal on it
70. Have a dessert party with chocolate banana and toasted marshmallows
71. Follow a tracking trail through a forest consisting of 100 tracking signs
72. Visit the Scouting 100 year exhibition in the National Museum Dublin
73. Collect 100 nature objects and make nature boards for your den.
74. Make a list of 100 things to do before the year ends and start doing them
75. 100 Scouts, one marquee, devise and run a circus for younger sections
76. 100 table quiz questions on scouting – lets see what you know!!
77. Fill 100 shoeboxes for Rotary Ireland Disaster Relief Project
78. Learn how to say ‘hello’ in 100 different languages
79. Create a treasure hunt and invite 100 non scouts to find it
80. Design and make a 100 years greeting card and send it to 100 non scouts
81. Complete 100 actions that will help in saving the planet
82. Hold a back to basics camp - revisiting old Scout skills
83. Learn how to light a fire using friction and flint and steel
84. Cook 100 sausages on a stick at a scout campfire
85. Create a cyclo –cross country course and hold a 100 competitor contest.
86. Be able to identify star constellations that collectively contain a total of 100 stars
87. Hold a ‘100 years of Scouting’ painting competition and display the entries
88. Cultivate a vegetable plot for centenary year
89. Take part in an incident trail exercise with incidents on a 100 year theme
90. Make a Patrol box for camp and for den use
91. Reach for the sky – build the highest tower possible with 100 bamboos and elastic bands
92. Compose a ‘100 years of scouting’ campfire song (not a yell)
93. Undertake some gardening tasks for old folk in your community
94. Organise and take part in a Scout Olympiad – Patrols design novel tests and feats
95. Learn to sign and recognise (Sign Language) 100 words collectively in your Patrol
96. Each member of your Patrol makes a personal ‘commando rope’ with eye splicing
97. Take part in a scavenger hunt for 100 items and find them all.
98. Hold a 100 balloon charity launch – balloons should have Scout logo on them
99. Make a special 100 years camp gateway at your County camp
100. Make a 100 ft (30 metre) rope for every member of your Patrol