1. Find out all you can about what facilities /Services and organisations are available in your local area for the elderly or disabled e.g. clubs, day centres, meals services, places to hire equipment. Compile this information into a leaflet that might be displayed at your local library or similar.
2. Visit and make a survey of your local park or play area. What facilities are available for people to use. Are there any problems associated with the area? What could be done to solve them? Present your findings in a poster.
3. List items, which might be in a tool kit, which you could use for basic home repairs. Demonstrate the correct use of three of these tools. When using tools, be sure to wear protective equipment as appropriate and follow safety guidelines.
Undertake a project using wood such as: -
§ Put together a “flat pack” item of furniture
§ Use a saw to cut animal shapes or to make a Noah’s Ark.
§ Make a shelf with ends
§ Carve , using a knife and or chisel, an object or animal
4. Find out about different ways of protecting your property (such as items in your home or a bicycle) from theft. Also find out about the Neighbourhood Watch Scheme. Share the information that you have learnt with the rest of your Patrol in an interesting way.
5. Make a game based on the Highway Code. Include any issues that are relevant to you such as cycling or as a pedestrian. Play it with some friends.
6. Effective time management can help you make sure that you fit everything into a busy life and to help you plan your time well. Time management can also help to eliminate some stressful situations. Draw up a plan of how you expect to fill your time for one week. Include all the activities that you hope to do in the week - but make sure that you include some free time and some time to relax. Did your plan help you achieve everything that you wanted to - did it help reduce stress?
7. Undertake a project to enhance the look of a room such as:
§ Create your own cushion, wall hanging, or similar.
§ Brighten up a room using paint - you could use stencils etc.
§ Recondition / cover a piece of furniture
8. Know ways of saving energy and natural resources for example, electricity, gas, oil, water wood and find out about the facilities for recycling waste in your local area. Make a new item of clothing or an accessory from an old one.
9. Put together a booklet to help parents / teachers, and other adults to gain a better understanding of what it means to be a young person today. Use cartoons, photographs, poems, stories etc.
10. Peer pressure can be a powerful influence on a young person’s life. With some friends work out together a play, or mime that demonstrates the positive and negative effects of peer pressure.
11. Successfully cultivate and keep tidy a piece of ground, raised bed or window box for at least 3 months. Keep a pictorial record of what you have grown.
12. Find out what household items and objects can be dangerous for a young child. Make a list of these items and either make a safety check in your home or a home where there is a young child or go through a toy catalogue and decide which items would be dangerous for a child under 3 years old. Share your findings with your Patrol.
13. Undertake one of the following projects
§ Put together a collection of recipes for some one with special dietary needs e.g. low fat, low salt, low sugar, lactose intolerant. Show that you can cook at least one of the recipes
§ Choose a food, which is not native to the UK. Find out where it comes from and how it is produced. Use this food as an ingredient in the preparation of a recipe.
§ Make some jam, chutney or pickles
14. Complete two of the following tasks
§ Show that you can lay a table for a three course meal and that you can fold a serviette in at least two different ways
§ Make a table decoration
§ Make a serviette ring - possibly out of recycled materials.
15. Complete two of the following
§ Know and understand the current International Textile Care Labelling Code
§ Understand how to use, care for and maintain the laundry equipment you use at home
§ Design a poster / information leaflet giving hints on how to treat common stains
§ Understand the difference between biological and non biological detergent. Explain the need for care in their use in relation to skin conditions.