Equipment


Props and equipment, A true scout gamer is always on the lookout for fun items that can be used for games. Although you may need to improvise with pinecones, socks, fingers or whatever is available at the moment.

I keep the following in my garage because they are used over and over.

• Noodles: foam pool toys, I cut mine in half to 30 inch length, some longer ones are also handy
• Frisbees: I buy bunches at thrift stores
• Water bottles: empty water bottles used as bowling pins etc.
• Inner tubes: bicycle, car, and truck
• Blue tarps assorted sizes
• Tent poles, assorted lengths and diameters
• Plastic mesh pot scrubbers
• Rope: about ¼ inch, 7 or 8 foot long, but get any size or length.
• Carpet scrap about 6 foot by 9, marked with 1 foot grids.
• Balance board: 2x8 board at least 6 foot long with a 1x4 cleat on each end
• Staves: sticks, PVC pipe, or other poles about 1” diameter about 5 foot long
• Sponges: Foam rubber chunks about the size of your fist. I keep about 100 in a large onion bag for water fights
• Parachute, grab one wherever you have the chance, millions of uses.
• 35 MM film cans: harder to find now
• Coffee cans: or other large #10 cans, empty cat food cans
• Five gallon buckets: Get from painters, drywallers or other construction types
• Rope: at least 40 foot long, at least 5/8 inch diameter, as many as you can find
• Balls: Assorted sizes, shapes, colors. I NEVER use them for their intended purpose. Golf balls, ping pong balls, kick balls, bowling balls, croquet balls, wiffle balls etc.
• Bells: jingle bells, cow bells, dinner bells, school bells.
• Barbell weights: Someone’s old weights have multitude of uses
• Bags, sacks, duffels and packs
• Scrap: wood, pipe, tubing, stainless steel, sticks, bamboo, tyvek, parachute, plastic sheeting, farm disks, broken shovels, strapping, wire, pipe fittings,


Thrift stores, dollar stores, army-navy stores, yard sales, auctions, and landfills can all be a source of interesting material.

Of course a true scouter would never actually purchase any of these (not for full price anyway)

And as mentioned, I don’t think I EVER use them for their original purpose! :]