A loggerhead turtle swimming away from the camera

Beavers

Help inspire your Beavers group to care for the ocean. Our fun activities and games help your Beavers develop problem-solving skills while exploring the natural world around them.

General activities

  • Fun fishy games: Kick-off a meeting with one of these marine-themed warm-up games.
  • Blue mindfulness: A wind-down activity based around imagining the peace and calm of being near water.
  • Make a basking shark: Work as a team to mark out a basking shark and see how big these incredible creatures really are.
  • Colouring sheets: A set of colouring sheets based on UK marine life.
  • My underwater world: Get crafty and use imagination to design a magical underwater world.
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a green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas), swimming over a seagrass bed.

A green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas), swimming over a seagrass bed.  |  Image credit: Peter Richardson

Explore Activity Badge

When thinking about what you might find at the seashore (Requirement 2), you could Make an indoor rockpool and give everyone a chance to try rockpooling before you visit.

Prepare for your visit by role playing a Virtual beach trip – an interactive way to introduce the Seashore Code and Beach safety to your colony. For the day of the visit, our Seashore safari guide and Rockpool spotter sheet will be useful.

On your return, you could Make a journey stick with items collected during the visit as an unusual way of capturing memories and telling others about your experiences.

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2 children engaging in an educational coastal activity known as rock pooling. The gil has a yellow bucket next to her.

Children rock pooling  |  Image credit: Air Images

Global Issues Activity Badge

When learning about endangered animals for Requirement 3, don’t forget about the endangered species living in the sea. The ocean makes up 70% of the earth’s surface and is home to thousands of species at risk of extinction from overfishing, bycatch, climate change and people.

We’ve created an Animals in Danger activity that uses a charades-style game to introduce your colony to endangered marine animals. To understand the challenges faced by a turtle making its long journey across the ocean you could use our interactive story about The Journey of Turtley the Turtle. When you dress up as endangered animals, don’t forget those that live in the ocean!

For Requirement 4, Can you clean the sea? provides a step-by-step guide to creating a water filter.

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two Hawksbill sea turtles (Eretmochelys imbricata) swimming over a coral reef.

Two Hawksbill sea turtles swimming over a coral reef.  |  Image credit: Peter Richardson

My World Challenge Award

If you take part in a litter pick to help improve your local community (Requirement 1), you could use Our link to the ocean to help your colony consider how litter in your area could affect marine life, regardless of how far you live from the sea.

You could record the litter you find on our data form and upload it to the national Source to Sea database. The data collected will form part of the evidence base we use to help us campaign for change. For example, we’ve used data collected in previous years to make the case for the 5p carrier bag charges across the UK.

Around 70% of litter in the ocean is made of plastic. Can you plan a Plastic-Free Party for Requirement 4?

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a beach cleanup

A beach cleanup  |  Image credit: Aled Llywelyn

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Learn about our amazing local species

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Tuna fish swimming in the deep blue ocean

Cubs

Explore our ocean with action-packed resources for Cubs. Our fun activities and games help your Cubs develop problem-solving skills while learning more about our seas.
A basking shark swims facing face-on slightly off centre from the camera. As a filter feeder, its mouth is wide open showing its white gill rakers clearly against the dark of its mouth. The water is teal and looks like plankton is floating.

Scouts

Dive into our ocean-themed resource packs and activities for Scouts. We've designed a series of resources to encourage your group's natural curiosity and investigative skills to learn more about our seas and how we can all look after them.
An underwater picture of a grey cat shark swimming over luscious green kelp. The cat shark is moving away from the camera.

Explorer scouts

Our free activity plans have been designed to help you complete the volunteering section of the Duke of Edinburgh Award.