Webelos playing soccer at Sportsman

Summary

We worked on the sportsman activity pin during 5 days of day camp.  Below is the information for day 3 (soccer).

Supplies

• Soccer balls: 2
• Soccer goals: 2
• Marker cones: 12

Requirements covered and activities for each requirement

First explain the basic rules of soccer.

• Objective: put the ball into the other team’s goal
• Cannot use hands
• No pushing or tripping
• Out of bounds: the ball is returned by the team that did not take the ball out of bounds: Explain the details on the fly
• Kick-off: the teams must start on their respective sides

Other quick discussion before playing:

• Brief discussion about offensive and defensive positions
• Goalie may not use his hands
• Rotate every ~5 minutes

Soccer belt loop 2: Spend at least 30 minutes practicing soccer skills.

Soccer belt loop 3: Play a game of soccer.

• Play soccer for the full session.  At the end, if you can fit them all on the field, put both full patrols on the field against each other.

Analysis (Start/Stop/Continue)

• Start: This worked really well and the only thing to make sure of is to make sure they hydrate and actually rest in the off-times (we rotated every 5 minutes).
• Stop: Nothing to stop.  It went well.
• Continue: This worked well.  The parents did a lot of ball fetching at the sides, which was useful to keep the boys out of the woods and from the hill.