Coincidentally aligned with “I’m a celebrity…”, this week the Scouts played bush tucker trials and blind football.
The main purpose of the evening though was to learn that everyday experiences are impacted by having senses removed: feeling food when sight is removed; tasting food with smell removed; playing football with sight & hearing impaired.
Most Scouts were incredibly brave and just plunged their hands into a box of unknown food (different boxes contained rice, rice krispies, jelly, peas & chickpeas, mozzarella, rice pudding, and – the most disliked – baked beans).
They also had to match 7 different flavours of chocolate, guess which ketchup was the spicy one to go with their chips, and of course taste dried buffalo worms, locusts, crickets and mealworms.
![A blindfolded Scout places his hand into a cardboard box to try and identify a mystery food by touch alone.](https://6thfleetscoutgroup.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/IMG-20221111-WA0020-e1668169731564-991x1024.jpg)
![A Scout squealing with shock after touching a mystery food hidden inside a cardboard box.](https://6thfleetscoutgroup.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/IMG-20221111-WA0007-e1668169809968-912x1024.jpg)
![A row of seven different types of chocolate which the Scouts had to identify whilst holding their nose.](https://6thfleetscoutgroup.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/20221110_141631-1110x461.jpg)
![A plate of broken up pieces of chocolate](https://6thfleetscoutgroup.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/20221110_194716-1110x513.jpg)
![A close-up picture showing a plate of dried mealworms and locusts.](https://6thfleetscoutgroup.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/20221110_200604-1110x512.jpg)
![Dried mealworms and locusts on a cardboard plate, and a Scout dipping some over chips into one of two mini pots of ketchup.](https://6thfleetscoutgroup.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/20221110_200213-scaled-e1668170054353-1110x648.jpg)
![A blindfolded Scout tries to identify the normal or spicy ketchup she has just dunked her chip into.](https://6thfleetscoutgroup.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/IMG-20221111-WA0006-e1668169917145-1110x947.jpg)