Good luck I have been training scouts for many years and it can be terrific fun, however there are one or two things that you might want to consider.
1 - Leaders always tell you their section is well behaved, well they would! In practice some of them will be there because their parents made them come and no matter what you do they are not going to respond as well as the rest so don't take that personally.
2 - Scouts get bored after 5 minutes talking and another 5 minutes if you are showing them something. After that point they really need to be doing something for themselves.
3 - NO matter how well you demonstrate something half of them will come up afterwards and expect you to show it to them personally because they either zoned out or couldn't follow. They see it as their right and schools don't do anything to dispel that so once again don't get despondent, however while you ae showing them something the rest are drifting off.
4 - I run a outdoor skills (bush craft) course every may have found that I can work best with them in 4 pairs, after that I insist on another adult for every 6 kids, and that adult has to know what I want taught before hand, allow an evening for that!
It is seriously difficult trying to teach kids a practical skill with more than that, which is another reason why the troop will probably be in patrols of 6 or so kids
This year our course involved several activity "bases" each one lasting an hour. Each base had at least one adult and took a maximum of 8 scouts.
- Fire lighting (double session) base needs two adults.
- Axe work - preparing firewood.
- Sharpening a knife / axe (if time show how to change bow saw blade)
- Making nettle cordage and then a turk’s head woggle if time (as the SL he will know what to do here!)
- Make bannock, they should have time to make two each, one plain and a second one using either cheese, dried fruit, or even sun dried tomatoes!
- Putting up a tarp and hammock. Plastic 3*2 tarps are under £10 from
www.tarpaflex.co.uk, I have half a dozen old hammocks, get them to work in pairs for this.
- Whittling, probably will drop this one next time they never really got into it,
Ours was overnight, from 10AM Sat to 2PM Sunday and they cooked all their own meals on fires, allow 2 hours for lunch and breakfast, and 3 hours for dinner,
I also had my Kelly kettle on hand to make cups of tea, it looks buscrafty so didn't "break the spell" but it got a hot drink inside them when it was cold.