Skills a 9 year old can teach

[Worriedmum40284]

DS9 needs to teach a skill to other 8-10 year olds as part of a Cub badge.

I'm really struggling for ideas! He loves sport and all of his activities/clubs are sports related, but not sure how to translate that to teaching others in a Cubs hut. He's not into crafts of any kind.

Has anyone got any ideas or had to do similar previously?!

Recognising trees by their leaves? Something simple - it’s a skill I’ve passed to my kids and they love knowing names of things.
cleaning his football boots?

Well what sports?

Teach a skill from one of his sports
A card trick
How to tie a tie
how to fold a crisp packet into a triangle
count to 10 plus hello, goodbye, please, thank you, my name is in another language

How to tie laces, how to tie a tie, how to make a cake, a magic trick, a sentence in a foreign language, how to do a roley poley

I taught DD the BSL alphabet when she was about 7 (during lockdown). She could have taught it to others once she'd learned it.

A game? Is there a simple card game he could teach the others. (I only know adult ones now mine are teenagers)

At thr Cub pack my son attended all the older Sixers had to run an activity.
There were 3 doing it and the others did a round Robin in small groups.
DS taught some tennis skills using balloons. Others have done drawing, knots, origami, languages, football (several times)
Don't over think it. Ask him what he'd like to teach his friends. It's about developing skills/confidence to explain something to others.

Making a simple food and presenting it eg 2 party dips for tortillas , one with with sweet chilli sauce and Mayo, and one with Greek yogurt, Mayo and lemon juice.

Set a tray with a bowl of tortillas, then put the dips into bowls,

Not answering the question

Could he teach them the official rules to one of his sports maybe? I guess it helps if it’s a more unusual sport. Or if it’s something like karate, could he teach them a kata?

Thanks all - some great ideas here.

His sports are football/basketball/dodgeball so maybe we could do something around the rules of those. Explaining a ball sport using a balloon is a great idea - thank you for that one!

We could also definitely do something language wise - I wasn't sure if it had to be something no one else would know but I've probably complicated it there.

The BSL alphabet is good too - I (ashamedly) don't know it but do know the phonetic one. Wonder if I could teach him that in 4 days?!

Thanks all - that's really helped get some ideas going.

I would focus on "teach" not demonstrate. So something he can get others to do back to show their learning (bonus points if he can add in improvements/corrections). So in the examples up thread, explain the key identifiers of leaves, then have a group sort a pile of leaves and explain their choices or the tennis skills with a balloon, explain and demonstrate, let them have a go and while he observes he offers feedback (try hitting it a little harder next time, keep your eyes on the balloon when your partner is passing it back etc). He could do how to dribble a ball or something but the key is not that he shows everyone that he knows how to do it and hope they can copy him, but that he identifies main must do elements of the skill and communicates this (part of the foot, how hard to kick, how fast to move etc).

Phonetic alphabet
Fingerspelling
How to tie a Bowline, Reef knot and Clove hitch
How to tie shoelaces
How to draw a cartoon animal
Hpw to say the Cubs’ Promise in a different language

Some of the ones my Cubs have done recently.

That sounds obvious but as a teacher I've done similar in class and it's often things like, how to fold this really complicated origami model that I've been practising for 3 months or how to make these cookies (child describes roughly the process and everyone gets to sample a cookie made by the child) and they haven't actually taught anyone to do anything, if that makes sense.

How to set a table correctly (which sides cutlery goes, how to order the forks, how to fold a napkin)) I recall learning something similar in brownies.

Or maybe some basic first aid (recovery position, bandage, elevate bleeds etc).

How to make a sandwich is always quite a popular one. Choose soft white bread, easy spread butter/marg, jam or banana. Get DS to demo it, each step the others copy. It’ll cost a little bit but kids love it.

Mine taught them how to tie a knot (can’t remember which one but take your pick) and took enough bits of rope that they then all had a go. Job done

How to make a really good paper plane. Can give a bar of chocolate to the person who makes the best one.