Unreliable Idea # 4 Milk Bottle Regatta

Here's a great way to build a team amongst your youth or young adults and give them a project over a few weeks/months!! Hold the Annual Milk Bottle Regatta!!
Design a set of rules for 'raft building' using collected plastic milk bottles and a small range of other household items [go the whole distance and issue teams with a standard number of lengths of softwood timber and some rope and gaf tape]. Set maximum size for rafts and encourage the young people to start collecting bottles.
In their teams they collect,design and build their rafts in preparation for the Annual Regatta.
Have prizes for the best looking, technically excellent and the first three placed rafts in a race on the day!!
Watch 'Master and Commander'advisory rating M and have a discussion in the group about how 'teams' performed, how leadership was exercised and what each learned from watching the film!!