🌊 Week 2: Float Your Feathers
Welcome back, Camp Ducky Scouts! 🦆⛺
Now that you’ve built your cozy home base, it’s time to hit the water! This week, you'll put your engineering skills (and team spirit!) to the test with one crucial wilderness skill: RAFT BUILDING.
Your raft isn’t just about floating — it's about surviving, thriving, and sailing the adventurous waters of Camp Ducky together. Can your team design the best vessel on the lake?
🛶 Challenge Overview:
🏡 Your Task:
Design and build a raft large enough to fit your entire team!
- Build size: 18 or less tiles (maximum platform space), however you want to format... 3x6, 4x4, 2x4, 1x8, etc
- Your raft must look sturdy, creative, and adventure-ready.
- Include space for each of your team members to "sit," "stand," or otherwise fit onto the raft.
- Add thoughtful details: paddles, flags, supplies, life vests, duck-themed items, fishing gear, or anything else that would make your raft legendary!
- Select one of the 5 open water spaces in our new Camp Ducky River Room! (There is a path that has opened from our main Camp Ducky Room to find the room too!)
📸 Bonus Fun:
Take a team group photo standing or sitting on your raft and submit it on DuckyWood.com and Discord! 📷✨
🌟 Inspiration Ideas:
- Traditional wooden rafts tied with rope
- Duck-themed floating paradises
- Rustic survival rafts made from logs and barrels
- Pirate-style mini-ships
- Floating campfires, fishing poles, and supplies lashed to the side
- Tropical bamboo rafts with big colorful flags
Get creative — you’re not just floating, you're flexing your feathers!
📅 Important Dates:
Building Starts: Monday, May 12th
Submission Deadline: Saturday, May 17th by:
- 9:00 PM EDT
- 2:00 AM BST (Sunday, May 18th)
- 11:00 AM AEST (Sunday, May 18th)
Team Voting Deadline: Sunday, May 18th by:
- 9:00 PM EDT
- 2:00 AM BST (Monday, May 19th)
- 11:00 AM AEST (Monday, May 19th)
🔗 Reminder: See the "Sunday Voting at Camp Ducky" article for full voting instructions!
🥇 Judging Criteria:
- Creativity: How original and clever is your raft design?
- Practicality: Could your team actually survive on this raft?
- Team Inclusion: Is there space for all teammates on the raft?
- Theme & Details: Are there fun, ducky or survival-themed details included?
- Effort: Are you putting in the extra touches that make your build stand out?
🎶 Campfire Call:
"No storm can sink us — when ducks float together!"
Gather your team, unleash your creativity, and let's make waves this week at Camp Ducky! 🌊🐣