Jamaica, 27/04/07

Game -  Bean Bag Toss

Popular game played by children in Jamaica.  For the colony can be played in teams.  Each team is given a bean bag. First Beaver in each team faces backwards and sees who can throw their beanbag the furthest. Each Beaver has a turn, points awarded and added up.

Alternatively if your HQ are too small play team style with a bucket in front of each team. Each Beaver in the team and 3 throws to see you gets the most beanbags in the bucket. Points awarded.

Craft  - Fruit Monsters / Animals

A selection of cut up fruit and cocktails sticks given to each lodge. This is the chance for Beavers to be creative and make weird and wonderful creations.

The craft can be made of cheaper fruits such as apples, bananas, oranges. But worth having a small selection of tropical fruits from Jamaica of which there are many for the Beavers to taste.

Limbo Dancing

Lots of fun – Play Reggae Music with 2 leaders holding the cane as the beavers dance threw. Lowering as they go.

Language – The official language of Jamaica is English, spoken in proper fashi Jamaican accent. But the language of everyday is Patois (Pat-wa) a combination of English, Spanish, Portuguese.

Patois                                                                        English

Ello dere                                                                     Hello there

Ketch yuh layta                                                          Catch you later

Whey yuh a sey                                                         How is it going

Ow ole yuh is                                                 How old are you

Mi Fren                                                                       My Friend

Mada                                                              Mother

Fada                                                               Father

Nyam                                                              Eat

Likkle                                                              Little

Ax                                                                    Ask

Bwoy                                                               Boy

Gal                                                                  Girl

Food Tasting – Jerk Chicken, Dumplings, Rice with peas & Beans

Determination

Troop 3 in Youngstown, Ohio, recently had its first Eagle Scouts after being in existence for over 25 years. Troop 3 is a troop for Scouts who have mental and physical disabilities, and most of the Scouts are in their 30s and 40s. At the Eagle ceremony, five men received their coveted Eagle, after most of them had worked for the better part of 25 years earning the award, one small step at a time.

As you work on your advancement—I know you all get impatient and want to move along faster at times—remember Troop 3 and the Scouts who spent 25 years working toward their goal of becoming Eagles.

Greenland, 13/04/07

Game: Flying to Greenland – using the oceans around Greenland as the ‘corners’:

Arctic Ocean in the north; the Greenland Sea in the east; the Denmark Strait in the southeast; the Atlantic Ocean in the south.

Game:

The beavers stand in a circle. The leader goes round the circle giving each beaver a name - walrus, whale, seal, polar bear etc. When the name is called, each beaver with that name runs out of his/her space, clockwise, round the circle. The leader then calls ‘ Greenland ’ and the beavers have to change direction and go the other way round. You can make the ‘ Greenland ’ as often as you like with each set of beavers.

Game: Greenland is the largest island in the world – so play Shrinking Island

Spread out a large groundsheet and stand the Beaver Scouts some distance away

On the word ‘go’ the players try to stand on the island

When the leader calls ‘stop’ any player not on the island is out

All players leave the island, which is folded to make it smaller

The game is repeated until only 2 players are left

Pearls of Wisdom—Quotes from Baden-Powell

“The Good Turn will educate the boy out of the groove of selfishness.”