Potatoes, 26/06/09

Crisp taste test

Number five bowls of potato crisps and record which flavour is in each bowl.

Tape the five potato crisp bags to the wall behind the table.

The BSs have to match the taste with the bag.

Speed spud

Set up a ramp to roll potatoes down. Use a long stacking table with the legs of one end collapsed. Let everyone choose a potato. Set these up at the start line at the top of the ramp. At a signal from the leader, the racers let their spuds go. The first one over the finish line wins.

Improvise different rules: the straightest rolling spud wins; the fastest wins; the one that rolls the farthest wins; the funniest roll wins.

Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head

Collect a variety of items to decorate the spuds. Include vegetables (broccoli, cauliflower, radishes, carrots) and non-food items like paper, beads, ribbon, string. 

Let the BSs use toothpicks to stick things to the potatoes. 

Allow group members about 20 minutes to make their own personalized creation.

Chat and drink

Use the event to tell your Beaver Scouts about the food value in potatoes. Did you know the lowly spud holds almost all the minerals and vitamins a person needs to survive, including vitamin A, B, C, and D?

Make a list of all the ways we eat potatoes: baked, scalloped, mashed, fried, stuffed, boiled, potato chips. Talk briefly about the need for good eating habits and nutrition.

Potato wheel-barrow race

Organize a wheel-barrow race with a team of two Beavers-one on the floor walking on hands and the other holding up his/her feet 

Put a potato on the back of each 'wheel barrow'. Listen to the shrieks of glee! If the spud falls off, the team must return to the starting line.

Our Flag

Our flag stands for freedom and equality. It is the banner of a people who are still willing to lay down their lives in defence of right, justice, and freedom. It is the emblem by which we proclaim to the world that this is “the home of the brave and the land of the free.”

Our flag is an emblem of true patriotism—the patriotism of deeds; the patriotism of courage, of loyalty, of devotion to freedom, justice, and humanity; the patriotism of men who have lived and died, not for themselves but for their country. When we look at our flag—its stars and stripes, its vivid red, white, and blue—and read its story and hear its message, when we contemplate what our flag means and what it stands for, and when we consider the sacrifices made and the lives given so that our flag could still be flying over us today, we are quietly reminded to cherish, to protect, and to defend it.

Planets, 19/06/09

Planet bases

Corners: Pluto; Mars; Jupiter; Neptune

Earth = curl up in ball on floor

Moon = find a partner and twist round each other

Shooting star = stand with one arm pointing out

Uranus = pretend to wobble / shake

Meteor = run around the room

Solar system = link hands in centre

Planet mobiles

Make the planets from curled / ribbed foil effect card and hang from a wire coat hanger. Add a few aliens made from bobbles and card

Space catch

Use rocket shapes, space ships & stars some with numbers on. Attach paper clips. Fishing rod with magnet.    Count the scores at the end - Just like magnetic fishing game.

Craft Star Gazers.

Give each Beaver a cardboard kitchen roll (we used a full one but you can cut in half)

Cover end of tube with black paper.

Let then gently push a toothpick/cocktail stick through the black paper to create tiny holes. (Beaver Scouts can do their initials ).

Cover the tube in sparky adhesive paper, wrapping paper or just decorate the tube with felt tips or stickers.

To use them have the Beavers hold their scopes up to the light and look through the uncovered end.

They will look like a mini -planetarium.

Planet chase

Sun = one chair in centre

4 teams one in each corner - named after the planets

On word go 1st Beavers in each team runs in a circle round the sun - when he gets back to his own corner he tigs the next Beavers.

1st team to finish wins

Olympics, 12/06/09

You can try these events:

Running

Relay

Egg and Spoon

Throw the javelin (well roll of newspaper)

Throw the Discus (try a paper plate)

‘3’ legged races

Wheel Barrow

To make your Medals

Disc of gold / silver / bronze / white card hung onto ribbon or braid Add 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd etc with everyone else coming 4th

Closing Ceremony with medals

Pearls of Wisdom—Quotes from Baden-Powell

“Teach Scouts not how to get a living, but how to live.”

Only One, 05/06/09

One by one collage

Let the Beavers cut out single objects from some magazines - noses, heads etc.

Then stick them onto a large piece of card

One-arm ball

Beavers stand in a circle with legs apart and feet touching.

They put one arm behind their back and a football is placed in the circle.

Using only one arm the Beavers have to hit the ball around the circle, keeping it at floor level.

When it goes through a Beavers legs they are out and have to turn around. If anyone hits the ball through the legs of someone who is out - then they are out too

One candle birthday card

A birthday card with just one candle - it can be sent to anyone from baby to adult.

Using ½ a kitchen roll inner - cut it up the tube lengthways

Stick this on to a folded card (so it bulges up).

Decorate 

 Add a flame made from card

Write on the front 'Happy Birthday'

Hopping Heroes

Label the 4 corners of the room:

Long John Silver (he had one leg)

Lord Nelson (he had one eye)

Napoleon (he had one arm)

Cyclops (he had one eye)

A leader calls the name of a hero and the Beavers have to hop into that corner