6.00pm
Grow Your Own Bean Plant
At the end of the meeting, hand each of your Beavers a bean (you can purchase these from a garden centre). Tell them this is for their Scientist Badge, and that they may need to get someone in the family to help them.
1. Bend the paper into a cylinder shape so that it fits inside the jar.
2. Fill the centre of the jar with soil.
3. Push the bean down into the jar between the paper and the outside of the jar,
so that it can be seen through the glass. The dark brown spot where the bean
will grow from, which is called the plumule, should be facing uppermost.
4. Add water to the jar so that it soaks up through the paper.
5. Put the jar somewhere light and sunny such as by a window and watch it grow.
6. When the root and the shoot start to grow and can be seen, carefully turn the
bean upside down in the jar.
7. Investigate what happens next.
They will need a glass jar, some blotting paper or paper towel, some soil and tap water.
6.20pm
Chinese Handball
Four soft balls and a bench or five chairs to use as a jail. The aim of this game is to get other players out by hitting them below the knee with a ball. Ask your Beavers to move around the meeting place. Beavers must use their arms to both knock the ball on and to defend themselves. Anyone can hit the balls but only along the floor. If the ball hits them they sit in the jail. When another Beaver gets out they shuffle along until all five spaces in the jail are taken.
The Beaver on the end then joins in the game again. This is a very energetic game and can be played for any length of time.
6.30pm
Beaver video – David Attenborough – Life of Mammals
6.45pm
Game: Clumps
All the Beavers run around the hall. When the whistle is blown or you clap or call out a number, the Beavers quickly get into groups of that number.
6.55pm
Short prayer
Closing Ceremony
