Ariel AGM - Annual Report for Beavers

In the past 12 months, we have completed a wide variety of activities, including: making pancakes, cooking mini pizzas with personalised toppings, decorated Halloween masks, produced healthy eating posters, undertook a keep fit session, assembled a collage from pictures of birds of prey and reptiles, orienteering, went on the sponsored walk at Woodgate Valley Country Park, marched on the St George’s Day parade, made paper aeroplanes, visited Snibston Discovery Museum in Leicestershire, participated in a cowboy quiz, tent construction challenge against the clock, played kwik cricket, had a water fight with water balloons, played football and had a penalty shootout, brewed hot drinks, designed pirate flags, grass sledging, acted out stories for imagination badge, scaled the obstacle course created from active kids equipment, manufactured pirate t-shirts for the pirate camp in July, balloon games, rounders, watched Toy Story 3 on the projector, built giant models of robots, a fighter jet and Hogwarts castle from recycling, prepared fruit kebabs with optional chocolate sauce, searched for eggs during an Easter treasure hunt, made hot drinks (hot chocolate and tea) for our ‘which biscuit is best?’ competition, measured how our heart rate changes before and after exercise, travelled to the Old Rep theatre on the train in the snow, made chocolate cookies from scratch with the cubs, backwoods cooking, night line, skunk tag, went bowling, assembled our shoeboxes for Operation Christmas Child, learnt how to tie a lasso, had sparklers and hot dogs on bonfire night, constructed ‘Chatterboxes’, feather blowing races, space hopper relays, took part in the District football competition, designed front covers for Roald Dahl books, attended Remembrance Day, created flying saucers, renewed our promise at St George’s Day, had sleeping bag sack races, invented and mimed stories in groups, snowball fights and snow angels, joint new year party with the cubs, planted cornflowers and tomatoes, word searches, manufactured Christmas cards, find your shoes in the dark game, designed glitter decorations for scout hut tree, team building and trust exercises, Halloween costume party, made sandwiches for the healthy eating badge, had a Wild West sleepover with the cubs, crafted pirate hats and eye patches, attended cubs to see the animal man and his creepy crawlies, saw George’s Marvellous Medicine at the theatre, played with our multi coloured parachute, celebrated 25 years of Beavers, invented and acted out winter themed stories, participated in a newspaper snowball fight, decorated a 10 metre banner with paint and handprints, had a pirate party with the cubs, ventured on the discovery trail in Selly Oak Park

Wild West Sleepover, 21/04/12

Wild West Sleepover

SATURDAY 21 APRIL
4.00pm - cowboys and cowgirls arrive, drinks from saloon bar
4.30pm - teach how to tie and use a lassoo (rope the calf)
4.50pm - bucking broncos (piggy backs)
5.10pm - hogtied with two balls of string
5.30pm - tenderfoot (dragons tail with a wild west theme)
5.50pm - sack races in sleeping bags
6.30pm - food from the Jolly Fryer distributed
7.15pm - cowboy quiz
8.30pm - movie on projector

SUNDAY 22 APRIL
7.45am - breakfast
8.40am - uniform inspection
9.30am - catch train to stirchley bowl
11.20am - arcade
12.10pm - lunch in co-op cafe
1.00pm - meet for St Georges Day parade
1.30pm - march begins
1.50pm - ceremony at St Francis Church, Bournville
2.40pm - walk back to scout hut
3.45pm - sweets and prizes distributed
4.00pm - home time

Wild West Sleepover Kit List

Aeroplane Dynamics, 20/04/12

North, South East, West
Cubs taught us how to create paper aeroplanes and two beavers swam up to cubs
24 Beavers and 5 Cubs in attendance!!!

Team games, 13/04/12

Into the park for simultaneous Kwik Cricket and team football and then everyone joined in with one big game of football to finish.

25 beavers in attendance

Easter Egg Hunt, 06/04/12

"Easter Nets" Rocks, egg treasure hunt in park with two special prizes, made hot chocolate to complete Outdoor Challenge Badge!!!

Quote from an Explorer Scout, April 2012

One of the most powerful ways to understand adventure is through sharing stories from our Members and supporters.

‘My best outdoor adventure was probably at the 21st World Scout Jamboree. We went to a massive lake and went out on rafts, open canoes and also did some windsurfing. I learnt to sail with a Scout from Ecuador. We didn’t understand each other’s language, but by the end we were practically best friends.’

Lauren, 17, Explorer Scout