Numbers, 29/05/09

Game:  Please may I?

Beaver Scouts line up against a wall and ask “Please may I step X steps” or the like. They must say please to be allowed to move forwards.

First to the end wins

Try using other words in place of please.

Craft: Number picture

The Beaver Scouts draw and colour a picture using numbers only -

eg: number 2 turned into a duck; 2 number 6s back to back  as the trunk with number 3s are the top of the tree; 4 number 1s as the hull of a ship with a number 4 as a sail and sop on …. They will think of loads!!

Game:            Numbers on the run

Beaver Scouts run around being cars, trains etc. The leader calls out 1+1 and the Beaver Scouts have to get into pairs; then (say) 3+1 and the Beaver Scouts get into 4s etc…..

Names, 22/05/09

Find your name

Put Beavers names on lolly sticks and hide them around an open area. See who can find his own name.

Ball and name circle game

Beavers in a circle - remind them of their names (just in case there are some new boys). One Beavers has the ball - he says his own name, then another Beavers name and throws the ball to that Beavers. If he fails to catch it he goes down on one knee, then other knee, then he sits down and is out. Game continues until say 10 boys are out

Name collage

Beavers have a piece of A4 paper, with his name on in large print. He has to collect some grass etc from outside and then cover his name with it and decorate the paper.

Name Bingo

Beavers sit on chairs - or the floor - in lines of 4 (like in cinema). Give each Beavers the first 8 letters of his name on a piece of paper. Leader calls out a letter - if it appears in his name the Beavers sits down - see which are the most common letters.

Pancakes, 15/05/09

Game: Pancake on your head race

In teams - Beaver Scouts try walking across the room with a cardboard pancake on their head.

Game: Pancake Race

In teams- Beaver Scout s try walking across the room while ‘tossing’ a card pancake on a tennis racquet

Game: Pancake relay

In teams – relay style. Each team member is given a pancake ingredient:

Flour, Water, Milk, Eggs, Salt, Margarine, Pan etc

When their ingredient is called they run to the end of the room and back. When pancakes are called all the team run.

Three Wise Men, 08/05/09

Game:  Pass the Parcel

Wrap a number of gifts (one per Beaver Scout)

Then pass them round the circle and let the Beaver Scouts guess their contents (they should not unwrap them!)

Crown Biscuits

Prepare a crown shaped biscuit for each Beaver Scout. Then let them ice and decorate them

Christmas Stepping Stones

Give each Beaver Scout a piece of Christmas wrapping paper (large enough to stand on)

The Beaver Scouts should line up in teams at one end of the room and using the ‘stepping stones’ try to get to the other end of the room, by putting the paper in front of them and then passing another one down to the front etc (You will need one extra piece per team for the first person to stand on)

Only 1 Beaver Scout on a paper at any one time.

Pearls of Wisdom—Quotes from Baden-Powell

“We must change boys from a ‘what can I get’ to a ‘what can I give’ attitude.”

The Station

Tucked away in our subconscious is an idyllic vision. We see ourselves on a long trip spanning the continent. We are travelling by train. Through the windows we drink in the passing scene of cars on nearby highways; city skylines and village halls; children waving at a crossing; cattle grazing on a distant hillside; smoke pouring out of a power plant; row upon row of corn and wheat; expanses of flatland giving way to rolling hillsides, mountains, and valleys.

But uppermost in our minds is the final destination. On a certain day at a certain hour we will pull into “the station.” Bands will be playing and flags will be waving. Once we get there many wonderful things will come true and the pieces of our lives will fit together like a completed jigsaw puzzle. How restlessly we pace the aisles, cursing the minutes for loitering—waiting, waiting, waiting for the station.

“When we reach the station, that will be it!” we cry. “When I’m 18!” “When I can buy a new Mercedes!” “When I’ve put my last kid through college!” “When I’ve paid off the mortgage!” “When I reach the age of retirement, I shall live happily ever after!”

Sooner or later we must realize there is no station, no specific place to arrive at once and for all. The true joy of life is the trip. The station is only a dream. It constantly

outdistances us.

“Relish the moment!” is a good motto, especially when coupled with Psalm 118:24: “This is the day which the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.” It isn’t the burdens of today that drive men mad. It is the regrets over yesterday and the fear of tomorrow.

Regret and fear are twin thieves who rob us of today. So, stop pacing the aisles and counting the miles. Instead, climb the mountains, eat more ice cream, go barefoot more often, swim more rivers, watch more sunsets, laugh more, cry less. Life must be lived as long as we go along. The station comes soon enough.

Pearls of Wisdom—Quotes from Baden-Powell

“The code of the knight is still the code of the gentleman today.”

Being Clean

(Have three handkerchiefs—one crumpled and soiled, one clean but not ironed, and one clean and ironed.)

Being clean and unspoiled seems like a simple thing, doesn’t it? But it’s really one of the toughest assignments in our Scout Law. Think of what a soiled handkerchief goes through in order to be clean. (Hold up the soiled handkerchief.) It gets scalded in hot water. It gets soaked in harsh soap suds and strong bleach. It gets scrubbed or tumbled around roughly in a washing machine. Then it gets thrown around in a hot clothes dryer until it’s dry. And then, the worst torture of all, it gets flattened out under a heavy, hot iron. But then when all that’s done, the handkerchief looks like this, clean and unspotted. (Hold up the clean, ironed handkerchief.)

We must be willing to go through something like that if we are to be clean and unspotted. Turning your back on everything dirty is not as simple as it sounds. It often means making yourself unpopular with some people. Not going along with the crowd can be mighty rough. Or, if you have done wrong, it’s extremely painful to admit what you’ve done and try to make it right again, to ask forgiveness. But these are the trials that purify. You see, the tough treatment in the laundry of life can help you to be clean—if you can take it.

How about it? Will you settle for being unsoiled, like this? (Hold up the clean, but unironed, handkerchief.) Or would you like being clean, orderly, and unspotted, like this? (Hold up the clean, ironed handkerchief again.) A Scout is clean.

Helicopters, 13/03/09

Chat about helicopters and parachutes

Make a helicopter – templates on card, colours, paper clips.

Parachute, soft ball(s)

Craft – make parachutes

Paper serviettes or bin liners cut to 200mm x 300mm; thread cut in 300mm lengths; dolly pegs (decorated to look like people!); chenille sticks (for arms)

Rockets, 06/03/09

Craft – make ballisters

Rocket and fin templates, colours, sellotape, selection of empty 2litre pop bottles, pre-prepared launch pads

Craft – make rockets

Film cannisters, alka selzer, water, card templates to stick on outside, colours, sellotape

To park to launch ballisters & rockets!!

Launch pads, rockets, 2litre pop bottles, rockets

Giving each Beaver Scouts approx ¼ of an alka selzer tablet to put in their film cannister rocket add a small amount of water to the cannister, put the lid back on quickly and place them, lid downwards, on the floor.  Depending on much water was put in the rocket and how big the piece of alka selzer was, the rockets will “launch”t off sooner or later, much to the amusement of the Beaver Scouts!!  Don’t stand directly over the rockets watching for them to launch otherwise it will hit you in the face!

 

For the ballisters the same pop bottles can be used more than once though they do get a bit tatty after about 6 – 8 “launches”!

Game – Beetle drive on the theme of a rocket

Dice, paper, pencils.  Component parts = fin x 2, body, nose cone, exhaust x 2