This week we have been looking at My Skills Challenge Award. We looked at teeth and why different animals have different types of teeth. From Teeth it was a natural step to look at food. We asked the Beavers about…
Burns Night
For our meeting on Wed 27th Jan we celebrated Burns Night but without any Haggis or bagpipes. Instead we worked on creating some basic poetry and designed a basic tartan. We also revisited the progress being made on the Beaver’s…
Virtual Buddhist Temple Visit
This evening we were joined by the leaders of the 1st Buddha’s Light Scout Group for a virtual temple visit The scouts were shown a short video introducing them to the history of the Buddha, and a presentation of some…
Magic Show!
This week we were joined by a member of The Magic Circle who performed a show for us! In one trick he read minds, guessing words people were thinking of and names of films. In another, he turned a glass…
Magic Night with Skittleman!
We warmed up this Week’s zoom meeting with Josh giving us his best Greg Davies impression and delivering a Scouts’ Taskmaster. The Scout’s faced challenges like in the popular game show and had to find and put on their best…
GeoGuessr and Paper Challenges
This week at Scouts we worked towards parts of our Teamwork and Creative Challenge. For the first activity we headed out to breakout rooms to works as teams and take part in a GeoGusser Game. This was a geography game which…
Escape the Internet
This week we took on the task of finding ‘Mr X’! Using clues, we searched the internet and scoured the streets on Google maps to piece together information to solve the puzzle and uncode Mr X’s last name…
Night Hikes
Just before the weather got really cold and the unfortunate lockdown started again, part of the Scouts’ weekly rotation was joining me on a Night Hike around the local green areas. We all met up in our coats and our…
Zoom Scouts – Teamwork
This week Scouts took part in teamwork challenges as a group, and in smaller breakout rooms. Starting out with a team game of ‘Guess Who’, we then broke up into smaller groups to continue to work as a team, but also learn…
Jungle Adventure
On Wednesday 13th January we tried out a joint meeting of both Colonies. The result was easier for the Leadership Team but the total number of Beavers was lower than the separate meetings the previous week so we will have…
