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…
Cooking Night
This week we put on our chef hats and joined together to make our tea on Zoom! We were assigned a random country from spinning and wheel and could choose and cuisine from that place, including France, Mexico, Spain and…
Teamwork and Escape Room
This week as we returned to Zoom we started looking at our Teamwork challenge. We started the evening with some tasks based around the olympics. After we split into breakout rooms we had to: Pick a country from the continent…
