This week we made cards for Mother’s Day using paint and our hands (quite literally!). While half of us got crafty, half of us played games in the hall.
Book Reader badge
In honour of World Book Day, we started our Book Reader badge by: designing a front cover for our favourite book, making a bookmark, playing a book bingo game and starting book diaries to take home. We also had a…
Skills and Songs
For our Skills challenge badge, we tried out 4 skills – rolling our neckers (and then using them for a 3 legged race!), lighting candles, tying our shoelaces and using the boom whackers to play nursery rhymes! We also learned…
Book readers
Today at Saturday Beavers, the children engaged in a craft activity where they designed custom book covers. They used a mix of crafts, colors, and glue to either recreate covers of books they have read or to invent covers for…
Codes and bridges
This week we completed 2 problem solving missions. The first mission was to build a bridge out of newspaper strong enough to hold up a handful of coins. The second mission was to decode messages written in either Morse code…
Junk modelling
For our My Skills badge, we had to invent machines and explain to our friends what they do. We used recycling, tape, glue and string to create junk models of our machines. There were some very exciting inventions including a…
International activities
During today's Saturday Beavers session, we engaged in a variety of activities starting with a popular game called elastics, which involved chanting "England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales" while jumping. The group then moved on to try cheese rolling, where each Beaver…
Big Garden Birdwatch
Ahead of the RSPB’s Big Garden Birdwatch this weekend, we took part in a few different activities to teach us about birds. We identified British birds from their pictures and from their bird songs. We made bird feeders using apples…
Health and Fitness badge
We started our Health and Fitness badge by measuring our heart rates and then undertaking 3 agility challenges (running, jumping and throwing). When we measured our heart rates for a second time, they had increased a lot! We learned about…
