In honour of Bonfire Night, we practised our fire lighting skills this week, first lighting candles and then setting and lighting small fires. We also enjoyed sparklers in the courtyard. Wednesday Beavers even had time for a campfire song while…
Halloween
To celebrate Halloween, the Beavers made wool ghosts, played Halloween bingo, tried relay races with pumpkins and mummified each other using toilet roll!
Gulliver’s adventure
The Saturday cubs and beavers are enjoying a weekend adventure at Gulliver's Kingdom. They arrived at noon and after settling into their accomodation at the splash zone, they headed out to enjoy the rides. As evening arrived the children had…
Lodge Challenges part 2
We continued with more challenges to demonstrate our teamwork and leadership skills. We did a beetle drive relay using Mr Potato Head, we built towers using random items, we played a colour identification running game and listened to a story…
Lodge Challenges part 1
As part of our Teamwork Challenge, this week we played games in our Lodges that encouraged us to try being a leader and to practise being helpful team members. The games included hiding one person under a blanket and guessing…
Caving and Cooking
As requested at last term’s Log Chew, we had lots of fun using the caving system again. While half of us did caving, the other half made vegan peppermint creams. Using edible pens and skittles, we moulded and decorated the…
Nature art
During their recent Saturday morning meet, the Saturday Beavers embarked on a nature walk around the local park. Equipped with notebooks and pencils, they observed different types of plants and wildlife, recording their findings as part of their nature exploration…
Litter picking
As part of our My World challenge, we invited a guest from Stretford Litter Pickers to talk to us about what she does to look after our local community. We then went out with her, armed with litter picker tools…
Skills day – Abney Hall
The afternoon started with knots. Beavers did really well mastering three knots and then enjoying practice on strawberry laces. Later we made decorated to kites and then the beavers had great fun trying to make them fly. In the late…
Skills day
Saturday Beavers have joined the other Saturday scout sections at Abney Hall for a day of fun. They have had a walk around the lovely grounds of the park 🏞️ and spotted some wildlife along the way. Later they took…
