We started off the new term welcoming lots of new Beavers and also appointing some new Lodge Leaders. We made the most of the lovely weather heading out into the park to play wide games. There were 3 teams each…
Easter biscuits and Log Chew
We took part in our termly Log Chew, where we suggested activities we’d like to do next term and voted on the badges we’d like to do. We made Easter bonnet biscuits, using marshmallows, icing and sprinkles. We also invested…
Sunflowers and bug hotels
We’ve kicked off our biennial sunflower competition by planting seeds to take home. The Beavers will do their best to look after them and then measure the height of their plants in mid July. Watch this space for photos of…
Communicator badge
Having learned about Morse code during our recent team missions challenge evening, we completed 3 activities tonight to earn our Communicator badge. We learned how to use the phonetic alphabet to spell our names. We tried to memorise a parent’s…
Mother’s Day cards
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…
