Due to the wet weather, we postponed our outside fires evening until January and instead toasted marshmallows over candles indoors! Everyone was very keen to light their own candle. We practised our reef knots and learned 2 new knots –…
St Andrew’s Day
With St Andrew’s Day coming up on Sunday, we took the opportunity to tick off another part of our My World badge and learn about another part of the UK. We tried our hand at some Highland Games – tossing…
Digital Maker
To gain the Digital Maker stage 1 badge, the Beavers had to undertake 3 tasks. They had to draw the parts of a computer on paper, thinking about all the hardware you need to make a computer work. They used…
Monday 13th and Wednesday 15th October – Nature Art
This week, we combined learning about nature for our World badge with some artwork, as requested in our last Log Chew. We identified leaves and make leaf wreaths with paper plates. We also painted pine cones and “planted” them in…
Monday 6th and Wednesday 8th October – Team Challenges part 2
We continued taking turns to be a leader or a good team member with 3 new challenges – drawing pictures by holding pieces of string attached to a pen, crossing a “river” with stepping stones and completing jigsaws. Tonight we also…
Monday 30th and Wednesday 2nd October –
For part of our Teamwork badge, each Beaver has to take a turn at leading an activity. This week, we took part in 3 challenges in our Lodges – building towers, human noughts and crosses and making Promise paper chains.
Monday 22nd and Wednesday 24th September – Experiments and Gardening
This week, the Monday colony earned their Experiment badge by carrying out 3 experiments, before watching a “coke and mentos” finale! The Wednesday colony went to Lime Road Pocket Park to help the community by planting daffodil bulbs ready for…
Monday 15th and Wednesday 17th September –
This week we started our Sports activity badge. Two Lodges faced off in a game of cricket while two played football, before swapping over. On Wednesday, we tried human table football instead of regular football. On Monday we also had…
Monday 8th and Wednesday 10th September – Badgework
This week the Monday colony got cracking with part of the World challenge by visiting the Longford Park allotments and meeting some of the volunteers. They harvested potatoes, did some weeding and picked and tasted tomatoes. The Wednesday colony carried…
Monday 14th and Wednesday 16th July – Teddy bear’s pizza picnic
For our final meeting of term, we invited our teddy bears to join us for games and pizza! We played games with the parachute and then did our “swimming up” ceremony for the Beavers who are moving to Cubs. We…
