This meeting gave the Monday Beavers a chance to grow the tallest sunflower plant of the Section. In Lodges they planted a sunflower seed in a pot to take home and plant in a suitable place at home and to…
Monday 4th and Wednesday 6th March – Mother’s Day
This week, we made paper bouquets of flowers to give to our mums and other special women in our life on Sunday. We also practised our reef knots, with some of our more confident Beavers teaching the newer Beavers how…
Monday 26th and Wednesday 28th February – Problem Solving Missions
We continued working on our Skills Challenge this week by completing 3 team missions. We wrote and cracked codes and crossed a “sinking sand maze”. On Monday we played “brain blast” – thinking of answers to various categories. On Wednesday…
Monday 19th and Wednesday 21st February – Cook badge
We continued with our Cook badge tonight by taking part in a quiz about kitchen hygiene and safety and taking part in an experiment about how quickly germs can spread!
Monday 5th and Wednesday 7th February – Cook badge and Health & Fitness part 2
This week we’re continuing our badge work by creating healthy savoury (bug) snacks, learning about how to keep our teeth healthy, sorting out healthy and unhealthy foods and creating posters to advertise healthy living to others.
Monday 29th and Wednesday 31st January – Health and Fitness badge part 1
This week we started our health and fitness badge by taking our pulse before and after 3 agility activities and talking about why our heart beats faster during exercise. We also gave out lots of Experiment badges for last week’s…
Monday 22nd and Wednesday 24th January – Experiment badge
This week, we donned our white coats and carried out 3 experiments to earn our Experiment badge. We mixed water and cornflour to make a non-Newtonian fluid (also known as “a mess”!), we made patterns with skittle sweets and poured…
Monday 15th and Wednesday 17th January – My Skills Challenge
For part of the My Skills challenge, the Beavers needed to demonstrate various competencies, including rolling neckers, tying shoelaces and decorating biscuits. We also had a base where the Beavers designed their own machines to solve “problems” such as doing…
BEAVERS 10TH JANUARY 2024
As the first week back in the new year, we had a evening playing different games and with Naomi giving some new “rules”. This is to encourage the Beavers to wear their full uniform each week and to help…
Mon 8th Jan Games Night
As the first meeting after Christmas this is traditionally a Games Night. The first game is one that any last minute arrivals can join in. Each Lodge is defending their quarter of the room to keep a ball out of their…
