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…

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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…

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Cooking

This week we ticked a lot of badgework boxes! We played a bingo style game to help us learn how to be safe in the kitchen. We talked about a balanced diet and made healthy “pitta faces”. We also made…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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Games

It was great to see all the Beavers back after the Christmas break and to welcome some new faces to the Colony. We played lots of games including a couple of new ones. We took turns explaining the rules of…

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Christmas Disco and Baking

The Beavers requested a disco at our last Log Chew so we broke out the speakers and the disco lights this week and played party games. We made gingerbread biscuits by rolling and cutting dough and then baking them. The…

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Snow Centre

With Christmas drawing near, we went to the Snow Centre (formally Chill Factor) to enjoy some wintry fun! The Beavers braved the thrills of downhill donuts, sledging and the ice slide. They also played in the snow, making snow angels…

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