This year Beavers are 40 years old so we held a party to celebrate! There was pass the parcel, balloon party games, bunting decorating and of course, cake! We also invested 5 Beavers.
Pizzas and knots
Half of the Beavers made pizzas using pitta bread and a selection of toppings, as requested in last term’s Log Chew. At the same time, the other half of the Beavers practised tying knots – reef knot, figure of 8…
Lego Challenges
The Beavers enjoyed a fun evening of Lego challenges, working in teams to complete a tower-building relay, creating models for others to guess Pictionary-style, and spending time free building. These activities helped tick off parts of their Creative and Skills…
Emergency Aid
This week we completed our Emergency Aid level 1 badge, which also ticked a few boxes on our ongoing Outdoor Challenge badge and the Safety badge. We had 4 bases comprising: dealing with cuts using plasters and bandages, phoning 999,…
Wide Games
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…
