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Why Beavers are
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Beaver Scout Team:
Karen Jameson (UK Adviser for Beaver Scouts)
Jenny Winn (Programme and Development
Adviser for Beaver Scouts)
Contact them at:
[email protected]
Tel: 0845 300 1818
Published by:
The Scout Association,
Gilwell House, Gilwell Park,
Chingford, London E4 7QW
Contributions to:
[email protected]
This issue’s contributors:
Maggie Bleksley
Alison Chapman
Charlie Dale
Karen Jameson
Emma Wood
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It’s all about
teamwork
This issue we focus on working with others. For Beaver
Scouts, this is a part of their Scouting life, and it should
be for leaders as well, writes Karen Jameson
Beaver Scout Leaders work closely with other adults and the Young Leaders in
the section, Group and District to plan and deliver the Balanced Programme.
We also depend on the co-operation with parents/guardians to assist in the
support and running of the Colony. From delivery and collection of their
children to the meeting place, to being part of the parent rota or helping out
at camp, they are a big part of the smooth running of Scouting.
Whatever the reason you have for working with others, it’s important to
remember to be considerate of other people’s needs; after all, we can’t be
right all of the time.
The Big Adventure
This year, we want you to take part in The Big Adventure. It’s a chance to turn
your summer camp or fun day into an opportunity to recruit more parents and
help us grow Cub Scouting. See page 18 of the main magazine.
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consultation and review with volunteers, parents and of course young people
is taking place to determine the best sort of provision for our youth members
online. Email your thoughts and ideas to [email protected]
Basic badge requirements and programme descriptions will still be available
at www.scouts.org.uk/beavers
You can now download a template to print names and date in the right place.
www.scoutbase.org.uk/6to25/beaver/resources/certs.htm
Youth sites review
Contents
4 Happy families
How to get parents onboard
8 Make and do
Create a Roman feast
10 POP
A bookish programme on a plate
12 A helping hand
14 Behind the hot wheels
On your marks for the
Creative Challenge
15 Beavers go bananas for
healthy eating
Why Beavers are choosing carrots
over cakes
17 Eco-Beavers
A new activity to save Planet Earth
18 The back burner
Get up and go with our
meeting sparklers
19 Space invaders
A new pack for young explorers
Activities with a good turn
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This issue, Emma Wood helps you
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any Colonies use a parent rota system
to complement the leadership team.
However, what’s the betting that the
parents are never introduced to the
Beavers at the start of the meeting? This can make the
Beaver Scouts wonder who those strange people are and
why they are there.
Spend a few minutes at the start of the meeting
welcoming the parent (or granddad, elder brother etc) and
ask them to say a little bit about themselves: who they
are related to in the Colony; what their hobbies are; what
they do at work or at home; what their favourite films are,
and so on. Pre-warn the visitors so they aren’t taken by
surprise. By simply doing this you will be surprised at how
much more a part of your team the parents will feel and
who knows – they may be a new leader-in-waiting!
Family trees
Talk with the Beaver Scouts about family trees. Perhaps
you could show them a simple family tree of your family or
the royal family to illustrate what you are talking about.
Perhaps your Colony, or each Lodge, could use magazine
pictures or internet-sourced pictures to create their own
version of the royal family tree.
Visit www.britroyals.com/royalfamily.htm for a royal
family tree
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Scouting family tree
This is a great way to show how the family of
Scouting fits together. Start with the Beaver
Scout Colony, then the Cub Scout Pack, Scout
Troop, Explorer Scout Unit, Leaders,
Administrators, Scout Network, District,
County/Area/Region and so on. Use pictures
from the Group or from Scouting magazine to
illustrate it. This will help the Beaver Scouts to
plan their Scouting life and show the exciting
things they can look forward to. Do they know
anyone in any other sections? Are any of their
relatives involved in Scouting?
Personal family tree
Ask Beaver Scouts to bring in pictures of
members of their family and stick them on their
family tree. If they know the names, they could
add them. For simplicity’s sake, they can
restrict it to their siblings, parents/carers and
grandparents. Be aware that some Beaver
Scouts’ families may be more complex than you
might assume. Also, be sensitive to any current
family upheavals, separations or bereavements
that you may be aware of.
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programme ıdeas
Planting a tree
Trees represent life. As a Colony, plant a Scouting
family tree, either in the grounds of your meeting
place or ask the local council for a suitable public
location. Perhaps a local sheltered housing building
has grounds in which you could plant it. Maybe
your local school, university or hospital has
somewhere you could plant your tree (or trees).
This is a great opportunity for publicity in the
local media, especially if you can get the mayor to
turn up and join in the planting.
Beaver family quiz night
Hold a family quiz night for the families of your
Beaver Scouts. It can be a low-key affair and
appropriate for families of all ages and however
tenuously related! You could organise a
barbecue or chilli cookout, or send out for fish
and chips, curry or similar. Have prizes for the
first, second and third places. Make the
questions suitable for all ages.
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Make a family
photo frameet
you will need
• two sheets of A5 card per
Beaver Scout.
• camera or family photographs to be brought
in by Beaver Scouts.
1. Provide each Beaver Scout with two sheets
of A5 card. One sheet has the centre cut out so
that a standard sized photograph can be
placed under it.
2. Glue three sides of the frame to the back card.
3. Beaver Scouts decorate the border with
felt-tipped pens, sequins etc, or for a rustic
feel, dried twigs and leaves.
4. Take their photo and slot it into the frame, or
ask them to bring a family picture in.
Colony family treelet
you will need
• photograph of each Beaver Scout
• card
• PVA glue
• multi-branched stick from a dead tree
• string, hole punch, tub, water, spoon
• plaster of paris or cement.
1. Before the meeting, the leader mixes up the
plaster of paris in the tub and inserts the
branch into it. Allow to dry.
2. Give each Beaver Scout their photograph
and a piece of card. Beaver Scouts glue the
photograph to the card and using the hole
punch make a hole in the top. Attach a piece
of string.
3. Hang the photographs onto the branches.
This could be put up on display in the
meeting place.
4. If a real tree is not appropriate, draw a huge
picture of a tree on poster paper and add their
pictures and names to it.
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The Big Adventure
Now’s the time to start planning for your Big
Adventure event. Remember, if camping Beaver
Scouts must camp in tents with their parents/
carers. You should also be prepared to loan out
equipment as few would have their own tents
or even sleeping bags. Leaders simply organise
a range of simple activities to keep everyone
occupied, and families can either cook for
themselves or, if you have the facilities and
support, you could arrange central cooking,
possibly with a barbecue.
Each family can be asked to bring cakes and
barbecue food, to help ease the burden and
cost, and take a role in the cooking.
Here’s a selection of activity bases, suitable for all
ages, which you could include and which families
wander around and participate in as they wish:
• Biscuit making
• Backwoods cooking
• Trail through the woods
• Polystyrene gliders
• Obstacle course
• Driving course with radio controlled cars
• T-shirt decorating
• Water pistol/spud gun shooting
• Coconut shy
Other activities which go down well include:
• Campfire
• Medieval banquet
• Treasure hunt
• Scavenger hunt
• Wide games
• Four-goal soccer match
• Barbecue
• Fish and chip supper
• Film show
• Family quiz.
Turn to your free Big Adventure booklet, that
came with this issue of the magazine for tips
on turning your parents into volunteers.
Visit
www.scouts.org.uk/thebigadventure
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PROGRAMME IDEAS
Family ramble
Happy familieset
you will need
• sets of five cards with Beaver Scout, Cub Scout,
Scout, Explorer Scout, or leader written on.
1. Shuffle the cards and hand them out, one
per player (leaders and helpers can join in to
make up the numbers).
2. On the word ‘go’, players must try to find the
other five members of their Scouting Happy Family.
3. Complete families should sit on the floor in a
straight line, in the correct order.
4. Repeat a few times after collecting the cards
and redistributing them.
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This could be for just the Beaver Scouts and
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A feast for
February
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Charlie Dale rustles up a timely tre
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ebruary sees St Valentines
Day. There are numerous
stories relating to the origin
of the day, but one thing that
is agreed upon is that nearly one billion
greetings cards are sent worldwide to
mark this day. This makes St Valentines
Day the second biggest card sending
festival in the western world, next to
Christmas. There are many different
traditions associated with the day
besides sending cards and buying
overpriced roses:
• In Norfolk a character called ‘Jack
Valentine’ leaves gifts of sweets to
children at their back door.
• In Finland the name translates as
‘friends day’ and is more associated
with remembering all your friends,
rather than one special person.
• In the middle ages young men and
women ‘wore their heart on their
sleeves’ by pinning the name of a
person they had picked from a bowl
onto their sleeves.
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make and do
Make a meal of it
Greetings cardlet
you will need
• Thick paper or thin card
• Pens, colouring pencils or crayons
• A pair of scissors
• Sticky tape.
1. The simplest form of folded card is a heart
shape. If you’re unsure about the shape you’re
aiming for, try looking at a pack of playing cards!
2. Take a square of card or paper and fold it in
half, then while keeping the two halves
together cut half a heart shape remembering
to start at the fold. When you open the folded
paper or card out you should see a full heart
shape open up before your eyes.
3. The card can then be decorated, inside and
out, just make sure to leave room for a short
message and a space to say who the card is to!
A different form of card can be made by
folding in a different way.
1. Start with a square of card or paper and find
the middle, mark this with a very light pencil
mark which you can rub out later.
2. One at a time take each corner of you piece
of card or paper and fold it into the middle. If
you do it right you should end up with a
slightly smaller square.
3. This square can then be folded again, either
by folding the corners into the middle again, or
just by folding it in half. This will largely be
determined by how thick your card or paper is,
and how large a square you started with.
4. Decorate the card – the idea with the folding
is that as the recipient unfolds each corner they
should get a nice surprise, be it a picture, a
word or phrase, or even a line of poetry. The
more folds you make, the more surprises there
will be.
Another commonly agreed thing is that the date of St
Valentines Day originates in Roman times. Fourteenth
February was the feast of Juno, Mother of the Roman
Gods, and the following day was Lupercalia – a festival
associated with fertility. Spring is not far away at this
time of year, so the festival marked a time when people
looked forward to the natural world coming back to life
after the dark days of winter. So, this date would be
marked with feasting, either using up the last of the
winter supplies, or the first of the spring foods.
Some pointers on Roman dining:
• The really posh Romans didn’t eat sitting at tables,
they lay down on couches set around a lower table,
about the height of a modern coffee table. Sometimes
they lay on their sides, sometimes on their fronts.
• The most extravagant feasts had dozens of courses,
and could last days.
• The Romans generally ate with their hands.
• There was often entertainment in the form of
dancers, acrobats, musicians, singers, even conjurers
or at the most expensive feasts, fighting gladiators!
Some things to decide:
• Will everyone be posh Romans or will some be servants?
Even quite humble Romans often had a slave or two,
who would cook and clean and serve the food and wine.
How about the leaders acting as servants?
• How will you dress? Again, the richest, most
important male Romans wore a toga (the women
wore a kind of tunic dress called a stola) The poorer
people – male and female – just wore a kind of tunic
dress often with a belt or chord.
• What food will you serve? Will you go for a Roman
menu or something a little more modern? It’s best
to serve food you can hold with your fingers,
especially if you choose to lie down to eat.
• Will you have some entertainment during your meal?
All that is required would be a portable music system
to play some appropriate music. Alternatively, each
Lodge could take it in turns to entertain the other
Beavers, perhaps with a campfire sketch? For
campfire songs, visit www.scouts.org.uk/pol and
search ‘campfire songs’.
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Red Nose Day
ideas from
Programmes Online
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Activity name
39308
Red Nose Biscuits
39314
Chopstick Challenge
39038
Reflect
39021
Impersonate Leaders
This issue’s theme is books,
written by Emma Wood
POP
Activity/Game
Time
Opening
ceremony
5 mins
Activity:
Story tellers
10 mins
Game:
Match the
character to
the name
10 mins
Activity:
Favourite
books
20 mins
Game:
Book
balancing
10 mins
Activity:
Draw a book
cover for the
Colony story
15 mins
Closing
ceremony
5 mins
Programmes on a plate
Extras
Visit a
bookshop,
after hours
Visit
Activity:
Make a
bookmark
15 mins
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Method
Instructions
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Follow themes
Beaver Scouts should have been given plenty of time before the meeting to
sort out their favourite book and come dressed as a book character.
Introduce the theme for the evening. Talk about books.
Creative
Follow themes
Think up an idea for a story, as a Colony. The leader could start (eg ‘Once upon
a time there was a Beaver Scout called Chris who lived on the moon…’) and
then the story continues around the circle.
Fitness
Play games
You will need: Pictures of book characters (eg Spot the Dog, Thomas the
Tank Engine, Harry Potter, or Horrid Henry).
1. Beaver Scouts are in their Lodges, lined up. The character pictures are
placed down the opposite end of the hall.
2. When the leader calls out the name of a character the first Beaver Scouts
in each Lodge run and the first to collect the correct picture wins.
3. This continues until everyone has had at least one turn.
4. Try mixing it up with pictures of famous people.
Creative
Follow themes
You will need: Beaver Scouts to bring in their favourite book.
1. Taking it in turns, Beaver Scouts get to talk about their favourite book.
What characters do they like?
2. What type of book is it? Is it part of a series? Are there any pictures in it?
The Colony could have a vote for its favourite book.
3. What did they choose?
Fitness
Play games
You will need: A hard-backed book per Lodge.
1. Beaver Scouts line up down one end of the hall.
2. When the leader says ‘go’, the first Beaver Scout walks carefully to the
other end the hall with the book balanced on their head. No hands allowed!
3. Once they have reached the opposite end, they take the book off their
head and run back to their Lodge.
4. The next Beaver Scout does the same, until everyone has had a turn.
Creative
Follow themes
You will need: Paper, felt-tipped pens.
1. Each Beaver Scout designs a cover for the Colony story.
Beliefs and
Attitudes
Follow themes
Hand out the covers.
Creative
Go on visits
The staff can talk about suitable books for Beaver Scout age children.
Creative
Follow themes
You will need:
Card, felt-tipped pens and laminating machine (optional).
1. Beaver Scouts are given a thin piece of card to make into a bookmark.
2. Laminate these if possible.
For more great ideas visit www.scouts.org.uk/pol
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A helping
hand
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With the advent of St George’s Da
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By Maggie Bleksley
Jigsaw relay
you will need
Helping those who are less able
This could include the elderly, the very young,
people with a disability or illness and so on.
Reminding young people about having a little
consideration and showing that they care can
make a lot of difference to these people’s lives.
Good turn mimes
Each Beaver, in turn, mimes a way of helping a
person who is less able and the others try to guess
what it is. Beavers may need a few suggestions to
start them off, but once pointed in the right
direction, they will probably come up with more
ideas. Examples could be: giving up your seat on
the bus; picking up something an elderly person
(or baby) has dropped; helping a blind person
across the road and so on.
• three or four jigsaw puzzles with the same
number of pieces, or make your own by
cutting up large pictures. Old calendar
pictures are ideal.
1. On each puzzle, mark the backs of the
pieces with a different colour. Divide the
Beavers into teams or Lodges with colours
corresponding to the jigsaw pieces.
2. Place all the pieces, face down, in the centre
of your meeting place.
3. On the word ‘go’, the first Beaver in each
team runs up and grabs a piece with the
correct colour and takes it back to their team.
4. Each Beaver does this in turn.
5. When they have collected all their team’s
pieces, they turn them over and work together
to make the picture.
6. The first team to finish is, of course, the
winning one.
A similar game can be played using pieces of
card with the words of the Beaver Promise,
written in different coloured ink. The teams
have to put the words in the correct order.
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helpıng others
Helping at home
This activity will help the Beavers on
their way to achieving their Friendship
Challenge (Caring for others).
Help this Beaver to find the way back to the Lodge. Each time you do a good turn,
colour it in. If you do a different good turn, colour one of the blank sections.
Help wash up
Help to carry shop
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Dusting
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Give each Beaver a copy of the ‘trail’
to take home. Each time they
complete a task, they colour in the
appropriate section. A couple of
sections have been left blank, to
allow for each Beaver’s different
circumstances, such as babies, pets,
disabled family members.
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Fundraising
Most Groups hold a fête or fair at least once a
year to raise funds. Enlisting the Beavers’ help
on your stall or sideshow is a great way of
getting them involved. Half an hour each
would give them plenty of time to enjoy the
fun of the fair before or after. Children always
enjoy doing this, as it makes them feel
important. For best results, send home a form
asking them to fill in what time they will be
able to help. Of course, you don’t need to wait
for the autumn fair. A lovely way of raising
money for a good cause is to hold a bring-andbuy sale.
Special needs awareness
How does it feel to be blind? Sometimes
stepping into another person’s shoes can
increase awareness of their need for help.
Blindfold maze
First, chalk a simple, but fairly large maze on
the floor, or outside the meeting place. If this is
not permitted, use string or rope. Place a few
cones or other obstacles at intervals. Beavers
pair up and one Beaver in each pair is
blindfolded. The sighted Beavers guide their
blindfolded partners round the maze. To avoid
a pile-up, leave a little time for each pair to get
started! This is also a good exercise in
communication. When they have finished, they
swap positions and repeat the process.
Whom should we help?
As illustrated in the parable of the Good
Samaritan, we should help anybody who needs
assistance, regardless of who they are. Having
said that, children should, of course, never try
to help strangers without the guidance of an
adult they know and trust.
Use towards
Faith Activity Badge
Helping at meetings
Last but not least, don’t forget that you
deserve a little help when running your
meetings. Instead of running around after
a messy activity, Beavers can be kept
occupied tidying up. With all hands on
deck, you may even have time to squeeze
in an extra game.
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creatıve badge
Behind the
hot wheels
and creative competitions
Zoom into 2009 with super stunts
O
nce again it’s a busy year ahead for one of
our key sponsors, Hot Wheels. Many
thousands of you have already completed
the Beaver Scout Creative Activity Badge
and there are lots more exciting Hot Wheels
competitions and activities for your Colony to get
involved with this year.
The entries to the 2008 National Stunt Challenge
competition were brilliant. We asked you to show us
your Hot Wheels creations to be in with a chance to win
a party packed with Hot Wheels excitement. Winners
1st Molesey Beaver Colony in East Molesey and the 1st
Rodbourne Cheney Beaver Scout Colony in Swindon,
received a visit from our team of experts. The two
Colonies enjoyed an evening packed with fun and
games and each of Beaver Scouts received a goody bag
to remind them of the party.
This year’s activity will be themed around the
excitement of motorsport and we’ll be setting up
exclusive Beaver Scout events and competitions. Every
Colony who is registered to participate in our 2009
activity programme will receive a goody bag, and be
first to find out all the news on the Hot Wheels front!
To register your Colony please email
[email protected]
Free activity packs
Don’t forget to visit www.scouts.org.uk/hotwheels
for your Beaver Scout Creative Activity Badge pack.
The pack brings to life the excitement of cars and
every Colony that sends in a picture of their efforts
to [email protected] will receive a Hot
Wheels certificate as well as the chance to win
fantastic Hot Wheels toys.
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HEALTHY EATING BADGE
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he aim of the Healthy Eating Activity Badge
is to keep kids happy and healthy by
teaching them practical and fun ways to
enjoy a balanced diet packed with lots of
tasty fruit and veg. So far, over 30,000 Beaver Colonies
have learnt how to make a fruit salad, healthy snacks,
delicious sandwiches packed with healthy fillings and
which unhealthy foods should be enjoyed in moderation.
Eat in Colour also gives great advice to Beaver Scouts
on how to help out at home, like preparing simple
things for tea or helping with the weekly shop. Eat in
Colour Chairman Anthony Levy says: ‘The Eat in Colour
Healthy Eating Badge gives us a chance to make a real
difference to children across the UK. A lot of these kids
don’t learn about a balanced diet until it’s too late and
they’ve already developed bad eating habits. By helping
these Beaver Scouts, we truly are changing lives.’
The Eat in Colour Campaign is looking for
more Colonies who have earned (or are
going to earn) their Eat in Colour Healthy
Eating badge to take part in publicity. So if
you’d like some help getting your Beaver
Scouts into your local newspaper then
email [email protected] or
call Rachel on 0117 973 1173.
Publicity hungry
The organisers of the Eat in Colour Campaign would
especially like to thank those Colonies that have invited
their local newspapers along, to write about and take
photographs of them earning their badges. These include:
• 2nd Nailsea Beavers (pictured)
• 1st Woodford and 6th Bramhall (Methodist) Beaver
Colony, Stockport
• Purley Beaver Colony, Croydon
• 1st Menai Bridge Beaver Colony, North West Wales
• Peacehaven and Telscombe (Fox Colony) Beavers,
East Sussex
• Worthing Port Beaver Colony, West Sussex
• 16th Epping Forest Beaver Colony, Loughton
• Boston Beaver Colony,
Lincolnshire
• 1st Southgate Beaver
Colony, West Sussex
• 10th Bath Beaver
Colony, Bath
• 19th Plymouth Beaver
Colony, Plymouth.
Free activity pack
If you’d like to take part in the Eat in Colour Healthy
Eating Activity Badge then log onto www.scouts.org.
uk/healthyeating to get your free pack.
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PROMOS AND RESOURCES
Eco-beavers
y pack
Brand new Imagination Badge activit
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encourages Beavers to be eco-minde
K
ids TV channel Jetix, sponsor of the Beaver
Scouts Imagination Activity Badge has
recently launched a brand new activity pack
which encourages Beavers to do their bit for
Planet Earth in a fun and imaginative way.
Joined by a raft of fresh and popular characters, the
pack looks set to spark Colony creativity and imagination
across the UK.
The D-Team from Dinosaur King and the Monster
Buster Club crew will be asking Beaver Scouts to use the
power of their imagination to complete a series of
eco-themed tasks including creating a dinosaur themed
draft excluder. The activities are intended to demonstrate
that small but simple actions could help reduce our impact
on the planet and protect it for the future.
The shows featured on the Imagination Activity Badge
pack are some of Jetix’s most popular on the channel
which showcase loads of exciting adventures and madcap
tales, making them firm family favourites among viewers.
About the badge
The badge aims to inspire Beaver Scouts by encouraging
them to think about the environment and the world
around them. Beavers can get plenty of inspiration by
visiting www.jetix.co.uk In addition, all Colonies who work
towards the Imagination Badge will be in with a chance of
winning some exclusive prizes by logging on to the
dedicated Beaver Scout site at
www.jetix.co.uk/beavers
Free activity pack
To receive your FREE Jetix Imagination Badge
pack visit www.scouts.org.uk/jetix
Jetix characters
Dinosaur King follows the story of a young boy Max and his two
best-friends Rex and Zoe as they travel the world hunting dinosaurs.
Monster Buster Club features the top secret missions of five
youngsters on their quest to protect their town from alien
invasion. Perfectly suited to the Beaver Scout age group, Dinosaur
King and Monster Buster Club are colourful and cheeky animations.
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meetıng sparklers
The back
burner
Bored of the same old activities?
Go wild, says Alison Chapman
Go wild
Go fly a kite
Let your imagination run wild. Think of an activity that
could be done safely in your area, but in a bizarre or
off the wall way:
• Play parachute games in the middle of a shopping centre.
• Hold a Colony meeting in an empty enclosure at the
local zoo!
• Make a cup of tea in a police cell.
Hold a kite workshop,
where Beaver Scouts
can design, make and
then fly their own kites.
Try different designs and
then compare. Which ones
work best; which ones are
easiest to fly?
There is a simple kite
design on Programmes Online.
Visit www.scouts.org.uk/pol
and search ‘kite’.
Remember to watch out for
overhead power lines.
Go on safari
You could go on ‘safari’ by hiding pictures of animals
in shop windows or around your meeting place and
follow a trail and see how many the Beaver Scouts
spot. The safari trail could follow clues that are written
in code with some sort of treasure at the end.
Remember the appropriate adult to Beaver ratio.
What wildlife can be found around your meeting
place? Gardens and parks are full of creatures; pick up
any stone and you will find something underneath.
Look at ‘backyard beasties’ on www.scouts.org.uk/pol
or visit www.wildlifewatch.org.uk, which has a special
section for children and links to local trusts.
Go large
Cover a wall with lining paper and produce a
giant piece of art. Alternatively, give the Beaver
Scouts squares of hardboard and some chalks
and they can produce pavement drawings.
Whatever activity you decide upon don’t forget these activities are an ideal opportunity for the promotion
of your group, so take photographs and let the press know what you are up to.
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promos and resources
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Jet into a world of space exploration
with the Leapster2 from LeapFrog
L
eapFrog Toys have teamed up with to produce a fantastic Space
Explorers’ pack aimed at helping Beaver Scouts achieve their
Explore and Experiment Activity Badges.
The information and activities in the pack has been
developed by the space experts at the National Space Centre in Leicester.
There is content appropriate for you to build into your weekly
meetings as well as content for Beavers to undertake at home with the
help of their parents.
Many of the activities have also been
developed to count towards earning their
Explore and Experiment Badges.
Further activities and resources are available
online at the National Space Centre website,
www.spacecentre.co.uk/beaverscouts
For more information on Leapster2 and the
LeapFrog Learning Path visit www.leapfrog.
com/leapster2
in the activity pack
Fantastic space facts
• Planet, star and comet profiles
• What it’s like to live in space
• How rockets work
Amazing activities
• Exploring the night sky
• How plants grow in space
• Building a balloon rocket
Competition
• Draw an alien and their home planet
• Win one of 20 Leapster2 Gaming Systems and games
• Win one of 20 family passes for the National Space Centre
Money-off voucher
• Exclusive voucher for £5 off Leapster2 at Toys R Us stores
The pack is available to order now from www.scouts.org.uk/leapfrog but hurry as the competition
closing date is 30 April 2009.
The Toys R Us money off voucher is valid until 30 September 2009.
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