the outdoor zone
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the outdoor zone
WIN YOUR £200 FOR Y COLON rs Scout Leade r e v a e B r zine fo 8/January 2009 The magam ber 200 e c e D The art of animation Turn your Beaver Scouts into directors Dig in An archaeological programme on a plate E N O Z R O O D T U r blues e O t n i E w e h H t t T ou bea py Ideas to hel beavers_decjan09.indd 1 20/11/08 10:38:29 IFC_Beavers_DecJan08_09.indd 6 19/11/08 16:40:33 Your Beaver Scout Section Working Group Karen Jameson (UK Adviser for Beaver Scouts) Alison Chapman Simon Hickling Clare Thompson Eva Will Jenny Winn (Programme and Development Adviser for Beaver Scouts) INTRO Beaver bulletin Contact them on: [email protected] Beaver Scout Working Group The Scout Association Gilwell Park, Chingford, London E4 7QW; Tel: 0845 300 1818 Contributions to [email protected] ADVERTISING Tom Fountain [email protected] Tel: 020 8962 1258 What you’ve been up to over the last few months: 1st Brussels Beaver Scouts, part of British Scouts Western Europe, managed to raise over €1,000 for Children in Need by raffling a Pudsey cake made specially by a Beaver Scout’s mum. Yorkshire Beaver Scout Jack received the Gilt Cross for bravery when rescuing his three-year-old brother in a swimming pool. This issue sees the last of the articles covering the new Programme Zones. And we are finishing on a high, writes Jenny Winn It’s not by accident that the Outdoor Zone is in the December/January issue. We’ve included it to remind you that there are many outdoor type activities that can be done in the winter months – either preparing for going outside, doing outdoor activities indoors or doing activities outside. Many Beaver Scouts don’t have the opportunity to spend time outside during darker evenings, but it’s exciting to go out all wrapped up clutching a torch to go exploring even if you’re an adult. You can do activities ranging from star gazing to playing in the snow (if you have enough snow!). You can finish the evening with a warming mug of hot chocolate. I have always promised my Beaver Scouts that if it ever snowed enough during the day of our Beaver night we will change the programme and go out and play in the snow. At the church where my Colony meets, we are very fortunate to have an enclosed garden which makes it safe. We’ve had great feedback on the Programme Zone series. Many of you commented that it was useful linking ideas to the Balanced Programme. We have taken your comments on board so over the next year we will run a series of articles focusing on the activity and challenge badges. Contents 4 All out Delivering the Outdoor Zone 8 POP An archaelogical programme on a plate 10 Bringing the outdoors in 7 From Beavers to eco-heroes Go green for the Imagination Activity Badge How to deliver an outdoor element to your meeting in the depth of winter 12 Picture perfect Making and doing storyboards 14 Out of this world Hop on board and collect a new space-themed resource pack 15 Competition Win £200 for your Beaver Colony scouts.org.uk/pol beavers_decjan09.indd 3 3 19/11/08 13:27:00 All out gramme In the last of our series on the Pro er the Zones, Emma Wood helps you deliv Outdoor and Adventure Zone The Outdoor Challenge Mini campsitelet you will need • garden canes • elastic bands • old sheeting. Beavers use the equipment to make different types of tents indoors or outside. These will form a mini campsite. You could introduce a pet guinea pig, small rabbit etc, to the campsite and see what happens – secure the boundary to ensure they don’t escape and ensure the Beavers don’t scare the animals. Rope climbing Invite the Explorer Scouts or Patrol Leaders to erect a rope ladder, rope bridge, zip wire, plank walk etc to form part of a fun obstacle course. This could be at your local campsite or in the grounds of your meeting place. The course could also include a blindfold trail and a scramble net. Be sure to supervise this. 4 This is a brilliant badge for organising your outdoor activities and for marking the Beavers’ achievements at the end. The Beaver Scouts must complete four activities, at least one from each area. Preparing for a visit • Pack a healthy picnic meal. • Know what to put in your rucksack for a day visit. This could be a cagoule, drinks, lunch and waterproofs, etc. • Help put up a tent. Visit • Go on a visit to a place of interest. This could be a park, campsite, activity centre, historic building, beach or similar. • Visit a Cub Scout Pack holiday or Scout camp. Adventure • Take part in an outdoor activity, such as swimming, climbing, grass sledging, treasure hunt, canal boating etc. • Attend a sleepover. • Learn and use two knots. • Follow a laid out trail. Beavers December 2008/January 2009 beavers_decjan09.indd 4 19/11/08 13:27:23 OUTDOOR ZONE Healthy picnics Use towards Healthy Eating Activity Badge Discuss healthy eating with the Beavers. Picnics are not simply sandwiches, try: • pitta bread and crackers • low fat cheese spread instead of high fat • fruit could be pre-cut and sealed in a bag with a little fruit juice to keep it fresh • to keep the picnic cool, place a freezer pack inside the bag. Beavers could create their own sandwich, pitta, and cracker packs. Provide healthy ingredients – low fat grated cheese, tuna or salad. Remember to check for allergies. Visits Sports taster afternoon Time to put all that preparation into practice with a day trip. Here are some ideas – you could ask the Beavers to name good places they’ve visited with their families, friends or schools: • local park • activity centre • leisure centre • farm • zoo • science centres • beach • steam railway • maize maze (in season). You could organise an afternoon at your local athletics/leisure centre or at your Scout meeting place. At your local sports centre the Beavers could enjoy taster sessions of badminton, tennis, trampolining, hockey, football, martial arts. Many centres will happily provide staff for this sort of activity as it promotes sport to their future customers. If you don’t have a local centre, why not invite people from the local area who run sports clubs to come to the meeting place and put on a taster session. Again, they will view it as a potential source of recruits for the future. Visit a Cub/Scout camp for an afternoon. Work with the other leaders to find a suitable activity for your Beavers to take part in but remember it’s the other section’s camp and you are their guests. You may wish to hold a camp fire and barbecue together to round off the day. If you run activity bases, remember to mix up teams so that you have Beavers and Cubs in each team. Activities could include a string trail, treasure hunt, scavenger hunt, sports, personal and team challenges, wide games. Put up a tent Invite the Scouts down to a meeting. The Patrol Leaders and Assistant Patrol Leaders go with each Lodge and Help the Beavers to erect a two or three person tent. You could have a competition at the end of the training session – can the Beavers remember how to erect the tent without any help? scouts.org.uk/pol beavers_decjan09.indd 5 5 19/11/08 13:27:37 Bug boxes What to pack in a daysacklet you will need • A daysack filled with items required. Talk about what items you would need for a day trip. You could add antibacterial hand gel, which is useful if there is no water to wash hands. Beavers could draw a picture of a daysack with the items they think they would take with them. Discuss the pictures and then show them the contents of your ‘ideal’ day sack. Play Kim’s Game with the items: 1. Place the items on a table and let the Beavers look at them for one minute or so. 2. Cover the items with a table cloth. 3. Secretly remove one item. In their Lodges Beavers try to identify the missing item. You could also have emergency ponchos for outings; these can be purchased in bulk over the internet. They can be used again and again, simply dry out and fold back up. If you buy them in bulk (32p each - from www.rainponchos. co.uk) perhaps you could share the cost within your District? You could even sell surplus ones for £1-£1.50 at Group fundraising events if the weather turns bad! Like this? Visit www.scouts.org.uk/pol and search ‘what shall we take?’ 6 Beavers could make a bug box in their Lodges. These could be positioned outside the building or Beavers with a garden could take them home. At a later date the boxes could be checked on to see which creatures have taken up residence. Visit www.gardnersworld.com or www.bbc.co.uk and search ‘bug box’ Sleepover If you have organised a sleepover before at your meeting place, why not try a different venue, for example a school hall, village hall or religious centre. If it is your first sleepover then it is best to try it at the Scout meeting place so it will be familiar to everyone. Follow a trail Scouts or Young Leaders use a squeezy bottle filled with water to leave a trail of arrows on the (dry!) pavement on an area around your meeting place. Beavers, in small groups, have to follow the trail before it dries! Alternatively, you could use small dabs of old flour to mark the route. At the local campsite, teach basic tracking and lay a trail of arrows using sticks, set out by Scouts, Explorer Scouts or Young Leaders. See factsheet Tracking (FS170058). Beavers December 2008/January 2009 beavers_decjan09.indd 6 19/11/08 16:32:25 Ryan is the proud winner of the competition From Beavers to eco-heroes with the Help your Beavers become heroes Badge brand new eco-themed Imagination K ids TV channel, Jetix, sponsor of the exciting Beaver Imagination Activity Badge, has been overwhelmed by the fantastic interest it’s received in the badge and the associated ‘create a hero’ competition. Feedback from leaders and Beavers alike has been hugely positive, highlighting the activities set for the badge have been inspiring the imaginations of Beaver Scouts across the UK. A prize-winning imagination The winner of the ‘create a hero’ Colony competition is Ryan Gosling from 1st Stubbington Beavers. Ryan showed great imagination when he designed and produced his hero from a range of recycled materials, a requirement which was crucial to completing the Jetix Imagination Activity Badge. Building on the success of the first Jetix sponsored badge, Jetix is producing 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. Win some exclusive prizes The D-team from Dinosaur King and the Monster Buster Club crew will be asking Beavers to use the power of their imagination to create a dinosaur-themed draft excluder. If everyone used a draft excluder we would be insulating our homes more effectively and wouldn’t need to use as much energy to heat them. Another activity is writing a short story which describes what life will be like in the year 2050 if we all do our bit to look after Planet Earth. Lastly, working together as a Beaver Lodge, they will need to write a list of energy busting tasks that can be done to help the environment. 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. 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 Beavers site at www.jetix.co.uk/beavers Order your free activity pack To receive your free Jetix Imagination Badge pack visit www.scouts.org.uk/jetix. There’s enough for every Beaver in your Colony. scouts.org.uk/pol beavers_decjan09.indd 7 7 19/11/08 16:32:35 Most popular programmes on Programmes Online (October 2008) Ref Activity name 22766 Diwali cards 28815 Get the prisoner 9875 Join-in-Centenary: November Rockets and sparklers 245 Mark’s first poppy 14290 Emergency Aid Stage One: Understand and recognise dangers in the house and outside This issue’s theme is Archaeology written by Emma Wood POP Programmes on a plate 8 Activity/Game Time Opening ceremony 5 mins Game: Dino footprints 10 mins Activity: Finding treasure 15 mins Activity: Fossils 15 mins Activity: Feely bags 15 mins Game: Tomb raider 10 mins Closing ceremony 5 mins Beavers December 2008/January 2009 beavers_decjan09.indd 8 19/11/08 13:28:52 Z Zone Method Instructions N/A Follow themes Introduce the theme for the evening. Talk about what archaeology is. Fitness Play games You will need: Two dinosaur footprints cut from MDF or thick cardboard, with string handles, per Lodge. 1. In relay formation, Beaver Scouts walk using the dino footprints from one end of the meeting place to the other. 2. They hand the footprints to the next player and so on until all the team has had a turn. Creative Follow themes You will need: Small sand pit or similar, bag of sand, small beads or the silver balls used in catering, sieves, a container each. 1. Beaver Scouts sift through the sand to try and find the silver balls. 2. Once found, place in their container. The Beaver Scouts with the most is deemed best archaeologist! Creative Follow themes You will need: Plastic disposable bowl per Beaver Scout, plastic forks, water, plaster of paris, shells, and spray oil. 1. Beaver Scouts make their plaster of paris in the plastic bowl under close supervision. 2. Spray the outside of the shell with oil and place upside-down in the hardening plaster. 3. Once the plaster is hard remove the shell to leave a plaster ‘fossil’ 120 million years compressed into 15 minutes. Beliefs and Attitudes Follow themes; Prayer and worship You will need: Paper, pens, feely bags, ‘organic’ items to go in the bags: chicken bone, shell, stick, charcoal, sponge, fir cone. Label the bags with numbers. 1. Beaver Scouts take it in turns to feel what is in each bag. 2. When they have decided, they either draw a picture or write the item on the paper under the correct number. 3. When everyone has had a turn, check the answers, how did they do? Did they find it easy or hard? Global Play games You will need: Bunch of keys or similar ‘treasure’ on the floor at one end of the meeting place, chair, water pistol, blindfold. 1. A Beaver Scout sits down at the end of the hall with the blindfold on and the water pistol ready. 2. One Beaver Scout at a time is chosen to creep up and try to grab the treasure from the ‘tomb’. 3. The blindfolded Beaver Scout has five shots only of the water pistol. If they manage to shoot the raider they have won; if the raider grabs the treasure unscathed, the raider wins. 4. Swap the ‘guardian’ after a few turns. Beliefs and Attitudes Follow themes Hand out fossils. For more great ideas visit www.scouts.org.uk/pol scouts.org.uk/pol beavers_decjan09.indd 9 9 19/11/08 16:33:29 Bringing the outdoors in s We all know that outdoor activitie ng, are an essential element of Scouti nter but how do we manage on dark wi n evenings? With a little imaginatio ksley and forethought, says Maggie Ble Keeping fit with outdoor games and sports Unless your meeting place is tiny, you can still play most of the popular outdoor games. A play parachute, team games, a compact obstacle course, football or even tennis can be just as much fun indoors. If you have access to any canoes, perhaps an expert can take the Beavers for a ‘dry canoeing’ session – thrills without the spills. Round the campfire Now’s the time to get out that indoor campfire, which can be as simple as a torch covered with orange tissue paper. Get them singing all the old favourites to get them in the mood and then get down to some campfire cooking. If you have a kitchen or a grilling machine, you can cook those ever-popular hot dogs, or get the Beavers making some healthy vegetable kebabs with wholemeal pita. If you don’t have any cooking facilities, let them choose from a selection of cold cooked sausages, tomatoes, cubes of mild cheese, pineapple chunks, grapes etc. For a delicious sweet indulgence, try some real backwoods cooking! To make it a little more healthy, use chunks of banana, or if you’re feeling more decadent, use marshmallows. They’ll love it! Chocolate fondue Like this? you will need Visit www.scouts.org.uk/pol and search ‘campfire songs’ • bananas cut into chunks and/or marshmallows • wooden skewers • squares of chocolate • 12-hole tartlet cake tin(s) • a roasting rack or grill grid • tea lights and matches. Ensuring that the Beavers are being carefully supervised, light the tea lights and place under the rack. Place the cake tins on top and give each Beaver a square of chocolate to melt in a section. You’ll be surprised how quickly it works! While they wait, let them each skewer a banana chunk or marshmallow ready to dip in the melted chocolate. 10 Beavers December 2008/January 2009 beavers_decjan09.indd 10 19/11/08 13:29:25 Minibeast hunt No, I’m not suggesting you fill the hall with live bugs, but you can hide pictures or toy creepy crawlies around your meeting place. Make it more realistic by hiding some of them under stones, paper leaves or in hardy indoor plants. When the Beavers have found them, see how many they can identify. Round it off by letting them make a model or drawing of their favourites. They would have fun making this sparkly snail. Slithery snail Build a cabin How about a spot of indoor camping? Provide each Lodge with a selection of materials, such as a groundsheet, poles, blankets, clothes pegs, chairs, cardboard boxes and rope and let them work together to build their own cabin. For full details, you will find this great idea on Programmes Online. Just search ‘cabin’ in the keyword box. Scouting fun Borrow some leaders, older Cubs, Scouts or Explorers to help run bases. The Beavers visit each base in their Lodges for a given time. Knotting: Teach the Beavers a couple of simple knots and, to add interest, some examples of their uses. Cooking: If you have access to a grill, try muffin pizzas. Use tomato sauce as a base and let the Beavers top them with ham, sliced peppers, grated cheese and so on. An adult or young leader then puts them under the grill to melt the cheese. Always remember to check first for dietary requirements. you will need • holographic card • plain card • double-sided foam stickers • marker pens • coloured pencils • a large sewing needle and thread • paper clips • small goggle eyes (optional). Before the meeting: For each snail, cut out two mirror image shell templates from holographic card. Cut one snail body from plain card. At the meeting: 1. Beavers colour in their snails and draw in a mouth and an eye on each side or stick on goggle eyes. 2. Help them to thread cotton through the head for antennae. 3. Secure with a knot and trim, then pinch the two ends together to make them stand up. 4. Using marker pens, the Beavers draw a spiral on each shell piece, then stick the two pieces together at the top only, with foam pads. 5. Use a paper clip to attach the body to the bottom edge on the inside of one shell piece, so that the snail can slide in and out of its shell. Team building: Have a supply of rolled up newspapers ready for sticks. The Beavers collect the ‘sticks’ and take them to a predetermined spot, where they work together to build a lodge or dam. scouts.org.uk/pol 11 beavers_decjan09.indd 11 19/11/08 13:29:39 t c e f r e p e r u t c i P skills, with Test your Colony’s storyboarding and do ke Charlie Dale’s feature length ma underneath. For example under the first frame it might say: ‘The man opens the door – we follow him inside’. Above is a standard four picture strip cartoon layout. You can also use larger boxes, depending on how complicated your story is. How does storyboarding work? It’s a bit like a cartoon that you see in a comic book or in a newspaper, but much longer. The longer and more complicated the film, the more storyboards you will need. A storyboard picture is great for showing everyone how you want the scene or shot to look and work. But I can’t draw! Doesn’t matter! You can use simple stick figures. All that matters is that you give an idea of where you want the actors to be and when you want them to be there. To start with try telling a story in four pictures, like a strip cartoon. What makes a storyboard different from a cartoon is that they don’t use speech bubbles. Instead they might have descriptive words or instructions The templates Download the templates from www.scouts.org.uk/pol. Search ‘storyboard’ Cartooning Why not extend the idea and make your own comic book? The Beavers can either all write their own cartoons, or collaborate. Professional comic writers often work in pairs, one doing the pictures, the other the words. Here you will use speech bubbles, because that is how 12 Beavers December 2008/January 2009 i.SCO beavers_decjan09.indd 12 19/11/08 16:33:48 t you tell the story. Have a look at some professional cartoons, either from a comic book or a newspaper. See how different the styles are. Don’t worry if it takes several goes, all the professionals do pencil drawings in rough first. They might rub out and draw over again and again before finally inking in. One last thing to decide: will you do simple line drawings, just black ink on white background, or full colour comic book style? one after the other on the computer screen and either add the voices and sound effects as you show the pictures. The more frequently you take the pictures and then the quicker you show them, the more like a movie the finished product will look. To get to what appears to be a true moving image to the eye you’ll need 16 images for every second, that’s 9,600 in 10 minutes – and a lot of patience. Take it another step – animate! Challenge your Beavers to make their own short stories, and then have a movie evening complete with popcorn and hot dogs! You could even go one step further and hold an awards ceremony. Get the Beavers to think up the categories and invite a panel of judges and see who becomes a movie star! In feature length movie cartoons drawn storyboards are not quite enough. This is because there are several animators (hundreds even) working on the movie, and possibly more than one on each scene. To make absolutely sure everyone is working to the same vision for the scene an animated version of the storyboard may be produced, complete with sound. All you really need is a digital camera and a computer to display the images. Take photographs as your characters act out the story. You can then get the pictures to display SCOUTSHOPS scouts.org.uk/shop 01903 766 921 Make a night of it create some awards All you need is papier-mache and some gold paint! 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The Scout Association Registered Charity Numbers 306101 (England and Wales) and SCO38437 (Scotland). beavers_decjan09.indd 13 19/11/08 16:34:16 PROMOS & RESOURCES Out of this world Hop onboard with the new space-themed resource pack and competition T o celebrate Leapster2’s space themed software titles Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Wall-E, LeapFrog and the National Space Centre in Leicester have created a resource pack for Beavers. The packs are filled with interesting facts and figures relating to space as well as activities that can be undertaken in Beaver meetings and at home. All the activities can be used to gain the Explore and Experiment badges. Beavers will also be able to win family tickets to visit the National Space Centre with additional prizes of Leapster2 systems and software. There’s also a £5 money-off voucher against the purchase of Leapster2 at Toys R Us stores. Five Leapster2 handhelds up for grabs We’ve also got a further 5 Leapster2 handhelds to give away to the first 5 randomly drawn entries of leaders who apply for the activity pack before 31 December 2008. Order your free activity packs at: www.scouts.org.uk/sponsors Win a trip to the National Space Centre LeapFrog is running a competition to win some fantastic prizes for Beavers and their families. The competition is easy and fun to enter: Beavers simply have to draw a picture of an alien and send it to us. With help from the space experts at the National Space Centre Leapster will judge the top 15 winning entries, which will earn family tickets to the National Space Centre. The grand prize winner will also earn a Leapster2 handheld and game for each Beaver Scout in his or her Colony. How to enter Send your Colony’s entries to: Beaver Scout Drawing Competition National Space Centre, Exploration Drive Leicester LE4 5NS About Leapster 2 LeapFrog Toys, one of the world’s leading manufacturers of educational toys, is delighted to be teaming up with the Beaver Scouts in 2008 to support the launch of the Leapster2 Learning Game System. Leapster2 is a video gaming system that combines fun with education and is suitable for children up to eight years. For more information on Leapster2 visit www.leapfrog.com/gaming 14 Beavers December 2008/January 2009 beavers_decjan09.indd 14 20/11/08 10:51:45 COMPETITION WIN £200 FOR YOUR BEAVER COLONY B eavers across the country are learning more about how to enjoy a balanced diet while having fun in the process, thanks to the Eat in Colour sponsored Healthy Eating Activity Badge. And now their efforts could win your Colony £200. Have any of your Beavers been inspired to invent their own healthy fruit and veg recipes or have they rediscovered an old favourite? If so, we would love to see them – whether it’s a special salad, the perfect pepper pizza, a fantastic sandwich combination or a super soup. The more unusual and exciting the better, so if your Colony like to mix bananas and broccoli, go ahead! Also, draw, paint or make a collage picture of your recipe too so we know what it will look like. We will include all the recipes and pictures on the Eat in Colour website, www.eatincolour.com and the best will be used in the first ever Eat in Colour Cookbook. The Beaver Scout Colony with the top recipe will receive £200 towards equipment for the Colony and a special copy of the book. Munch bunch Help your Colony work towards the Eat in Colour Healthy Eating Badge by visiting www.scouts.org.uk/ healthyeating. You will find colourful activity packs featuring key tasks plus lots of ideas on how to enjoy fruit and vegetables every day. Send us a photo of you all enjoying some of the scrummy snacks you’ve made or your Colony receiving their badges. The best pictures will be uploaded onto www.eatincolour.com. Email your photos to [email protected] To enter, send your recipes to: Eat in Colour c/o Carmen Attard The Scout Association Gilwell Park, Chingford London E4 7QW Activity pack Download your free activity pack at www.scouts.org.uk/eatincolour The closing date is 31 March 2009. scouts.org.uk/pol 15 beavers_decjan09.indd 15 19/11/08 13:31:24 OBC_Beavers_DecJan08_09.indd 2 19/11/08 12:28:27
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