This evening the Beavers completed a badge in a night.
Since I was Leader-In-Charge tonight I was determined that they would have something to show for this Term, it’s been bits and pieces up until now. (When I got home I found out the recent Mario Kart activity meant 1 of them will be due 1 more.)
I chose the Experiment Badge. It was a win-win, as I love science and it only has 3 requirements.
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St Patrick’s Day with a chocolate centre.
That was tonight’s Beavers Meeting.
Blindfolded chocolate bar tasting & designing their own chocolate bar filled the middle of proceedings. These activities were meant to happen at a cancelled Meeting earlier in the Term, in case you couldn’t figure out the link.
A themed picture matching relay race started the evening & a 4-step Clover picture drawing and assemble relay followed the confectionary.
And NSEW to end.
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Tonight was Mario Night at Beavers…because it’s Mar10 tomorrow.
Naturally I dressed as Luigi. (I was gifted a Luigi Hat recently.)
Later on, the Beavers also could be Luigi if they wanted. They had the option of having a face-painted Mario/Luigi moustache and their photo taken in the Luigi Hat and that would then be sent to their parents afterwards.
Before that however they made model Mario Karts out of recycling. Great fun!
Here’s my demonstration one.
Last night our Beavers had another tennis-inspired Meeting.
I used my Tennis Assistant experience to run some games involving a mini net, foam balls, racquets and laundry baskets…yes, you read correctly.
Not everything resembled tennis, some were some warm-up exercises and games we use at schools and club junior coaching.
I was Lead for the Meeting and I had our newest Beaver Leader and our YL for support.
The Beavers had a bit of a mishmash tonight.
For Chinese New Year they learnt a little about horses, as it will be Year Of The Fire Horse from tomorrow. We quizzed them about features of equestrian anatomy using a toy. Do you know where the frog is?
Then they coloured-in a CNY themed design.
After that they were given a buttermilk pancake with golden syrup on it as it’s also Pancake Day tomorrow.
To finish there was Captain’s Coming and Dodgeball.
Beavers was cancelled. We reckoned certain local developments would mean we'd have a low turnout. Parents were consulted first & then the plug was pulled.
So had a more relaxed night and did a little prep for my first Welcome Conversation.
Tonight the Beavers were set various Lego challenges.
Starting with the obligatory tallest tower. They all individually managed to hit some sort of invisible ceiling…because they all hit a rough particular height and never got much taller. Oddly frustrating watch.
One of the later challenges was designing a house in pairs. Very well equipped. Air fryers = 0.
Last night at Beavers was loosely Burns Night inspired.
We started with a “Haggis Hunt”. Basically a quiz & 10 Haggi Creature information/stats sheets pinned around the Scout Hut with the answers.
Next was a chat about tartan, which inevitably turned focus to me as I was wearing my kilt. One Beaver called my sporran a purse (fair enough) which made me laugh. Then they all drew their own tartan on a blank kilt template.
We ended by consuming shortbread & Irn Bru.
Tonight was the Planning Meeting for this Term at Beavers.
Yes, AFTER the first Meeting of the year.
So obviously I managed to unwittingly agree to do things without effort and then mostly not even mention any of the ideas I planned putting to them.
But it's their Section, they were going with the flow, and so I went with it. Some of it is bizarre...but I like odd ideas. 🤡
Beavers resumed for 2026 by asking them what they wanted to do over the next Term or two.
They seemed pretty distracted though and couldn't concentrate on the task. I think I'd have run a game first, but I'm there in a support capacity.
It was then time to make a piece of ocean themed mosaic art.
The Blue Ninjas also got some interesting Christmas presents.
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