Joey Scout Program
Date:
Theme: Australian Flag
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Activity Description
Leader
0.00
CIA: Make a Joey Flag
Opening Ceremony
Paper, textas.
Flag.
0.05
Game: North South
Nil.
0.15
Game: Australian Flag Puzzle Relay
2 x Australian Flag
puzzle pieces, dice.
0.25
Activity: Make star biscuits
0.40
Game: Kangaroo (Sack Race)
Pre-made cookie dough,
edible cookie decorations,
star cutters, rolling pin,
cookie trays.
Hessian bags.
0.50
Aboriginal Story: The Southern
Cross
Story Sheet.
0.55
Closing Ceremony
Flag.
BACK UP ACTIVITIES
Activity: Make flag
Equipment
Required:
Copies of Australian flag,
pencils, crayons etc, stick.
Game: Find the flag
2 x Australian Flag
puzzle pieces
Game: www Wombats
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Coming In Activity:
Give each Joey a piece of paper and textas and have them design their own Joey flag.
Game: North South
Leader is at one end of the hall calling out instructions. On “north” Joeys go forward set number of paces,
and on “south” Joeys go back set number of paces. When Leader calls “magnet” Joeys run back to the start
without getting caught.
Game: Australian Flag Puzzle Relay (see below for flag picture)
Divide the Joeys into 2 teams. Place the puzzle pieces for each team at the end of the hall. Give each team a
dice. Joeys in each team take it in turn to roll the dice. If they get a six they run and get a puzzle piece until
they have all the pieces. Then they need to put together the picture of the Australian flag.
Game: Kangaroo (Sack Race)
Give each Joey a sack. On go Joeys hop in their sack to the end of the hall and back.
Back Up Activities
Activity: Make Flag
Joeys colour in Australian flag and attach to a stick.
See http://www.gwsjoeys.org.au/resources.html for a picture of Australian flag to colour.
Game: Find the flag
Hide 2 x flag puzzle pieces around the hall or hall grounds. Divide the Joeys into 2 teams. Each team has to
find the puzzle pieces and put together a picture of the flag.
Game: www Wombats
Joey Scouts form a line in the middle of the hall. Leader calls one of the following:
w-w-wombats – run to left side of hall
w-w-walruses – run to right side of hall
w-w-wrens – centre of hall
Activity: Cookie Dough
Ingredients:
250g butter
1 and 1/4 cups icing sugar mixture
2 teaspoons vanilla essence
2 cups plain flour
1/2 cup rice flour
1/3 cup cornflour
2 tablespoons milk
Beat the butter, icing sugar mixture and vanilla in a large bowl with an electric mixer until pale and
fluffy. Stir in the combined sifted flours in two batches, then the milk, mix well.
Divide the mixture in half. Knead each half on a lightly floured surface until smooth, then roll each
half into a 25cm log. Wrap each log in baking paper and refrigerate for one hour or until firm.
(If the mixture is a bit crumbly I usually add a little water to make it easier to work with.)
If you are not intending to bake biscuits within two days, wrap them in foil and freeze.
Preheat oven to 160'C. Cut the logs into 1cm slices and place 3cm apart on greased oven trays or
roll out and use cookie cutters. Bake for 20 minutes or until a pale golden colour.
Aboriginal Story: The Southern Cross
Show the Joeys the Southern Cross in the night sky.
The Australian Aborigines who have a greater knowledge of the night sky than most white men, have
surrounded the heavenly bodies with countless myths explaining their origin. One myth says that the stars of
the Southern Cross are the man Mululu and his daughters.
Mululu, the leader of the Kandra tribe, had four daughters of whom he was very fond, but to his sorrow he
had no son. When he grew old, he called his daughters together to discuss their future. He said that he
expected to die soon, so, since they had no brother to protect them from the spite and jealousies of the
women or from being forced into marriage with a man whom they disliked, he wanted them to leave the
earth when he died and to meet him in the sky. The father then explained that, with the aid of spirits of the
night, he had recently visited a clever medicine-man, Conduk, who was willing and able to help the girls
reach their new home.
When their father died, the daughters set out to find Conduk, whose camp was far away to the north. They
had to travel many days before they reached it, and they recognised Conduk by the long thick beard by
which their father had described him. Resting beside his camp was a huge pile of silver-grey rope, which the
medicine-man had plaited form the long hairs of his own beard. One end of the rope reached up into the sky.
The girls were terrified to learn that the rope was their only means of reaching their father again. But with the
guidance and encouragement of Conduk they climbed to the top of the rope, where they were delighted to
find their father waiting for them.
Now, the daughters are the four bright stars of the Southern Cross. Nearby and caring for them as is their
father; the bright star Centaurus.
Print this page and make up Australian flag puzzles.