Friendship Challenge
The Beaver Scout must complete 4 activities,
at least one from each area.
CARING FOR OTHERS
• Know what to do in an emergency, including calling 999
• Understand how to change simple activities to cater for special
needs
• Take part in an activity to help the elderly
• Take part in an activity to help the community
• Raise funds for a good cause.
PEOPLE FAR AWAY
• Find out about 4 aspects of life in another country. For example:
national costume, food, currency or climate, etc
• As a Colony create a link with another Colony or similar in a
different country.
MEETING OTHER PEOPLE
• Find out about the job or interest of someone in their community,
such as a religious leader, dentist, a musician, etc
• Arrange a visit to or from someone who serves the community. For
example – a police officer, a lifeboat crew, coastguard, fire fighter,
etc
• Join in activities with another Colony.
Why not try…
Making colourful friendship bracelets using several
strands of embroidery thread.
Creating a photo album to remember a special event or
all Beaver friends in the Colony!
Making a pretty gift box from old Christmas or greeting
cards.
Running a programme based on another country or the
emergency services.
Antarctica
Snowball Fight - 2 lines of Beavers separated by rope, throwing snowballs
(plastic balls or scrunched up newspaper). Team with
least snowballs on their side wins.
Wrap Up Warm - Beavers in Lodges, take turns to throw dice. When a 6 is
thrown, Beaver puts on hat, scarf and gloves and cuts off
a piece of Mars Bar to eat. Meanwhile other Beavers try
to throw 6.
Marshmallow Snowmen - Stick white marshmallows together with icing in
the shape of a snowman, using sweetie laces for a scarf
and raisins or sweets for eyes, nose and mouth.
Make Snowmen - Cover toilet roll tubes with cotton wool or wadding, use
felt for scarf and buttons, googly eyes and cut noses and
hats from card. You could also use a screw top jar and
put sweets inside.
Island Hopping
(Antarctica is made up of lots of islands) – put hoops on
the floor for islands. When music stops, Beavers must
get inside hoop. Remove hoops one at a time.
Song -Forty Years on an Iceberg (with actions)
Forty years on an iceberg
Out on the ocean wide
Nothing to wear but pyjamas
Nothing to do but slide
Oh but isn’t it parky
How the frost does bite
You love to hug a polar bear
To keep you warm at night.
Standing up
Arms stretched out to the side
Hands from shoulders to hips
Hands sliding motion down body
Arms wrapped round body
Shiver
Hug the Beaver next to you
Puzzle -
Penguin Crossword
Australia
Balloon Kangaroo Relay – Beavers line up in lodges. First in each team puts
balloon between their knees and hops to the other end of the hall
and back, passing balloon on to the next member of the team who
does the same. First team to have completed the relay wins.
Make a boomerang and fly it. Who has a boomerang which comes back to
them?
Use a BBQ to make snags (sausages) and smores (melt marshmallow over the
BBQ and eat between 2 chocolate digestive biscuits).
Animal Jigsaws – Pictures of Australian animals e.g. koala bear, kangaroo,
crocodile, wallaby. Cut these into jigsaws and divide Beavers into
teams called after the animals.
Have a relay race and the first team to make their animal picture
correctly is the winner.
Puzzle –
Kangaroo Crossword
France
Bean Game
French Bean
Baked bean
Jumping bean
Jelly bean
Broad bean
Oh la la!
Runner bean
Crouch down
Chilli bean
Jumping
String Bean
Quivering all over
Arms and legs out to star shape
Jogging
Shivering
Arms above head
Build the Eiffel Tower - Working in pairs or small groups, Beavers build a
tower using plastic cups. Highest tower standing after a set
time wins.
Crepes (see recipe) and red wine (blackcurrant juice)
Use simple words – s’il vous plait, merci, bonjour, au revoir etc
Ski-ing Race - Beavers in teams of 4 stand on planks with rope attached and
‘walk’ together on the plank to the end of the room.
Song
- Frère Jacques
Frère Jacques, Frère Jacques
Dormez vous, dormez vous
Sonnez la matinée, sonnez la matinée
Ding, dang, dong, Ding, dang, dong
Crepes
(Makes 8)
3 oz plain flour
Salt
¼ pt milk
1 egg
Oil for frying
For filling – sweet
Jam
Chocolate Sauce
Yoghurt
Ice Cream
For filling - savoury
Ham
Chicken
Grated cheese
Tomato
Mix main ingredients together.
Heat small amount of oil in pan.
Add small amount of crepe mixture and swirl around pan quickly.
Allow to cook, turn over and cook other side.
Remove, add filling and enjoy!
New Zealand
Opposites –
Explain to the Beavers that in New Zealand, summer is in
December and January when we are having our winter, and
their winter is in June, July and August when it is our
summer. And when it is day time here, it is night time in
New Zealand.
To play this game, call out the month of the year or the
time of day here and the Beavers show what is happening
in New Zealand e.g. July and the Beavers must pretend to
be cold.
Grass Skirts -
Maoris traditionally wear grass skirts. Make these from
crepe paper. Join together, cut to make the grass and
wrap round the waist.
Face Painting -
Maoris traditionally paint their faces with intricate line
patterns. Let the Beavers paint each other’s faces.
Dance -
Traditional dance is the Haka, where the Maoris stamp
their feet, make faces and jump in the air, to ward off
evil spirits. Show the Beavers this on video or laptop, and
let them copy the dance.
Woolly dolls -
Card 17 cm x 13 cm (or empty DVD box)
Wool
Wrap the wool around the card lengthwise several times. Remove
from the card and tie a short length of wool around the hank 2cm
from the top, this will make the head.
Wrap more wool around the card width wise to make arms. Remove
from the card and tie with short lengths 1.5 cm from the ends to
make hands. Put the arms through the body and tie round the waist
to hold in place.
Mrs Woolly is now complete.
To make Mr Woolly divide the ‘skirt’ into two and tie each leg 1.5 cm
from the ends to make feet.
Sheep Dog Trials - In lodges, pick one member to be the sheep dog, the rest
are sheep. Make up one pen for each lodge, using suitable
furniture or by chalking the floor. The sheepdogs are
told which pen they must get their sheep into, but not the
sheep. The sheep dog must guide his sheep to their pen
using signals, gestures and touch, without saying a word.
Allow all Beavers to have a turn at being sheep dogs,
varying the pens each time.
As New Zealand is at the other end of the earth, can the Beavers stand on
their heads?
Italy
Italian Market Game
You will need :• Pieces of red tissue paper – Tomato Sauce
• Thick string cut in 30/40cm lengths - Spaghetti
• Yellow sponge cut into cubes - Cheese
• Small balls of newspaper covered with brown tape - Meatballs
• Pink paper/card cut into squares – Ham
• Paper plates – Plates!
• Plates with edges folded in – Pizza Base
• Red cards cut into circles - Pepperoni
The object of the game is to get the Beavers to think about Italian food
and to use a couple of phrases :1. The Beavers are split into Lodges or groups.
2. The eldest Beaver (in each Group) is given a shopping list of
ingredients.
3. The ingredients are set out on ‘Market Stalls’.
4. The eldest Beaver (in each Group) tells each Beaver an ingredient
to ‘buy’.
5. Beavers must ‘buy’ their ingredients from the leaders at the stalls.
6. They won’t get served unless they say ‘CIAO’.
7. They won’t get their ingredients unless they say ‘GRAZIE’.
8. Each group must put together their dish or dishes.
Recipes
Pepperoni Pizza
A plate
Pizza Base
Tomato Sauce
3 Pepperoni
Some Cheese
Spaghetti and Meatballs
in tomato sauce
A plate
Tomato Sauce
3 Meatballs
6 Strings of Spaghetti
Some Cheese
Ham Pizza
A Plate
Pizza Base
Tomato Sauce
3 Ham
Some Cheese
Emergency Services
Explain to the Beavers what they must do in an emergency.
First, they must get adult help.
Then act out what happens when making a 999 call using an unconnected
phone.
Act out some scenarios with Beavers making the calls and adults acting as
the operator.
Remind Beavers that they must never make hoax 999 calls.
Emergency Services – Put pictures of emergency service vehicles round the
room – fire engine, ambulance, police car.
Call out an emergency e.g. gran has fallen and can’t get up, and
Beavers must run to the correct emergency vehicle.
Make a fire engine (see template)
Fireman, Policeman, Paramedic – In a circle each Beaver is named
Policeman, Fireman or Paramedic. The leader calls out one of these
names and Beavers with that name round the outside of the circle
and back to their place. When ‘emergency’ is called, everyone runs!
Have a fire drill!
This fun fire engine is from the 1995 Beaver Publication - ‘Something Old, Something New’
Ideas from Leaders around the Province!
• Visit the Crayola website for craft ideas at www.crayola.com
• Look up www.dltk-kids.com for children’s activity ideas.
• Make a Good Deed Lodge poster – the Beavers colour in a piece of
the ‘lodge’ every time they do a good deed!