February Week 4
Beaver Scout Meeting Schedule
Theme: Dinosaurs – Hear Them Roar
(See detail planning sheets)
Time
Activity
Additional Information
Run by
6:15 pm
Gathering
Pin the Horn on the Triceratops
All
6:20 pm
Opening
See Beaver Scout Leader Handbook
6:30 pm
Game
T-Rex Tag
6:40 pm
Craft
Dinosaur Skeletons
7:00 pm
Game
Dinosaur Mystery Tag
7:15 pm
Closing
Riverbanks & Dam formation
Good night and busy building tomorrow
Meeting Notes:
Thanks to Hawkeye Mark Little, Strathcona Beaver Scout Colony in Calgary, AB for this meeting plan.
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Gathering Activity
Game
Pin the Horn on the Triceratops
Dinosaur Mystery Tag
This variation of “Pin the Tail on the Donkey” requires
a poster-sized picture of a triceratops. Have the local
copy shop enlarge a picture from a children’s dinosaur
book. Make horns from posterboard and number them
for each Beaver Scout. Each child is blindfolded, spun
around 3 times and pointed at the poster to try to pin
the horn on the triceratops.
Explain the differences between plant and meat eating
dinosaurs. Beaver Scouts line up in a straight line facing
the wall. Get them to close their eyes; a leader will
walk behind them and touch them on the shoulder.
The ones who are tapped will at the appropriate time
turn into T-Rexes. Beaver Scouts will be told that they
must not reveal who is a T-Rex. All Beaver Scouts will
then pretend to be leaf eating dinosaurs (apatoshaurus,
brachiosaurus) and they walk around the hall pretending
to be eating leaves. When the leader calls out “The
T-Rexes are coming”, the chosen T-Rexes chase the other
dinosaurs and catch them. All dinosaurs caught sit down
on the floor until everyone has been tagged.
Variation: Pin the Tooth on the T-Rex!
Game
T-Rex Tag
One Beaver Scout is designated as the T-Rex. He roars
and acts ferocious as the other children run from him.
Whomever is tagged by the T-Rex must stand still
until they are freed by one of the other Beaver Scouts
crawling between their legs. This game can get pretty
wild. You might want to give more than one child a
chance to be the T-Rex.
Line up again and choose different T-Rexes until all
youth have had a turn at being T-Rexes (six T-Rexes a
turn, four turns for the game).
Closing
Good night and busy building tomorrow.
Craft
Dinosaur Skeletons
Beaver Scouts separate into lodges at their assigned
craft table. Explain the craft and provide a sample for the
Beaver Scouts to follow. Each child glues various shapes
of uncooked pasta on a piece of black construction
paper to create a T-Rex skeleton picture. Skulls can be
made with pasta or with pictures of T-Rex skulls which
they can cut out and glue on.
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