Winds - submitted by 1st Norbreck Beaver Scouts

 

 

 

5:45

Opening - Opening ceremony, news and notices

 

 

5:55

Chat about the wind

6:00

Story  Paul’s  Shipwreck

6.10

Game:  North, South, East + West

 

 Played like captains aboard - label each wall North, South, East + West. The Beaver Scouts have to run to that wall when it is called.

Have few other actions -

Rain - Beaver Scouts have to cover their heads

Sun - Beaver Scouts sunbathe

Snow - Beaver Scouts shiver with arms around their bodies

6.20

Bases:

 

1.       Bubble blowing - using a mix of washing-up liquid and water with loops of pipe cleaners

2.       Blow articles using a straw - see what will blow the easiest, which can go the furthest.

3.       Blow painting - have a mix of paint and water. Let the Beaver Scouts put a blob of paint onto their paper and blow the paint around the paper using a straw.

4.       Flying fish - give the Beaver Scouts a piece of paper 30cm x 3 cm. Let them colour it. See template attached

6.40

Game:  Flying Fish

 

 Using fish made from paper - with cardboard ‘flappers’  - see which fish can fly the furthest.

6.55

Closing Ceremony

Prayer:

God sends the wind from west and east (Beaver Scouts blow through cupped hands)

From north and south through all the land (Beaver Scouts blow through cupped hands)

Wherever it blows (Beaver Scouts blow through cupped hands)

Wherever it blows (Beaver Scouts blow through cupped hands)

It comes and goes at God’s command (Beaver Scouts blow through cupped hands)

Amen

7.00

End

 

 

 

Paul’s  Shipwreck

Long ago a man named Paul went on a long and exciting journey by ship. In those days ships didn’t have engines they had big sails that helped the wind to push the ship along. Some soldiers went with Paul (Beaver Scouts - march like soldiers).

 

At first the journey was fine, but then the wind began to blow (Beaver Scouts - make a noise like the wind)

The ship began to move faster, the wind got stronger and stronger and the waves got higher and higher (Beaver Scouts - make big wave shapes with hands).

It was a bad storm! The sailors couldn’t steer the ship. It just rocked about on the waves. (Beaver Scouts - rock like a ship in a strong sea).

 

The captain was worried that the ship would sink, so he told the sailors how to make the boat ligher by throwing out some of the cargo. Boxes of clothes, packets of food, tools and other things that the ship was carrying want overboard into the sea (Beaver Scouts - pretend to throw things over the side of the rocking boat).

 

The wind kept blowing and the sky was so dark that the sailor’s couldn’t see the sun in the daytime or the stars at night. They didn’t know which way they were going (Beaver Scouts - shade eyes with hands and look for the stars in the sky).

 

They were lost! Everyone began to be very frightened (Beaver Scouts - look scared)

 

But Paul said to them “Don’t worry! Last night God sent an angel to me with a message. Everyone will be kept safe, but we will be shipwrecked on an island.” And it happened just as Paul said - the ship they were travelling in was wrecked. The front hit a sandbank and the back of the ship was broken by the heavy waves. The soldiers told everyone who could swim to jump into the sea and swim away before the ship sank completely (Beaver Scouts - pretend to jump into the sea and swim).

 

Those who couldn’t swim grabbed pieces of wood and used them to float to the beach. Everyone reached the beach safely! God had taken care of Paul and his friends and all of the people on the ship with him.

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