WYRE DISTRICT BEAVER SCOUTS PROGRAMME IDEAS

JUNE YEAR 1

WEEK

THEME

ACTIVITIES

GAMES

PROGRAMME REQUIREMENTS INCLUDED

 1

D DAY

Colour in the pictures from WWII.

Design and make “medals” out of card and foil.

Decide who you’d give medals to and for what.

Ask an person who remembers the War to come and tell you about it.

Submarines.

Stuck in the mud.

N S E W.

Zone 1; Explore the World. Zone 2; Know Yourself. Zone3; Know Others. Zone 4; Creative. Zone 5; Beliefs

2

On the beaches I

Go beachcoming.

Collect one large smooth pebble each .

Practise for the Sandcastle Competition.

Make beach pebble pictures.

Try to skim the tide with a pebble.

Beach tag

Beach volley ball

Beach football

Beach frisbee

Zone 1; Explore the World. Zone 2; Know Yourself. Zone3; Know Others. Zone 4; Creative. Zone 5; Beliefs

3

On the beaches II

Collect shells

Get a beach tidy kit from your local Environment Agency and pick up litter - may be able to join and organised tidy.

Draw what you see from/on the beach

Have a bbq with disposable bbqs.

See above

Zone 1; Explore the World. Zone 2; Know Yourself. Zone3; Know Others. Zone 4; Creative. Zone 5; Beliefs

4

On the beaches III

Back at your HQ make your shells into beach bugs with paint.

Make shell pictures or models.

Make a beach art gallery or nature table.

See above

Zone 1; Explore the World. Zone 2; Know Yourself. Zone3; Know Others. Zone 4; Creative. Zone 5; Beliefs

JUNE YEAR 2 – with thanks to 1^st Gt Eccleston from whom I stole an idea!!

WEEK

THEME

ACTIVITIES

GAMES

PROGRAMME REQUIREMENTS INCLUDED

 1

Your Local Environment I

Go on a walk of the local area

If you can find and copy old photos of the area compare then and now

Try to take Polaroid’s of now and make a then and now display

Chat about life in your area 100 years ago

Old fashioned games; tag, hopscotch etc

Zone 1; Explore the World. Zone 2; Know Yourself. Zone3; Know Others. Zone 4; Creative. Zone 5; Beliefs

2

Your Local Environment II

Get the Wyre Rangers to visit to tell you about their work at Stanah.

Song; Bear Hunt.

Song; Bumble Bee.

Animal Snap

Mr Wolf

Zone 1; Explore the World. Zone 2; Know Yourself. Zone3; Know Others. Zone 4; Creative. Zone 5; Beliefs

3

Your Local Environment III

Visit Stanah Country Park and the Ecology Centre

Zone 1; Explore the World. Zone 2; Know Yourself. Zone3; Know Others. Zone 4; Creative. Zone 5; Beliefs

4

Bug Hunt

In your HQ grounds look for bugs.

Draw them. Measure out small areas and count the bugs in each area then work out how may bugs are around the HQ. Make edible bugs from teacakes/bootlaces and writing icing.

Beetle Drive.

Zone 1; Explore the World. Zone 2; Know Yourself. Zone3; Know Others. Zone 4; Creative. Zone 5; Beliefs