6.00

Coming in game: Colour in the frog - click here

6.00

Opening and chat about the theme for tonight

A Leap Year is when the calendar year is extended to have 366 days - adding February 29th to the year. This is done to put the calendar year into line with the length of the Earth's orbit around the Sun, so that the seasons always occur during the same months each year.

The calendar year is 365 days long, unless the year is exactly divisible by 4, in which case an extra day is added to February to make the year 366 days long.

If the year is the last year of a century, eg. 1700, 1800, 1900, 2000, then it is only a leap year if it is exactly divisible by 400. Therefore, 1900 wasn't a leap year but 2000 was.

Talk about leaping animals
Have some pictures or a toy of an animal that leaps ie. frog, kangaroo.

6.10

Action Story: The Frogs And The Crane

Click here

Use these character actions to make it more fun

6.25

Game: Pass the Frog

Equipment

toy frog (or something that feels squirmy)

CD player and music

Method

Using a toy frog (or something that feels squirmy) play pass the frog – to the rules of pass the parcel

6.35

Craft:  Frog Pouch Craft

This Frog Pouch is made with a paper plate and a half. 

Hang on your wall and use it to hold sweets, hair bands, notes

or any small items         

MATERIALS

Paper plate (whatever size) and 1/2 of the same size paper plate

INSTRUCTIONS

Let the Beaver Scouts paint or colour the plates with crayons.

Cut one of the plates in half and staple it to the whole plate to form a pouch
MAKE THE FACE

Print out the template below.  Colour (where appropriate) and cut out the template pieces. 

Glue on template pieces (you can substitute wiggly eyes for the template eyes).

Curl tongue around a pencil

2. Froggy Snack

Materials

Fairy cakes

Green icing

Jellybeans and other sweets

Red shoestring liquorice.

Instructions

Let the Beaver Scouts ice the fairy cakes and then decorate to make frog faces and add the red shoestring liquorice for the tongues.

7.00

Game: Frog Straw Game

 Equipment

Cut two frogs out of tissue paper

Straws

Method

Two teams and each Beaver Scout has a straw. The Beaver Scouts have to pick up the tissue frog while sucking in on the straw and run to the other side of the room then they run back and the next player has to do it again. First team sitting wins.

Leap Year Jump

Equipment

Hula Hoop (one for each child)

Labels inside the hoops with the years written on

Method
The beaver Scouts run around and on the shout ‘Leap Year’ have to stand in a hoop.

A year is called out – if this is the label in their hoop they are out.

7.10

Poem: The Frog by Hilaire Belloc

Be kind and tender to the Frog,
And do not call him names,
As "Slimy skin," or "Polly-wog,"
Or likewise "Ugly James,"
Or "Gap-a-grin," or "Toad-gone-wrong,"
Or "Bill Bandy-knees":
The Frog is justly sensitive
To epithets like these.

No animal will more repay
A treatment kind and fair;
At least so lonely people say
Who keep a frog (and, by the way,
They are extremely rare).

7.15

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