Potatoes

Time

Activity

 

Method

Zone

Award Opportunities

5 min

 

Coming in Game:

Crisp tasting

Crisp tasting - who can guess the flavours?

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Games

 

Creativity + practical skills

 

Yourself

 

Beliefs and attitudes

 

The world

 

Beliefs and attitudes

 

Discovery Challenge (Health)

 

5 min

Opening ceremony

Chat -  Talk about the evening

 

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Chat

Explore

5 mins

Game:

Potato Ramp races

 

 

Set up a ramp to roll potatoes down. Use a long stacking table with the legs of one end collapsed. Let everyone choose a potato. Set these up at the start line at the top of the ramp. At a signal from the leader, the racers let their spuds go. The first one over the finish line wins.

Improvise different rules: the straightest rolling spud wins; the fastest wins; the one that rolls the farthest wins; the funniest roll wins.

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Games

 

20 mins

Craft:

Potato man

 

 

Collect a variety of items to decorate the spuds. Include vegetables (broccoli, cauliflower, radishes, carrots) and non-food items like paper, beads, ribbon, string. 

Let the BSs use toothpicks to stick things to the potatoes. 

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Make things

 

5 mins

Game:

Wheel Barrow race

 

 

In pairs - usual rules - but balance potato on the Organize a wheel-barrow race with a team of two BS-one on the floor walking on hands and the other holding up his/her feet 

Put a potato on the back of each 'wheel barrow'. Listen to the shrieks of glee! If the spud falls off, the team must return to the starting line.

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Games

 

5 mins

Game:

Potato relay

Usual rules

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Games

5 mins

Chat

 

 

 

What do we do with potatoes?

Use the event to tell your Beaver Scouts about the food value in potatoes. Did you know the lowly spud holds almost all the minerals and vitamins a person needs to survive, including vitamin A, B, C, and D?

Make a list of all the ways we eat potatoes: baked, scalloped, mashed, fried, stuffed, boiled, potato chips. - can the Beaver Scouts think of these?

Talk briefly about the need for good eating habits and nutrition.

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Explore

5 mins

Story

Where did we get them from?

The story of Walter Raleigh

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Stories

5 mins

Closing Ceremony

 

Prayer written + read by BS

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Prayer + worship