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6.00 |
Coming
in game: Find 2008 -
www.activityvillage.co.uk/Welcome_2008.pdf |
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6.00 |
Opening
and chat about the theme for tonight |
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6.10 |
Game:
New Year corner game |
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Label each of the corners of the room
(use some of these)– Hogmanay – Scottish name
for new year Wu Zhi - Chinese New Year (year of the rat) begins between January
21 and February 20 Rosh Ha-Shanah - Jewish
name for new year but is celebrated in September Muharram - is the first
month of the Islamic calendar. Diwali - is a New Year
festival in the Vikrama calendar, where it falls on the night of the new
moon in the month of Kartika. Usual rules – the Beaver Scouts run
to the wall they choose and the leader calls out a new year – any Beaver
Scouts in that corner are out. |
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6.20 |
Craft:
Resolution Magnet -
www.makingfriends.com/resolution_magnet.htm
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6.40 |
Game:
Dice |
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Equipment
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Chalk ·
6 cards with dots on, 1 - 6 like on the sides
of a dice. Game
Description
Six squares are chalked on the floor and numbered from 1 - 6. All the players take part. They run around the room until the
leader blows a whistle and then they choose a square and sit in it. The leader picks the quietest player to pick a card from his
hand, held like a fan with the numbers turned away. All the players in the
chosen numbered square are out! |
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6.50 |
LETTER
GAME |
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Equipment:
paper and pencils per team Divide
the beavers into four teams. Each team has pieces of paper and some
pencils. The leader then gives a letter (e.g.B) and each team has to write
or draw as many things as they can think of that begins with the letter B.
The team with the most things beginning with the letter score a point. |
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7.00 |
Story:
The Fairy’s New Tear Gift - www.apples4theteacher.com/holidays/new-years-day/short-stories/the-fairys-new-year-gift.html |
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7.15 |
Prayer
and Close: A New Year’s Prayer (William Arthur Ward) www.appleseeds.org/new%20year%20quotes.htm
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Another fresh new year is here … I have the opportunity |
Once more to right some wrongs, To pray for peace, to plant a tree, This bright new year is given me |