Resolutions for the New Year

Time

Description

6.00

Coming in game: Find 2008 - www.activityvillage.co.uk/Welcome_2008.pdf

 

 

6.00

Opening and chat about the theme for tonight

 

 

6.10

Game: New Year corner game

 

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.

 

 

6.20

Craft: Resolution Magnet - www.makingfriends.com/resolution_magnet.htm

 

 

6.40

Game: Dice

 

Equipment

·          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!

 

 

6.50

LETTER GAME

 

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.

 

 

7.00

Story:  The Fairy’s New Tear Gift - www.apples4theteacher.com/holidays/new-years-day/short-stories/the-fairys-new-year-gift.html

 

 

7.15

Prayer and Close: A New Year’s Prayer (William Arthur Ward) www.appleseeds.org/new%20year%20quotes.htm

 

Another fresh new year is here …
Another year to live!
To banish worry, doubt, and fear, To daily grow and try to be
My highest and my best!

I have the opportunity  

Once more to right some wrongs,

To pray for peace, to plant a tree,
     And sing more joyful songs!
     To love and laugh and give!

This bright new year is given me
     To live each day with zest …