Timecapsule

Time Capsule Programme Note – the Beaver Scouts and parents will have to told about the time capsule so that they can bring in their donations.
Time	Description
6.00	Coming in game: Betty and the flower maze - click here

6.00	Opening and chat about the theme for tonight Explain to the BS why people make time capsules and how they are hidden. Show the BS a picture of Cleopatra Needle in London http://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/England-History/CleopatrasNeedle.htm Explain that it is on a pedestal and that under the pedestal are enclosed various historical objects like copies of newspapers and a full set of British coins.

6.10	Game: What Time is it Mr. Wolf
	The Beavers line up at one end with Mr. Wolf at the opposite end of the playing area with his back to the rest of the group. The children advance together asking “What time is it Mr. Wolf?". The wolf responds with any time (for each hour the children take one step forward. ie. 2 O'clock is 2 steps forward) but when he calls "Dinnertime", the children must run back to the starting line without getting caught by the wolf. If the wolf catches someone then that person also becomes a wolf. The last person left wins.

6.20	Story: click here

6.35	Craft: Make a time capsule
	Use an old cigar boxes (or other small, lidded boxes) or a small jars (with a lids) Ask the BS to bring in mementos of the year (like awards, ribbons, a paper handprint, photos, drawings, hand-written poems, scraps of fabric, sea shells, trinkets, etc.) Make sure they realize that they will not see them for a long time! Using paint, permanent markers, and/or glitter, tissue etc allow the BS to decorate their time capsule. Then wrap in waterproof material and bury them all somewhere – or let the BS take them home and bury them.

6.55	Game: Tick Tock Time

7.10	Things we could put in a time capsule game:
	Sit the Beaver Scout in a circle and ask them what they would put into a time capsule. Start with T – so the first Beaver Scout would have to think of something beginning with T; next I - so the next Beaver Scout would have to think of something beginning with I and so on. Have some ideas ready to help them if they get stuck!

7.15	Prayer and Close:

Story: A secret in the garden

One sunny day two children called Billy and Betty were playing in their grandmother’s garden.

They had been told not to touch anything, but to play quietly with the ball.

Billy was getting fed up as Betty could not always catch the ball properly (because she was only six).

Billy said “Come on let’s go dig in the flower beds”.

Betty did not think this was a good idea, but because Billy was older than her she did as she was told.

Billy took a spade and a trowel from the garden shed and gave them it to Betty. They were very heavy to carry.

They walked down the garden to the flower beds and Billy took the spade and started to dig. Soil and mud were going everywhere. Into Betty’s hair; down her back, as she bent over trying to help with the digging. So she decided that she would much rather pick the flowers.

But Billy would not stop digging. “Where are you digging to?” asked Betty, “Is it Australia ”.

Billy suddenly stopped digging and shouted “Look there is something in here”.

They both leant over and cleared the soil away. There in the ground was a tin box – it looked like a very old tin with pictures of flowers on the top.

They pull the box out of the ground and swiped away the soil.

Billy couldn’t wait to open it, but Betty was a little more cautious.

Then they heard their Grandmother calling to them. “Oh dear” said Billy “I bet we get into trouble now”.

“What have you been doing” asked Grandmother “Just look at all this soil”.

Betty was upset, and was starting to cry.

“Don’t cry” said grandmother “Show me what you have got there”.

They showed her the tin box and she started to smile.

“I know what that is” she said, and started to call the children’s mum from inside the house.

“Come and see what the children have found” she called out.

The children’s mother came into the garden and she too started to smile. “Well I know what you have found” she said.

Can you guess what it is …….

ask the Beaver Scouts to try to guess what the children had found.

“Oh mum” said Billy “What is it?”

Their mother sat down on the grass and pulled open the box. Inside there were lots of small wrapped parcels.

“It is my time capsule” she said. “I made this when I was your age Billy. It had some of my special things in it. I put them in the box and then buried it, so that in the future someone like you and Betty could find it”.

The children sat on the grass with their mum and Grandmother and slowly opened each of the parcels – their mum explained what some of the things were and why she had thought they were so special. They all had a lovely afternoon.

Guess what the children wanted to do next time they visited their grandmothers house – I will give you a clue – it had something to do with a tin box ……..