Good fun all round!
Tuesday 30 October 2012
Happy Halloween
Good fun all round!
Tuesday 23 October 2012
Back from Holiday
Welcome back from holiday.
We started off tonight with a new game - Chinese football. This is where you have two teams defending their goal by linking hands and blocking the goal. The scoring team can only hit the ball with their hands and have to bend over to do it. The 'Chinese' part comes from the fact that it suits a large number of players at a time. Sadly, with our small numbers it didn't work well at all. A fiasco might be a better explanation. Perhaps once we recruit more or have a shared event...
We quickly followed this with Husky racing. A cub sits on a tea tray while another has to slide them to the end of the hall where they swap positions. The first team to get all their cubs to the wall and back win. The first few attempts were pushing.
They soon found out that all of them pushing was even better. Soon someone realised that pulling was even quicker!
After this we took advantage of the smaller than usual numbers and managed a 'proper' game of indoor hockey - the first time I think we have ever managed to do this.
After a well needed rest and drink it was clothes peg tag. This is where each cub has 3 clothes pegs clipped on their back. They have to capture pegs of everyone else while defending their own pegs. Captured pegs are clipped to their front. Last one with a peg on their back wins and who ever has the most pegs comes second.
To slow everything down for the end of the night we played sneak the keys. A blindfolded cub armed with a torch, has to listen for the cub trying to sneak the bunch of keys from beneath his seat. If the cubs hears you and shines the torch on you, you are out.
Good fun and lot of laughs tonight.
Next week its the Halloween party. Costumes and no uniform required.
We started off tonight with a new game - Chinese football. This is where you have two teams defending their goal by linking hands and blocking the goal. The scoring team can only hit the ball with their hands and have to bend over to do it. The 'Chinese' part comes from the fact that it suits a large number of players at a time. Sadly, with our small numbers it didn't work well at all. A fiasco might be a better explanation. Perhaps once we recruit more or have a shared event...
We quickly followed this with Husky racing. A cub sits on a tea tray while another has to slide them to the end of the hall where they swap positions. The first team to get all their cubs to the wall and back win. The first few attempts were pushing.
They soon found out that all of them pushing was even better. Soon someone realised that pulling was even quicker!
After this we took advantage of the smaller than usual numbers and managed a 'proper' game of indoor hockey - the first time I think we have ever managed to do this.
After a well needed rest and drink it was clothes peg tag. This is where each cub has 3 clothes pegs clipped on their back. They have to capture pegs of everyone else while defending their own pegs. Captured pegs are clipped to their front. Last one with a peg on their back wins and who ever has the most pegs comes second.
To slow everything down for the end of the night we played sneak the keys. A blindfolded cub armed with a torch, has to listen for the cub trying to sneak the bunch of keys from beneath his seat. If the cubs hears you and shines the torch on you, you are out.
Good fun and lot of laughs tonight.
Next week its the Halloween party. Costumes and no uniform required.
Tuesday 9 October 2012
Model Painting
We had part 2 of our clay model making but before that we had a quick game of something like volleyball or croquet...
We had the Cubs stand in a circle with their legs apart. They then had to get a ball through another Cub's legs in order to eliminate that cub. Last one standing won.
Despite being quite a simple game it got quite competitive.
We then got the clay models out from where we left them to dry last week. We were lucky and all had dried and none seemed to have broken, but some we a bit delicate so the glue came out to repair some paint damaged petals.
Once the paint was on, glitter was added and masterpieces were completed.
The last event of the evening was bucket ball with a sin bin. Bucket ball is always a popular game (its like basketball but you have a team mate hold the bucket to catch the ball)
The introduction of the 'sin bin' was tried for the first time tonight. Traditionally, there is always a bit too much running (once you have the ball you are not allowed to move your feet) and crowding of the goal catcher (there is an exclusion zone around the bucket). Tonight we simply set the offending cub into the bin for a short time. It worked a wonder. After the first few exclusions the game picked up quite well.
No cubs next week as the schools are out.
We had the Cubs stand in a circle with their legs apart. They then had to get a ball through another Cub's legs in order to eliminate that cub. Last one standing won.
Despite being quite a simple game it got quite competitive.
We then got the clay models out from where we left them to dry last week. We were lucky and all had dried and none seemed to have broken, but some we a bit delicate so the glue came out to repair some paint damaged petals.
Once the paint was on, glitter was added and masterpieces were completed.
The last event of the evening was bucket ball with a sin bin. Bucket ball is always a popular game (its like basketball but you have a team mate hold the bucket to catch the ball)
The introduction of the 'sin bin' was tried for the first time tonight. Traditionally, there is always a bit too much running (once you have the ball you are not allowed to move your feet) and crowding of the goal catcher (there is an exclusion zone around the bucket). Tonight we simply set the offending cub into the bin for a short time. It worked a wonder. After the first few exclusions the game picked up quite well.
No cubs next week as the schools are out.
Bonfire Night
We
have organised our annual bonfire and fire works display for Sat 3rd
November. We hope you and your family and friends shall come along and
support us.
PS – any donations of home baking/cakes would be very welcome – if these could be dropped off at the hall on the Saturday afternoon that would be appreciated.
We shall light the fire at 6.30pm and set the fire works off at 7.15pm.
We shall provide a B B Q with hot and cold drinks for all.
If you have any queries, please feel free to give me a call.
PS – any donations of home baking/cakes would be very welcome – if these could be dropped off at the hall on the Saturday afternoon that would be appreciated.
Armistice Parade
This year’s Armistice Parade will take place on Sunday 11th
November.
Our short service of Remembrance will be conducted in the
Scout Hall, Loans.
We should all gather there at 10.15am for the
service starting at 10.30am.
The collection, as usual, will be sent to
the Earl Haig Fund.
Cubs and Scouts will, thereafter, march to the
Memorial at the Village Cross to lay our wreath at 11.00am, with Beavers
and parents walking along to join us there.
We normally have an
excellent turnout for this event and would hope to see you all again
this year.
Many thanks
Philip McGowan
Group Chairman
Tuesday 2 October 2012
Model Making
We started the cubs off with a quick round of dodge the ball. In this game if the ball hits your legs you sit out. As more Cubs are out you get added back into the game as only 4 can be out at a time. Its a good one to get everyone fired up.
We then calmed it all down again.
We had part one of our clay model making sessions. Each cubs was given a fist sized amount of clay and let loose with their imaginations. We had a dinosaur which became and squirrel, a flower, a boat, and a few finger bowls. Next week they will paint the dried clay. This was the first time in a long time that we made use of clay and the cubs seemed to really enjoy it.
It also took a remarkably long time to get their models the way they wanted them so we only had time for a game of detective.
To end the evening we issued some badges.
One cubs has completed his Home Help Activity badge and another cub was invested, and then issued the badges he earned at the recent Olympic Camp.
Another cub was promoted to Sixer in preparation for the Moving On of the current Sixer.
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