Ballymoney Scout Group

Many of our Beavers have been sharing their hobbies with the colony recently. We have had Lego, drawing, boxing, arts and crafts… We have also been working towards our cyclist badge. Safety and M checks at one meeting, then cycling skills at the Riverside park!

This week we met on St Patrick’s day, so we completed some Irish themed activities. We made Laura’s Leprechaun hats. Then we had a team race using Finn McCools Causeway stones to travel to the rainbow, coloured the rainbow with skittles then back across the hall on the stones. First team back won the Leprechauns pot of gold/treasure and everyone enjoyed their skittles. Katie entertained us with some Irish dancing and then taught Beavers their three’s. Finally the bean bag game before home time.

At the previous couple of meetings we were working towards the health and fitness badge, looking at the seasons, planting bulbs and playing team games. Very busy Beavers!!

With this Tuesday falling on both Shrove Tuesday and the start of the Lunar New Year, we touched on both.

They didn’t cook pancakes, but made camp donuts instead. Taking turns to measure ingredients to make pancake batter. Then they made small jam/chocolate spread sandwiches, dipped in the batter, fried and coated in sugar 🤤

For the Lunar new year they watched a video about the Zodiac Animals great race, coloured bookmarks and played a zodiac animal movement game.

Finally lots of badges handed out with fortune cookies to try. Also huge well done to another of our Beavers who completed their top award, The Chief Scout Bronze 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Recently Beavers made bird feeders with lard, seeds, cheese, apples, oats and dried bugs. They used cookie cutters to make shapes and strings were added for hanging. Our walk to place them in the local park had to be postponed due to storm Chandra. Instead they completed the Builder activity badge with a lodge challenge. They had to try to complete 10 builds with their lodge mates, with a lodge point awarded for each successful build. Then this week we wrapped up warm and got out to place the bird feeders around the Riverside Park. Back to the hall for some hot chocolate with mini marshmallows to warm up.

Beavers returned this week after an extended break due to the icy weather last week. They completed the Experiment badge with the following experiments. Balloon pufferfish, needle compasses, candle/glass/water experiment and dancing tissue paper people.

Beavers were very busy this December. They made festive night lights, went a walk around town to see Xmas lights, made sequin baubles, Oreo reindeer lollies and decorated gingerbread snowmen. The final meeting before the holidays was a pyjama party, snuggled up in blankets for a short movie, then a couple of party games and food. Enjoy the break everyone, see you all next year 🎄🎅

So far this month Beavers attended the Remembrance Day parade, completed stage one of the air activities badge, practiced putting up and packing away tents and made armpit fudge!
Of course we had games too such as north south east west and fruit salad.

This week Beavers learned about bonfire night which is celebrated in England tomorrow. They watched a short video explaining what bonfire night is about, made bonfire and firework pictures, tried lighting fires with cotton wool and flint&steel, then made s’mores at Chris’s bonfire.

This month Beavers were working towards their Sports badge. They had taster sessions of table tennis, basketball skills, football skills with Lee and outdoor darts/axe throwing with Katie and Luke.

This week we had a Halloween themed meeting making paper plate spiders, monster face biscuits and dancing to Halloween tunes. Off next week for Halloween break