East RydeJoey Scout Program

 

Date:   18/8/11	Leader:    Nushka
Theme:  Left-Handed Day & BP	Meeting Type:       Hall

 

Time	Activity Description	Leader	Equipment Required:
CIA	Write left and right handed Cut out left and right		Paper, pens scissors
5.45	Opening Parade		Flag
5.50	Game – Ambidextrous relay		2 chairs
5.55	Game – Find BP		Colored letters
6.00	Hand print mask craft		Glue tape, pens, sticks
	Those who finish early – Throw and catch a ball left and right
6.20	Game – scout salute
6.25	Game – Joey scout bridge
6.30	Hand Game – sitting on floor
6.35	Meaning of the World Scout emblem		Picture and text
6.40	Story – Baden Powell		Story sheet
6.45	Closing Parade		Flag
spare	Clapping game		partners

 

 

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Bless all joeys everywhere,

Help them remember their promise to share.

Guide them all safely home today

And watch over them while they work and play.

 

Amen

 

 

 

Games/Craft Information:

 

Activity- Write Left and right handed and cut out shapes

Equipment: Paper, Pencils and scissors

Give each Joey Scouts a piece of paper and a pencil. Ask them to write their name with their right hand. Then get ask them to write their name left-handed. Compare the two.  Try cutting out shapes with left and right hand – hard isn’t it!

 

Game- Ambidextrous Relay

Form the Joey Scouts into a relay team, on go the first team member hops to designated place on their left foot, and then back again on their right foot. As they get back to their team they tag the next player who repeats this, continue until all have had a turn.

 

Game- Find BP

Equipment: Two sets of letters for Baden Powell. (Different colours).

Divide the Joey Scouts into two teams; call them different colours.

Hide the Letters around the hall. Ask the Joey Scouts to find the letters of Baden Powell (IN ORDER) bring them back and place them in order. The Joey Scout can only take one letter at a time, they could help each other by telling others in their team where they saw a letter.

 

Game- Scout Salute (Form of Duck, duck, Goose)

Choose someone to be “it”. The Joey Scout selected walks around the circle and taps another Joey Scout on the shoulder. The two Joey Scouts salute each other and shake hands with the Left hand shake, at which point the Leader calls go. The Joey Scouts run in opposite directions to try and get back to the empty space left in the circle first. The person left out of the circle then continues the game by walking around the circle and tapping another Joey Scout.

 

Game: Joey Scout Bridge

Divide the room into two territories with an imaginary valley in between. The leader tells a story eg. All the Joey Scouts are trying to escape across the valley to get to safety on the other side. However there is no bridge and a special magic Joey Scout bridge must be made using Joey Scouts themselves.

One by one each Joey adds to the bridge by standing or crouching in position. Each Joey must climb over or crawl under the children who are already part of the bridge (Joeys standing stand with their legs apart and Joeys crouching form a ball shape).

This continues until they reach the other side. When the last Joey is added to the bridge the first Joey Scout can now move from the end crawling under and climbing over the others etc until the entire Mob is safe.

 

Hand Game– see below for long instructions!!

 

Story – Baden Powell or Helping Hands?

Equipment: Story Sheet

 

Spare game

Clapping game

Clapping games

 

A Sailor Went to Sea

A sailor went to sea, sea, sea, To see what he could see, see, see, But all that he could see, see, see, Was the bottom of the deep blue sea, sea, sea.

Action:

A - clap own hands

sai - clap right hand with partner

lor - clap own hands

went - clap left hand with partner

to - clap own hands

sea, sea, sea - clap partner's hands three times

Repeat this sequence in rhythm until end of song.

Suggestion: On "sea, sea, sea" clap partner's hands, partners clap backs of hands, clap partner's hands.

 

 

Long Legged Sailor

Have you ever, ever, ever in your long legged life seen a long legged sailor and his long legged wife?

No, I've never, never, never in my long legged life, seen a long legged sailor and his long legged wife.

Have you - clap your own hands

ever - clap right hand with partner

ever - clap own hands

ever - clap left hand with partner

in your - clap own hands

long - arms extended, left hand palm up, right hand palm down, clap partners

legged - left hand palm down, right hand palm up, clap partners hands

life - arms up clap partners hands palm-to-palm

seen a - clap own hands

long - arms extended, left hand palm up, right hand palm down, clap partners

legged - left hand palm down, right hand palm up, clap partners hands

sailor - arms up clap partners hands palm-to-palm

and his - clap own hands

long - spread own hands far apart

legged - clap own hands

wife - clap partner's hands palm-to-palm

Repeat for verse 2

 

History of Scouting story

 

Divide group into three sections. Section 1 responds to “JOEYS”, Section 2 responds to “CUBS”, Section 3 responds to “SCOUTS/SCOUTING”, and the whole group responds to “BADEN-POWELL”, and “GAMES”

 

·         JOEYS:                           Hop Hop Hop

·         CUBS:                             1 2 3 Wolf

·         SCOUTS/ING:                Make the Scout Sign (three fingers up on right hand) and
                                          say “Be Prepared!”

·         BADEN-POWELL:        Salute and say “He’s our Founder”.

·         GAMES:                          Hands straight up in the air and yell out “Hooray!!”

 

The Story:

Lord BADEN-POWELL was born in England on February 22, 1857.  When BADEN-POWELL was a young boy he loved to sleep out in a tent with his four brothers on weekends. BADEN-POWELL and his brothers would climb trees; sail boats, and they loved to play GAMES.

 

When BADEN-POWELL was 19 years old, he joined the Army and went to South Africa and India. BADEN-POWELL was a great hero in South Africa. BADEN-POWELL saved the town of Mafeking from an attack, which lasted 217 days. BADEN-POWELL had so few soldiers with him that he used young men to help with first aid, carry messages and do other jobs. BADEN-POWELL was pleased to see that they could be relied on. To teach these young men about the countryside around them, BADEN-POWELL made up GAMES, which he put into a book.

 

Back in England, BADEN-POWELL discovered that many young people were playing the GAMES that he had written for his men. So BADEN-POWELL took some of them on a camp to Brownsea Island and wrote a book of their own for them, called SCOUTING for Boys.

 

Many boys wanted to join SCOUTS. Some were too young, so BADEN-POWELL started a new section for younger boys called Wolf CUBS – using ideas he got from The Jungle Book.

 

In Australia CUBS was the youngest SCOUT section until JOEYS, for boys and girls, was started in 1990. JOEYS is for 6-7 year olds. We have lots of fun at JOEYS. We play GAMES, do craft and cooking, and explore the great outdoors on nature rambles. JOEYS is the start of the SCOUTING adventure, and by the time JOEYS reach the age of 8 they link to CUBS – and continue their SCOUTING adventure.

 

Now on 22 February (Founder’s Day) each year we remember BADEN-POWELL and the work he did to bring SCOUTING to children all over the world.

 

 

The Hand Game

Bear with the long description, it's worth it!  It is quite simple if you try it quickly yourself – just hard to put into writing!!

Everyone must sit on the floor with their hands in front of them or sit at table with their hands in front of them, in a circle. Either way, have your hands ready to slap a flat surface.

Once everyone places their hands directly on the table or ground in front of them, move your right hand in between the person to your right's hands. This create an alternating hand pattern.
So, looking down onto the group the hands would look like this:

(From left to right) My LEFT hand, then the person on my left's RIGHT hand, then the person on my right's LEFT hand, then my RIGHT hand, and so on. Although it is hard to describe, it's a really simple set-up...

To start, one person calls out the tapping direction, either Left or Right, and starts slaps their hand once on the ground/table. The hand closest to the first slap, in the named direction, slaps the hand, then the next closest, and so on.

If hand A slaps, hand B can either single slap or double slap. A single slap keeps the slap going in the correct direction, a double slap sends the slap in the opposite direction.

If someone slaps out of turn, they must remove that hand. All other hands stay where they are. When both hands are out, that person is out of the game.

The game is over when there are two people left.

Try and go faster as the game progresses. If you make a mistake, then you leave the circle.

 

Try making it simpler for joeys and just keep their hands in front of themselves and not interspersed with someone elses!!

 

 

Helping Hands

Burton, the beaver, was lying in the soft black dirt along the banks of the river. He was enjoying the feeling of warm rain beating down on his dark, chocolate-brown fur. He yawned, opened his eyes, and looked up at the sky. The rain was coming down hard and the sky was filled with dark, gray clouds.

Just then a wall of muddy water sloshed over the top of him. Burton began to gasp and cough as he was picked up by the force of the water and carried down river. After a few minutes of struggling, he was tossed onto a large boulder. He held on tightly with his short legs and sharp claws as the water cascaded around him. "What was that?" he asked out loud. He looked all around and noticed that the river had flooded, covering the reeds and tall grasses along its banks.

Out of the corner of his eye, Burton spotted something struggling in the water not too far away from him. He slipped back into the river and, using his tail, swam over to see what it was. "It’s a tortoise," he noted, and dove down under the water. He came up right under it. As Burton floated up to the surface, the tortoise found himself safely on Burton’s back.

"Thanks," the tortoise said, gratefully. "My name is Torquil. I nearly drowned. What on earth happened?"

"Oh, the river flooded again. There must have been a lot of rain upriver. Now hold on tight. Don’t let go. We’ll swim along with the flow," Burton told the tortoise.

Torquil looked around. There was nothing to see but swift-flowing, muddy water. "I think that’s a good idea. I’ll hold on tight," he agreed.

Burton flipped his long tail back and forth and continued up the river. Torquil was looking all around. "What’s that up there?" he said, pointing. "It looks like a feather pillow."

"I see it. Let’s go check it out," Burton said. Soon they reached the pile of feathers.

"Why, it’s a bird. It’s a red-breasted robin," Torquil noted. "Get closer, Burton, and I’ll grab it by the tail feathers and pull it onto your back."

Burton moved in as close as he could. Torquil reached down and hoisted the bird onto Burton’s back. It soon began to cough. "Why thank you. I was in that elm tree over there when a wall of water hit it and I fell into the river. I must have been knocked out. Thank you for rescuing me." She sat up and said, "My name is Rose. What are you two doing, swimming about in this flood?"

"The river has flooded again. I found Torquil and now we’ve found you. Now hold on tight. Don’t let go. We’ll swim along with the flow," Burton told the dove.

"I can see much better from up here," Rose said as she climbed onto Torquil’s shell.

The three swam up the river. A few minutes passed and Rose began to whistle excitedly. "Over there! Over there! I see something red," she said, and pointed to a cattail reeds sticking out of the mud.

Burton flipped his tail as fast as he could and soon they were staring at the most beautiful thing any of them had ever seen.

"Well, are you going to look at me all day, or are you going to rescue me?" the insect said with sarcasm.

Burton moved in closer. "Jump on top of my back," he told her. She let go of the cattail and jumped right onto Burton’s scaly back. She looked up at the red feathers on Rose’s chest. "Those are pretty red feathers," she said, looking thoughtfully. "But not as pretty as my shiny red with black polka dot wings. By the way, my name is Lindsey. I’m a ladybug beetle, the most beautiful insect in Scotland."

They all looked at each other, and then at Lindsey. "You are a beautiful color, but we are each beautiful in our own way," said Burton.

Lindsey brushed all the mud off her wings. She shrugged her shoulders and asked, "What happened anyway?"

Burton answered, "There was a flood. All the marshes, cattails and trees are under water. I found Torquil, Rose, and now you. Why don’t you climb on top of Rose’s back and I’ll swim up river. Now hold on tight. Don’t let go. We’ll swim along with the flow."

"I’ll do just that," Lindsey said. She climbed onto Torquil’s shell, and made herself comfortable on Lindsey’s soft feathers as Burton swam away.

A few minutes later, all four of them noticed a branch of purple lilac flowers floating down the river towards them. "Isn’t that pretty," Rose said.

They watched as it passed by. Since Lindsey was the highest, she was able to look into it as it floated by. She saw a butterfly inside the flower. It was jumping up and down, trying to get her attention. "I think the butterfly in that flower needs a helping hand," she said.

Burton turned quickly and swam towards it. Rose flew down, with Lindsey still on her back, and grabbed the lilac branch in her beak. She then flew back, landing on Burton’s furry back. "Whee, what a ride!" Lindsey laughed.

Rose set the flowers down. Out crawled the butterfly; its long proboscis was bent in half. "Thank you for rescuing me. I got caught in the flood when I was inside the lilacs gathering pollen." She looked at the other four animals. "My name is Bonnie. That was a terrible flood, wasn’t it?" The others all nodded in agreement.

"Why don’t you climb onto Lindsey’s back. Now hold on tight. Don’t let go. We’ll swim along with the flow," Burton warned. He looked up at the sky. The sun was beginning to set. "I’ll swim around and find a place where we can rest for the night." He swished his long tail back and forth as the five swam down the river.

Bonnie climbed onto Torquil’s shell, stepped on Rose’s soft red feathers, then pulled herself onto Lindsey’s shiny red and black polka dotted back. "I’d better hold on tight," she said.

After searching for a while, Burton found a small patch of dirt to lie on. Soon all of them were asleep. That night, the floodwaters began to ebb, and by morning the river was back to its normal level.

When the group woke up, they were surprised to see the tall grasses blowing gently in the morning breeze. The tree trunks were a little muddy, but as strong as ever. The cattail reeds were swaying back and forth as the river water passed through them. "It’s over!" Bonnie called out. "I can go back to gathering pollen!" She thanked the others for helping her and fluttered off towards the lilac bush.

"Well, I guess it is time for me to say goodbye too. Thanks for everything," Lindsey called out. She wiggled her antenna and shook off her red and black polka dotted wings. "I’m off," she said and then flew away.

Rose, the red-breasted robin, spread her wings. She flapped them up and down a few times to make sure they worked. "Thanks again, Torquil and Burton. I’m off too," she called out as she flew off towards the sunrise.

That left only the two of them. "I suppose you are leaving too!" Burton asked, looking up at the tortoise.

Torquil thought about it for a few moments. "If you don’t mind, Burton, I quite like it up here on your back. The view is great and I feel very safe. Besides that, I’m a tortoise and move rather slowly. You are a beaver and move much faster. May I stay? I can help you build a lodge or two from branches and sticks."

Burton smiled a huge beaver smile. "Why sure you can. Hold on tight. Don’t let go. We’ll swim along with the flow." The beaver, with the tortoise on his back, swam off as the sun began to shine brightly on the calm river water.

 

Handprint Mask craft

 

Start out by tracing both hands on two different colored pieced of heavy paper or craft foam. It is easiest to have someone else trace your hands!

 

Once you have your hands traced, you need to cut them out. Make sure you cut a large, rounded edge below the palm area.

 

Cut an eye hole in the center of each hand. You may want to hold them up to your eyes to get an idea where you want the holes to be. The palms of the hand should overlap about an inch, as you will see in the next step...

Overlap the palm area of the hand about an inch and glue the hand cut-outs together.

 

Use whatever craft supplies you have on hand to embellish your mask. You can use sequins, rhinestones, feathers, craft foam, chenille stems, buttons, etc. You do not want your mask to be too heavy though. Once you have your mask decorated, set it aside to dry.

 

To make a longer handle for your mask, use a large piece of paper. Start in one corner and roll it tightly, on the diagonal.

 

Once you have rolled the entire piece of paper, tape the end down to hold it into a tight tube. This makes a perfect size handle for your mask.

If you prefer, you can use a craft stick or short dowel as a handle also.

Use tape to attach one end of the handle to the back of your mask as shown in the picture. Use the handle to hold the mask up to cover your face!