East Ryde Joey Scout Program

 

Date:	Leader:
Theme:    Colours – Yellow!	Meeting Type:    Hall

 

Time	Activity Description	Equipment Required:
	Coming in activity	Trace around hand – helpers to cut out
5.45	Opening parade	Flags
5.50	Slip slop slap relay	Dress up your helper
5.55	Pegs	Pegs
6.00	Craft – 3 groups Bird fat balls Plant sunflower seeds Paint hands	Lard, seed, yogurt pots, pop sticks, string Soil, seed, pop sticks Yellow and orange paint
6.20	Colourful game	Coloured things around the hall
6.25	What’s missing	Dress-up (Kim’s games)
6.30	Yellow ballon relay	Yellow balloons and bats
6.35	Sun flower story	Action story
6.45	Closing parade	Flags
spare	Promise relay	3 teams – run and collect the pieces of the law and promise in order!

 

 

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Slip slop slap relay (try to think warm thoughts!)

In 3 teams, with one helper each – each member of the team must run down the hall, collect an item of sun safety and “dress” their helper. Cap, long sleeved shirt, sunglasses, zinc, sunscreen (arms!).

 

Pegs

Each joey is given a number of coloured pegs and they have to run around like tag but attaching a peg to another joey without getting “pegged” themselves.  You must try and get rid of any yellow pegs – they are deadly!!  Call “Stop” and see who is dead from yellow peggy’itis!

 

Craft:

Bird feeder fat balls– pre melt the lard so it is cool to handle.  Cut pop sticks into small pieces, tie a length of string around the middle and pop it into the bottom of the yogurt pot. String draping out over the side.  Mix the bird seed and fat together and spoon it into the yogurt pots, pressing down.  Try pulling the string up into the middle to make it easier to hang once set.  Leave to set – they can take them home at this stage and leave them overnight or in the fridge.  Remind them to remove the seed ball from the pot before hanging it!!

Plant a sunflower seed– yogurt pots, soil, seed, water…. Joeys can write their name on a pop stick to stick in the pot for identification and maybe a sunflower label.

Painting hands– all the hands they drew around on coming in should have been cut out by helpers.  They can paint the hands yellow or orange and while wet they are stuck around the smiley sun face as the rays – the wet paint should help them stick.  If they start to fall off as they dry stick them on with glue!

 

What’s Missing

Dress Ella up in as many extra clothes and sundries as we can find, coat, umbrella, goggles, sunglasses, hat, scarf, necklace…..etc  First come out of the den fully clothes so the Joeys can memorise what she has on – then she goes back and removes an item – a bit like Kims game they have to guess what is missing.

 

Yellow Balloon relay

Simple relay – 3 teams yellow balloon and a bat for each team.  Each member must bat the balloon down the hall and back without the balloon touching the ground.

 

Colourful game

Placed around the hall are different coloured paper, fabric and bags.  Call out “put your nose on something yellow” or “put your knee on something blue”.  If the colour is small they must all share!!

 

Sunflower Action story

SEED – AIR – TEMPERATURE - SUN – SOIL – WATER/ED

 

There once was a cold and lonely sunflower SEED, buried just beneath the garden SOIL and protected from the cold winter AIR. The SEED was a patient SEED that waited for the summer SUN.  Before the summer SUN came, spring rains WATERED the SOIL that protected the SEED. Then the SUN began to shine. As the SOIL began to warm up, the SEED’s TEMPERATURE began to rise, too.

 

Suddenly the SEED burst open, sending a shoot up toward the SUN. The roots grew deeper into the SOIL to search for food.

 

As the shoot began to reach the surface, it could feel the warm TEMPERATURE and feel the cool AIR. The SEED became a sunflower plant and began to grow taller and stronger as it enjoyed the SUN, WATER, AIR, food, perfect TEMPERATURE and SOIL.

 

The gardener did her best to PROTECT the sunflower from insects, disease and weeds.

 

As the sunflower plant continued to grow it began to sprout leaves. These leaves enjoyed the SUN, WATER, fresh AIR and warm TEMPERATURE. The leaves produced chlorophyll, which converted carbon dioxide from the AIR and nutrients and WATER from the SOIL into food to make the sunflower plant grow.

 

The plant grew and grew until one day a beautiful flower began to form. The sunflower needed food, WATER, SOIL, fresh AIR, SUN, good TEMPERATURE and protection to do its job. As the flower grew, it began to produce sunflower SEEDs for the gardener, the birds and the squirrels to enjoy.

 

As summer turned to autumn, the AIR TEMPERATURE began to cool, and the days grew shorter. The leaves didn’t have enough SUN to photosynthesize food. After harvesting the SEEDs, the gardener stopped giving it WATER and protecting the plant. The sunflower plant began to wilt and dry until finally it collapsed on the ground, scattering the last of its SEEDs into the garden SOIL.

 

The newly-scattered SEEDs were patient, buried just beneath the SOIL, waiting for the spring rains to bring WATER and the summer to bring SUN, AIR, food, warmer TEMPERATURES and the gardener’s protection. And the SEED burst open and began to grow .

. . . And there is no end to this story.