Joey Scout Program                                   

 

Date:	Leader:
Theme:   England	Meeting Type:    Hall

 

Time	Activity Description	Equipment Required:
5.45	Opening Parade	Flag
5.55	Kings Queens Princes Princess’	nothing
6.00	Welly Throwing	Gum Boots
6.05	St George and the Dragon	nothing
6.10	Dress the King and Queen	Newspaper steamers
6.15	Make a Dragon	Cups. Template, String. straws, paint, Glue
6.35	Story	Mats or tell when doing craft.
6.40	Closing parade	Flag
Spare:	Royal Curtsy or bow	Cards

 

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Kings, Queens, Princes, Princesses, Royal Family

 

Each corner of the hall is designates one of the above with the centre being royal family.

Call out each one and children run to that part of the hall.  (like NSEW)

 

WELLY THROWING

Equipment: Gumboots or sneakers.

Method: In groups, Joey Scouts have a turn at “throwing the welly” to see which group can throw the furthest distance. Place markers at regular intervals so that the Joey Scouts can easily identify the distance.

 

GEORGE AND THE DRAGON

Method: Two teams, one team at each end of hall. One team is St. George and the other is the Dragon. On “GO” both teams advance towards the centre slowly until they are standing a metre apart in the middle of the hall. If the leader calls “St. George” the Dragons run to the St. George team’s end as St. George tries to capture them for their team. Likewise if “Dragons” is called, the Dragons try to capture the St. George team.

 

DRESS THE KING AND QUEEN

 

Dress two joeys as a king and queen in newspaper and sticky tape.

When finished all joeys curtsy or bow to them and address them as Your Highness or Your Majesty.

 

 

MAKE A DRAGON

 

Supplies

Paper cups or yoghurt cups
Construction paper or printable
cardstock
Poster paint or acrylic paint
Paint brush
Crayons or oil pastels
Jingle bell
Beads
String
Glue gun
Scissors
Scotch tape
Pencil
Small coins

Instructions

Trim 4 paper cups to about 2 inches in height. You may also use yoghurt cups as an alternative. \Punch a pair of opposite holes along the middle portion of three of the cups. \Using the tip of a pencil, punch a small hole at the center of the fourth cup's bottom. Paint the paper cups with your desired color of poster paint. If the surface of your cups is glossy or waxy, use acrylic paint. Use a dry brush to apply gold or silver paint streaks on each red cup.  Click on Printables out this dragon head template on cardstock or draw your own version of a dragon's head on construction paper. The head should be slightly bigger than the paper cup's mouth. Color the dragon's head with crayons or oil pastels. Cut out the dragon head. Cut a long piece of string and make a knot on one end. String a jingle bell and 2 to 3 large beads through the string. Cut drinking straw into three 1-inch long pieces. String the three paper cups through the string, with a drinking straw in between cups. String the fourth cup through its bottom hole. Make a knot on the string from the inside of the fourth cup. Cut the excess length of string. Punch a hole on the top portion of the dragon's head. Use glue gun to attach the dragon's head to the fourth cup's mouth. Tape a small coin below each hole on the cup adjacent to the head. These coins will provide the weight to stabilize your dragon as you pull it along.  Attach a long string through the hole on the dragon's head. Once the glue and paint are completely dry, you can take your pull-along dragon toy for a walk.

 

GEORGE AND THE DRAGON

Baden-Powell chose St. George as the patron saint of all Scouts everywhere because

he was a worthy role model for all to follow - with big efforts, sense of duty, courage,

truthfulness and he was a good leader - what every Scout should try to be.

St. George is also the patron saint of England and we can see the cross of St. George

consisting of a red cross on a white background on the British flag (show this on the

Australian flag).

The story of St. George is a famous legend. George was the son of a nobleman in the

Roman army and became an officer in the cavalry as he liked riding horses. The

emperor of Rome at that time ruled that all Christians should be killed. George did

not like this, so he left the army and became a Christian himself. The emperor ordered

that he be killed and he died in AD 303.

There is a famous legend about him and it is a story of good overcoming evil. George

rode into a town where he had heard of a dragon that was fed one of the citizens every

day. On that day, the person to be eaten was the king’s daughter. George killed the

dragon and saved the princess. The king was so grateful and impressed that he and all

his citizens became Christians.

 

SPARE
 

Royal Curtsy or Bow

 

Played as red card black card- hold up a deck of playing cards and the leader bows or curtsies if the card is royal. If not go to end of line. First Joey to collect 5 royal cards wins.