East Ryde Joey Scout Program

 

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Theme: Round the World - Canada	Meeting Type:       Hall

 

Time	Activity Description	Leader	Equipment Required:
	Coming in activity		Colouring in – wrapping wool….
5.45	Opening parade		Flags – Beaver Law
5.50	Beaver in a lodge		Like koala in a tree
5.55	Ice Hockey		Newspaper sticks and ice pucks
6.00	Dream catchers Pancakes & maple syrup		Wool, wire circles, beads, feather Pancake mix, fry pan, maple syrup
6.20	Dream catcher story Finish dream catchers Eat pancakes!
6.30	Song – around the beaver pond		Tune of around the mulberry bush
6.35	Build a beaver jigsaw Explain about Beavers		Joeys in UK and Canada and USA are called Beavers!
6.45	Closing parade		Flags Beaver promise
spare	Action Story

 

 

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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

 

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Beaver Promise: I promise to love God and to help take care of the world.

 

Beaver Law: A beaver has fun, works hard and helps his family and friends.

 

Beaver Motto: Sharing, sharing, sharing

 

Beaver in the lodge:

Form small circle of three or four beavers. They should hold hands to form lodges. A child representing a beaver should stand in each lodge. Have one more beaver than there are lodges. On signal the beavers must change lodges. The one left out becomes “it” for the next game. After a few minutes have the children change places.

 

Dream Catcher

1. Wind the wool around the circle until it is completely covered with a thick layer of wool. Make a loop to hang the catcher from.

2. Create a net across the centre of the circle with wool or thread.

3. Add the feathers and beads to pieces of wool in the centre or hanging from the bottom.

4. Hang the catcher over your bed and sleep peacefully.

 

Around the Beaver Pond.

(Tune: Mulberry Bush)

1. Here we go round the Beaver Pond

2. This is the way we slap our tails

3. This is the way we gnaw down trees

4. This is the way we pack the mud

5. This is the way we go to sleep

 

Action story:

 

Beavers - gnaw gnaw gnaw

Ice Hockey – skate across

Mountie – march and salute

 

Last week the East Ryde Ice Hockey team had an away game at Macquarie Ice rink.  They all got on the bus with their ice hockey sticks and skates.  They were called the Brilliant Beavers and they were off to play the Mighty Mounties.  But on the way they were held up by flooding on the road, a Beaver had built a dam across the Parramata river and the whole of Ryde was flooded.  It looked like the Ice Hockey match would have to be postponed.  Their coach Zaphod called the Mighty Mounties coach to find out what they should do about their Ice Hockey match but it seemed the Mounties were stuck in the rising water caused by the Beavers dam too.  They decided to meet down by the river and discuss what they could do.  As they battled their way down to the river they saw the Mountie police out in force trying to direct traffic, but they made it.  It was getting later at night and it was turning cold, so cold in fact that the flooded river froze over and the Mighty Mountie ice Hockey team and the Brilliant Beavers played their Ice Hockey match there and then on the frozen river - with of course the naughty beavers watching out from their dam!

 

 

 

 

 

The Legend of the Dream Catcher

 

Long ago when the world was young, an old Lakota spiritual leader was on a high mountain and had a vision.

In his vision, Iktomi, the great trickster and teacher of wisdom, appeared in the form of a spider.

Iktomi spoke to him in a sacred language that only the spiritual leaders of the Lakota could understand.

As he spoke Iktomi, the spider, took the elder's willow hoop which had feathers, horse hair, beads and offerings on it and began to spin a web.

He spoke to the elder about the cycles of life ... and how we begin our lives as infants and we move on to childhood, and then to adulthood. Finally, we go to old age where we must be taken care of as infants, completing the cycle.

"But," Iktomi said as he continued to spin his web, "in each time of life there are many forces -- some good and some bad. If you listen to the good forces, they will steer you in the right direction. But if you listen to the bad forces, they will hurt you and steer you in the wrong direction."

He continued, "There are many forces and different directions that can help or interfere with the harmony of nature, and also with the great spirit and-all of his wonderful teachings." All the while the spider spoke, he continued to weave his web starting from the outside and working toward the center.

When Iktomi finished speaking, he gave the Lakota elder the web and said..."See, the web is a perfect circle but there is a hole in the center of the circle."

He said, "Use the web to help yourself and your people to reach your goals and make good use of your people's ideas, dreams and visions.

"If you believe in the great spirit, the web will catch your good ideas -- and the bad ones will go through the hole."

The Lakota elder passed on his vision to his people and now the Sioux Indians use the dream catcher as the web of their life.

It is hung above their beds or in their home to sift their dreams and visions.

The good in their dreams are captured in the web of life and carried with them...but the evil in their dreams escapes through the hole in the center of the web and are no longer a part of them.

They believe that the dream catcher holds the destiny of their future.