East Ryde Joey Scout Program

 

Date	Leader:
Theme:  Round the World - USA	Meeting Type:       Hall

 

Time	Activity Description	Leader	Equipment Required:
	Coming in activity		American Flag, pencils
6.00	Opening parade  fly off		Flags – fly off to the USA passport office
6.05	Lacrosse (Invented by Indians!)		Newspaper sticks and balloon
6.10	Jump the grand canyon		2 ropes
6.15	Buffalo Hunt		Bean bags
6.20	Craft		Dreamcatcher
6.30	Toe Toss when finished		Bean bags, black/white markers and floor grid
6.35	Fast Food		Food pictures
6.40	Help make and bag popcorn		Brown bags, popcorn and machine
6.45	Stories and popcorn		Mats, stories (dreamcatcher & whacky) and popcorn
6.50	Indian sticks game		20 popsticks marked as required.
7.00	Closing parade		Flags
spare	Feather plate relay		Plates and a few feathers on each
	Indian Teepee		Stuck in the mud

 

 

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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:

 

Jump the grand canyon:  Put two ropes ½ m apart.  Joeys must jump across, gradually widen the gap.

 

Lacrosse:  Two teams balloon and newpaper sticks

 

Buffalo hunt:  Played as Dodge Ball, the Joeys are the Buffalo, the bean bags the spear and the leaders are the hunters.

 

Toe Toss:  Give one child a bean bag.  They must pick a card (black or white) put the bean bag on their toes and flick it onto the grid on either a white or black square depending on what they picked.  If they get it right they get another go until they fail.

 

Dream catcher craft

 

Fast Food:  Have a chat about foods that are good for you and foods you should eat occasionally.  In two teams get the Joeys to run and each find one good and one bad food and bring it back.  Make sure they put them on the “good” and “bad” pile so you can go through them and see how many are right.

 

Indian Stick Game:

Native Americans children played this game with different shaped sticks.  You need 20 popsticks total. There are four sticks that are decorated and fifteen sticks that remain plain and one coloured.

1.      Lightning stick: draw red lightning on the front of the stick

2.      Sun stick: draw yellow suns on the stick

3.      Four Directions stick: Draw red arrows facing North, East, West and South. 

4.      The Rain stick: Draw three black dots on top of one another,

5.      One stick is coloured on one side.

To play: Leave the fifteen plain stick in one pile. To play, the players take turns tossing the colored sticks, earning points based on how they land. 1) the first player picks up the four colored sticks and tosses them in the air. Based on the scoring, they takes the designated number of plain sticks and make a pile. As long as the first player continues to score, they continue tossing sticks. As soon as they toss the coloured stick, it goes to the next player. When all 15 of the plain sticks have been removed from the pile, the player who just tossed, takes the correct number of plain sticks from the other players. The game is over when one person has gotten all 15 of the plain sticks. It doesn’t usually work out that way, so we usually decide when to stop and then count up who has the most sticks.

Scoring:

·         Front side of four directions: 4 sticks

·         Front side of rain: 3 sticks

·         Front side of lightning: 2 sticks

·         Front side of sun: 1 stick

The coloured stick moves play to the next player..

 

STORY OF THE DREAMCATCHER

Long ago in the days of the ancestors, some of the children of the people were having strange, frightening dreams.The children talked to other children and the troubling dreams spread among them like a plague.

The parents of the children were concerned. The people wanted their children to be happy but they didn’t know what to do.The people went to talk to the shaman. The shaman listened patiently as the parents told him about their distress.

The shaman told the parents that he could help. But he would need to spend some time in counsel with the spirits before he would have a solution.The shaman would have to enter the dream world to find the answer.

Upon entering the dream world the shaman was approached by the four elements: Air, Earth, Water and Fire.Air had already heard of the parent’s concern, and had carried the message on the wind to the other elements.

All the spirits in the dream world loved the children and wanted to help return the children to their state of peaceful sleep.The elements and the shaman dreamed together for a long time. They finally came to understand that:

Air could carry the children’s dreams.Earth could hold the dreams within her hoop. Water could wash and separate dreams - the wanted from the unwanted.  Fire could use the morning sun to burn up the unwanted dreams that are caught in the web.

Now all they needed was something to capture the dreams as they were carried by the air. Try as they might, the shaman and the elements could not think of a way to catch the dreams.

Grandmother Spider had been listening!

She said, "Beautiful, loving elements, I can help you as you help me every day." Grandmother Spider continued, "I can weave a special web that only wanted dreams can escape down to the dreamer."  And so she did, and the first Dreamcatcher was made.

The shaman brought the dreamcatcher with him when he made his journey back from the dream world.  All of the families of the people made dreamcatchers. The families hung them above where the children slept, in a place that was seen by the sun.

No longer were the children troubled by unwanted dreams. Instead they had happy dreams and peaceful sleep.

And so, at last, Great Spirit looked into the dreams of the children and smiled?

- the end -