You may need to pre-make a boat so you know how many popsicle stick to use and have them pre-cut for the Joey Scouts. Have parents supervise/assist with the glueing
Joey Scouts to test boats in a bucket of water or kitchen sink or other suitable container.
Mother’s Day will be very different this year. In our section, Joey Scouts would normally do a Mother’s Day activity at Scouts in the Hall where we would make cards, gifts or even pamper mum at the hall. This year will be much different. You will need to lead these activities and seek help from dads or older siblings to help you with these activities. This pack includes a number of ideas for Mother’s Day activities, however, Scouting is Youth leading – adults supporting. This pack is for support only so ideas in here are ideas your adult supporters have compiled for you to assist you. The Joey Scout can research and be creative and make up their own card, gifts and breakfast.
Let’s start your plan with what do you want to do?
Card – what card do you want to do for your mum. There are some ideas attached of a Teapot card or superhero mum card but you may want to design your own and that is what scouting is about.
Gift – what does your mum like? What resources do you have? Are you able to get the materials you need to make what you want, maybe you need to change your idea?
Pamper – does my mum like her nails done? Does she need a massage? Can I make her a bath bomb or a jar of bath salts?
Breakfast – what does your mum like to eat? Does she like coffee, tea, juice? Do I need help cooking the breakfast? Who will help me? Do I need to go shopping to buy any ingredients?
I’ve also attached some activities with instructions and templates. Have a look through them. Feel free to do any of these ones or do the ideas that you have come up with!
DO
After making your plan, start to do the activities you would like to do for your mum for Mother’s Day.
Card
Gift
Breakfast
Review
Joey Scouts, what did you think of the program? Consider some of the questions below:
Which of the SPICES did I use or develop in this program?
What did I like doing for Mother’s Day this year?
Did my mum like what I did for her on Mother’s Day this year?
How was this year different and how did I feel about doing Mother’s Day activities at home?
Scouting at home challenge activity for Bushwalking Stage 1 badge requirements. You can also provide your Joey Scouts with a template to watch the weather and include currents and tides if you want to provide boating/aquatic for sea scout groups.
Weather Watch Challenge
Planning is an important step when participating in any sort of activity. Now’s the perfect time to brush up on your planning skills to make sure they’re in top notch when we’re back out and about Scouting.
Instructions
1. Watch the weather forecast for the coming weekend.
2. Take note of the weather conditions – the temperature, precipitation, wind forecast etc.
3. Plan what clothing you would need if you were going out on a day hike on Sunday*.
4. List the items you would need to wear, and the things you would need to pack to bring with you.
*Feel free to tweak this activity to cover multiple days.
Reflection This activity encouraged you to practice your planning skills by analysing a weather forecast and making sure you’d be prepared and comfortable during a day hike.
“What should we do if we know someone does not have enough food?”
Bowl of rice – ask the Joeys how they would like to eat that for the next week for dinners.
Then we finished off by considering how important it is to find ways to support people who do not have enough food, which I said we would be doing in the coming days. What if there wasn’t even any rice?
Have pre-made Survival Biscuits for this activity or make them as part of your unit or as a family
In situations of famine, emergency food assistance can mean the difference between life and death. Survival biscuits, also called high energy biscuits, can be used in the first days of a food emergency when cooking facilities aren’t available. They are fortified with vitamins and minerals and a lot of protein.
You can mimic the taste of survival biscuits with this recipe, provided by the hunger assistance organization Church World Service.
Survival Biscuit Recipe
Ingredients:
1/2 cup sweetened condensed milk (can substitute 1/3 cup of brown sugar and 1/2 cup of milk) 1 cup wheat flour or soy flour 1/4 cup margarine or shortening 1/4 cup water
Scatter a small amount of cornmeal on a 9 inch x 12 inch cookie sheet. Mix all the ingredients together in a mixing bowl, and pat it out onto your prepared cookie sheet. Bake at 400 degrees for 15 minutes. After they have cooled, cut them into wafers, about 2 inches x 2.5 inches.
After you’ve tried the biscuits, ask your children what they think it would be like to only have these biscuits to eat for several days. How do you think your body would feel?
Depending on your child’s age, you can also talk about two types of hunger people face: starvation and malnutrition. These survival biscuits are used in situations of famine, where people are at risk of death by starving.
Now give them a normal biscuit and milo for their Supper
How we can show our thankfulness for our food (including showing gratitude to those who grow/sell/make our food and not wasting food) we also talked about how every person in the world deserves to have enough food to live. I asked simple questions like, “How would you feel if you were hungry all day and did not have any food to eat?”
SAFETY NOTE: Coin cell batteries are extremely harmful if swallowed!!! DO NOT do this project with any child who is prone to putting things in their mouth OR if you have sibling in the home who might put battery in tier mouth. For this reason, it is suggested to use a battery pack with this project and secure it in a manner that the battery is completely taped inside the final project. Even so, please be aware of the risks associated with using coin cell batteries and supervision of younger Joey Scouts when using is recommended and it put away from younger siblings when taken home.
Plan
Goal
To learn about electrical circuits and how electricity lights up a globe in a simple and fun creative electronic project which is linked to a popular book and movie theme of Harry Potter spell of the Lumos – wand-lighting charm and Nox – wand extinguishing charm.
You might want to use chopsticks or a piece of dowel instead of stick if you like. Also, other coloured electrical tape is fine as brown is hard to find and the multicoloured electrical tape in packs is cheaper.
Do
Working with adults supporting (e.g. stripping wire) and wiring the circuit connection to the battery pack and LED light. This might be something that you want to prepare some in advance for the Joey Scouts ahead of time and then just demonstrate and let them try doing one and depending on time as the small wires and small LED are quite fiddly. You should allow the Joey Scouts to try to do as much as they can themselves though, especially in a patrol with older Joey Scouts helping the younger ones.
As a weird person who is allergic to cocoa so that means no chocolate for me and my venturer daughter, I am always on the look out for alternatives at Christmas and Easter. Although I am never great at Christmas Avent Calendars and getting them in time and being home enough for the kids to open them each day (now mainly due to all of our scouting commitments). I decided last year to get a Lego Star Wars Avent calendar for my son last year and he thought it was awesome so on the lookout for another Lego Avent Calendar this year.
Lego Star Wars Advent Calendar
Advent Calendars that are not supporting daily intake of sugar and fat is what I really like now and there are more and more available each year so here are some I have found that
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