40Th Anniversary Beaver Scouts Booklet
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Happy 40th Birthday Beaver Scouts 1974 – 2014 A booklet celebrating 40 years of Beaver Scouts in Canada — full of ideas for Beaver Scouts and their Scouters. TABLE OF CONTENTS Beaver Scouts 40th Anniversary Celebration Themes .....................2 Lord Robert & Lady Olave Baden-Powell ...............................3 Where Beaver Scouts Began! .........................................3 Some of Baden-Powell’s Favourite Activities! ...........................5 Exploring 40 .......................................................8 Saying Hello in 40 ways ............................................10 40 Years of Beaver Scouting – What’s happened in 40 years! ..............11 Games of the 70’s, 80’s, 90’s & 00’s .................................13 Cartoons of the 70’s, 80’s, 90’s & 00’s ................................13 Inventions of the 70’s, 80’s, 90’s & 00’s ...............................14 Music of the 70’s, 80’s, 90’s & 00’s ...................................14 New Foods of the 70’s, 80’s, 90’s & 00’s .............................. 15 Around the World ..................................................16 What do you imagine Beavers will do at their meetings 100 years from now? ..21 Do you think that 100 years from now Beavers, Cubs, Scouts, Venturers and Rovers will be doing the same?. 22 Thank you, Lord Baden-Powell, for the gift of Scouting! .................23 40th Birthday Campfire .............................................24 40th Birthday Beaver Scouts’ Own ....................................25 Songs, Skits and Cheers .............................................28 40th Birthday Service Project ........................................40 40th Birthday Celebration ...........................................40 PLAN-DO-REVIEW with Beaver Scouts ...............................43 CHOOSE YOUR 40TH BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION ACTIVITIES Beaver Scouts is the start of something great. The adventure begins here and opens the doors to all the adventures of Cubs, Scouts, Venturers and Rovers. We invite Beaver Scouts and Scouters to join in a year of imagination, fun and adventure as we celebrate 40 years of Beaver Scouts in Canada. Make it a whole year of celebrating in 2014-2015. This booklet is full of ideas and adventures to get your Beaver Scouts started in planning their activities and outings. 2014-15 also celebrates the kick-off of The Canadian Path, our new Scouts Canada program for all five Sections. The four key elements of The Canadian Path, which you will see reflected throughout this booklet, are: 1. Youth-led – Lord Baden-Powell created a program that was intended for the youth to do the leading with adult support. Beaver Scouts can be involved in choosing what their program will be. Not sure how to plan with Beaver Scouts? See our process at the end of the booklet. 2. SPICES – Scouts Canada’s programs develop youth in all aspects of their being: social, physical, intellectual, characterful, emotional and spiritual. 3. Plan-Do-Review – Every activity starts with Planning that involves the youth, has everyone take part in the Doing, and concludes with a constructive Review and celebration. 4. Adventure – Adventure is what we do best in Scouts: learning through the outdoors and seeking ways to personally challenge ourselves. Scouting is a Youth-Led program, so we’ve provided material to help you get your Beaver Scouts involved in choosing the adventures and activities that they would like to do to during this birthday year. At this age, Beaver Scouts have many imaginative and creative ideas that we can draw on to shape the activities of the Colony. Beaver Scouts are very capable of being actively involved in choosing their activities and in helping, in age-appropriate ways, to make the activities happen. At this level, Scouters will do more of the organizing, gathering of materials and making sure that everything is done in a safe and respectful way. Let the youth know that Beaver Scouts is celebrating its 40th birthday. Do they know anyone who is 40 years-old? Imagine all that has happened in 40 years. How can we celebrate the 40th birthday of Beaver Scouts? 1 Beaver’s 40th Anniversary BEAVER SCOUTS 40TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION THEMES There are four main themes for the 40th year, plus more activities. Your Beaver Scouts might like to try them all. Themes a. Lord & Lady Baden-Powell: getting to know the founders of Scouting b. Exploring 40 c. Forty Years of Beaver Scouting: what has happened in these 40 years? d. Beaver Scouts around the World: who are they and what do they do? Other Activities a. a birthday party with birthday cake focussed on “Sharing, sharing, sharing” b. a birthday campfire c. a birthday Beaver Scouts’ Own d. a birthday service project to help your community or the world 2 Beaver’s 40th Anniversary LORD ROBERT & LADY OLAVE BADEN-POWELL For the 40th Anniversary of Beaver Scouts, have some fun learning about Lord & Lady Baden-Powell with your Beaver Scouts. Here are some ideas the Beaver Scouts might choose to do: a. Share the brief history on the following pages. b. Find a copy of Scouting for Boys and look at the drawings done by Lord Baden-Powell. c. Try some of the activities that Lord Baden-Powell enjoyed, such as the Animal Stalking Game, drawing with both hands, and putting on plays. (See the following pages.) d. Mount the drawings together – left-hand and right-hand drawings – and have an art show for parents. You might sell the drawings to raise money for a 40th birthday service project. e. Do you know why we shake hands with our left hands in Scouting? It is something that Lord Baden-Powell learned when he was serving in the British Army in Africa. He saw that the Ashanti warriors would shake hands with their left hands to indicate both bravery and the desire for peace. This was because they held their shields in their left hands, and their spears in the right hand. It was a brave and courageous thing to put down the shield and extend the left hand in peace. Lord Baden-Powell felt these were good qualities for his Scouts: courage and peacefulness. The left hand is also the hand closest to the heart. A left handshake is meant to show peace and friendship. The Beaver Scouts can make their own shields out of cardboard, putting on it words and drawings that show who they are. Include the Beaver Scout motto, “Sharing, sharing, sharing,” or Beaver Scouts can make up their own mottos. Use duct tape to create a hand hold on the back. Then act out holding the shield in the left hand, and putting it down in order to shake hands with the left hand. f. Building on the meaning of the left handshake, explore the idea of peace in the world. Lord Baden-Powell wanted Scouting to help create peace around the world. Peace happens when we connect between cultures and faiths and peoples. What could your Beaver Scout Colony do that helps connect with other children of another culture/faith, another Beaver Scout Colony, or another part of your city/town? “Sharing, sharing, sharing” is our motto. What kind of sharing might you do that helps build peace? 3 Beaver’s 40th Anniversary WHERE BEAVER SCOUTS BEGAN! It all started with a man named Lord Robert Baden-Powell. In 1907, Lord B-P selected 22 boys to participate in a camping trip on Brownsea Island in England. That was the beginning of Scouting. In 1908, Lord B-P wrote a book called Scouting for Boys that outlined a program much like the program we follow today. The program included observation of nature,compass work, fire lighting skills, hiking, camping, tracking and first aid. Lord Baden-Powell had a sister named Agnes. She helped Lord B-P start the Girl Guides. Then Lord Baden-Powell married Olave Soammes in 1912. She became the Chief Girl Guide of the World. Lord B-P was the Chief Scout of the World. They travelled all around the world to meet Scouts and Guides in every country. Lord and Lady B-P shared the same birthday, February 22. That is the day we celebrate the good work of the Scouting Movement. Today, there are 216 countries that have Scouting Groups. In Canada, there are 100,000 Beavers, Cubs, Scouts, Venturers, Rovers and Scouters. Boys and girls can be Scouts in Canada. The first Beaver Scouts Colony started in 1971 in Winnipeg, and then the idea caught on across Canada. In 1974, Beaver Scouts, for 5 to 7 year-olds, officially became part of the Scouts Canada program. 4 Beaver’s 40th Anniversary SOME OF BADEN-POWELL’S FAVOURITE ACTIVITIES! 1. Stalking Jungle Animals Lord B-P loved stalking (quietly following) jungle animals. Stalking doesn’t necessarily mean hunting; B.-P. loved quietly observing and sketching animals. Jungle Stalking Game: One Beaver is the wild animal at the watering hole. He/she is blindfolded and crouches in the middle of the room. This child has a flashlight and the room is darkened. The rest of the Beavers pretend to be Lord B-P. They must sneak up quietly on the wild animal in the centre (without it hearing them) and touch its shoulder (or steal some keys). If the wild animal hears them, it will roar (or make a sound appropriate to whatever animal the Beaver Scout has chosen to be) and shine the flashlight to tag the approaching Beaver with the light. When tagged, the Beaver must return to the side of the room and begin again. When someone successfully touches the wild animal, (or steals the object) he or she becomes the new wild animal in the centre. (Note: If the room can’t be darkened, the game can be played by having this child point a finger at the person he or she hears approaching.) 5 Beaver’s 40th Anniversary 2. Drawing Lord B-P loved drawing. He could draw equally well with both left and right hands.