Exploring Beaver

 Find below info about the Exploring Beaver badge and an activity for Parent Night. (You will need crayons.) 

Friendship Beaver

 Find below info about the Friendship Beaver badge and an activity for Parent Night. (You will need pencils.)

Spirit Beaver

  Find below info about the Spirit Beaver badge and an activity for Parent Night. (You will need crayons.)

Creative Beaver

  Find below info about the Creative Beaver badge and an activity for Parent Night. (You will need crayons.)

Scientific Beaver

 Find below info about the Scientific Beaver badge and an activity for Parent Night. (You will need pencils.)

OAS Skills for the Water

 It is difficult to complete water-related OAS skills at the Beaver level as you require a lifeguard. Instead you may choose to give the below handouts to your parents so Beavers can work on them at home.

If you want to share the information about these skills at Parent Night, here are some activities Beavers can work on while the parents read the info. (You will need: pencils, scissors, glue, white paper.)

Indoor Klondike Derby for Beavers

We had Beaver Scouts tonight! I thought since it was Festival du Voyager in Winnipeg this weekend we should take some inspiration from the Voyageurs and do indoor Klondike Derby (Since it is -37⁰C with the windchill, so not great for 5-8 year olds after dark outside.) 

We divided the boys into teams of 3 and each team got a cardboard sled with a shopping basket on top to carry all their items they needed around to all the stations.

Station 1 - Learning to dress to stay warm and dry for the winter.

Station 2 - Setting up their bed roll in a tent, then sitting in the tent for story time. 

Station 3 - Collecting firewood. Learning about campfire safety. Then cooking s'mores using our electronic s'mores maker. (The marshmallows actually can light fire if you get them too close, so that is extra exciting.)

Station 4 - Learning to find the North Star, and looking at maps of the constellations through a telescope.

It was extra exciting that we arrived at the hall to find it set up with items for the food bank that we had to work around. The boys had a blast!