Gilwell Reunion - September 2009

Our theme for Gilwell Reunion this year was "Carnival"

Old log books

Ever helpful scouts

Robby Kojetin from 1st Germiston receiving his parchment

(Robby recently summited Everest - read more here)

Karen Weeks from 1st Benoni receiving her parchment

Scouts Own

Renewing the Promise

Every year at Gilwell Reunion a tree is planted

Till next Time

Akela Joy

Special Good turn - 5th September 2009

Our Leaping Wolves (cubs who are between 10 and 11years) completed their Good Turn Project.

They painted tongue depressors and decorated them to be used as bookmarks.

These were then donated to Hospice to raise funds.

Well done guys - these truly looked stunning - Raksha has some brilliant ideas up her sleeve!

Till next Time

Keep Cubbing

Akela Joy

Red Flower - 4th September 2009

We continued our story of The Jungle Book and today we told the cubs about Mowgli going into the village to fetch the Red Flower.

A game was played whereby the "red flower" was placed in the middle of the hall and all the "villagers" were lying sleeping around the red flower. One cub is chosen as Mowgli who then has to creep through the villagers and see if he/she can retrieve the red flower with out making a sound. If someone hears the cub, they point from where they are hearing the noise and if correct they get a turn to be Mowgli.

The little ones learnt all about the Dangers of Fire

... and once the fire was ready they were allowed to quickly toast a marshmallow

The older cubs made a conservation stove and cooked a pizza!

getting it all together

getting the dough just right

pudding

pizza and pudding - sounds good!

mmmmmm - delicious!

Instruction "time"

Know how to knot

Safety in the home

.. and we invested another new chum!

Welcome Jono!

Our cubs giving the new chum a "woof".

From tradition they have learnt to throw their caps into the air!!

Till next Time

Keep Cubbing

Akela Joy

Being a Good Citizen - 28th August 2009

Today we learnt about being good citizens!

We started doing the Citizen Badge a few weeks ago, and today we completed a few more parts of it.

Our angels!

We played a lovely game called "defending the president". Each cub had a balloon tied on his shoe with an elastic band. Cubs had to run around trying to pop each other's balloon. The cubs had to try and protect their own Sixer and not allow anyone to pop his balloon.

This was such a quick and easy, fun game to play.

The next part of the badge was to learn about 2 historical places of interest near Benoni. Rikki is fantastic with historical items so he told them about the Voortrekker Monument as well as Dunswart in Benoni. The cubs will now go home and write this up in their little booklet that we made for them.

Baloo told them why we have laws...

The cubs will now go home, complete the badge requirements and make an appointment with the examiner.

A few more games were played and here they learnt how to work as a team!

A cup of water was passed overhead all the way to the back and then all the way forward again. The team with the most water in the cup when it arrives back in the front, is the winner.

Just look at the expressions on these faces!!

One of "my cubs" was invested into scouts tonight - so I stayed behind for the investiture.

Congratulations and wishing you well on your scouting journey to Springbok!

Till next time

Keep Cubbing

Akela Joy