8 posts tagged “joey scouts”
Have you ever volunteered for something? If so, what?
I volunteer quite a bit actually! Not as much as I's like - I have to earn a living too!
My major effort is as a Joey Scout leader. In other words I entertain 7 year olds for 1 hour a week and get them interested in Scouting. I also get an excellent excuse to do fun science experiments and craft activities...
I suppose the most interesting thing I volunteered for was the Sydney Olympics in 2000. The volunteer applications closed about a year before the games and you could nominate what areas you wanted to work in. I nominated as a help desk operator as I'd had experience in that area. Unfortunately, I never made it to the Olympics - not even as a spectator. My son was born less than 2 weeks before they started and I had my hands full!!
Maybe next time they are in Australia?
It is the Queen's Birthday holiday here and it is the one weekend of the year that we are allowed to buy and use fireworks.
This year they even had parachutes for sale!! The little kids had control of the sparklers and the grownups set off the fireworks for all to see.
All the sections were involved (even the joeys) and everyone had a great time cooking marshmallows around a proper campfire.
Back at Joeys again!
TERM THEME: Nature
NIGHT THEME: Animals
PARADE
WELCOME & INTRODUCTION
3 new Joeys tonight, so asked each of the kids their name and what they did on the holidays.
OUTDOOR GAMES
Cat and Mouse
Octopus
'Hop' Race - 'hopped' to the fence and back. The joeys collapsed in a heap at the end!
CRAFT
Bumblebee mobiles
These actually went better than I thought! But they took a bit of time to do.
Today we took the Joey Scouts across to Springbank Island (which is in the middle of Lake Burley Griffin).
This was the first thing we saw after getting off the boat.
The theme was Pirates and they did activities such as catapults, walking the plank and tug-of-war. They also made little pirate boats, which the cicadas seemed to like the look of.
Here are some random photos of Canberra I took from the boat on the way back.
A fun day was had by all and I think no one got burnt, which is a minor miracle.
Term Theme: Festivals and Celebrations
Weekly Theme: Thanksgiving
Explain briefly the American holiday of Thanksgiving, and that although we do not celebrate it, they also have things they are thankful for. Go around the circle and get the Joeys to say what each of them is thankful for.
GAME: Sticky Popcorn
All the Joeys are pieces of popcorn in a frying pan. They all have their eyes closed (hopefully).
The leader picks one of the joeys to become sticky
The leader then 'turns on the stove' and all the joeys start jumping around as if they were being cooked.
The 'sticky popcorn' also jumps around and 'sticks' to another piece of popcorn.
This continues until all the popcorn is stuck together
Note - I snavelled this off Kabose.com
Body: One and a half toilet rolls. Staple together
Feathers: On coloured paper, draw around the joey's hand and cut out. Get them to decorate if they want. Stick plam of hand to base of body.
Eyes, Beak, Gobble and Feet: Cut shapes out of paper. I used foam for these, which I cut out at the table with them to save time.
GAME: Octopus
Note - after being 33C today, the change came through, so we all went outside.
One or two Joeys are the octopus (octopii??) in the middle.
Other Joeys need to run from one side of the ocean to the other without getting caught.
ACTIVITY: IceblocksToday's variation for the theme was turkeys and corn. (We are not very imaginative thinking these things up at the last minute!!)
ACTIVITY: Memory GameIceblocks + Joeys = Quiet time
PARADE & HOMEA tray of items was placed on the floor and left for the joeys to memorise.
In turn, each joey is blindfolded. An item is taken away and they have to guess which one.
Tuesday, November 13th 2007
TERM THEME: Festivals and Celebrations
MEETING THEME: Remembrance Day
GAME: Build-up Tag
This is like a normal game of tag, except each person who gets tagged by 'It' is also 'It'. This continues until everyone is 'It'. The winner is then'it' for the new game. Now that daylight savings has started, we played this outdoors. (Joeys 5 Skinned Knees 2)
ACTIVITY Create-your-own Woodcraft
Items needed - offcuts of wood, hammers, nails
ACTIVITY Remembrance DayStarted with a safety talk and a demonstration on how not to get your thumb in the way of the hammer. (Joeys 4Hammer 3) Then basically gave them free rein on the bits of wood. The kids were really creative with creations ranging from murals to racing cars.
The other leader (Wallaby) has service medals that belonged to her grandfather and father. She brought them to the meeting and showed the kids. She told them stories about what the medals were for and what the people had done.
PARADE Flag, HOP
Pile up a couple of icecream containers in the middle of the circle. 2 joeys guard this. The other throw a ball and ty to knock the containers down.
Reminder to bring hats and water bottles
Initial notice re Joey Jaunt in a few weeks time
2 joeys to prepare for Cub link badge
THEME: Bring a Friend
GAME: Captain's Coming
There are a few different versions of this game. I found some good instructions for this game on Falling Upward's VOX blog. Other leaders have told me that a variation called Flies and one called Beans in a Can are also good.
In Flies, the joeys are flies and the four points of the compass are places flies like to congregate (eg a barbecue). At least one of the actions should be 'Mortein' where the joeys lay on the floor with their arms and legs in the air - just like dying flies.
Beans in a Can is a variation where all the joeys are beans of varying descriptions. 'Beans in a Can' is the command for all joeys to move to the middle of the room where two adults will be standing with their arms forming the outside of a can.
GAME: Fishing
Equipment needed - paper cut outs of fish with paperclips on the end, words can be written on these to symbolise Scouting qualities. A long stick or tube with a magnet on the end of a string attached to it.
Instructions - get the joeys to 'fish' with the magnetic fishing rod, and ask them to read out each of the qualities.
GAME: Cops and Robbers
(This one was requested especially by one of the joeys)
A 'cop' is nominated and is led out of the room. A joey is selected (silently) to be the robber. The cop has 3 guesses to catch the robber. If they guess correctly, they get another go. If not, then the robber gets to be the cop.
We didn't have enough time to do it exactly like that, so we gave each joey a turn to be the robber.
STORY: Room on the Broom by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler
This is a great story book written by the same author as The Gruffalo. (..and the joeys love it!)
PARADE & CLOSE
THEME: Mother's Day
PARADE & FLAG
GAME: Mum's Revenge
This is a relay game where the first person in the team ('Mum') runs to the other end of the room and throws a neat pile of clothes all over the floor. The next person ('Child') then has to pick them up and stack them neatly again. The
ACTIVITY: Tea Time
Joeys serve tea, coffee and biscuits to their Mum's.
CRAFT: Money boxes
Requirements - small tube chip containers (like Pringles); strip of paper long enough to go around the container; sticky tape; textas, pencils & crayons.
Instructions - 1. Cut a slit in the plastic cover large enough to fit a coin. 2. Decorate the strip of paper with whatever they like. 3. Wrap the paper around the tube and sticky tape together.
GAME: Poison Ball
GAME: Know Your Joey
Get Joeys to answer 6 easy questions (like 'What is your favourite food). These are all written down on cards and given back to the leaders.
PARADE & CLOSE
GAME: Know Your Joey (Part 2)
Read out the joey's responses to the questions. Each Mum then has to recognise and 'claim' their joey. Then they get to take them home!
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