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AUSTRALIAN JOEY SCOUTS

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& ACTIVITIES

The craft ideas on this page wre kindly submitted by UK Beaver leader "Raksha"
Illustrations by ABL "Bagheera" UK

SPACE SHUTTLE
Equipment: Paper towel tube, card wings and tail, paper nose cone.
Cover tube with paper. Cut slots for wings and tail. Form cone with tabs at base to fix to front of tube.

Alternative: Use a long paper tube and make a rocket.

MAKE ALIEN MASKS
Equipment: Absolutely anything !
On a basic mask design, you may add what ever you like. Perhaps just providing a box of bits and pieces and seeing what your children come up with! Why not ask one lodge to creat a nice friendly alien, another lodge to create a nasty alien etc

ROCKET RACE
Equipment: Long balloons, straws, adhesive tape, string

Thread straw onto string and stretch the string from one end of the hall to the other . Inflate balloon and clamp theend so the air does not escape whille you tape the balloon to the drinking straw. release clamp to send the rocket sailing along the string. Conduct races for both speed and distance.

CONSTRUCTION
Equipment: Boxes and containers of various sizes textures and shapes, meccano sets, leggo, duplo, wooden blocks etc
Just give your Joey/Beaver scouts a free hand to construct something "Spacey" they will love it and you will be amazed at what they create out of the various bits and pieces. Take photos and have the Scouts tell stories about what they have made.

POLY PRINT
Equipment: Polystyrene tray, pen or blunt pencil, paint and paper
Draw designe in reverse on the tray pressing down fairly hard to leave an imprint. Then use to print the picture onto paper.

FILLING IN TIME
There are plenty of things available to do with 'space', that you may be able to use to fill in spare minutes. For example: colouring pictures, space activity packs, hand help games, paper models and aeroplanes

MOON MOBILE
Equipment: Card board, cotton )templates of moon and stars.
you might like to decorate with glitter and foil

Balance may be tricky. Make the mobile more interesting by adding eyes by pushing a loop through the moon , add a star and make this 3 dimensional as well.

ORBIT MOBILE
Equipment: String or similar, bamboo garden stake, card board shapes of rockets,comets, planets, stars etc

Decorate each of your chosen shapes, the planet could be made to look 3D by slotting 2 shapes together.

SCIENCE
A space themed programme could contain some simple science experiments

There are so many different experiments to suit a space theme, here's a couple of ideas --->

Experiment with gravity - talk about and demonstrate the pull of the Sun - ask the Beaver Scouts to pretend they are weightless and what the good and bad things might be if there was no gravity.

Film Canister Rockets - using empty film containers, bi-carb soda and water ( experiment with vinigar or coke to see which ones work the best)

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