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The magazine for Beaver Scout Leaders

December 2008/January 2009

The art of animationTurn your Beaver Scouts

into directors

Dig inAn archaeological

programme on a plate

£200 FOR YOUR COLONY£200 FOR YOUR

WIN

THE OUTDOOR ZONETHE OUTDOOR ZONE

Ideas to help you beat the winter blues

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INTRO

Contents

This issue sees the last of the articles covering the new Programme Zones. And

we are finishing on a high, writes Jenny Winn

It’s not by accident that the Outdoor Zone is in the December/January issue.

We’ve included it to remind you that there are many outdoor type activities that

can be done in the winter months – either preparing for going outside, doing

outdoor activities indoors or doing activities outside.

Many Beaver Scouts don’t have the opportunity to spend time outside during

darker evenings, but it’s exciting to go out all wrapped up clutching a torch to

go exploring even if you’re an adult. You can do activities ranging from star

gazing to playing in the snow (if you have enough snow!). You can finish the

evening with a warming mug of hot chocolate. I have always promised my

Beaver Scouts that if it ever snowed enough during the day of our Beaver night

we will change the programme and

go out and play in the snow. At the

church where my Colony meets, we

are very fortunate to have an enclosed

garden which makes it safe.

We’ve had great feedback on the

Programme Zone series. Many of

you commented that it was useful

linking ideas to the Balanced

Programme. We have taken your

comments on board so over the

next year we will run a series of

articles focusing on the activity and

challenge badges.

Beaver bulletin

Your Beaver Scout Section Working GroupKaren Jameson (UK Adviser for Beaver Scouts) Alison ChapmanSimon HicklingClare ThompsonEva Will Jenny Winn (Programme and Development Adviser for Beaver Scouts)

Contact them on:[email protected] Scout Working Group The Scout Association Gilwell Park, Chingford, LondonE4 7QW; Tel: 0845 300 1818

Contributions to [email protected]

ADVERTISINGTom [email protected]: 020 8962 1258

4 All outDelivering the Outdoor Zone

7 From Beavers to eco-heroes Go green for the Imagination Activity Badge

8 POPAn archaelogical programme on a plate

10 Bringing the outdoors inHow to deliver an outdoor element to your meeting in the depth of winter

12 Picture perfect Making and doing storyboards

14 Out of this worldHop on board and collect a new space-themed resource pack

15 CompetitionWin £200 for your Beaver Colony

What you’ve been up to over the last few months:

1st Brussels Beaver Scouts, part of British Scouts Western Europe, managed to raise over €1,000 for Children in Need by raffling a Pudsey cake made specially by a Beaver Scout’s mum.

Yorkshire Beaver Scout Jack received the Gilt Cross for bravery when rescuing his three-year-old brother in a swimming pool.


4 Beavers December 2008/January 2009

All outIn the last of our series on the Programme

Zones, Emma Wood helps you deliver the

Outdoor and Adventure Zone

Mini campsitelet

you will need• garden canes• elastic bands• old sheeting.Beavers use the equipment to make different types of tents indoors or outside. These will form a mini campsite. You could introduce a pet guinea pig, small rabbit etc, to the campsite and see what happens – secure the boundary to ensure they don’t escape and ensure the Beavers don’t scare the animals.

Rope climbingInvite the Explorer Scouts or Patrol Leaders to

erect a rope ladder, rope bridge, zip wire, plank

walk etc to form part of a fun obstacle course.

This could be at your local campsite or in the

grounds of your meeting place. The course

could also include a blindfold trail and a

scramble net. Be sure to supervise this.

The Outdoor ChallengeThis is a brilliant badge for

organising your outdoor

activities and for

marking the

Beavers’

achievements at

the end.

The Beaver Scouts

must complete four

activities, at least one from

each area.

Preparing for a visit• Pack a healthy picnic meal.

• Know what to put in your rucksack for a day visit.

This could be a cagoule, drinks, lunch and

waterproofs, etc.

• Help put up a tent.

Visit• Go on a visit to a place of interest. This could be a

park, campsite, activity centre, historic building,

beach or similar.

• Visit a Cub Scout Pack holiday or Scout camp.

Adventure• Take part in an outdoor activity, such as

swimming, climbing, grass sledging, treasure hunt,

canal boating etc.

• Attend a sleepover.

• Learn and use two knots.

• Follow a laid out trail.


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OUTDOOR ZONE

Healthy Eating Activity Badge

Use towards

Healthy picnics

Discuss healthy eating with the Beavers. Picnics are

not simply sandwiches, try:

• pitta bread and crackers

• low fat cheese spread instead of high fat

• fruit could be pre-cut and sealed in a bag with a

little fruit juice to keep it fresh

• to keep the picnic cool, place a freezer pack inside

the bag.

Beavers could create their own sandwich, pitta,

and cracker packs. Provide healthy ingredients – low

fat grated cheese, tuna or salad. Remember to

check for allergies.

Sports taster afternoonYou could organise an afternoon at your local

athletics/leisure centre or at your Scout meeting

place. At your local sports centre the Beavers

could enjoy taster sessions of badminton, tennis,

trampolining, hockey, football, martial arts.

Many centres will happily provide staff for this

sort of activity as it promotes sport to their

future customers.

If you don’t have a local centre, why not invite

people from the local area who run sports clubs to

come to the meeting place and put on a taster

session. Again, they will view it as a potential

source of recruits for the future.

Put up a tentInvite the Scouts down to a meeting. The Patrol

Leaders and Assistant Patrol Leaders go with each

Lodge and Help the Beavers to erect a two or three

person tent.

You could have a competition at the end of the

training session – can the Beavers remember how

to erect the tent without any help?

VisitsTime to put all that preparation into practice with a

day trip. Here are some ideas – you could ask the

Beavers to name good places they’ve visited with their

families, friends or schools:

• local park

• activity centre

• leisure centre

• farm

• zoo

• science centres

• beach

• steam railway

• maize maze (in season).

Visit a Cub/Scout camp for an afternoon. Work

with the other leaders to find a suitable activity for

your Beavers to take part in but remember it’s the

other section’s camp and you are their guests. You

may wish to hold a camp fire and barbecue together

to round off the day. If you run activity bases,

remember to mix up teams so that you have Beavers

and Cubs in each team. Activities could include a

string trail, treasure hunt, scavenger hunt, sports,

personal and team challenges, wide games.


What to pack in a daysacklet

you will need• A daysack filled with items required.Talk about what items you would need for a day trip. You could add antibacterial hand gel, which is useful if there is no water to wash hands.

Beavers could draw a picture of a daysack with

the items they think they would take with them.

Discuss the pictures and then show them the

contents of your ‘ideal’ day sack.

Play Kim’s Game with the items:

1. Place the items on a table and let the Beavers

look at them for one minute or so.

2. Cover the items with a table cloth.

3. Secretly remove one item. In their Lodges

Beavers try to identify the missing item.

You could also have emergency ponchos for

outings; these can be purchased in bulk over the

internet. They can be used again and again,

simply dry out and fold back up. If you buy them

in bulk (32p each - from www.rainponchos.

co.uk) perhaps you could share the cost within

your District? You could even sell surplus ones

for £1-£1.50 at Group fundraising events if the

weather turns bad!

SleepoverIf you have organised a sleepover before at your

meeting place, why not try a different venue, for

example a school hall, village hall or religious centre.

If it is your first sleepover then it is best to try it at

the Scout meeting place so it will be familiar to

everyone.

Follow a trailScouts or Young Leaders use a squeezy bottle filled

with water to leave a trail of arrows on the (dry!)

pavement on an area around your meeting place.

Beavers, in small groups, have to follow the trail

before it dries! Alternatively, you could use small

dabs of old flour to mark the route.

At the local campsite, teach basic tracking and lay

a trail of arrows using sticks, set out by Scouts,

Explorer Scouts or Young Leaders. See factsheet

Tracking (FS170058).

Bug boxesBeavers could make a bug box in their Lodges.

These could be positioned outside the building or

Beavers with a garden could take them home. At a

later date the boxes could be checked on to see

which creatures have taken up residence.


www.gardnersworld.com or www.bbc.co.uk and search ‘bug box’

Visit

Visit www.scouts.org.uk/pol and search ‘what shall we take?’

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From Beavers to eco-heroes

Help your Beavers become heroes with the

brand new eco-themed Imagination Badge

K ids TV channel, Jetix, sponsor of the exciting

Beaver Imagination Activity Badge, has been

overwhelmed by the fantastic interest it’s

received in the badge and the associated

‘create a hero’ competition. Feedback from leaders and

Beavers alike has been hugely positive, highlighting the

activities set for the badge have been inspiring the

imaginations of Beaver Scouts across the UK.

A prize-winning imaginationThe winner of the ‘create a hero’ Colony competition is

Ryan Gosling from 1st Stubbington Beavers. Ryan showed

great imagination when he designed and produced his

hero from a range of recycled materials, a requirement

which was crucial to completing the Jetix Imagination

Activity Badge.

Building on the success of the first Jetix sponsored

badge, Jetix is producing a brand new activity pack which

encourages Beavers to do their bit for Planet Earth in a fun

and imaginative way. Joined by a raft of fresh and popular

characters, the pack looks set to spark Colony creativity

and imagination.

Win some exclusive prizes The D-team from Dinosaur King and the Monster Buster

Club crew will be asking Beavers to use the power of their

imagination to create a dinosaur-themed draft excluder. If

everyone used a draft excluder we would be insulating our

homes more effectively and wouldn’t need to use as much

energy to heat them. Another activity is writing a short

story which describes what life will be like in the year 2050

if we all do our bit to look after Planet Earth. Lastly,

working together as a Beaver Lodge, they will need to

write a list of energy busting tasks that can be done to

help the environment. The activities are intended to

demonstrate that small but simple actions could help

reduce our impact on the planet and protect it for the future.

Beavers can get plenty of inspiration by visiting

www.jetix.co.uk. In addition, all Colonies who work

towards the Imagination Badge will be in with a chance of

winning some exclusive prizes by logging on to the

dedicated Beavers site at www.jetix.co.uk/beavers

To receive your free Jetix Imagination Badge pack visit www.scouts.org.uk/jetix. There’s enough for every Beaver in your Colony.

Order your free activity pack

Ryan is the proud winner of the competition



Opening ceremony

5 mins N/A Follow themes Introduce the theme for the evening. Talk about what archaeology is.

Game: Dino footprints

10 mins Fitness Play games You will need: Two dinosaur footprints cut from MDF or thickcardboard, with string handles, per Lodge.1. In relay formation, Beaver Scouts walk using the dino footprintsfrom one end of the meeting place to the other.2. They hand the footprints to the next player and so on until all theteam has had a turn.

Activity: Finding treasure

15 mins Creative Follow themes You will need: Small sand pit or similar, bag of sand, small beads or the silver balls used in catering, sieves, a container each.1. Beaver Scouts sift through the sand to try and find the silver balls.2. Once found, place in their container. The Beaver Scouts with themost is deemed best archaeologist!

Activity: Fossils

15 mins Creative Follow themes You will need: Plastic disposable bowl per Beaver Scout, plastic forks, water, plaster of paris, shells, and spray oil.1. Beaver Scouts make their plaster of paris in the plastic bowl underclose supervision.2. Spray the outside of the shell with oil and place upside-down in thehardening plaster.3. Once the plaster is hard remove the shell to leave a plaster ‘fossil’120 million years compressed into 15 minutes.

Activity: Feely bags

15 mins Beliefs and Attitudes

Follow themes; Prayer and worship

You will need: Paper, pens, feely bags, ‘organic’ items to go in the bags: chicken bone, shell, stick, charcoal, sponge, fir cone. Label the bags with numbers.1. Beaver Scouts take it in turns to feel what is in each bag. 2. When they have decided, they either draw a picture or write the item on the paper under the correct number.3. When everyone has had a turn, check the answers, how did they do? Did they find it easy or hard?

Game: Tomb raider

10 mins Global Play games You will need: Bunch of keys or similar ‘treasure’ on the floor at one end of the meeting place, chair, water pistol, blindfold.1. A Beaver Scout sits down at the end of the hall with the blindfold on and the water pistol ready.2. One Beaver Scout at a time is chosen to creep up and try to grab the treasure from the ‘tomb’.3. The blindfolded Beaver Scout has five shots only of the water pistol. If they manage to shoot the raider they have won; if the raider grabs the treasure unscathed, the raider wins. 4. Swap the ‘guardian’ after a few turns.

Closing ceremony


Follow themes Hand out fossils.

Activity/Game Time Zone Method Instructions

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Opening ceremony

5 mins N/A Follow themes Introduce the theme for the evening. Talk about what archaeology is.

Game: Dino footprints

10 mins Fitness Play games You will need: Two dinosaur footprints cut from MDF or thickcardboard, with string handles, per Lodge.1. In relay formation, Beaver Scouts walk using the dino footprintsfrom one end of the meeting place to the other.2. They hand the footprints to the next player and so on until all theteam has had a turn.

Activity: Finding treasure

15 mins Creative Follow themes You will need: Small sand pit or similar, bag of sand, small beads or the silver balls used in catering, sieves, a container each.1. Beaver Scouts sift through the sand to try and find the silver balls.2. Once found, place in their container. The Beaver Scouts with themost is deemed best archaeologist!

Activity: Fossils

15 mins Creative Follow themes You will need: Plastic disposable bowl per Beaver Scout, plastic forks, water, plaster of paris, shells, and spray oil.1. Beaver Scouts make their plaster of paris in the plastic bowl underclose supervision.2. Spray the outside of the shell with oil and place upside-down in thehardening plaster.3. Once the plaster is hard remove the shell to leave a plaster ‘fossil’120 million years compressed into 15 minutes.

Activity: Feely bags


Follow themes; Prayer and worship

You will need: Paper, pens, feely bags, ‘organic’ items to go in the bags: chicken bone, shell, stick, charcoal, sponge, fir cone. Label the bags with numbers.1. Beaver Scouts take it in turns to feel what is in each bag. 2. When they have decided, they either draw a picture or write the item on the paper under the correct number.3. When everyone has had a turn, check the answers, how did they do? Did they find it easy or hard?

Game: Tomb raider

10 mins Global Play games You will need: Bunch of keys or similar ‘treasure’ on the floor at one end of the meeting place, chair, water pistol, blindfold.1. A Beaver Scout sits down at the end of the hall with the blindfold on and the water pistol ready.2. One Beaver Scout at a time is chosen to creep up and try to grab the treasure from the ‘tomb’.3. The blindfolded Beaver Scout has five shots only of the water pistol. If they manage to shoot the raider they have won; if the raider grabs the treasure unscathed, the raider wins. 4. Swap the ‘guardian’ after a few turns.

Closing ceremony


Follow themes Hand out fossils.

Activity/Game Time Zone Method Instructions

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Bringing the outdoors inWe all know that outdoor activities

are an essential element of Scouting,

but how do we manage on dark winter

evenings? With a little imagination

and forethought, says Maggie Bleksley

Visit www.scouts.org.uk/pol and search ‘campfi re songs’

Like this?

Keeping fit with outdoor games and sportsUnless your meeting place is tiny, you can still play most of

the popular outdoor games. A play parachute, team games,

a compact obstacle course, football or even tennis can be

just as much fun indoors.

If you have access to any canoes, perhaps an expert can

take the Beavers for a ‘dry canoeing’ session – thrills

without the spills.

Chocolate fondue

you will need• bananas cut into chunks and/or marshmallows• wooden skewers• squares of chocolate• 12-hole tartlet cake tin(s)• a roasting rack or grill grid• tea lights and matches.

Ensuring that the Beavers are being carefully supervised,

light the tea lights and place under the rack. Place the cake

tins on top and give each Beaver a square of chocolate to

melt in a section. You’ll be surprised how quickly it works!

While they wait, let them each skewer a banana chunk or

marshmallow ready to dip in the melted chocolate.

Round the campfireNow’s the time to get out that indoor

campfire, which can be as simple as a torch

covered with orange tissue paper. Get them

singing all the old favourites to get them in

the mood and then get down to some

campfire cooking. If you have a kitchen or a

grilling machine, you can cook those

ever-popular hot dogs, or get the Beavers

making some healthy vegetable kebabs

with wholemeal pita. If you don’t have any

cooking facilities, let them choose from a

selection of cold cooked sausages,

tomatoes, cubes of mild cheese, pineapple

chunks, grapes etc. For a delicious sweet

indulgence, try some real backwoods

cooking! To make it a little more healthy,

use chunks of banana, or if you’re feeling

more decadent, use marshmallows. They’ll

love it!


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Build a cabinHow about a spot of indoor camping? Provide each

Lodge with a selection of materials, such as a

groundsheet, poles, blankets, clothes pegs, chairs,

cardboard boxes and rope and let them work

together to build their own cabin. For full details,

you will find this great idea on Programmes Online.

Just search ‘cabin’ in the keyword box.

Scouting funBorrow some leaders, older Cubs, Scouts or

Explorers to help run bases. The Beavers visit each

base in their Lodges for a given time.

Knotting: Teach the Beavers a couple of simple knots and, to

add interest, some examples of their uses.

Cooking: If you have access to a grill, try muffin pizzas. Use

tomato sauce as a base and let the Beavers top

them with ham, sliced peppers, grated cheese and

so on. An adult or young leader then puts them

under the grill to melt the cheese. Always

remember to check first for dietary requirements.

Team building: Have a supply of rolled up newspapers ready for

sticks. The Beavers collect the ‘sticks’ and take them

to a predetermined spot, where they work together

to build a lodge or dam.

Minibeast huntNo, I’m not suggesting you fill the hall with live

bugs, but you can hide pictures or toy creepy

crawlies around your meeting place. Make it more

realistic by hiding some of them under stones,

paper leaves or in hardy indoor plants. When the

Beavers have found them, see how many they can

identify. Round it off by letting them make a model

or drawing of their favourites.

They would have fun making this sparkly snail.

Slithery snail

you will need• holographic card• plain card• double-sided foam stickers• marker pens• coloured pencils• a large sewing needle and thread• paper clips• small goggle eyes (optional).

Before the meeting:

For each snail, cut out two mirror image shell

templates from holographic card. Cut one snail

body from plain card.

At the meeting:

1. Beavers colour in their snails and draw in a mouth

and an eye on each side or stick on goggle eyes.

2. Help them to thread cotton through the head for

antennae.

3. Secure with a knot and trim, then pinch the two

ends together to make them stand up.

4. Using marker pens, the Beavers draw a spiral on

each shell piece, then stick the two pieces together

at the top only, with foam pads.

5. Use a paper clip to attach the body to the

bottom edge on the inside of one shell piece, so

that the snail can slide in and out of its shell.



Picture perfect

How does storyboarding work?It’s a bit like a cartoon that you see in a comic book or

in a newspaper, but much longer. The longer and more

complicated the film, the more storyboards you will need.

A storyboard picture is great for showing everyone how

you want the scene or shot to look and work.

But I can’t draw!Doesn’t matter! You can use simple stick figures. All that

matters is that you give an idea of where you want the

actors to be and when you want them to be there. To

start with try telling a story in four pictures, like a strip

cartoon. What makes a storyboard different from a

cartoon is that they don’t use speech bubbles. Instead

they might have descriptive words or instructions

underneath. For example under the first frame it might

say: ‘The man opens the door – we follow him inside’.

Above is a standard four picture strip cartoon layout. You

can also use larger boxes, depending on how complicated

your story is.

CartooningWhy not extend the idea and make your own comic

book? The Beavers can either all write their own cartoons,

or collaborate. Professional comic writers often work in

pairs, one doing the pictures, the other the words.

Here you will use speech bubbles, because that is how

Test your Colony’s storyboarding skills, with

Charlie Dale’s feature length make and do

Download the templates from www.scouts.org.uk/pol. Search ‘storyboard’

The templates

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you tell the story. Have a look at some professional

cartoons, either from a comic book or a newspaper. See

how different the styles are. Don’t worry if it takes several

goes, all the professionals do pencil drawings in rough

first. They might rub out and draw over again and again

before finally inking in. One last thing to decide: will you

do simple line drawings, just black ink on white

background, or full colour comic book style?

Take it another step – animate!In feature length movie cartoons drawn storyboards are

not quite enough. This is because there are several

animators (hundreds even) working on the movie, and

possibly more than one on each scene. To make absolutely

sure everyone is working to the same vision for the scene

an animated version of the storyboard may be produced,

complete with sound.

All you really need is a digital camera and a computer to

display the images. Take photographs as your characters

act out the story. You can then get the pictures to display

one after the other on the computer screen and either add

the voices and sound effects as you show the pictures.

The more frequently you take the pictures and then the

quicker you show them, the more like a movie the finished

product will look. To get to what appears to be a true

moving image to the eye you’ll need 16 images for every

second, that’s 9,600 in 10 minutes – and a lot of patience.

Make a night of itChallenge your Beavers to make their own short stories,

and then have a movie evening complete with popcorn

and hot dogs! You could even go one step further and

hold an awards ceremony. Get the Beavers to think up the

categories and invite a panel of judges and see who

becomes a movie star!

Picture perfect

All you need is papier-mache and some gold paint! create some awards

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PROMOS & RESOURCES


Out of this world

T o celebrate Leapster2’s space themed software

titles Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Wall-E,

LeapFrog and the National Space Centre in

Leicester have created a resource pack for

Beavers. The packs are filled with interesting facts and

figures relating to space as well as activities that can be

undertaken in Beaver meetings and at home. All the

activities can be used to gain the Explore and Experiment

badges.

Beavers will also be able to win family tickets to visit the

National Space Centre with additional prizes of Leapster2

systems and software. There’s also a £5 money-off voucher

against the purchase of Leapster2 at Toys R Us stores.

Win a trip to the National Space CentreLeapFrog is running a competition to win some fantastic

prizes for Beavers and their families.

The competition is easy and fun to enter: Beavers simply

have to draw a picture of an alien and send it to us.

With help from the space experts at the National Space

Centre Leapster will judge the top 15 winning entries,

which will earn family tickets to the National Space Centre.

The grand prize winner will also earn a Leapster2 handheld

and game for each Beaver Scout in his or her Colony.

How to enterSend your Colony’s entries to:

Beaver Scout Drawing Competition

National Space Centre, Exploration Drive

Leicester LE4 5NS

Hop onboard with the new space-themed resource pack and competition

We’ve also got a further 5 Leapster2 handhelds to give away to the fi rst 5 randomly drawn entries of leaders who apply for the activity pack before 31 December 2008. Order your free activity packs at:www.scouts.org.uk/sponsors

Five Leapster2 handhelds up for grabs

LeapFrog Toys, one of the world’s leading manufacturers of educational toys, is delighted to be teaming up with the Beaver Scouts in 2008 to support the launch of the Leapster2 Learning Game System.

Leapster2 is a video gaming system that combines fun with education and is suitable for children up to eight years.

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B eavers across the country are learning more

about how to enjoy a balanced diet while

having fun in the process, thanks to the Eat in

Colour sponsored Healthy Eating Activity

Badge. And now their efforts could win your Colony £200.

Have any of your Beavers been inspired to invent their

own healthy fruit and veg recipes or have they

rediscovered an old favourite? If so, we would love to see

them – whether it’s a special salad, the perfect pepper

pizza, a fantastic sandwich combination or a super soup.

The more unusual and exciting the better, so if your

Colony like to mix bananas and broccoli, go ahead! Also,

draw, paint or make a collage picture of your recipe too so

we know what it will look like.

We will include all the recipes and pictures on the Eat in

Colour website, www.eatincolour.com and the best will

be used in the first ever Eat in Colour Cookbook.

The Beaver Scout Colony with the top recipe will receive

£200 towards equipment for the Colony and a special

copy of the book.

To enter, send your recipes to:Eat in Colour

c/o Carmen Attard

The Scout Association

Gilwell Park, Chingford

London E4 7QW

The closing date is 31 March 2009.

Munch bunchHelp your Colony work towards the Eat in Colour Healthy

Eating Badge by visiting www.scouts.org.uk/

healthyeating. You will find colourful activity packs

featuring key tasks plus lots of ideas on how to enjoy fruit

and vegetables every day.

Send us a photo of you all enjoying some of the

scrummy snacks you’ve made or your Colony receiving

their badges. The best pictures will be uploaded onto

www.eatincolour.com. Email your photos to

[email protected]

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COMPETITION

WIN £200 FOR YOUR BEAVER COLONY

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Download your free activity pack at www.scouts.org.uk/eatincolour

Activity pack


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