Junior Birdsmen

Chant:
Oh my goodness, oh my soul, here comes the junior j bird patrol!
Sing: Up in the air, junior birdsmen,
(Make thumb and forefinger goggles over eyes,)
Up in the air, upside down
(bend head low)
Up in the air, junior birdsmen,
With your noses to the ground.
When you hear the grand announcement,
(Hands cupped over ears,)
That your wings are made of tin,
(Flap wings)
Then you'll know you're a Junior birdsman,
(Goggle eyes)
So send your box tops in.
You need five boxtops,
(Five fingers up
Four bottle bottoms,
Four fingers up
Three labels,
Three fingers up
Two wrappers,
Two fingers up
One thin dime.
One linger up
Zooooommmm!
Flyaway)


(Traditional, North America Summer Camp)

Patrol fires

You will need open space where many small fires can be lit. Give each P.L. a box of matches and a time at which every member of her patrol must have a fire burning. Every guide has a chance of making a fire, and the P.L. must organise as she thinks best — light them all together

Knot queues X X X

"Nominate one or two Guides as catch­ers. Guides run about but when caught are taken to the Leader. They must tie the knot nominated by the count of five. If correct then they are free to run again. If not then go to the back of the queue and try again.

Tracking Tic-tac-toc

Using stones and twigs, arrange 9 tracking signs in a grid. Allow guides to look at it for 1 minute and then ask them to duplicate it exactly. Without looking at the orginal. Guides may work together in pairs, patrols or by self.

Campcraft acting

The Guides are numbered in their patrols. All no. 1's come to the leader who tells them a camp activity. They return to their patrols and mime it. The first patrol to guess correctly wins. Then no.2's go up for a different activity.

Examples — blowing the fire, knocking in a tent peg, making your bed, getting into bed, hoisting colours, campfire, breaking colours, washing up

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A GAME FOR CAMP

Give the Patrol.Leader's sealed orders. At a given signal, each one opens her envelopes.

FIRST CHALLENGE: Go with your patrol and collect 12 sticks 20 cms long and six sticks 10 cms long. Do not break them off trees. First patrol back with all sticks collects the next envelope.

SECOND CHALLENGE: Collect 12 small stones all the same size. Take to leader for next envelope.

THIRD CHALLENGE: Lay a trail with sticks and stones from your patrol tent to leader (or any given point). First patrol to finish with all signs correct gets points. (Could be checked by having the patrol second from another patrol follow the trail).

Basket ball in the park

At the end of first term 2009 when the Guides were planning out their program a few wanted ball activities.  Others wanted to have a BBQ, while others wanted just to be outside later than normal.


We ended up going to the Glendonald park ion Churchill.  Here there is a net ball and basket ball court.  Well half the court is net ball, the other half is basket ball.

After all the glass was swept away we were able to go on with trying to get a leader to throw the basket ball  into the hoop.  After a while she actually did it.  Much to her surprise.  But the Guides won the count.  Even Debbies 2 year old grandchild helped.  We put her on our shoulders then helped her throw the ball into the hoop.  We stood under the hoop.  She did better than the leaders.

The leaders might need practice gettintg the ball into the hoop but they can still pass the ball with force behind it!