On Sunday May 24th Beavers from all over our district arrived at Daviot campsite for a fun packed day of Beaver Activities. Various bases including Where's Wally (Geocaching) were arranged by our very own leaders, including our Scout Leader Scott Adams who gave up his day to dress up and join in the fun.

Leslie Beavers had a great day which included crate climbing, making pancakes, sumo wrestling, bouncy castle, and many many other bases.

Despite the cuts in pictures it was all just face paint, our group know how to have fun injury free!!

More pictures from the day can be found at https://www.flickr.com/photos/128859975@N07/sets/72157652996753799.
Leslie leaders would especially like to thank all the parents who came along to help, Without you all we wouldn't have got round so many bases and I hope you had as much fun as your children did.
Also a big thanks to West High Street Garage in Inverurie for providing the bouncy castle which was a big hit for beavers and leaders alike!!!

Leslie Beavers tour of J G Ross Factory

Leslie Beavers got the opportunity thanks to Ayren Carr's mum to get a tour, demonstrations and sampling at the J G Ross factory in Inverurie. Much fun was had helping Cameron Ross make biscuits showing beavers how their products are all made by hand.

We then had to pretend we were a loaf of bread and follow all the different stages going through the factory. This is the beavers at the ingredients stage.

The final part of our trip was to sample, well none of them were going to refuse that now were they!!!

Many thanks to Cameron Ross and Lynne Carr for organising and for Beaver and Leader goodie bags at the end. We all had a great night, although for me it was my second enjoyable visit of the week!!

3, 2, 1 Blast off… Leslie Beavers Space Camp

We may have had a sickness bug hit camp but it didn’t stop the Leslie Beavers having fun. Lots of space themed snacks and meals but I think the highlights definitely including our space buddy mission.

Not sure if the beaver cadets had more fun completing the mission through meteor showers, or causing the meteor showers when the Commanders took to the controls.

 

Not much star spotting due to overcast night but a good sing song round the campfire brought out a few shining stars.

 

 

Although camp was cut short due to illness our final mission was completed on our last night of term creating our space suits, complete with back packs, helmets and space suits.

 

 

Great fun had by all….until our next adventure….

 

To view more pictures follow this link https://www.flickr.com/photos/128859975@N07/sets/72157651517727657/

Scout Expedition challenge - Glasgow 2015

The first person we met was Jermain, he was beautiful.  He was in need for a munch so we fed him cheese and crackers; we even learned that pigeons don’t like ham. ;D

At Xscape, before we did the Sky Walk/Sky drop we all had a go on the “Robo Coaster” which is the only coaster in Britain controlled by a robot. Then just after that we met are second person of our challenge called Blair. Blair seemed like a cool guy as he was our skywalk instructor. Blair called us fun names such as: 7up, Bacon Hater, Fin and others. We also had to do the sky drop which involved jumping off of a high platform.  

We also met Alan, Alan was a cool guy but really creepy.  He asked to take our bags and probably tried to steal our possessions. He works at the Tall Ship museum and is a form of Security guard and was 35. He also claimed he was a scout when he was younger.

After we had had a long journey and after noon at Xscape, we then headed back towards the Tartan Lodge Hostel. Before we got there we stopped off and bought all our shopping at the Co-operative. Then we all walked over to the Hostel. As we had finally reached the Hostel we lost half of our Wotsits and cried for the rest of the night. 

As soon as we arrived at our hostel we connected to the Wi-Fi before we even got in the door. The man who showed us to our rooms was very nice and he had a very Glaswegian accent.

We unpacked our bags and headed down to the kitchen to cook spaghetti Carbonara with chicken and steamed carrots. It was delicious. We went to our rooms at about 10:00pm. We woke up and made Sausage baps.  

At about 9.00am we left to go to the necropolis to do a treasure hunt type thing. We completed the hunt quite quickly so we had time to go to the cathedral.

We got on the tour bus to go site seeing and sat on it for at least half an hour.We got off at the Riverside museum and did the global Treasure app which was a series of different quizzes each place we went to.

We visited the Mitchell library but it was very boring so we left very quickly. After we got on the bus and went to McDonalds and we sat there for an hour and a half.

When then headed down to the Glasgow bus station and waited for our bus ride Home. We had a slight panic, when we looked at the bus size and glanced back over at the amount of the passengers there were. We didn’t all sit together on the bus as three of us sat in a row the other one sat by themselves a couple rows ahead.

We arrived safely home in Inveruire.      

Scout Burns Ceilidh

This week at Scouts we had a burns night ceilidh. A few dances later we got sat down for our burns meal. Some of the Scouts Addressed the Haggis and said the Selkirk Grace, this counted toward their Scottish Challenge Award. We enjoyed some haggis, neeps, tatties, carrots and black pudding as well as some IrnBru. Although I think giving 40 hyper young people IrnBru could have been a mistake...

Some more Burns poetry and highland dancing to wrap up our night.

We did hand out the shed load of badges which were due out - almost everyone has now achieved their stage 3 emergency aid and many challenge badges were handed out as well.

Scout pioneering games

This week as we returned to Scouts we started with a great game from Gordon. After learning some pioneering skills, in the middle of hut we strung up bags of chocolate coins. The aim was simple - retrieve them for your team - but should they hit the floor the leaders get them!
Given four staves, two frying pans, two candles and few other items the teams had to burn through the string and catch the chocolate coins.

Awards and Investitures

Sorry for the late posting but Harlaw cubs really did have something to celebrate on the last night of the autumn term.
 Four beavers were invested into cubs.

And then 8 (yes 8!  a record for us) cubs achieved the highest award available in Cubs.  The chief scout Silver award. To earn this badge cubs must earn the 6 challenge badges.  Don't worry there are still plenty badges you can earn.

Well done cubs!  Keep up the good work.