Joey Scout Program                   

 

Date:	Leader:
Theme:  International Left-handed Day	Meeting Type:  Hall

 

Time	Activity Description	Equipment Required:
5.45	Opening Parade Writing and cutting out with left and right	Flag Pens, paper and scissors
5.50	Intro to L-H day & BP Game – scout salute
6.10	Game – Ambidextrous relay	2 chairs
6.15	Game – Find BP	Letters
6.20	History of scouting action story	Story
6.30	Sort out instruments and repairs!!	-
6.40	CONCERT	Music to play along to!
6.45	Closing Parade	Flag

 

 

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Coming in Activity-

Write Left and right

Equipment: Paper and Pencils

Give each Joey Scouts a piece of paper and a pencil. Ask them to write their name with their right hand. Then get ask them to write their name left-handed. Compare the two.

Try cutting out a simple square or circle with left and right hands – can you do it?

 

Game- Scout Salute (Form of Duck, duck, Goose)

Equipment Nil

Choose someone to be “it”. The Joey Scout selected walks around the circle and taps another Joey Scout on the shoulder. The two Joey Scouts salute each other and shake hands with the Left hand shake, at which point the Leader calls go. The Joey Scouts run in opposite directions to try and get back to the empty space left in the circle first. The person left out of the circle then continues the game by walking around the circle and tapping another Joey Scout.

 

Game- Ambidextrous Relay

Equipment: Nil

Form the Joey Scouts into a relay team, on go the first team member hops to designated place on their left foot, and then back again on their right foot. As they get back to their team they tag the next player who repeats this, continue until all have had a turn.

 

Game- Find BP

Equipment: Two sets of letters for Baden Powell. (Different colours).

Divide the Joey Scouts into two teams; call them different colours.

Hide the Letters around the hall. Ask the Joey Scouts to find the letters of Baden Powell bring them back and place them in order. The Joey Scout can only take one letter at a time, they could help each other by telling others in their team where they saw a letter.

 

Scouting action story…

History of Scouting story

 

Divide group into three sections. Section 1 responds to “JOEYS”, Section 2 responds to “CUBS”, Section 3 responds to “SCOUTS/SCOUTING”, and the whole group responds to “BADEN-POWELL”, and “GAMES”

 

·         JOEYS:                           Hop Hop Hop

·         CUBS:                             1 2 3 Wolf

·         SCOUTS/ING:                Make the Scout Sign (three fingers up on right hand) and
                                          say Be Prepared!

·         BADEN-POWELL:        Salute and say He’s our founder.

·         GAMES:                          Hands straight up in the air and yell out hooray!!

 

The Story:

Lord BADEN-POWELL was born in England on February 22, 1857.  When BADEN-POWELL was a young boy he loved to sleep out in a tent with his four brothers on weekends. BADEN-POWELL and his brothers would climb trees; sail boats, and they loved to play GAMES.

 

When BADEN-POWELL was 19 years old, he joined the Army and went to South Africa and India. BADEN-POWELL was a great hero in South Africa. BADEN-POWELL saved the town of Mafeking from an attack, which lasted 217 days. BADEN-POWELL had so few soldiers with him that he used young men to help with first aid, carry messages and do other jobs. BADEN-POWELL was pleased to see that they could be relied on. To teach these young men about the countryside around them, BADEN-POWELL made up GAMES, which he put into a book.

 

Back in England, BADEN-POWELL discovered that many young people were playing the GAMES that he had written for his men. So BADEN-POWELL took some of them on a camp to Brownsea Island and wrote a book of their own for them, called SCOUTING for Boys.

 

Many boys wanted to join SCOUTS. Some were too young, so BADEN-POWELL started a new section for younger boys called Wolf CUBS – using ideas he got from The Jungle Book.

 

In Australia CUBS was the youngest SCOUT section until JOEYS, for boys and girls, was started in 1990. JOEYS is for 6-7 year olds. We have lots of fun at JOEYS. We play GAMES, do craft and cooking, and explore the great outdoors on nature rambles. JOEYS is the start of the SCOUTING adventure, and by the time JOEYS reach the age of 8 they link to CUBS – and continue their SCOUTING adventure.

 

Now on 22 February (Founder’s Day) each year we remember BADEN-POWELL and the work he did to bring SCOUTING to children all over the world.