Oct 2017: Halloween spookiness, horse riding and fire station visit

Our whole group came together to join the Remembrance Day service and parade through Kidlington on Sunday 12th November. We always have a great turnout for this event and we’re proud to be a part of it.

Beavers
Kidlington Fire Station kindly hosted one of our Beaver meetings last month with a tour of the station and the chance to climb aboard a fire engine. Another week they were joined by ‘Rhythmicity’ who ran a drumming workshop, where the Beavers had great fun making music with drums and percussion instruments as part of their Musician – Stage 1 badge. They also worked towards their Health and Fitness Activity badge by designing posters to promote healthy living, making fruit skewers and popcorn and taking part in team games.

Mowgli Cubs
Mowgli Cub Pack had a time at their spooky Halloween Sleepover. There was gory face painting, and plenty of Halloween games including putting their hands in swamp juice and a bucket of dinner leftovers, plus apple bobbing and dipping heads in flour to retrieve sweets. Other nights have included activities based on teamwork and values, and cooking pizzas.

Jacala Cubs
During half term week, Jacala Cubs enjoyed a day at the stables, with horse riding and learning how to look after horses. They also held a sponsored walk to raise money for the Toilet Twinning charity, which works with communities to help raise awareness of the link between poor hygiene and disease, and provides tools to help them build their own latrines. Weekly meetings included a trip to Oxford Synagogue and a Halloween themed evening.

Land Scouts
Our Land Scouts have been busy earning lots of badges over the last few weeks, and helping to run Mowgli Cub’s pack evenings, showing them how to make things like pea shooters and cloth bags for water bottles. In the spring, they will show the Cubs how to dye their bottle bags using natural plant dyes.

Sea Scouts
The Sea Scouts have had a lot of fun in couple of weeks since half term, starting back with a Halloween party with lots of messy games and some fantastic spooky costumes. The following week, everyone brought in as many cardboard boxes as they could get their hands on and they turned the Scout Centre into a fortress with cardboard tunnels running through it!