What a brilliant day Beavers (and Rainbows) had at Chamboree on Saturday 2nd August.
Hawkeye came with us on the coach; Bubbles and Chip met us at Tabley and showed us where the Cubs were camping. Fortunately, we got there just in time to have a bacon sandwich!
Next we went to the main arena for an opening ceremony and then it was straight to our activity zone. In the morning we went to Creative & Faith zones. Apparently it was raining outside, but we were so busy we didn’t notice. We made superhero wings for our trainers; bashed metal spikes into leather keyrings to emboss them; painted our hands and added our prints to a HUGE circle of paper that had handprints from practically all the Beavers, Rainbows and their Leaders; coloured in pictures of superheroes; made Hama bead shapes and bookmarks.
We returned to camp for our lunch with the Cubs – who had been on their own activity zones. Lunch was beef burgers with salad, then fruit and birthday cake (one of the Scouts had their birthday at camp). There was a superhero treasure hunt around the site, but we were too busy eating cake to find all the superheroes.
In the afternoon, we visited the Indoor Arena where we blew giant bubbles; danced with Vinnie Vole, fired elastic band guns, solved a co-ordination puzzle by working as a team, had a cup relay race, made duck food and played “Hook a duck”, scrambled under a camouflage net, and then did lots of small challenges and games to beat “The Cube”.
We rounded off our afternoon with a visit to the Big Top and the circus. Hannah Rose amazed us with her rope climbing skills and the clown made us all laugh a lot.
We can’t wait until Chamboree 2018 when we’ll be old enough to join in with all the Scout activities and camp for a whole week.

Beavers enjoyed a brilliant meeting in the sunshine at Lymm Dam when they went Pond Dipping. Ranger Tim helped us to identify all the fascinating creatures that we found. We caught: tadpoles (with and without legs!?!); pond snails, ramshorn snails, water scorpions, caddisfly larvae, pond skaters, water boatmen, water lice, damselfly nymphs and some pondweed.
Thank you Tim for helping us.

We’ve done one of the brand new Beaver Scout Activity Badges – the Cyclist Badge!
Beavers met at the Rangers Hut to cycle their bikes along the track to the field.
We started with a talk about staying safe on our bikes and practised fastened on and adjusting our own helmets.
Ranger Tim came out to say “Hello,” and to remind us to use our bells if we were passing any walkers. After crossing the road safely, we got on our bikes.
Some of us rode more quickly than others, some had really big bikes, some had quite small ones. Lots of parents joined in with us – their bikes were HUGE!
Baloo was waiting at the field for us with some drinks and chocolate bars. Our snack gave us just enough energy to race back along the track to meet up with our parents.
Well Done to everyone for staying safe and completing the ride.

Our Beaver Scouts enjoyed a night away at Queen Charlotte’s Wood with friends from 27th Warrington Beaver Scout Colony.

The theme was Knights and Dragons, so we watched a film about dragons, made helms & shields, jousted with lances from the back of horses (hobby horses), fired arrows at targets and had lots of fun exploring the campsite with a walk in the dark and then a longer walk in the sunshine the next morning.

Some of the Beavers said they stayed up all night long, but they were very good and didn’t keep the Leaders awake 🙂

Everyone had a great time and the leaders might plan another sleepover for later in the year!