Your session goals
Our World 12%
Team Leader 25%
Teamwork 20%
Environmental Conservation 13%
Naturalist 25%
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Activities
Build a bee hotel
1 hours
Build a bee hotel and welcome these crucial critters to your meeting place or garden.
- Meets
- Requirement 4.c
- Meets
- Requirement 4.a
- Meets
- Requirement 6
- Meets
- Requirement 2
- Requirement 3
- Meets
- Requirement 2
- Requirement 3
- Meets
- Requirement 2
- Requirement 3
- Meets
- Requirement 2
- Requirement 3
Make a leafy hedgehog
20 mins
Get crafty with natural materials and use the hedgehog template to create a leafy hedgehog of your own.
- Meets
- Requirement 4.b
Play a musical name game
15 mins
A musical way to learn each other’s names.
- Meets
- Requirement 1
Ticking timeball
10 mins
Work as a team to defend your area from the ticking time ball. Will you be safe when the whistle blows?
- Meets
- Requirement 1
- Meets
- Requirement 1
Preparation
Equipment
- Scissors
- String
- Paper drinking straws
- Bamboo canes
- Natural materials (for example, leaves, twigs, feathers)
- Paint brushes
- Empty, clean tin can
- Small saw and protective equipment (optional)
- Newspaper
- Cardboard
- Sticky tape
- Leaves and natural materials
- Acrylic paint
- A4 paper
- Glue sticks
- Something to mark lines (for example, chalk, masking tape, or rope)
- Whistles
- Pens or pencils
- Soft balls
Resources
Hedgehog template
PDF - 221.4KBSession notes
If you want to, you could run this session as three bases, with a different activity at each base. This session is also a good time to try and find out how many Cubs are coming for the day out or sleepover you're planning in week seven.
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