> Just back from Explorers.
> They fancied being Beavers for a night and so we arranged for the Beaver
> leaders to run a beaver night for them.
> Beaver yell.
> Busy Beaver first game.
> Traffic lights game
> Biscuit decoration.
> Finger painting.
> Colouring in.
> Circle cricket.
>
> Apparently it was the best night they had for ages.
>
> Oh deary me.

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> "Andy" noJunkMail.com> wrote in message
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>> Just back from Explorers.
>> They fancied being Beavers for a night and so we arranged for the Beaver
>> leaders to run a beaver night for them.
>> Beaver yell.
>> Busy Beaver first game.
>> Traffic lights game
>> Biscuit decoration.
>> Finger painting.
>> Colouring in.
>> Circle cricket.

>

>> Apparently it was the best night they had for ages.

>

>> Oh deary me. ...

> Just back from Explorers.
> They fancied being Beavers for a night and so we arranged for the Beaver
> leaders to run a beaver night for them.
> Beaver yell.
> Busy Beaver first game.
> Traffic lights game
> Biscuit decoration.
> Finger painting.
> Colouring in.
> Circle cricket.
>
> Apparently it was the best night they had for ages.
>
> Oh deary me.
>

> "Andy" noJunkMail.com> wrote in message
> news:xuWdnRsstriJFILVnZ2dnUVZ8uqdnZ2d@pipex.net...

>> Just back from Explorers.
>> They fancied being Beavers for a night and so we arranged for the Beaver
>> leaders to run a beaver night for them.

>> Apparently it was the best night they had for ages.

> This really does not surprise me....
> I have always thought that the 2 ends of the programme spectum joined!
> My past experience with 'Venture Scouts' of this age was that their most
> popular programmes seemed to be identical to Beaver programmes

>
> *apparently one of them took a bit further and for part of her Chief
> Guide's Challenge where she chose to redecorate her bedroom, she
> apparently papered it in her own foot prints, but ones showing different
> things e.g. walking, running, tip-toeing, hopscotch, skipping and
> dancing, and walking on her hands.

>Eddie Langdown btinternet.com> wrote:
>

>> "Andy" noJunkMail.com> wrote in message
>> news:xuWdnRsstriJFILVnZ2dnUVZ8uqdnZ2d@pipex.net...

>>> Just back from Explorers.
>>> They fancied being Beavers for a night and so we arranged for the Beaver
>>> leaders to run a beaver night for them.

>

>>> Apparently it was the best night they had for ages.

>

>> This really does not surprise me....
>> I have always thought that the 2 ends of the programme spectum joined!
>> My past experience with 'Venture Scouts' of this age was that their most
>> popular programmes seemed to be identical to Beaver programmes

>
>It's the same in Guiding; Rangers and Rainbows have a lot in common.

> Clearly you all have well-run units that you are proud to shout about, and
> to have a really mad, fun evening for teenagers up to their necks in
> serious GCSE studies makes a lot of sense, but it all proves to me that
> the role of Explorer Leader is most demanding and I admire greatly the few
> people I know who can do it well.