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4th Cambridge Brownies
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Who we are |
Our
diary |
Meetings |
Holidays |
Trips |
Autumn
Term 2005 |
This term we
gained our Toy Maker Badge. |
5th September: Toy Maker At the start of the meeting we searched for
our six emblems and then worked out the secret message they contained.
Well done to the Elves who were the quickest to solve the puzzle! We
then played Mother-bird
and Wee-Willy-Winky.
After this we made a toy
elephant as part of our toy maker badge. We finished the meeting by
singing 'Everywhere we go'.
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12th September: Barbie
Designs This week we played played Pirates and Squirrels. We then
chose names for our Pack Leaders (Bambi and Thumper)
and designed outfits for the Barbie Fashion Dolls as part of a national
competition. Cross your fingers for us!
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19th
September: Pirate
Evening We started the meeting with a game of Port-Starboard.
We then hunted for pieces of a treasure map. Having
pieced them together to find the treasure we bought a 'ship'. We then
used strawberry and apple laces to learn the knots we needed for our
boat, made eye patches, parrots and pirate punch.
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26th
September: Sense
and pre-promise challenges At the start of the meeting we had a pow-wow
to decide how we wanted to celebrate the large number of new Brownies
making their promise and whether we wanted a halloween party. We then
played Fishes, Wee-willy-winky
and Poachers and Elephants. The Brownies who have not
yet made their promise then went with Hedgehog for some pre-promise
challenges whilst the rest of us tried to guess a series of objects by
touch and smell. We finished the meeting by learning a new song (I wish
I was a little round orange) and singing Everywhere We Go.
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3rd
October: Cooking
Biscuits We started the meeting by playing Shops.
Swallow then led us in a running game about serving our Queen and
Country. We then split into smaller groups to make biscuits. While we
waited for the biscuits to cook we had a pow-wow to discuss what we'd
like to do this term and then sang some songs.
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10th October: Autumn At the start of the meeting four Brownies
(and Swallow) made their Promise. We then played their choice of game
(Wee-Willy-Winky) and
made chocolate
hedgehogs. After this Swallow
helped us to make butterflies from fallen leaves.
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17th
October: Elfinland
Widegame At the start of the meeting we sang some
songs and played wink murder whilst Panther and Thumper set up the
game. We then went to Elfinland.
Each six had to visit different
villages and collect postcards. To travel between villages we needed
tickets for pig, unicorn, elf cycle, troll cart and dragon rides. To
obtain the money we needed we undertook a job in each village.
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31st October: Halloween
Party As we arrived we iced skeleton
gingerbreadmen, pumpkin biscuits and spider cakes, made marshmellow
spiders, bobbed for apples and played the flour-malteser game. We then
played a halloween themed pass the parcel, a running game called the
witches cauldron, hunted for objects in the dark and felt the remains
of a poor man devoured by a werewolf! After the games we ate lots of
food.
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14th November: Toy
Maker continued At the start of the meeting we played
Pirates and Wee-Willy-Winky.
We then split into groups to make Jigsaw
puzzles, pop up puppets and Kaleidoscopes. At the end of the
meeting we
enrolled two Brownies.
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19th November: District
Outing to the National Space Centre at Leicester We went on a simulator ride to Europa, moved
moon rock, walked on the moon, chose which supplies to load on a space
shuttle, tested our astronaut fitness, drove a robot vechicle,
maintained a space craft's life support systems, found lots of
information about the planets, read the weather, made clouds form, saw
ourselves in infer-red, saw the sound wave patterns of our voice and
watched a show called 'Big'. To see more visit Trips
2005.
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21st
November:
Finishing off the Toy Maker badge At the start of the meeting we enrolled a
new Brownie. We then played Mother-hen and Wee-Willy-Winky. After
this
we finished off the toys we started last week. We then learnt two new
songs 'Black socks' and 'Three little angels'.
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28th November: Coke and
Questions We started the meeting by playing Pirates
and Wee-Willy-Winky.
We then split into four teams for a quiz. The
rounds were Childrens Films, Guess the Sound, Childrens Television,
Children's Books and Brownie History. Whilst we answered the questions
we drank Coke or Lemonade and ate crisps. While we waiting for the
scores to be calculated we sang Pizza Hut and Everywhere We Go. The
winning team won a big box of chocolates.
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5th December: Christmas
Crafts At the start of the meeting we played Fishes
and meet Violet the Girlscout rabbit. We then made Christmas puppets,
glass painted ball-balls and hamma bead and felt Christmas tree
decorations.
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8th
December:
Cinderella Pantomime This evening we watched a short pantomime of
Cinderella, performed by the Tesco marketing team. Being on a different
day to usual, some of us forgot to turn up! There are some photographs
of the panto at http://www.studio5.org.uk/Cinderella.htm.
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12th
December:
Finishing off the Christmas Decorations At the start of the meeting we played NSEW
and then a Christmas version of flower basket. We then finished our
Christmas decorations from last week.
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19th
December:
Christmas Party This week we joined with the Guides for a
Christmas party. We decorated one of our six as a Christmas tree using
green toilet roll and sugar paper, hunted for Santa's elves and played
a team/Christmasy version of String bags. We than sat down to eat lots
of party food whilst the Guiders performed a short panto.
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