4th Cambridge Brownies
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4th Cambridge Brownies
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| Who we are |
Our
diary |
Meetings |
Holidays |
Trips |
| Spring
Term 2010 |
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11th January:
Australian Aboriginal Art
   This evening we started to
decorate cork coasters in the
style of Australian aboriginal dot
painting. We then chose a theme for pack holiday (vampires) and played
'stations' using Australian aboriginal animals. We then made cross
hatching style aborignal pictures using coloured chalk, echidna cakes
and worked on a giant dot painting
picture to hang at the hall. At the
end of the meeting we sang 'cuddly Koalas'.
 18th January:
Crocodiles, Kangaroos and Stories
  We continued to paint our coasters, played cockatu sentry
and then listened to an Australian Aboriginal story about a kangaroo.
For the rest of the meeting we turned matchboxes into crocodiles and toilet roll inners
into kangaroos.
To see details of our Australian
activities
visit the Australian
section of ideas4kids.org
25th January: Touring Australia Wide Game   This evening's activities were
themed around Australian tourists attractions. Each six tried to visit
all 7 Australian states, undertaking a related activity in each. When
the activity was complete the six earnt a piece of an Australian map.
We visited a 'glow worm cave', learnt a song about Botany Bay, listened
to different animal sounds made on a digeridoo, hunted sea turtles,
tracked Australian animals by following their 'footprints', went on a
dinosaur trail and acted out an Australian Aboriginal story.
Congratulations to the Elves who completed all 7 activities!
  1st February: Australian Crafts  We played fishes and then finished
our crocodiles and kangaroos. We then decorated the
back of the boxes we made at the start of term with an Australian flag
and made a great barrier reef
pencil pot.
8th February: Chinese New Year At the start of the meeting we
made a Koala pot to finish our
desk tidies. We then wrote a wish and tied it to an orange (a Chinese
tradition), made Chinese new year shrinkles and tried eating with
chopsticks.
16th February: Mardi Gras Pancake Party    We had a day of Mardi Gras and
pancake themed activities. Visit out 2010
trips section for more details.
20th
February: Steel Band Workshop
   We went to Homerton for a steel
band workshop. To hear us play, visit our 2010
trips section.
22nd
February: District Thinking Day, One World, One Beat
We made junk instruments. We
also tried Scottish dancing, line dancing, a Greek dance and a
Bollywood dance. At the end of the event we sang songs, using the
instruments we made.
1st
March: Welsh Themed Evening
Panther was ill this week, so
Badger (the guide leader) kindly stepped in and organised a Welsh
themed evening for us.
8th
March: Australian Badges for thinking day
   On arrival we made mini puppets showing the new
Australian uniform. We then played some games left over from the Mardi
Gras themed day. For the rest of the meeting each six undertook
activities based on one of the Australian challenge badges. Those
trying the food badge made ANZAC
biscuits, whilst those trying the the space badge made Saturn table decorations and space napkin holders ready for
our space themed dinner party.
15th
March: Space themed dinner party
  We completed our Australian
Badges for Thinking Day challenge by holding a space themed dinner
party. We made space themed placemats, set and decorated the tables,
cooked four courses and then enjoyed our dinner.
22nd
March: New Zealand Theme
  We learnt how to play the Maori
stick game, made New Zealand
brownie uniforms from hama beads and made woven Tipare headbands. (We found the
weaving really hard!)
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