4th Cambridge Brownies

14th April: School Days - Thinking about school children in the 3rd World

consequences

During six time the Leprechauns decorated fans, the Imps tried face painting, the Pixies played Guess Who games, the Elves sketched with scratch-a-doodle and the Gnomes made bracelets. We then read letters from 3 school children who live in third world countries. We talked about the jobs they had to do and why they sometimes missed school. We then played a hunting/running game based on the ideas we'd discussed. Next we split into age groups. The youngest brownies played a board game on our meeting's theme whilst the older brownies played themed consequences and reverse pass the parcel.

21st April: Disney themed Wide Game

During six time the Leprechauns played Operation games, the Imps went on a blindfold hike, the Pixies played card games, the Elves made Keyrings and the Gnomes tried face painting. The brownies then travelled to the land of make believe. To get home they needed to cross the stepping stones of reality - but to do this they needed one magic word for each step. Each word was the secret of a different fictional character. In their quest to return home they helped; Cinderella tidy up and designed a gown for her to wear to the ball, Aladin solve the riddles that were guarding his magic lamp, Robin Hood find where he had burried his treasure and Captain Hook made a cake to poison Peter Pan.

28th April: School Days - Thinking about children in the 3rd World

collecting water game

During six time the Leprechauns and the Elves painted butterfly pegs, the Imps made plaster casts, the Pixies played Operation games, and the Gnomes played Hunt the Owl. We then had a pow-wow to discuss Pack Holiday. After this we played games to make us think about how much water we use and what it would be like if we had to travel a long distance to get our water.

12th May: Sponsored Keep Healthy Challenges

Tonight we were raising money to help children in the third world. We took part in some sporting and athletic activities, thought about how well we wash our hands and clean our teeth with some messy activities, gave advice to imaginary people on what changes they could make to their diet to be more healthy and learnt about the organs of the body and how they can be affected by smoking and heavy drinking. During six time the Imps were meant to be decorating fans but we couldn't find them, so they split between the groups. The Leprechauns tried face painting, the Gnomes painted flower and butterfly pegs, the Elves played Operation games and the Pixies iced biscuits.

19th May: Owls

owls

During six time the Imps decorated fans, the Leprechauns played Guess Who Games, the Gnomes played Operation Games, the Pixies played Hunt the Owl and the Elves tried some face painting. We then played Fishes. After this a lady from the Raptor Foundation came to talk to us. We met four owls and held two of them.

2nd June: Science Investigator and Friend to Animals

During six time the Leprechauns iced biscuits, the Imps played Guess Who Games, the Pixies painted butterfly pegs, the Elves went on a blindfold hike and the Gnomes played Operation games. After six time, we played games whilst each six visited the six time shop. We then spilt into two groups. The older brownies made crystals while the younger ones completed an animal quiz.

9th June: Science Investigator and Friend to Animals

bubbles

After six time we played Wee-willy-winky. The older brownies then made giant bubbles by bending old coathangers into interesting shapes and the younger brownies made anti-littering posters. At the end of the meeting we did some singing.

16th June: Science Investigator and Friend to Animals

balloon rocket cars

After six time we sang and then played Fishes. Next the older brownies made balloon powered cars and connected electric ciruits to make a bubble blowing machine, a beeping car and a beeping maze. The younger brownies played endangered animal games and then a game which helped them find out about working animals.

23rd June: Bejing Evening

ribbon dance

Tonight we made pictures from tangram puzzles, ate Chinese food with chopsticks, watched a video showing Chinese ribbon dancing and then made up our own ribbon dances to Chinese music.

30th June: Mini Olympics

triathlon - cycling

On arrival we iced Olympic rings on fairy cakes, found out about this year's Olympic mascots and drew one (or made up our own) on a 'discuss' plate. We then took part in lots of wacky races including a chopstick marshmellow race, balloon co-operation race, obstacle course and a very silly version of the triathlon.

7th July: Bits and Pieces

After six time we played pass the parcel and musical statues to celebrate a birthday. We then split into different groups to finish off badge clauses and start a new badge. One group learnt the manual alphabet (for deaf-blind people) and played a game to practice using it, another group learnt about American Independence Day; making shakers decorated with the US flag and listening to patriotic American songs, a further group made camouflage dioramas and endangered animal posters to complete their friend to animal badge. Everyone else made promise bracelets as part of the badge 'The Right to be Me'. Tonight one brownie gained a Star Brownie Award for all her achievements over the past three years. Well done!

14th July: The Right to be Me and Chill Out Zone

On arrival the brownies either decorated biscuits or did some hand painting. We had a pow-wow to discuss pack holiday food and then played pirates. The older brownies then tried some hand massage while everyone else made thank you cards as part of their 'Right to be Me' badge. We then played Keys. Tonight we were joined by a new helper. We decided to call her Owl.

21st July: Bramblefields Nature Reserve

We walked to our local nature reserve where we ate a picnic. We then played nature themed games and tried pond dipping.

1st - 3rd August: Pack Holiday

monster book of monsters and wands

This year our theme was Harry Potter. To find out more about our holiday look in the holiday section of this website.