5th Rainham Brownies
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5th Rainham Brownies
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Christmas (2004) This year we voted for 'Christmas' as our
theme. Our sixes were Holy, Ivy and Mistletoe.
The adults were Father Christmas, Rudolph, Befana and Santa Lucia.
These were
our charts:
When we first arrived we decorated the
house. We made glittered pine cones, paper chains, paper doiley angels,
stockings, CD hanging decorations and Hamma bead Christmas tree
docorations. We also drew the outline on a bauble ready to paint later
in the day.
         We then made their own sandwich and ate lunch on the patio.  In the afternoon we played Stop that Grinch!
The Grinch had tried to ruin Christmas for the Whos, and it was up to
us to save it.
At the Who toy store the Grinch had muddled up all the jigsaws so we separated them back out. The Grinch had stolen all the instructions from the games and mixed all the pieces together so we made up new rules for the games. In the street the Grinch had scared away the Christmas musicians and smashed up all the intruments so we made junk instruments and used them to play Christmas songs.  
 The Grinch had tried to wreck the carol service by reprinting all the hymn sheets with mistakes so we found and crossed out the bits he'd added. (Although he was very rude we thought he was a rather funny Grinch!) He'd smashed all the stain glass windows so we made new ones. The Grinch had stolen all the Christmas trees and baubles so we hunted for them and put them back together.  
 The Grinch had let Santa's reindeers out so
we coaxed them back in. The Grinch had also ripped up all the card and
wrapping paper so we made new ones from the pieces he left behind.
    We then had free time. We asked if we could
have a water fight and go to the adventure playground.
    We then helped to cook their tea on a bbq.   In the evening each six was given a
Christmas story from a different country to turn into a play. The
stories were St Nicholas, Befana and Babushka. We then used glass paint
to finish off the baubles and made Norwegian Christmas gnomes.
  After showers we went across to the outdoor chapel with torches and candles to sing Christmas carols. We then had hot chocolate and watched The Grinch Who Stole Christmas.   On Sunday morning we woke up to find that
Father Christmas had filled our stockings. We then had breakfast and
completed our six duties.
   We then visited four countries to see how they celebrated Christmas. We made a decorative dove from Sweden, took part in Las Posada in Mexico, searched for the 13 Yuletide lads whilst avoiding the giant Yule cat in Iceland and they learnt the carol Il est ne le divine enfant in France. We then had Christmas dinner and a chosen Brownie gave the Queen's speech.       In the afternoon we visited another four
countries. In Canada we built an igloo cake (not authentic but very
yummy!), in the USA we celebrated Kwanza, in Norway we painted our
gnome and in Sweden we made Santa Lucia biscuits.
       In the evening we had a New Year's Eve
party. After eating tea we played musical statues, musical chairs and
musical bumps. We then played tip-it and nine spot. After that we
played Donkey, Happy Families and Pitt. We had party food and then at
midnight we sang Auld Lang Syne and lit some sparklers.
  On Monday we celebrated 12th night and
Epiphany. We had breakfast, did our duties, took the Christmas
decorations down and packed our bags. We then went a-wassailing. We
sang the wassailing song with actions, danced and yelled at the trees
to wake up their spirits and then toasted them with lamps wool (well
apple juice really).
   We then took part in apple bobbing, played
flour pie and here come the Kings and decorated King Cake (more
commonly associated with Mardi Gras but formally eaten on Epiphany).
   We then went to the shop and bought
postcards for out American pen-friends. Whilst some of us were tested
for our Cooks and Pack Holiday badges the rest of us wrote to our
pen-pals. After lunch we had our faces painted.
 
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