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1st Whittlesford Rainbows
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Who we are |
Our
diary |
Meetings |
Trips |
Autumn
Term 2006
6th September: Time Travel - Medieval At the beginning of the meeting we sang some
songs and played please Mr Vampire. We then travelled back to medieval
times. We built a castle, made medieval style stained glass windows,
coloured an illustrated manuscript, played a medieval game and made
pomanders.
13th September: Time
Travel - 1950s/60s
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() We began by decorating a strip of card that
we later turned into a 'hippy' headband. We then played two games that
were popular in the 1950s - 'What's the time Mr Wolf' and 'Can we cross
your father's field?'. For the rest of the meeting we played with toys
from the 1950s, had a quick deportment lesson, finished off our hippy
headbands and tried some rock and roll dancing. At the end of the
meeting we sang 'Everywhere we
go'.
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 20th September: Time Travel - World War II ![]() ![]() ![]() This evening we 'travelled' to war time
Britain. We coloured 'Dig for Victory' posters whilst listening out for
air rades. We sheltered in a 'bomb shelter', sang war time songs and
listened to a war time address from Princess
Elizabeth. We also made
cakes using a war time
recipe.
4th October: Time
Travel - The Tudors
![]() ![]() ![]() As we arrived we made helping
hands. We then journeyed to Tudor times. A 'Tudor Sea Captain' taught
us a game using whistle calls. We then learnt knots aboard his ship,
made Tudor headresses and learnt two Tudor style dances.
11th October: Time
Travel - The Victorians
![]() ![]() ![]() As we arrived we sang some
songs. We then journeyed to Victorian times. We played a team game
which involved bowling a hoop, we made a Victorian style fantasyscope
and we stitched a pattern onto a bookmark.
18th October:
Rainbows, Rainbows Everywhere
![]() ![]() ![]() As we arrived we sang some
songs. Three of our new Rainbows then made their promise. After this we
played Sleeping Vampire
and then made rainbow purses, rainbow prints and rainbow hanging
decorations.
1st November:
Halloween Party
![]() ![]() As we arrived we made halloween
bookmarks from craft foam. We then played a spooky themed pass the
parcel. Next we made severed hand sandwiches, marshmellow spiders and
iced skeleton gingerbread men. We then played zombie musical bumps and
ate a party tea.
8th November: Fireworks Theme ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() We played a running
around game where we were the fireworks. After this we made Catherine
Wheel hair slides and biscuits, pin dot firework pictures and glittery
firework pictures. At the end of the meeting we turned all the lights
off and sang songs by candlelight.
22nd November:
Thanksgiving
![]() ![]() We began by colouring Thanksgiving themed pictures. We then played a running game whilst Panther told us the story of the first Thanksgiving. After this we played Thankerchief and sang a Thanksgiving action song. We then made napkin Turkeys and sang other Thanksgiving songs. 29th November: Advent
We made advent calanders and
Christingles. At the end of the meeting we sang Christmas carols.
6th December: Hannukah
Theme
![]() ![]() ![]() As we arrived we decorated
candles. We then talked about the festival of Hannukah. We played a
running game whilst Panther read the story of Hannukah and then played
driedal in small groups. We then made a Hannukah decoration.
7th December: Christmas Party at Brownies Tonight we were invited to the
Brownie Christmas party. We played action story games with a Christmas
theme, musical statues and musical chairs. We then ate some party food.
9th December: Christmas Around the World Rainbow Romp ![]() ![]() ![]() We made lots of Christmas
crafts based on traditions from different countries. We also did some
cooking, singing and played a hunting game outside. To find out more
see the Trips section.
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