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1st Whittlesford Rainbows
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Winter
Term 2007
5th September: Autumn As we
first arrived we tried an autumn themed wordseach and coloured pictures
of squirrels. We then played a running game in which we were squirrels
gathering 'nuts' (actually dried peas) for the winter. We then made
squirrel models and chocolate hedgehog cakes. At the end of the meeting
we sang songs.
12th September: Dinosaurs
On arrival we tried to assemble some
dinosaur jigsaw puzzles. We then played a team running game in which we
collected dinosaur bones and then made a dinosaur from them. After this
we made dinosaur 'stain-glass' windows, fossil prints in clay and then
dug in pots for glow in the dark dinosaurs. At the end of the meeting
we listened to a story and learnt a new girlscout song about a skunk.19th September: Under the Sea
When we first arrived we painted paper
plates and folded sugar paper to make puppet crabs. We then played a
sea themed action game. After this we made fish fridge magnets and 3D
paper turtles. 26th September: China
As yesterday was the Chinese Moon Festival we had a Chinese themed meeting. As we arrived we decorated paper fans with chinese characters and flowers. One of our Rainbows then taught us to say 'hello' and 'goodbye' in Chinese. We then played a game from Hong Kong. After this we tried eating noodles and rice with chopsticks, made bracelets with chinese wooden character beads and painted paper lanterns. 3rd October: Senses
As we arrived we sang. We then played an
action game using sign language instead of words. After this we guessed
the contents of a bag using our sense of touch. We then made badges
with our name written in Braille, made sandwiches and sorted different
pasta shapes whilst blindfolded.
17th October: People Who Help Us As we arrived we coloured pictures of
policewomen, dentists and fire fighters. Panther then gave each of us a
card with a person who helps us on it. We made noises (e.g. nee-naw for
a policewoman) and tried to find the other Rainbows who had the same
card as us. We then played a 'people who help us' pairs game and made a
thank you card for someone who helps us. We also designed a badge for
Granta Divisions GR8 Day Out 2008.
31st October:
Halloween Party
We made Halloween magnets, Ghost
lollypops and iced skeleton biscuits. We then played Halloween themed
string bag, zombie bumps, scary statues and pass the cauldron.
7th November: Divali
As we arrived we sang songs. We then
talked about the festival of Divali and looked at some pictures. After
this we played a game in which we heard the story of Rama and Sita. We
then decorated candle holders, made Rangoli patterns and Divali
bookmarks. Panther painted our hands with Mendhi style patterns.
14th November: Co-operation Games We began the meeting by colouring a
picture. We then played co-operation games. One game involved looking
at a picture and then describing it so that a friend could draw it.
Another game was similar but we built lego creations instead. At the
end of the meeting we made models with playdo. Those Rainbows who
wanted to held hands and made their models so that one Rainbow used
their left and and the other their right. Everyone did really well.
21st November: Fairies
As we arrived we drew a flower on a paper
bowl. We then made fairy wants and fairy booklets. When we had finished
making things we spread the bowls out on the floor. We took it in turns
to hide a flower fairy under a flower. All the other Rainbows then
stood by a flower. On the count of 3 we all looked to see if we had
found the fairy. Whoever had her was the next person to hide her.
28th November: Games This week we played lots of games
including The Three Bears, What's the time Mr Vampire, Please Mr
Crocodile, The Clapping Game, and Hedgehogs.
5th December: Christmas Craft On arrival we coloured in Christmas
'stain-glass' pictures. We then played Please Mr Crocodile. After this
we made Winter Pom-pom pals, used glass paint to decorate ball-balls
and made Rainbow scratch decorations. At the end of the meeting we
began to make Christmas crackers.
12th December: More Christmas Craft We finished off our Christmas crackers
from last week. We then hunted for Christmas cards and made mini
Christmas trees, a Reindeer placemat and a Reindeer serviette holder.
19th
December: Christmas Party
We played pin the nose on frosty the
snowman, we snuck into Santa's worshop to search for our presents
(keeping very quiet so that Santa didn't wake up) and played musical
statues. We then ate a party tea after which we played tip-it and pass
the parcel.
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