Thank you to everyone who took part in our Trailjam hike today. Whether you walked the full 18 miles, or a shorter section of it, you should all be very proud of your achievements. Also thanks to those that helped us set up, and to everyone that attended, our Annual General Meeting. Fantastic turn out…
Tag: Humberside Scouts
Beaver Photographers
Hessle Beavers joined with a hundred others from around the county to take part in the Photographer Activity Badge Day. They made pinhole cameras and calendars, a stop motion film, posed in the photo booth, took pictures of each other toasting marshmallows, followed a picture nature trail and had fun with glo sticks in a…
Grass Sledging
Explorers had a great evening at Raywell, making use of two of the activities – low ropes and grass sledging. Lots of teamwork going on to get themselves down the hill!
White Ribbon Service
Several members of Hessle Scout Group took part in the East Riding of Yorkshire County Legal Service – which marks the end of Jacky Bowes year in office as High Sheriff. Jacky asked for members of Humberside Scouts to be represented in recognition of the work they had done in achieving the White Ribbon Badge….
White Ribbon
Beavers took part in the Humberside Scout White Ribbon activities. The thought about ways in which we can use our hands to be kind to others, and also ways that we shouldn’t use our hands to be unkind. We were then creative with a white ribbon and hands. At the end of our meeting we…
Platinum Party
Hessle Beavers joined 500 other young people over the Jubilee weekend to take part in Humberside Scouts Platinum Party. They enjoyed many activities – climbing and bouldering walls, making pizza with a blow torch, archery, armpit fudge, zip wires, bouncy castles, mop hockey, glass engraving, mini diggers, nerf guns, making key rings, decorating biscuits, go…
Nurture Nature
As part of Humberside Scouts ‘Put the Out in Scout’ Challenge, Explorers completed the Nurture Nature section by undertaking a litter pick along Hessle Foreshore and in the Humber Bridge Country Park.
Burns Night
To link with their World Challenge and International badges, as well as Challenge X, Cherokee Cubs celebrated Burns Night. They cooked and tasted Tatties, Neeps and Haggis, decorated shortbread petticoat tails to look like tartan kilts, tried Irn Bru and Tablet, made haggis. bagpipe and highland cow fridge magnets, read poetry, played highland games and…
THE ELF CHALLENGE
What a weekend! Hessle Beavers completed the Elf Challenge, doing all things Christmas. We made Christmas stockings, tree decorations, gingerbread houses – both large and small, we cooked Christmas dinner, decorated plates to leave goodies out for Santa, went sledging, made and iced Christmas cakes, watched the movie ‘Elf’ and then made sleighs from lego. …
HUFFLEPUFF WINNERS!
Arapaho and Cherokee Cubs attended the 2018 Humberside Scouts County Cub Camp – ‘Fantastic Cubs And Where To Find Them’. As part of the Hufflepuff House, along with Cubs from Brayton Scarlet, 19th Grimsby (St Hugh’s), 1st Ricall, St Martins, Sewerby Methodist, Trinity Methodist, 1st Laceby and St Margaret’s of Scotland, they combined to win…
Beaver 30th Birthday Celebrations
Beavers from all over Humberside County joined together this weekend to celebrate 30 years of Beaver Scouts – a day full of activities at Driffield Showground with the added bonus of a sleepover. The day all helped us to work towards our Creative Activity Badge and we enjoyed bouncy castles, learnt circus skills, made things…
Mud, mud, glorious mud!
Tonight Beavers got a little muddy, but had a great time. We were completing one of our Beaver 30th Birthday Challenges, to go on a 30 minute hike and try and find a geocache. We found one with the assistance of Keeo’s phone and GPS near Little Waudby Farm. We then combined our walk with…
COUNTY CUB ADVENTURE 100 CAMP
Cherokee and Arapaho Cubs have had a brilliant weekend at Raywell taking part in the Humberside County Cub 100 camp. In total 500 Cubs took part in an action packed weekend full of activities and challenges, including Mop Hockey, Human Battleships, Giant outdoor games, Trampolines, Coconut shy, Bug Treasure Hunt, Backwoods cooking, Pedal Karts, Pioneering, Shooting, Beat…