Bubble wrap, pizza and Chinese New Year

29 Jan 10:30
Duty six :

Start Time Activity Requirements Instructions Scouter
Bubble wrap appreciation, pizza day and Chinese new year (next week) are some of the cool holidays we are looking at
29 Jan 10:30 5 Activities : Opening Register, beans, flag, totem and skin
Grand Howl
Flag Break
Register
Inspection - belts and shoes
Akela
Chinese puzzle game but first we have to find the pieces
29 Jan 10:35 20 Game : Tangram Puzzles

Spread the coloured tangram pieces around the play area.  (Tangram template attached - make a puzzle per Six in their colour on card)

Provide the Cubs with a shape that they need to build once they have found all their pieces.   The puzzle requires them to use all the pieces.

Examples of puzzles and solutions attached.

Akela
Pizzas are cool but how about this idea for recycling your pizza box into an oven?
29 Jan 10:55 25 Activities : Solar Oven
  • Cardboard Pizza Box/Cake Box/Muffin box
  • Black paper
  • Plastic wrap (unless your box already has a plastic "window" insert)
  • Tin foil
  • Tape
  • Glue
  • Knife/Scissors
  • Marie biscuits
  • Marshmallows
  • Chocolate

Step 1:  Carefully use your knife to cut a square opening in the lid of the pizza box, staying within an inch or so of the border. Don’t cut the hinged side of the box—keep that side together, and fold back the flap.  This is not necessary if your box already has a plastic window or cutout in the lid (some cake boxes or muffin boxes have this). 

Step 2:  Cut the foil to the correct size so that it fits on the flap that you’ve folded back. Using the glue, attach the foil to the flap, keeping the shiny side out and making sure the foil is smooth.  If your box does not have the flap however, you may want to add some foil as a reflective surface that can be positioned to direct the solar energy into the box. 

Step 3:  Put another piece of foil in the bottom and sides of the box, with the shiny side up. Cover the foil with the black paper on the base of the box only (not the sides). This is the “heating element.”

Step 4:  Next, take the plastic wrap and stretch it over the open area (where the flap you cut used to be). Tape it well around the edges so that the wrap is sealed.  This step is unnecessary if your box already has a plastic window in the lid.

Step 5:  You’re almost ready to cook! Now you simply decide what you’d like to make—anything from English muffin pizzas to s’mores—and put it on a small foil tray, on top of the black paper. Close the plastic lid, being sure the seal is as tight as you can get it, with the box tabs tucked in.

Step 6:  Use a stick (i.e., long ruler or paint stirrer) to prop open the flap of your oven. The sunlight will reflect on the foil, plastic, and your black paper, cooking your food.

Step 7:  Check your food often by looking through the plastic wrap.  Try not to open the lid too much because every time you do, heat escapes.

Step 8:  When your food is done, open up the box and enjoy!

Akela
Take a break while our solar ovens cook
29 Jan 11:20 5 Activities : Juice and biscuits Juice and biscuit break
Akela
Bubble wrap is not great for the environment but whether it is popping bubbles on bubble wrap or popping soap bubbles, its still a lot of fun
29 Jan 11:25 10 Game : Bubble Float

Have Cubs (1 per Six) blow as many bubbles as they can. Make sure the bubble blowers blow UPWARDS. Then let the rest of the Six blow on the bubbles lightly. The bubbles will fly up, left, right, or down. The point of the game is to see how long each Six can keep the bubbles in the air. Once all the bubbles have blown away let the bubble blowers blow some more (and alternate different Cubs in the Six).

Akela
Imagine your house from above. Draw your house with doors and all the rooms. Mark where your favourite place would be to eat pizza in your house
29 Jan 11:35 20 Activities : Bugs in the house Paper Draw a map of your house.  Pretend you are a bird flying over your house.  Draw a picture of what it looks like and then mark where the bugs are living in your house. Akela
Lets make a paper plate fan - it is very hot these days. We are going to decorate it in Chinese New Year colours
29 Jan 11:55 30 Crafts : Paper Plate Hand Fans
Paper Plates
Acrylic Paint in red, gold and black
Jumbo Craft Sticks
Low Temp Glue Gun or School Glue
Black marker

Cut a paper plate in half and drew a small half circle in the center of the straight edge of the plate with a marker

Red, gold and black paints used to decorate the plate - dragons, flowers or anything they like

Stick on the craft sticks at angles so that they overlap.

Painted Paper Plate Hand Fans. Perfect for Chinese New Year or Tet. Kid's & preschooler cultural arts and crafts ideas.

Akela
29 Jan 12:25 5 Activities : Closing Totem, Skin
Badges, certificates
Announcements
Badge handouts
Grand Howl
Flag Down
Prayer
Dismiss
Akela

Programme prepared on 08 May 23:59

Tangram Puzzles




Category Game
Type Wide game
Time to allocate (mins) 20
Instructions

Spread the coloured tangram pieces around the play area.  (Tangram template attached - make a puzzle per Six in their colour on card)

Provide the Cubs with a shape that they need to build once they have found all their pieces.   The puzzle requires them to use all the pieces.

Examples of puzzles and solutions attached.


Entry written by Sharon Venn of 1st Randburg

Documents

Tangram Template tangram_template
Animals TangramAnimals.pdf
Fun TangramFun.pdf
Geometric TangramGeometric.pdf
Squares TangramSquares.pdf
Solutions TangramSolutions.pdf
Tang TangAnimalsClr.pdf
Tang Solutions TangAnimalsSolution.pdf