Beaver Scouts Make Things

Beaver Scouts enjoy making things and like improving their practical skills. A craft can be used for a number of purposes.

• To encourage creativity and imagination;


• To develop manipulative skills and hand-eye co-ordination;


• To help Beavers learn something;


• To encourage co-operation and working together;


• To make something useful for others.

Over a period of time a good colony will provide a Beaver with:

• A variety of materials media, and craft techniques;


• A mixture of copying set models and designing and making their own ideas;


• An opportunity to make things individually and in small groups;


• A chance to finish things to different standards according to their abilities;


• Encouragement to the take their things home to share with their families.

Ideas that can be used in the meeting

1. To make a variety of cards for different events e.g. mothers day, Christmas, Eid and Divali


2. To make models out of clay e.g. Hedgehog paper weights


3. To make mobiles based on a common theme


4. To produce masks e.g. of a Beavers face or dragon


5. To make a variety of puppets, covering finger, shadow and hand puppets


6. To use fimo to make models and badges


7. To use funky foam to make pictures


8. To use chalk to create a firework picture on black sugar paper


9. To make traffic light biscuits


10. To make peppermint cremes


11. To design a t shirt


12. Make night light holders out of jam jars

Materials that could be used

• Clay


• Fimo


• Funky foam


• Felt


• Junk materials


• Different types of card and papers


• Glitter


• Fabric paint


• Sequins


• Papier mache


• Fluorescent paint


• Wrapping paper


• Stickers


• Icing sugar


• Glass paint