This week we went travelling through time to various points in the life of Baden-Powell (B-P), with the help of some time travel inducing Smarties. Normally we start the night with a game, but this week we needed to travel back in time before we could start, we went all the way back to went B-P was a boy reading pirate stories, and here we met and old salty sea-dog of a captain who had us running all over his ship, cleaning, climbing and saluting!
We then shot forward in time to when B-P was a boy, where we played out a stone fight (with paper balls of course) between Charterhouse School and the local ‘town boys’.
After a quick stop for drinks of water it was onward through the mists of time to when B-P took his Army entrance examinations in 1876, we learnt about trail signs and then went outside to follow two different trail courses.
Nobody got lost so it would seem everyone was listening and using their trail card sheets to find their way.
Ever on wards we reached 1908 with the publication of Scouting for Boys and 1920 for the first Jamboree. We had a chat about what a Jamboree is and then a scavenger hunt around the hall to find all the letters that make up the word.
Our last time jump before home was to 1941, the year B-P ‘went home’, the term we use when a member of the Scouting family passes away. He was 83 years of age at the time, and his life long actions had changed the world for the better forever.
Before reaching home we had enough time to play the Hand Shake game, with all the Cub Scouts running around until a number was called out. They then had to group up in that number and shake hands, the Scout way… we will be learning about why we shake hands that way next week.
Safely back in 2019 we had a few minutes to spare so managed one round of Fly and we got to taste the Space Ice Cream that we got from the Nasa visit last term. It was a blind test but several Cub Scouts were able to get approximate guesses as to what it was, with one 100% correct answer:
Lastly Their Service, Our Heritage badges were given out to those who attended the Anzac parade and the visit to the Anzac exhibition in Brisbane.
