Today was the regional movie day. All the Beavers from the region Eindhoven got together to watch a movie. We watched the secret live of pets 2. There was a lot of excitement and laughing. There was also a lot of chips eating. After the movie there was a picknick. All the Beavers could eat as much bread and drink as much lemonade as they’d like. To end this very nice morning, we also did a lot of running outside.

This week it was friendsday again. On this day every Beaver can bring all their friends to explore what being a scout is like. We began with playing block football and hoop tag. After running a lot, we walked to a different field in the forest. Here we played the smuggling coins game. One team had to smuggle coins from one side of the field towards the other sides, while the other team would try and tag them. After this, we burned marshmallows above a fire. All the Beavers ate a ton of s’mores and had a lot of fun. To end of this fine morning, we played a game of red light, green light.

One of the Beaver rules is that a Beaver should always be good to nature. That is why we helped the birds today by building birdhouses. The supervisors sawed the different wooden pieces that were needed. Then the Beavers started their building adventure. With help they built the most beautiful birdhouses that the birds will surely love.

We also played a lot of different football  games. We started with Belgium football. In this game you can only score and the wrong side of the goal. Instead of from the front you can only score through the back of the goal. Afterwards we played a game in which the Beavers were split into teams. Every team had to throw a hoop and get the ball into the hoop in the least amounts of kicks. We ended this morning with block football. What an adventurisitc morning this was!

Today the roles at the Beavers turned around. They got to decide all the adventures they did that day. We started by walking pretty far, until we reached a playground. After playing for a while, we walked further to a field. There we played hoop tag. After returning to the club house, we roasted sausages above a fire and at these happily.

Even though all the other beavers stayed inside their holes, the GFB2 Beavers went on an adventure in the snow. We started by having a big snowball fight and afterwards building a snowman. We then visted the Karpendonkse plas which was still partly frozen. With help, the Beavers threw big balls of snow in the lake, hoping the ice would crack. They were succesful :). We also played hoop football. In this game everyone will have their own hoop and they need to roll the ball into the hoops of other players. We finished this nice morning with a warm cup of delicious tea around the fire.

Yesterday a group of cows had escaped their farm. While the Beavers were on an adventure, they suddenly crossed the cows path. The police had already caught the cows and had shut of the area with ropes. The Beavers researched how the cows were doing and if their caretaking was done following the Beaver standerds.

The photo is from the Eindhovens Dagblad and is made by Arno van der Linden / Fotopersbureau Bert Jansen.

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Today we installed new Beavers. They are now officially real GFB2 Beavers. The new Beavers had to take an oath and then received their badges. After that, we played lots of games. We started by jumping over the ditch. The caller shouted legs  “open” and “closed,” and the Beavers had to follow the instructions. But what the caller said didn’t always match his movements, which made it quite challenging at times.

Next, we played Dutch Lions. Everyone had to run from one side of the field to the other without being tagged by the person in the middle. Afterwards, we ate cupcakes with lots of whipped cream, without using our hands. We also baked bread over the fire. We laughed a lot and had a great time.

All of the activities today were based on chance. The Beavers had to throw a dice for every decision. The dice decided where we were going and what activities we were going to do. The Beavers were lead through the forest and through a lot of mud. The route eventually lead us to an open space. Here we played the game red light, green light and a version of tag that involves a lot of hoops. The Beavers also jumped into small ponds of water. At the end of today, they even beat the instructors at a game of brick football.

Sinterklaas and his Pieten visited the scouting group this Saturday. Puzzle pieces had been scattered around the clubhouse, and the Beavers had to search for all the pieces and put the puzzles back together. Afterwards, Sinterklaas read to them from his big book. He even knew that the Beavers were good at baking apple turnovers. Unfortunately, something had gone wrong with the presents. In the dark, Sinterklaas had stumbled and all the presents had fallen out of his sack. It was too dark to find them again, and he had accidentally filled his sack with pieces of wood instead.

After a good night’s sleep, the Beavers were able to find the presents again the next day. They had to follow a trail of aluminum through the forest to locate them. After this, the Beavers were trained to become Pieten. They had to climb over an obstacle course and throw presents into a chimney. They also had to learn how to sneak quietly across rooftops. They practiced this through a game of Red Light, Green Light.

Once they were properly trained, the Beavers were allowed to open their presents. They turned out to be laser game sets. The Beavers spent the rest of the morning running around and trying to tag each other with the lasers. It was a very successful camp!

This Saturday we were running through the forest. We brought a big wheelbarrow filled with all kinds of objects. From hoops to balls, everything was in there. The Beavers had to make a circle out of sticks and collect four identical objects inside of it. They were also allowed to steal from each other, but they could only hold one object at a time. Once you had four identical objects, you had to shout QUARTET as loudly as you could.

After playing the game, the Beavers went back to the clubhouse. There we drank hot chocolate and ate cookies by the fire. It was delicious and cozy.