Cracking Christmas Cookies!

What fun! This evening our Beavers made Christmas Cookies. They carefully rolled out their dough, liberally sprinkled with icing sugar (sorry about the state of their uniforms, parents!). Our glorious selection of cutters was employed to good effect, and the Beavers amazed me with their ability to squeeze so many cookies from a single block of dough.

Then, a quick game of Duck, Duck, Goose while the cookies cook (ahem), followed by some delectable decoration with icing and sweets. And some very sugary Beavers trundled home with (most of) their Christmas Cookies, ready to go on the tree or share with their siblings/parents/selves at a later date!

I'd like to say a huge THANK YOU to all of the lovely Mums (and big and little sisters and brothers!) who helped out this evening. You were all absolutely fabulous and we couldn't have done it without you.

Next week is our Christmas Party, and the last Beavers meeting of term. We'll be celebrating in style, with the investiture of Liam, Nile, Euan and Thomas, and the awarding of prizes to our Star Beavers. Who will they be? You'll have to wait until next week to find out!

For those being invested next week, a quick reminder of the Beaver Promise:
I promise
To do my best
To be kind and helpful
And to love God

If parents would like to see their children being invested, they should come about ten to fifteen minutes early before the end of the meeting - bring a camera!

T-Shirts at last!

After a very, very long wait, our new Beavers t-shirts arrived over the weekend. It was great to be able to dispense them this week to the children who've been asking after them for weeks and weeks... And they looked very smart!

We made Christmas Cards this evening, and the children worked hard to decorate their cards creatively. There are some very lucky parents out there, who will receive splendid masterpieces from their young Beavers.

I realised this evening that I need some football lessons - not in terms of ball control and dribbling, but more along the lines of when you should have a corner, when you have a throw-in, and what are the rules about free kicks! I was grateful to a Beaver's elder brother, whose mum was helping, for his help in spotting whether goals were legitimately scored. If any dads (or mums!) would like to offer some simple guidance to a football-ignorant Beaver leader, it would be much appreciated.

Next week we'll be making Christmas Cookies, so any extra parent helpers would be welcome - as would any extra rolling pins and cutters. Expect plenty of lurid icing and ginger-spiciness next week (if any of them make it home, that is!).

Just a quick P.S. on the behaviour front... this evening, the Beavers were an absolute delight. We have several gold and silver stars on our chart, and no yellow or red cards have been dispensed.