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Session 4: Clay craft

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Your session goals
Membership
Membership 11%
Our Skills
Our Skills 20%
YouShape Award: Lead
YouShape Award: Lead 25%

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Session summary

In this session you'll have the chance to make a bug hotel and put them up around your meeting place of take them home.

Safety message

  • Always complete a register at the start of the meeting to record who is present.
  • Activities start when the first person arrives and end when the last person leaves, including leaders and their children.
  • Check the space is for hazards, keep the exits clear, and know the location of the nearest first aid kits.

Activities

Opening a Cub meeting

5 mins

How do you start your meeting? Some groups do the Grand Howl or a flag ceremony.

  • Meets
  • Requirement 1.a
  • Meets
  • Requirement 2

Freeze frame game

10 mins

Work as a team and test observation skills with a frozen scene game.

  • Meets
  • Requirement 3

Make a YouShape clay model

40 mins

Let everyone build on their YouShape Award theme with this clay play

Closing a Cub meeting

5 mins

How do you close your meeting? Some groups do flag ceremonies.

  • Meets
  • Requirement 1.a

Preparation

Equipment

  • Camera or phone
  • Something to protect surfaces (for example, newspaper or tablecloths)
  • Clay
  • Tools to carve with (such as blunt wooden or plastic knives, lolly sticks or toy clay tools)
  • Any items related to your YouShape themes for inspiration
  • Rolling pins

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