Balfron Scouts

Mother's Day breakfasts

Last week the Scouts had a go at inventing new Mother's Day breakfast recipes. In their teams they had £5 to spend in Coop to make the best breakfast ever! Here are their results.

(The last one, pizza and garlic bread, was the creation of the Young Leaders...who I think just hadn't had their dinner yet.)

International Cooking night

Last week we had a great session do some cooking from around the world. The sushi was a little tricky to roll but it did mostly stay together and was very tasty. The fortune cookies were great fun to make, and to invent some "interesting" fortunes to put inside...but weren't that nice to eat!, and then the home made tortillas, which we made into quesadillas were great to eat and fun to make...although try to make sure the smoke alarm didn't go off was difficult with so many people making so many quesadillas.

Fireworks 2018

The fireworks at our annual Group Bonfire Night event get better every year!

Thanks to all who came along and particular thanks to the Beavers for their wonderful Guys, to the Cub leaders for the hotdogs and hot chocolate, Calum for another great bonfire, Gage for the fireworks and all the Explorers and Young Leaders who helped with serving food and the fireworks.

Remembrance Day

Remembrance Day this year was the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War. The war memorial had been renovated by the Community Council and was rededicated. There was a very good turnout from the Beavers, Cubs, Scouts and Explorers and all involved (in attending, flag bearing, wreath laying and reading during the service) should be thanked.

One of our former scouts was also one of the pipers during the 6am "Battle's Over" event.

Badges...lots of them

Last week we had our Annual General Meeting for the Scout Group and, as has become tradition, we combined this with investitures and badge awards. This year seven(!) of our Scouts were awarded the Gold Award (the highest Scout award), and thanks to our District Commissioner for coming along to make the presentations.

There were also over 200 other badges to present to the other Scouts for their hard work over the last few months.

Australia night

Last week the Scouts did some Australia-themed creative work...making boomerangs and bullroarers (parents might remember Crocodile Dundee using one).

There were some very creative boomerang designs inspired by traditional patterns but some were a bit more up-to-date.

We tried out the boomerangs in the nearby field with limited success...but the bullroarers worked well.

Meggernie Camp 2018: Cub activities

The Cubs didn't get to throw tomahawks like the Scouts (but were very keen to get to Scouts as quickly as possible so they could have a go) but they did get to go grass sledging, tackle the Nightline and learnt how to light fires.

Meggernie Camp 2018: Cub hike

On Saturday of the camp the Cubs went off for a hike down the valley, and then on the way back they stopped in the woods to make some great dens.

Meggernie Camp 2018: Stand by your Tents!

Each morning at camp the Cubs and Scouts have tent inspection. Everyone has to have their bedding tidy and all the contents of their rucksack (which have previously been widely spread around the tent) back in their own rucksack. Then the eagle-eyed inspectors come round to judge their work.

Here are the Cubs standing by their tidy tents just before they are inspected.