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31 May 2010

Outreach to Cub Scouts and Brownies 2010

Last Saturday was Open House cum Outreach to Brownies and Cub Scouts. We were separated into the two groups, with most of us under Outreach.

For outreach, the guides were split into 20 different patrols, and after a few rounds of icebreaker games, we started on our stations.

For my patrol, our first station was the open house booths. The cub scouts and brownies were introduced to the transforming gadgets the guides had designed, and also the kitchen tents, flagpole and the gateway.
Our second station was the Gladiator, and the kids had lots of fun trying to push each other off the beam. They were pretty afraid at first, and most were hesitant to try. However, after constant persuading, they tried, and they enjoyed it. I could tell as they all wanted to go next, after the person playing.
The next station was 夜里行军. All except two kids had to be blindfolded while travelling through the obstacle course. It was a tough job leading the cub scouts and brownies through, as they were quite scared, and sometimes the table is shaky, and they are afraid to step on it. Some people moved too quickly while others moved too slowly, so the patrol was constantly broken. However, my patrol managed to complete the whole course, and they all seemed pretty happy that they completed it.
Next, we went to the electric fence station. The cub scouts and brownies had to advance through the electric fence without touching the raffia string, and collecting the items. My patrol managed to collect all the items, but we touched the raffia quite a lot. We still got the points though, and I think that they had a lot of fun crossing the electric fence. It was quite a challenge indeed. The Kim's Games required them to identify the orange skin in the box, the coke they drank, as well as use their fingers to 'read' the word in the box. The brownies managed to identify the orange skin and coke almost immediately, but had some trouble feeling for the word.
Our last station was the knots and catapults. The catapult was quite difficult, as the targets had to be hit for points. The ammo we shot kept going either over the paper, or next to it. Some didn't even manage to reach the paper. It was quite a challenge, but it was a lot of fun. After the catapult, we had to teach the cub scouts and brownies how to tie a square lash. They learnt it in no time, and managed to tie one without help within a few tries. Their lashes weren't as tight, but they learnt it really quickly.

After lunch we had Mass Games in various classrooms. 4 patrols shared a single classroom. The aim of the game was to get as many patrol members across the line of chairs as quickly as possible. It was a simple game of scissors paper stone, but there was a lot of excitement and thrill as many of them sped through the line of chairs. It was really fun, and one brownie even commented to me that this was the best game of the day, which made me really happy.

All good things have to come to an end, and after the mass games was prize giving. In first place was Patrol 14, with Patrol 9 and 18 in second and third place respectively. The I/Cs then announced that all of us had found the Allspark as we all completed the games together.

It was quite sad to have the brownies and cub scouts leave, as I feel that I've enjoyed my time with them. Despite there being frustrating times, and they kept complaining about having to climb many stairs, but I know that they're just children and we have to understand them for that. We have to be patient with them, as they have not experienced as much as we did, and we have to teach them. We have to find different ways to communicate with them. Through this Outreach, I feel that children may sometimes be a handful, but their innocence makes them too adorable to be held against.

Good job to all the I/Cs who planned this Outreach for us, and the cub scouts and brownies :)

Love Guides (:

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