Last night

So... organisation is a good thing.
After last weeks sit-in-the-pub-and-work-out-what-the-heck-we-are-doing meeting, it was decided that it might be a good idea to incorporate more games into the evening.

as well as that, make the "tasks" more game like- so as to make it more like the Kids are enjoying themselves and arent noticing that they are learning.

So we started with flagbreak, all good, except for a fair amount of disruption by one member.
straight into the first game, dividing them down the centre of the hall- with no accounting for who wanted to be with whom.
tarpaulin, kids standing on the edge and finding the ball underneath.
second game was putting objects under buckets- using the same kind of teams, and each time getting a pair of them to find one of the objects.
Again- slight disruption from a particular member.

main activity was in teams- getting the teams to light a candle that was about 7ft away with non saftey matches- with sandpaper at 7ft away again.
no idea how it went as I was doing an investiture talk with 3 of them.

we split for tuck- at 2030- pretty good time keeping- and re-convened at 2045 when they did the circle/key game.
again, no idea how it went, as I was continuing with more investiture talking, while another leader was doing 1-2-1s with the elder explorers as to what they need to do to get their platinum/diamond awards.

ended with a game of 1 on 1 hockey and flag down.
15mins of disruption from one particular individual, and minimal phonage on behalf of the younguns.