Cranham Scout Group

The plan for today *was* to have the Beavers in the hall for a Christmas party then the cubs and scouts running around in a field playing a Christmassy game, but due to waterlogging of said field, this was not to be… so we had them all the hall for general Christmas party games, mince pies, and so on.

Also, for the cubs and scouts, we had the “Peace Light” passing through to show them. This is a lantern, lit in Bethlehem, which then travels around (with the candle in it being replenished, always lit from the old candle before it goes out, so the same flame is carried on from the source). We brought this out and had the children think about those less fortunate than themselves about the world who will not be having Christmasses quite as pleasant as their own…

We gave them all Christmas cards, and were pleasantly surprised to find that two of the cubs had brought in a card and a present, respectively, for us! This was very touching.

That’s our last meeting for this term – we start again on the tenth of January. Which will hopefully be enough time for me to properly copy all of our records into my master database…

Today, we had all three sections doing some Christmas crafts. The Beavers coloured in pictures and made cards, the Cubs made bracelets then used nice paper and loo roll middles to make them into the presents inside Christmas Crackers, and the scouts decorated glasses with modelling clay (which we baked in the oven) to make vases.

Instructions for the craft projects can be found on the [Salaric Craft Blog](http://www.salaric.org.uk).

This just in from the organisers:

> Full list is still to be issued but winners were
>
> 1 Cranham A
> 2 Severnside 1
> 3 Randwick Revellers
> 4 Nailsworth B

Uh… does that mean we won?!?