Chinese New Year, and some Drama
The theme for Beavers and Cubs this week was the upcoming Chinese New Year. The Beavers made paper lanterns and decorated their dragons, and had a lantern-lit closing ceremony; then the Cubs had stories about the Chinese New Year (the story of the monster Nian, which New Year commemorates, and the story of how the years gained their Chinese animal names), and made some rather excellent paper dragons.
Then the Scouts started on a long-term project to organise a play, with Sarah teaching them some drama skills from her Musical Theatre days; projecting the voice, expressing emotion with body language, improvisation, and so on. They took to this with surprising ingenuity, so we have high hopes for their final production…