Woodland Beaver Colony's
News & Activities

This week we worked on our Air Activities badge and Pilot Paul came in to help us. The first thing we did was learn a few facts about some different

This week, Woodland Beavers worked on their Gardening Badge. We planted cress seeds in a tray and will be adding mustard seeds soon. We also planted dwarf beans, runner beans,

This week, we went to Sophie’s Woodland to build Dens and to make our Lodge Bug Houses. First we made our Lodge Bug Houses by filling some old plastic bottles

Seventeen members of our Colony, twelve beavers and five leaders, enjoyed a lovely day in the sun at the West Oxon District Beavers’ Madhatter’s Fun Day at Dry Sandford today.

This week, we made Easter Baskets and had an Easter Egg hunt. A big thank you to Eagle for organising the making of our Easter Baskets and for organising the

This week we went on a Stick Story Hike as part of our Explorers Badge. A big thank you to Ant for organising the session. This is the last time

This week we were in Sophie’s Woodland lighting fires! All of our beavers were successful in lighting a little fire of their own using a ferro rod and cotton wool

This week we made Japanese Fish Kites and we also made origami fish! Japanese carp kites, or koinobori, are a tradition, started by samurai families, symbolising strength, courage, and perseverance.

This week we worked on our Musician Badge! A really big thank you and well done to Hedgehog who led a great session to help us to achieve our Musician

This week we worked on our Space Badge! A really big thank you and well done to Owl who led a great session to help us to achieve almost all

This week we learnt about Chinese New Year. We started by having a game of Chinese Ladders. This is very similar to the usual game of ladders except that each

The Beavers have been working on their Disability Awareness badge. We watched a video to learn about what a disability is, then we learnt about some of the disability aids

Thank you to Ant for running our Science Session. We learnt how to make lava lamps and rainbow disk spinners. We had lots of fun, managed to achieve 2/3 of

What a great sleepover we had and what a lot of things we got up to. After we had arrived, settled in and carried out the formal start to our