Joey Scouts: Thanksgiving

PARADE & FLAG:  

Explain briefly the American holiday of Thanksgiving, and that although we do not celebrate it, they also have things they are thankful for. Go around the circle and get the Joeys to say what each of them is thankful for.

GAME:   Sticky Popcorn

All the Joeys are pieces of popcorn in a frying pan. They all have their eyes closed (hopefully).
The leader picks one of the joeys to become sticky
The leader then 'turns on the stove' and all the joeys start jumping around as if they were being cooked.
The 'sticky popcorn' also jumps around and 'sticks' to another piece of popcorn.
This continues until all the popcorn is stuck together

CRAFT:   Turkeys

Note - I snavelled this off Kabose.com

Supplies - toilet rolls, paper, foam, glue, stapler

Body:   One and a half toilet rolls. Staple together
Feathers:   On coloured paper, draw around the joey's hand and cut out. Get them to decorate if they want.  Stick plam of hand to base of body.
Eyes, Beak, Gobble and Feet:   Cut shapes out of paper. I used foam for these, which I cut out at the table with them to save time.

GAME:   Octopus
Note - after being 33C today, the change came through, so we all went outside.

One or two Joeys are the octopus (octopii??) in the middle.

Other Joeys need to run from one side of the ocean to the other without  getting caught.

Today's variation for the theme was turkeys and corn. (We are not very imaginative thinking these things up at the last minute!!)

ACTIVITY:   Iceblocks

Iceblocks + Joeys = Quiet time

ACTIVITY:   Memory Game

A tray of items was placed on the floor and left for the joeys to memorise.
In turn, each joey is blindfolded. An item is taken away and they have to guess which one.

PARADE & HOME