Beaver Leader's Handbook - Scouts Canada

Badminton Racquet
Ask each Beaver to bring a coat hanger and one nylon panty hose.
4 Grasp the coat hanger by the hook and the long bottom edge, and pull it out to make a
diamond shape.
4 Pull the nylon stocking over the coat hanger frame.
4 Knot the stocking at the hook end.
4 Bend the hook to form a loop.
4 Use the racquet to bat around wadded newspaper balls.
Simple Kazoo
Here’s something for musical Beavers. This simple craft adds new dimensions to your favourite
songs. You need toilet or wax paper tubes, squares of waxed paper, rubber bands and a pencil.
With a rubber band, secure a square of waxed paper over one end of your tube. Use a sharp
pencil to poke a small hole into the tube, about 2 cm from the covered end. Hold the open end
up to your mouth and hum your favourite tune.
Crafts For Family And Friends
The following two ideas are great ways to show Beavers how they can help others in creative ways.
Cheque Mates
Beavers produce blank cheques which show pictures indicating a helpful task rather than a sum
of money.
Beaver Bouquet
For this craft, Beavers need construction paper for flowers, cardboard for flower backings, small
juice containers and sand for ballast.
The Beavers cut out a flower shape from cardboard and glue construction paper stem, leaves and
petals to it. On each petal, they write a helpful idea. Plant the flower into the sand in the container.
Help your Beavers to think of ideas other than regular chores if they plan to present the bouquet
to Dad or Mom.
Crafts For Fine Feathered Friends
Enjoying nature is one of Beavering’s main program elements; nature-related crafts can promote
awareness of the outdoors. These particular crafts provide a focus for birdwatchers in the spring
and winter.
In the spring, talk about birds’ nesting habits. Suggest that Beavers keep an eye on birds they see
flying with bits of grass or twigs in their beaks. To help birds in their area, each Beaver may want
to build a nesting depot. Here’s how.
Cut a nest shape from cardboard, and colour the surface with wax crayons to make it waterproof.
Punch holes in the cardboard nest and poke cotton thread, several lengths of yarn, ribbon and
string into the holes. Keep all of the materials very loose so birds can easily remove them. Hang
the nest in a tree, then watch for ‘customers.’ While you’re doing this, search for nests in neighbouring
trees. Did your local robin use your materials to build a nest?
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