Finally it was here, the Sleepover that we had to have to prepare us for Cub Camp in May. What a fantastic afternoon and night it was too. In all we had 24 cubs sleepover and 6 Leaders/Helpers.
The object of the weekend was to have the cubs learn to think ‘outside the square’, think creatively and put this in situations that would help develop their character and personality. All I can say is that after the weekend I am now seeing some of our quieter Cubs in a totally different light. No more will they suck us in to think they are ‘meek and mild’ – Ha!
After fearing the we would be in trouble due to wet conditions. We were able to come up with games that were indoors. There is nothing like a game of indoor bean bag hockey to get the cubs fired up and working together. The timing worked well, as Jason from the QLD Theatre Company arrived just before 1, and he stayed after seeing our charges going nuts!
Jason was great fun, he worked our Cubs hard. He was able to build our Cubs up from a series of basic games to some really hard activities that stretched some of the Cubs. Initially the first activity was to walk around the den and stop when told. After a while he started to add a Clap and a Jump. The Cubs had to do the actions spoken and freeze when told. This was fairly easy for most of our cubs, but that was just the start of some hard work ahead.
Next Jason made the Cubs do the opposite to what he was asking. So he took the first game and turned it around. Whenever he said Clap, they had to jump. When he said Stop they had to continue walking. It was fun to watch and in the end he was able to eliminate all Cubs to 1.
From here we went into a game of ‘Get to know you’. Jason had all cubs and a leader – me – sit on the ground in teams. In the centre he put up a sheet, he then got a team member from each side of the sheet to stand and when revealed say the name of the cubs on the other side. Great game and it will be something we will do again to help the other Cubs learn each others names.
The next activity was to have a conversation, but the twist was to continually talk over the top of the other, and not to laugh. It was amazing to see how many cubs could talk – some underwater. The ones that I thought would be great failed, while our quieter Cubs succeeded. I did well here too as did our every talkative secretary – Yvette.
After this we had a game where the cubs were being interviewed, and the only response was ‘sausage’. The object was to make the Cub being questioned laugh. Some were surprisingly good, but the best was when Raksha got caught out tricking her son LMc, and then realising she had to get up and be interviewed.
Continuing on the Cubs then were giving another interview task to explain an imaginary item. Jason was interviewing and asking questions one Cub – KP – certainly went the extra distances. Purple elephants in a huge box, that ended up having tigers, with a stove to cook Jason. He had us laughing. Others took the mickey out of Bagheera.
It certainly was a great session. The cubs and us leaders got a heap out of it. We will do it again in the future. The best bit was being able to give our cubs a task after Jason had left to come up with their own skits. They were tasked with getting a piece of clothing and a prop, and in teams of four create a skit. See the results in the videos below.
After this we settled into Pizza for dinner, made popcorn, set for bed and watched ‘The Sorcerer’s Apprentice’, ‘Jimmy Neutron’ and ‘Up’. By 11:30 all Leaders were crashing, but the Cubs wanted more, as always. However, it was getting late and we had to be up early for the big Sleepover Breakfast, pack up and go home.
Sleepovers are fun, and we will be doing another in the 2nd half of the year. What theme will we come up with next?
A Game we played.
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