As it's the summer break, but not like we know, we decided to club together with 1st and 4th Barnehurst Rainbows to run three weeks of international themed activities.We'll be uploading PDFs of the activities to our downloads page, so feel free to use what you fancy :DAt the end of the summer, any of… Continue reading International Themed Summer Fun
Over the last two weeks we have have played lots of drawing games, we did some A to Z challenges to see if we could name animals and countries with every letter of the alphabet!! The countries gave us ideas for where we could go, and we're going to go exploring the world over the… Continue reading Drawing, Games, and Balance
Since lock-down started, we have been providing girls in our unit (and our sister units; 1st and 4th Barnehurst Rainbows) with as normal a programme as possible. It's been wonderful; a real challenge for us as leaders to think outside the box, but we've been able to continue seeing the girls, we've seen parents getting… Continue reading Thank you
Over 5 weeks we worked on this challenge badge - culminating in a tea party with our teddies and family. Here you can see the four preparation weeks and the documents we shared for this... Be Our GuestDownload Sparkle and ShineDownload Odd-jobs and fixer uppers & safe and soundDownload GreenfingersDownload If you want to see… Continue reading Virtual Guiding – Home Sweet Home
We've hosted two virtual sleepovers with our Rainbows. This was our first one, we'd like to share the resources we used from this event. We sent out on the Friday morning the timetable for the sleepover, the instructions for the Friday evening as a PDF as well so they could see them in advance and… Continue reading Virtual Guiding – The BIG 5 Sleepover Challenge
We had such an awesome sleepover!! We were joined by 41 Rainbows across the three units for a night of princess fun. We met yesterday at 5:30pm - kicked off our sleepover and got excited about all of the activities we could try. We then helped to cook dinner and made our dens and even… Continue reading Princess Fun Sleepover
During lockdown we've had our first virtual sleepover and we're about to host our second. As we finished our first sleepover we asked girls what theme they would like for the next one. They were unanimous!! Disney Princesses and it HAD to have a badge. The Leaders searched high and low for a cool badge… Continue reading It’s Princess Time
Last night we trialled our very first virtual Rainbow meeting... It went well, and the 16 girls that joined seemed to enjoy themselves too. So how did it work, what did we do and what have we learned? Our plan of attack - we used Zoom, Cloudy has actually paid for the monthly contract as… Continue reading Virtual Guiding Week 1
