Welcome to the Pond!
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As Beaver Scouts, you get to discover your world by exploring a map of the Pond. Embark on adventures like camping, hiking, playing games and even having campfires—all the while making great new friends along the way!
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Each symbolic area on the map provides an opportunity to plan, learn and review the six program areas of Scouting: Environment & Outdoors, Leadership, Active & Healthy Living, Citizenship, Creative Expression and Beliefs & Values. By brainstorming with your Beaver Lodge or Colony, you will discuss what kinds of adventures to explore in each different place at the Pond. For example, you may want to visit Hawkeye’s Campfire on the map, which calls for planning a campfire and special ceremony; or perhaps you’d like to try your hand at Echo’s Mountain, which involves an Outdoor Adventure Skills activity.
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Beavers are a creative bunch, and you will love sharing ideas and learning with your friends!
Beaver Scouts
(5 - 7 years of age)
Beavers offers fun adventures for boys and girls ages 5 – 7 allowing them to discover new things and experiences they wouldn’t find elsewhere. We know that young people thrive in safe surroundings. Therefore we are committed to ensuring that Scouting provides the most secure environment possible for learning, development and fun.
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Adventures
Beaver Scouts take the lead in deciding what program areas they will pursue. Taking charge, the youth will organize ways to achieve these goals, and will collectively reflect on their experience after the goal is met. With support from adult Scouters, this “Plan-Do-Review” method is one of the many ways that the Canadian Path can help youth develop into critical thinkers, extend their personal progression, and encourage active participation in an inclusive team dynamic.
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Typical Adventures that our Beavers like to pursue:
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Camping
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Sleeping with Dinosaurs at the Royal Tyrrell Museum
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Swimming
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Sailing
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STEM activities such as:
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Bottle Rockets​
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Making Slime
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Building cardboard forts
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Exploring the night sky
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Fund raising for the humane society​
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Community clean up
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Our year end Beaver camp is always a highlight among our youth. Past popular themes have been Star Wars, Harry Potter, How to train you dragon, and mad science.
Achievements
Personal Achievement Badges are designed to allow youth to explore and expand skills and knowledge in areas that are of particular interest to them.
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In The Canadian Path, Personal Achievement Badges are strictly optional. They are not a core part of the program, and they are not an essential part of a youth’s personal progression. Personal Achievement Badges are not a requirement for any Top Section Award. It is recognized that activities outside of Scouting add to youth’s growth in the SPICES and to their personal progression. No one comes to Scouting as an empty vessel.
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Working on Personal Achievement Badges allows youth to further develop individual interests and skills and to have that development recognized as part of their growth and progression within The Canadian Path.
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Find out more about the achievements your youth can earn:
http://www.scouts.ca/program/canadianpath/beaver-scouts/personal-achievement/
