The Evenings

Every evening is different at Guides. Unlike Brownies we get to choose what we would like to do for each term in a brain storming session. We play games, complete quizzes, Ready Steady Cook , make pancakes, biscuits, Christmas cake, have parties and hold fashion shows. We have even made bird food, held debates and much more.

Go-for-its

Most activities are based around badges or Go-for-its that we are working on. A Go-for-it is a credit card shaped card which you gain once you have completed a certain number of activities after a certain period of time. Currently we are working on the Make Poverty History Go-for-it, but previously we have completed the Party Go-for-it, Wildlife Go-for-it, Chocolate Go-for-it and other ones in our patrols.

The Make Poverty History Go-for-it was designed by the Faringdon Guides. We have to complete various clauses under the following headings: Trade, Debt, Fair Trade and Aid. In our trade evening, we performed plays to explain what trade is. Trade is the art of buying and selling goods. We talked about the G8 Summit which is a conference with the 8 richest country’s world leaders. They were discussing what they would do about the debt that the poorer countries were in. For fair trade, we went down to Waitrose to see how many fair trade products we could find. We found fair trade honey, fruit, coffee, tea, chocolate, sugar, cereal bars and hot chocolate. Fair trade is aiming to give the workers who made the raw materials an equal pay to the company who sells it.

We then organized a Ready Steady Cook, fair trade style. We all used fair trade food items in our dishes.

Mango and Avocado Salad Chocolate Bananas Chocolate Brownies

Fair Trade chocolate Fruit kebabs Fruit kebabs

Some of our Exotic Evenings

We recently held a beauty evening, where we put together some recipes for face masks and other treatments. Here are some of the pictures taken.

Face masks Application of face masks

The Ingredients Nail oil

Pancake Day

As Guides we like to cook our pancakes differently. We use tin cans and candles. If you want to make a tin can frying pan clean an old baked bean tin, take off the wrapper so you are left with the shiny surface. Cut two squares opposite each other out of the top and puncture the bottom with scissors about five times. Now turn the tin upside-down. Take some wire and loop it around the new top and create a handle. Now light a candle and place the tin over it. Use oil or butter to make sure the pancake mixture does not stick to the tin. Start cooking! Our young leaders cooked some frying pan pancakes in case ours did not succeed.

Tin can pancake Frying pan pancake

Raising Money

As well as doing things for ourselves we raise money for camp and outings that we may go on. In the past we have made Christmas decorations for the Dickensian evening.

Fund Raising for Jubilee House

Recently we had a fancy dress keep fit session, in which we did salsa dancing. We all had to raise a minimum of £10 to go towards rebuilding Jubilee House. Jubilee House is where Brownies go on Pack Holidays and Guides sometimes camp in the grounds. The building was in desperate need of repair and the facilities were required to be upgraded.