Panning for Gold
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Description
Get Beavers/Cubs to pan for gold whilst on Wild West Camp
Resources
Water container such as a child's paddling pool. To run the activity indoors, a large bucket for each lodge with the floor protected by old towels.
Gold pans or plastic or metal camping plates/bowls.
Fill with a mixture of sand, grit and water add a few pieces of fool's gold and/or smooth fragments of coloured glass.
Instructions
Get the Beavers/Cubs around the paddling pool and show then how to pan for gold. Then get them to try. Do in Lodges/sixes can they find the gold before the other teams.
Weigh the gold each lodge has found at the end.
Tags
- gold
- Pancake
- panning for gold
- Wild west
Badge Links
- Teamwork - Challenge
- Teamwork - Team game
- Teamwork - Team game
- Teamwork - Team-building