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