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This is just one way to start off your meetings with a friendly fun greeting.
Source: https://www.scouts.org.uk/activities/opening-a-beaver-meeting/

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Take it further
Design your own opening ceremony, unique to your Colony.

Youth shaped guidance
Young people could take it in turns to lead the ceremony – it doesn’t have to be a grown up calling out the words.

Safety
Contact games and activities: Make sure everyone understands what contact is acceptable, and monitor contact throughout the activity.

Instructions

Why an opening ceremony?
Lots of people find it helpful to have a structure to their meetings, including things like an opening ceremony. An opening ceremony captures people’s attention and gets them ready to listen and join in. This is just one example of an opening ceremony, though. It’s up to you what you do to welcome everyone to your meeting.

Gather logs
1. The person leading the opening should call out ‘Beavers, gather logs!’
2. Everyone should get into a big circle around the leader and hold hands. They should leave plenty of space in the middle of the circle.
3. The person leading the opening should call out ‘Build a dam!’
4. Everyone should raise their joined hands. They should take five big steps into the middle of the circle, towards the person leading the opening. With each step, they should say one letter of the word ‘hello’ to spell it out.
5. Once they’ve taken their fifth step and said ‘o’, everyone should let go of each other’s hands and wave to each other.
6. The person leading the opening should reply ‘Hello Beaver Scouts!’
7. Everyone should stay in the circle while the person leading the activities welcomes them and tells them what they’ll be doing in the meeting.


Reflection
- Young people could take it in turns to lead the ceremony – it doesn’t have to be a grown up calling out the words.Opening ceremonies are a great chance for everyone to come together and think about what it means to be part of a Colony with friends, as well as being a local, national, and international citizen. Everyone should get into pairs or groups of three, and talk about why Beaver Scouts have an opening ceremony. How does it make them feel? It might help people to feel connected to the worldwide family of Scouts, or to their friends closer to home, and it can also be a chance to think about their Promise and how they’ll do their best at Beavers today.


Change the level of challenge
It’s up to you what word you spell – some people spell out ‘Beavers’ or the name of their Group. Other people choose to use a song or a flag in their opening ceremonies.

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