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Description

From the Scouts website: https://www.scouts.org.uk/activities/honey-makes-the-world-go-round/

In this game, everyone will become a bee and go out to collect as much nectar as they can to bring back to their hive. But bees always work together, so they’ll then play again with a new rule that emphasises sharing and looking out for others. They’ll finish off by chatting about what this looks like in real life.

Resources

You will need
Something to mark lines (for example, chalk, masking tape, or rope)
Bowls
Small items to collect (for example, bean bags or spoons)

Instructions

Before you begin
Mark out a large hexagon on the floor – make it as big as possible. This is the game area.
Gather around 30 items to be the nectar – you could use balls, bean bags, spoons, or anything else you have lots of. Spread the items out inside the hexagon.
Place a bowl on each corner of the hexagon, these will be the beehives. Washing up bowls work well.

Step 1: Honey for your hive
Everyone should split into six teams of bees. Each team should sit behind a beehive.
Each team member should number themselves. If the teams aren’t quite even, one person should take two numbers.
The person leading the activity should call out one of the numbers. The bee from each team with this number should stand up and run to collect one piece of nectar at a time to bring back to their hive.
After around 30 seconds, or once the nectar has all run out, the person leading the game should shout ‘stop!’. All the bees should return to their hives and count how much nectar they collected.
Someone should spread all the nectar out in the large hexagon, so the game can start again.
Everyone should keep playing until every bee has gone out foraging at least once.

Step 2: Share the honey
The person leading the game should explain that bees collect nectar from flowers. As they collect nectar, they also collect and spread pollen, pollinating flowers so that more flowers grow. The bees need to collect as much nectar as they can to support their hive, but if other bee colonies didn’t have enough, there wouldn’t be as many great plants and flowers. It’s in every bee’s interest to make sure all the other bees have enough to go around.
The person leading the game should explain the new rule: every time a bee comes back with some nectar, they must check on the hive to their left. If that beehive has less nectar than their own, they should give their nectar to that beehive.
Everyone should play again with the new rule. This time, the aim of the game is to make sure that all the beehives have enough nectar

Step 3: Chat about the challenge
Everyone should chat about the game. You could remind people that:
Scouts make a Promise to do their best to be kind and helpful, to help other people, or to act with compassion towards all life.
Just like the bees, we need to help and look after those around us.
We might choose to share our time, friendship, food or money with others if we have more than we need and someone else doesn’t.
Helping others has always been a part of Scouts. The Thrifty Man Badge from 1916 was all about saving things up and helping other people – and it had a picture of a bee on it!

Tags

• beaver
• team game

Badge Links

• Money Skills - Decisions
• Teamwork - Team game