Meeting: 5 Feb - Flintstone cars

This week Quintessa planned a pioneering programme that ended with the patrols making Flintstone cars. For those of you that don't remember, Flintstone cars are cars that you power with your feet.

We were donated big rollers many years ago and decided to bring them out to try this project again. Quintessa built a model that the scouts had to copy which made it very easy for them to know the design they were required to build. The design was very solid and each patrol could easily build it from what we had in the hall.

Both cars were very successful and wheeled their way across the floor very well. Everyone had a great time.

 
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Meeting: 22 January - First Aid

First aid is a very important part of scouting but sometimes it can feel a bit boring. So at Adiero we always try and mix things up a bit.

This week we did First Aid with the First Class scouts explaining and demonstrating some first aid to injuries such as Hypothermia, Sprains and Dehydration. After this our Explorer scout demonstrated how to deal with spinal injuries and place someone on a stretcher. This is not a one person job and the whole troop got involved.

After this we did some thing fun - we made fake wounds! If you'd like to know how it's done you can check out this Wikihow link. The scouters all brought old make-up and we had Vaseline, toilet paper and plastic wounds that we got to try out. It was great fun and everyone ended up with some horrific wound on some part of their body.

The hardest part not getting the make-up, Vaseline and fake blood on our scout uniforms when we needed to get changed again.

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Rafting Camp - Nov 2015

On our last camp for the year we decided to go on a rafting camp to Arrowe Park and do some fun rafting.

We camped with 1st Peter Place and 1st Benato and had a great time. We spent the first part of Saturday building our small movable rafts. This was a great training exercise for all those who had never build a raft before. We then had a series of bases where we could test our raft mobility.

After bases we had a Jedi fighting base where two rafts faced off and were joined by a plank. Members of each team were given pool noodles and had to knock their opponent off the plank. This was lots of fun and each team would challenge other team members, including the scouters!

Another base was catapult building where scouts were given staves, ropes and water balloons and were tasked at building catapults that could hit scouters 5m away.

Dinner that night was another Dutch Oven Cooking experiment where we made pizza! This was such a success and definitely something to be repeated.

This camp was a great fun, relaxing camp and definitely something we will do again. Thanks to all the scouts who attended and to 1st Peter Place and 1st Benato for camping with us and inviting us to a great weekend.

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