This week we sat outside in the garden at the Quaker Meeting House - hoorah for early spring! After a short circle time there was a lot of running around by the boys and some tying done by the girls for our tie die T-shirts (we are dying our shirts orange and purple and then will write and draw on them). I sewed buttons on mine in an attempt to look like Apple Blossom (my chosen Woodcraft name, I’m aspiring to be a Misty Mountain and probably more like a Twittering Sparrow so compromised with this one).

We may have hit on our name - Chipmunks (Chattering Chipmunks, Chocolate Chipmunks or similar)!

While we tied and ran about we all came up with Woodcraft names - Sleeping Tiger, Spotty Cheetah, Little Blackbird, Snowflake Star, Dusky Dolphin, Snow Leopard, Polar Bear, Basking Lizard… We’re going to put this together into a mandala at some point by drawing the animals within a circle and I may try to put it on silk for a flag sometime so it’s our group emblem thingy!

We played some parachute games (On the Beach and Sharks) and then listened to the story of the Boy and the Hunter (a story about a boy who grows up with bears).