We
all brought our favourite teddy bear with us and began our
sleepover by introducing our bear, telling a little about
the bear and its name.
We
made the pony bead bear from Making
Friends except instead of a red shirt, we made
the bear shirt pink for Sparks.
While
the girls were working on the craft, the Ranger Helper gathered
up all the Teddy Bears and hid them in the sleeping room.
The girls, armed with their flashlights, proceeded to the
sleeping room which had the lights out, and the girls searched
for their bear. The rules were they were only allowed to find
their own bear and if they found someone else's bear, they
were not allowed to tell the girl where it was.
Once
all the girls had located their bears, we placed them on a
sheet and we each took hold of a side of the sheet and tossed
the teddy bears into the air. This led to a number of games:
- Hot
Teddy: The bears were not allowed to touch any
of the girls so the girls had to lift the sheet up to
keep the bears away from them
- Teddy
Go: Had to get all the bears off of the sheet.
- Teddy
Stay: Had to keep all the bears on the sheet
for a count of 20.
This
was a carry over from the Teddy Bear Toss.
We did not use a real parachute but instead the bed sheet
we had used for the Teddy Bear Toss.
We played a number of games:
- The
girls all made the sheet move in a wave motion. The Leader
called out the name of two Sparks and the two Sparks whose
name was called had to crawl under the waving sheet and
change places.
- The
girls all kneeled down on the ground and held onto the
sheet with the sheet touching the ground. On the count
of three they all lifted their hands over the head thereby
making the sheet arch up. The girls then got inside and
let the sheet come down on top of them.
We
borrowed the Pathfinder's indoor campfire which is a log cabin
fire with a red light bulb in the middle. We set the campfire
in the middle of the circle and sang Bear Songs and Christmas
Carols.
- Yogi
Bear
- The
Bear Song
- Modified
"Going on a Lion Hunt" to "Going on a Bear
Hunt".
A
traditional camp snack was smores. We placed chocolate chip
cookies on a cookie sheet, placed four mini-marshmallows on
top of the cookies and placed them in the oven for 5 minutes
at 350 degrees. When the tops of the marshmallows were brown,
we placed another chocolate chip cookie on top and placed
them in the oven for another 2 minutes.
