Explorers Kids Club: Ocean Adventure 2012
Hello, After much planning we’ve spent the last week actually running Explorers Kids Club: Ocean Adventure. I think we’ve had more fun than the children. I even got to dress up as Brown Beard (or pink beard as the children say) the Pirate. Each day we started off by singing our theme song with the actions. Then we performed a short drama based around a mini theme like ‘helpfulness’. In one drama Olly the Octopus got stuck in the seaweed and his friends had to help him get free. We also ran lots of games throughout the morning and some of the parachute games like...
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Messy Hands plus Paint plus Kids Decoration Preparation plus Musical instruments equals…More messy hands…? It’s been a busy week for theExplorer’s kids club Team, as we have been busy, busy, busy with drawing, painting, cutting and pasting animals that will be ready for the decoration preparation on Sunday. This week has been a wonderful and creative experience. Early on in the week we went to Plymouth Music Zone and experienced a range of samba and unusual instruments. Plymouth Music zone is a community music organisation that provide opportunities for people of all...
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Explorers Kids Club; come and play! So Kids Club was an absolute blast; we had an amazing week with the kids – we hope they had an amazing week and we learnt so much along the way!! After all the preparation the jungle themed games ran brilliantly the firm favorite being ‘stuck in the monkey dung’. Each day was hosted by Eddie the Explorer (myself) and Alex the Alligator to start we acted out a short drama to illustrate the theme with jungle characters like Mandy the Monkey and Penelope the Piranha. We sang the theme tune every day with the kids (not just with the kids though it was...
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Excitement is building in the house everyday as Kids Club gets closer. This week has been dedicated to Kids Club prep and we are currently frantically painting, drawing and creating props for our Jungle decor as well as fitting in all our last minute tasks. We have come up with a changing decor day by day for the week so each day, something new will be added to the Decor. The decor will also reflect our theme for each day with a picture of the main character from our daily drama and the theme stuck on above the character. We have recently had a Jungle themed night where we performed our...
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Recently we began planning for one of our community events which will be SWEAT’s first ever February half term Kids Club. We, as students, have the opportunity to plan and run a half term kids club which will run for 5 days from 9:30 – 12 with a prize giving morning on the Saturday where each child who attended will receive a free prize. We’ve been busy coming up with a theme, advertising ideas, leaflets and posters. We’ve been very busy but we are all learning about time management and growing our capacities and, most importantly, putting into practice what we learnt in our master...
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South West Equipping and Training (SWEAT) is a Christian run leadership training school based in Plymouth. With a focus on character development we offer a one year accredited course for people over 18 who want to further develop their leadership skills. Our heart is to bring people to the South West to train and for them to return to their places of work, churches and families as strong leaders with solid characters.