Week 1 - Jan 9th
Discuss new promise and colouring-in sheet with new words
printed in grey for Rainbows to ink over. - Frank
to print
Make Rainbow Spoon Puppets. - Frank
spoons - Coralie Tabards, hair etc.
Self portraits for web site
Rainbow Chat about Christmas - Linda
Play Hokey Kokey - Linda
(Planning meeting 1 hour before Rainbows and 1
hour after)
Week 2 - Jan 16th
Scottish Evening to be continued next week
Story of Bonnie Prince Charlie - Jo to bring book
in
Shortbread or oat somethings! - Coralie to bring in
Nessie wide game - "Small World" page 14 -
Thistle Mosaic from "Small World" page 13 - Frank
to Print - Coralie to bring in
Letter to remind Rainbows to bring in tartan next week and get permission
for the Rainbows to taste haggis, neeps and tatties! - Frank
to do letter
Week 3 - Jan 23rd
Burns' Night - Taste Haggis, neeps and tatties - Coralie
to prepare and bring in
Poem - Robbie Burns' "To a Mouse" - Coralie
Indoor Golf - Coralie to bring in
Scottish Dancing - Jo
Week 4 - Jan 30th
Chinese New Year - "Year of the Monkey"
Little red boxes - "Small World" page 6
Willow Pattern paper plates - "Small World" page 7
Paper Lanterns - "Small World" page 82
Prawn crackers, chop sticks and fortune cookies - Coralie
to provide and bring in
Week 5 - Feb 6th
New
Zealand National Day - New Zealand Rainbows are called "Pippins" -
"Pippins care and Pippins share with other
children everywhere"
Maori Sticks game - "Small World" - page 10 - Get sticks from
Guides
Cross stitching - Silver Fern, (NZ national emblem) - Linda
Pom-poms - Jo to bring in wool - Linda
organising
French knitting - Frank to make bobbins - Jo to
bring in wool
Letter home about next weeks Valentine's disco and tea.
Week 6 - Feb 13th
Valentine's
evening
Game "I Sent a Letter to my Love"
Laminated place mats
Decorate Heart biscuits or clay hanging hearts on ribbons
Week 7 - Feb 20th
Half Term - No meeting
Week 8 - Feb 27th
Pancake Day - (Shrove Tuesday 24th February)
Talk about the meaning of Shrove Tuesday and why we have pancakes
Pancakes - Rainbows to make the batter - Fillings lemon, sugar and/or syrup
Pancake races
Talk about "Thinking Day", Feb 22nd - Candles
Start taking digital photos for use on "Mother's Day" cakes
Week 9 - March 5th
St David's
Day - Patron Saint of Wales - (1st March)
Rainbow Chat
Cardboard Daffodils - "Seasonal Suggestions" page 6
Decorate plant pots with daffodils
Welsh Flag puzzle
Week 10 - March 12th
St
Patrick's Day - Patron Saint of Ireland
Rainbow crossword puzzle - "Small World" pages 33 & 92
Parachute Games
Giant dominoes and "snakes and ladders"
(May need to swap weeks for swimming gala)
Saturday - March 13th -
Reigate Division Rainbows - "Finding Nemo" afternoon in
Reigate - Numbers to Coralie by 27th Feb - £2 per Rainbow
Week 11 - March 19th
Mothers Day - Cakes with "Self Portraits" on
- Frank to Print - Coralie
to bring in Cellophane, ribbon, heart tags
Cards with photograph - Frank to print
Little paper Rainbows for colouring in when helpful at home
Sunday - March 21st -
Mothering Sunday Church Parade
Week 12 - March 26th
Indian
Festival of Colours - "Holi"
Story of Holi
Indian Rainbows are called cub-bulbuls, they wear yellow T-shirts and blue
shorts.
Microwave Puppodums, Simosas etc.
Ribbon streamers and/or bangles - "Rainbow Promise Pack" page 24
Jo to bring in her sari to show the Rainbows
Week 13 - April 2nd
Easter Week
Cadbury's Cream Eggs - Linda to buy
Egg hunt - All helpers
Make eggs into Easter bunnies with icing etc. - Coralie in small groups
Easter Bonnets - Jenny and Victoria in small groups
