2013-10-12 – Philpotts @ Joydens Wood

beaversIt poured with rain Friday and poured with rain on Sunday but on Saturday it was dry and reasonably warm luckily for us. So 11 Philpott Beavers, their Leaders and a couple of very keen parents descended on Joydens Wood for an afternoon of ‘Fun in the Mud’.

Thanks to Sainsburys Active kids vouchers we all had brand new magnifying glasses to study the various mini-beasts we found and get a close up view of acorns, chestnuts, leaves and fungi.

A quick break for a drink & biscuit then bark rubbings and of to find all the new wooden statues of soldiers, a woodpecker, bats and a dormouse but still we couldn’t find the owl. Good reason for a return visit.

At 4pm covered in mud and exhausted all the Beavers went home enthusiastically trying to tell their parents all about it in one long breath.

Many Thanks to Becky, Marie, Davida & Maisie who joined in all the fun with us.