The purpose of the Animals Award is to introduce Eager Beavers to a few of the amazing creatures God created. The focus of this award is on the animals that live in the zoo. Although my local zoo is home to a family of beavers, we focused more on exotic animals. (Which might include the…
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Road Safety – Sunbeams
The purpose of the Road Safety Award is to help kids learn to be safer on the road. This award covers a range of related topics from walking on the road to safely riding in a vehicle. Parents and kids often fight about the topics covered in this award, and I believe that the more…
Friend of Jesus – Sunbeams
Our mission in Adventurers in to introduce young kids to Jesus. We want them to find an amazing friendship with Him. With the combined focus on friendships and on Jesus, this is a great award to start your year off. And it’s an ideal award for anytime of the year! This award is a requirement…
Beavers Award Redux – Eager Beavers
Beavers are such an amazing species! Did you know they are a keystone species? I enjoyed learning about beavers while planning this award so much. Hopefully, you and your Eager Beavers will also enjoy learning about Beavers. I have two options for the Beavers Award. We do things a little differently in my club when…
Left & Right – Eager Beavers
Left & Right is an optional award for Eager Beavers. The concepts of Left and Right are being learned at this age. Some Eager Beavers will have studied left and right in school already and will enjoy revisiting the topic. And for others this may still be a newer concept. Story: Left or Right? A…
Buttons Award: Busy Bee
Buttons is a fun crafty award for Busy Bees. Busy Bees awards are often a bit light on crafts, so I really appreciate this crafty award in the year’s mix of awards. Although this optional award will fit nicely anywhere in year, I chose to make the button craft a Christmas tree ornament and scheduled…
Thankful Heart – Eager Beavers
Thankful Heart is a lovely newer award for Eager Beavers. It’s so new, that if you find all of your award information from your manual, or clubministries.org, you may not have even heard of it yet! You can find the requirements at AdventSource and in the Adventurer Strong app. (Do you have the app? It’s…
Memory book: You Are Mine
I love creating a memory book for each child in Adventurers. As a parent, I adore not having more random pieces of paper laying around the house, and I enjoy paging through the binder and remembering the cute things my kids did. As a director, I love getting text messages a few days after investiture…
Playing with Friends – Eager Beavers
What is a friend? And more importantly, how do we make friends and treat them well? In this award, Eager Beavers learn about about friendship. We placed this award at the very beginning of the year in an effort to kickstart some wonderful new friendships in our club this year. Making friends and treating people…
Whale Award: Sunbeams
Whales are such awe-inspiring animals, and I am so excited we have an award focused on them! For the whale award, you will want to choose one specific type of whale to learn about – any whale will be an interesting choice. We choose the blue whale. Although most of the activities in this post…