8. Year of the Dog

Resources

Time 

• Chinese Food
• Craft materials
• Chinese Scout Promise
• Drum
• Chairs
• Something to act as a paddle, such as broom handles

One meeting.

Programme Spark

Chinese New Year takes place on Friday 16th February this year and 2018 is the Year of the Dog.

Celebrate this international festival with your Section using some of these suggestions:

• Cook and taste traditional Chinese food.
• Make a Chinese lantern.
• Create a Chinese Dragon and perform a dragon dance.
• Have a go at some origami.
• Learn to speak some Chinese, including their Scout Promise.
• Indoor Dragon Boating. 
• Along with anything else you can think of.

Adapting for each Section

Badge Links

This activity is accessible to all Sections.

You could gather the views of the Section beforehand to find out how they would like to celebrate the festival, using some of the ideas from the YouShape resources. 

Beavers

• International
• World Challenge

Cubs

• International
• World Challenge

Scouts

• International
• World Challenge

Explorers

• International