Reach for the Stars 2025
Welcome to Reach for the Stars 2025
1st – 2nd February 2025
Reach for the stars is our virtual weekend camp for Beaver Scouts!
Register now using the link in the registration section.
Most links will only become active during the event
Click on the link for the Reach For The Stars Joining pack: Reach for the Stars 2025 joining pack
Watch Opening video HERE
Upload your Reach for the Stars photos by clicking HERE
View the gallery of photos HERE
Download your My Group sheet for use with your photos My Group
Download the poster invite for your group: RFTS 2025 poster invite
How does it work?
The camp has five activity zones. Beavers should aim to complete at least one challenge from each zone!
- Science
- Cooking
- Craft
- Scout Skills
- Adventure
You can do as many as you want – there is no limit! Reach for the stars!
The activities will be available after the welcome video at 10am and will stay open all weekend. Do as many as you can and upload a picture of you joining in (First name and group only – no surnames)! How much can you achieve in the weekend. Send your pictures to your own Colony social media or leaders as well as to the whole county photo gallery so you can contribute to the big picture of the weekend.
Join us for the virtual campfires in the evening with your smores and blanket.
And, of course, because it is a camp, you can’t sleep in a nice comfy bed – time to catch some ZZZZs in a den or a tent – whatever your space allows 🙂
Reach for the Stars will run from 10am on Saturday 1st February 2025 until 4pm on Sunday 2nd February 2025 Taking part in Reach for the Stars costs nothing! You just need to sign up and join in. Reach for the Stars badges will dispatched after the event and may be worn on uniform for 3 months. If you are not from Surrey Scouts and you would like a badge, it will cost £3 for the badge and postage. Details of purchase will available in the joining pack.
Beavers need to be registered for the event by their parents/carers/guardians. Each Beaver needs to be registered separately so if you have two Beavers in your family, they will need to be registered separately. This will allow for the correct number of badges to be dispatched. Leaders may wish organise a Beaver sleepover/camp to coincide with Reach for the Stars. If so, please ensure participants are registered individually. Leaders can request details of activities in advance to ensure they have resources available. Please email tracey.daniell@surrey-scouts.org.uk
The camp starts with an opening video at 10am. Members are then invited to set up their camp and make it as awesome as possible. Activities are then available for Beavers to join in with at their own pace. Beavers need to do at least one activity from each zone but Beavers can do as many of them as they wish. You can upload pictures and videos of the Beavers doing them to the Reach for the Stars website. Beavers can colour this My Group sheet with their scarf colour and hold it in photos. Please remember to only use first name and group name (no surnames please). There will be a closing video at 4pm Sunday 2nd February but the activities will remain open for those still joining in. Most links will only become active during the event Watch the opening ceremony HERE Watch the story time HERE at 5pm Saturday Watch the campfire HERE at 7pm Saturday Watch the Closing message HERE at 4pm Sunday Visit the Activities sections of this event to find what is on offer.
Reach for the Stars 2025 Information
Reach for the Stars 2025 Registration
Reach for the Stars 2025 Programme
Day
Morning and afternoon
Evening
Saturday
10am – Opening video. Learn to sign the Beaver Promise, Activities
5pm Story time
Activity Zones: Science – Cooking – Craft – Scout Skills – Adventure
7pm – Camp fire
Sunday
Activity Zones: Science – Cooking – Craft – Scout Skills – Adventure
Closing message 4pm
Reach for the Stars 2025 Activities
There is a lot going on at Reach for the Stars and you can make it fit to the time you have and what you want to do.
Each activity sheet tells you what you need to do and has links to the Beaver badges that it will help Beavers to achieve. This will be useful information to pass on to leaders so that they can tick off the relevant badges. Make sure that you supply them with some evidence of the activity being completed
Most links will only become active during the event
Opening video HERE
Learn to sign your Beaver Promise HERE
Science:
An exciting tour around the senses!
- Touchy experiments – Instructions: Science_touch
- Smelly experiments – Instructions: Science_smell
- Sound-based experiments – Instructions: Science_sound making music and Science_sound panpipes
- Vision-based experiments – Instructions: Science Senses Sight
- Taste-based experiments – Instructions: Science_taste
and then, as a bonus:
- Gasses – Instructions: Science_gasses lemonade, Science_gasses fire and Science_gasses growth
- Chemistry – Instructions: Science_felt tip pen chromatography and Science_cabbage water indicator
- Forces – Instructions: Science_Forces balloon rocket
Cooking:
- Pancake bites – Instructions: Pancake Bites Watch the video HERE
- Armpit fudge – Instructions: Armpit Fudge
- Banana ice cream – Instructions: Banana Icecream - Watch the video HERE
- Chocolate cookies – Instructions: Chocolate Cookies
- Easy scones – Instructions: Easy Scones
- Easy cheese straws – Instructions: Easy Cheese Straws
- French bread pizza – Instructions: French Bread Pizzas
Craft:
- Poi making – Instructions: Poi making – Watch the video HERE
- Baked bean art – Instructions: Baked bean Art
- Marble maze – Instructions: Marble Maze and Marble Run Lego instructions – Watch video HERE
- Egg box helicopters – Instructions: Egg box helicopter – Watch the video HERE
- Magic pictures – Instructions: Magic Pictures
- Bubble snake – Instructions: Bubble Snake
- Mosquito making – Instructions: Craft Mosquitoes– Watch the video HERE Download the poster: Craft Mosquitoes poster
- Pasta Skeletons – Instructions: Pasta skeleton – Watch the video HERE
- How to draw a Beaver Instructions: How to draw a Beaver
- Paper Marbling Instructions: Paper Marbling
Scout Skills:
- Bee Hotel – Instructions: Bee Hotel
- Edible pioneering – Instructions: Edible Pioneering
- Lolly stick catapults – Instructions: Lolly Stick Catapult
- Mini rafts – Instructions: Mini Rafts
- Shelter building – Instructions: Shelter Building
- Marshmallow Launcher – Instructions: Marshmallow Launcher
- Bird Feeder – Instructions: Bird Feeder
- Emergency Aid – Instructions: Emergency Aid
- Camp donuts – Instructions: Camp Donuts
Adventure:
- Scavenger hunt – Instructions: Scavenger Hunt
- Tracking – Instructions: Tracking activity
- Leaf spotter – Instructions: Leaf Spotter
- Hike away – Instructions: Hike Away!
- Obstacle course – Instructions: Obstacle Course
- Forest Animals – Instructions: Forest Animal
- Geocaching – Instructions: Explore Geocaching
- Fly a Kite – Instructions: Fly a Kite
- Cardboard Den – Instructions: Cardboard City Den
Extras
- Story time – Watch HERE
Colouring competition
Show us your colouring skills! Download and print this image and upload a picture of your finished version into the special colouring competition link.
Download and print the image Beaver Colouring Sheet
Upload your colouring completion entry HERE. Participants should upload colouring comp pics with first name and colony name.