Submitted by:
Becky Vincent
Guelph area Guider-at-Large
currently e-mailing from rvincent@deerinet.nb.ca
come visit my Guiding Resource Centre:
http://www.uoguelph.ca/~rvincent/guiding.htm
Have a tournament. We did this a couple of years ago at Camp Woolsey during
the LIT week. Teams of girls made cardboard horses (basically a cardboard box,
worn like how you see in comic books a person wears a barrel when they've lost their
clothes) (hope that made sense), with a cardboard cut-out head and tail attached to
each end. Girls wore cardboard armor and "jousted", riding these horses and using
pool noodles as lances. We also had an archery contest (using nerf bows and arrows
although with that age group real bows and arrows would've been OK too). Also a
quarterstaff contest and swordfights, complete with cardboard-decorated shields and
half pool-noodles attached to a wooden handle as swords. What great fun! There were
prizes for the girls who "won" (judging the contests wasn't always easy, though).