Category Pfadfinder scouts

Being Kind to Birds and Possums

Our Pfadfinder Cubs enjoyed another great evening organised by Venturer Scout Amelia. One week, Amelia helped the cubs to make delicious and rainbow coloured unicorn fudge. She is passionate about the environment and caring for animals, so this week she…

Our Own Floriade

Organisations across Canberra were invited to host a little bit of Floriade in their own communities in 2020. Our venturer scouts had recently designed, created and installed window boxes for us, so we had the perfect spot for some Spring…

Milk Carton Pizza Ovens

The Pfadfinder Joeys had a rather spectacular evening recently, making milk cartons in pizza ovens. First they made their dinner by rolling their pizza ingredients into a wholewheat wrap. This in turn was sealed up in silver tin foil. The…

Pfadfinder Joeys get into Astronomy

The Pfadfinder Joeys (and a few eager parent helpers) were treated to an informative lesson in German about astronomy, by one of our resident astrophysicists, Ashley. There were lots of questions, we learned a lot, and we even got to…

Colour Run with a Twist

The scouts and venturers organised a fun colour run for the joeys and cubs down by Lake Burley Griffin. For a colour run, you don’t put on your best clothes, because along the running route you are going to get…

Pfadfinder Venturers Get Into Astro-photography

We are always up for exploring something new at Pfadfinder. Some of our venturers are keen on space and astronomy, others are keen on photography, others like anything STEM-related and learning something new. So when one of our leaders spotted…

Pfadfinder Guided Nature Tours

Pfadfinder Joeys and Cubs and their families thoroughly enjoyed Tatjana’s amazing tours of Mulligan’s Flat and the Jerrabomberra Wetlands. One evening we visited the Jerrabomberra Wetlands, where our German speaking guide showed us all kinds of things, and had some…