This year our Pack Holiday takes place at The Jarman Centre, Newmarket, the team consists of myself (Leader in Charge), Sue (Craft Co-Ordinator), Eve and Eve’s Daughter Debbie (Cooks), Sara (First Aider).
18 Brownies, 2 Pack Leaders and 5 Leaders arrived on Monday 2nd April, after completing our On Arrival Checklist, we said Good Bye to Parents. This year we are doing The Penquin Challenge, so after a drink and biscuit we did a Penquin Hunt, to try and identify all 17 Penquins, this hunt took us all over the house, including places that the brownies are not normally allowed, like the kitchen, first aid room and leaders bedroom, this gives them a chance to explore.
Above is our display of penquins, with an igloo with prizes in for the tidiest brownie, best bed space, etc.
We then had tea which was Chicken in White Sauce, Peas and Sweetcorn followed by Chocolate Pudding and Custard. We had our first attempt at washing up.
Then we did a craft and made Penquin needle cases.
Then we had a bedtime drink and went to bed
We got up after a good first night, 11.15pm they were asleep and woke up 6.30am, not bad at all.
We had breakfast of cereal, croissants and toast., and then did our first duties.
The cooks cooked.
Health cleaned the toilets and bathrooms.
Housekeepers cleaned the seating area and prepared Brownies Own.
Waitresses cleaned the dining area.
Then we changed our programme as it was a lovely Morning, and the weather forecast was not good for the rest of the week, we had FREE TIME outside.
They were lovely grounds, we saw squirrels and birds, and lots of out door activities including Trampolines.
After Elevenses we made Mosaic Penquin Coasters
And Decorated Snowflake Spinning Tops
We then had Lunch of Tuna and Cheese Wraps, with Salad and Crisps followed by Fresh Fruit.
We had a Tuckshop in our surprise penquin.
We then made Penquin Snowglobes
We then had for Tea, Fish Fingers and Chips with Peas or Beans followed by Arctic Roll
We then made Boxes
We then had showers and got ready for bed
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We then had a bedtime story before bed
Fairy Day
We had another good night, going to sleep about 10pm and getting up at 7.00am.
Overnight we had rain and the rain continued, so during Wednesday we had to alter the programme.
The Fairy Penquin is the smallest of the Penquins, so we had a Fairy Day, the leaders wore Tiaras and had Wands and we had a sparkly star curtain leading into the main hall.
For Breakfast we had Cereal and Eggy Bread.
Then we did our duties again.
We made Origami Penquins
And decorated Bags to take our goodies home
We decorated Fairy Cakes to have with our packed lunch
Sue and Debbie made an igloo from Ice Cubes
The Brownies then made Marzipan Penquins for the Igloo
We then went out for a walk which was a bit drippy.
This should have led to a outdoor picnic but ended up indoors in a shelter because of the cold and rain
We then spent our money in the shop
Then after continually postponing it because of the weather we eventually got to do our Fairy Trail, the Brownies went out in groups and had to hold hands so as not to get separated, and found Fairy tokens in the grounds.
We then made Fairy Lanterns with twigs collected earlier, the brownies should have collected the twigs but because of the inclement weather Sue collected them.
For Tea we had a full Roast with Roast Pork and Angel Delight (as it was Fairy Day).
Then some Brownies acted out a story, before Bed.
And they were in bed before 9pm!
Birthday Girl
Another good night, and we woke up to a Brownie Birthday. All the presents were laid out on a table for when she woke, some from Brownies and some from her Parents as well as a Penquin Card from the Brownies.
When she woke she opened her presents
Then we had Cereal and Sausage Baps for Breakfast
We then did our duties.
Then during elevenses we had the birthday cake and the candles were blown out, the cake was a Penquin cake lovingly made by Debbie, this was an ongoing project taking all week!
Then as it was a lovely day we decided to go outside and do the activities planned yesterday, but couldn’t complete because of the inclement weather.
So we made Fairy Houses using Natural things
We then made some uncooked sweets for our boxes that we made earlier in the week.
Then for dinner we had Jacket Potatoes, Cheese/Tuna and Salad followed by Jelly, Cream, sprinkles and wafers.
This afternoon we went outside and had a Winter Olympics
We had a Waddle Race
The Winners of the Winter Olympics was the Macaronis.
We then made Fimo Penquin Badges
For Tea we had Macaroni Cheese followed by Pineapple Upside Down Cake and Custard.
Then after showers we sat down to watch Surf’s Up
After another good night we woke to our last morning.
For Breakfast we had Cereal, Beans on Toast and Toast.
Then we got ready to go home.
After we were ready, we discovered the Easter Bunny’s had visited overnight, and we all went outside and hunted for 3 eggs, surprisingly enough a few were hidden in the Fairy Houses made earlier in the week.
Then we had an Egg Roll Competition after decorating the eggs
We then had our final (early) elevenses
We then had presentations, prizes, pack holiday and penquin challenges badges and our usual pack holiday bookmarks.
This was a wonderful pack holiday the girls were great, went to bed at a reasonable time, and ate well, very little bickering, brilliant.
