We got to the pavilion in our world war two outfits. It felt unusual seeing my friends like that.
For the first activity we put cream in jam jars and shook them vigourously to make butter. Then, we used our butter, with eggs, flour and sugar, to make biscuits. After an hour, and a yummy lunch of soup, bread and homemade butter, we went out on a long hike hiding ration tokens along the way. We met in the middle and then tried to find each other’s tokens, it was so cool!
When we finished, we went to the park and me and the other boys played wars. After that, Andy Kyte told us all about the war and we got to play with shell cases and an old bren gun. Afterwards, we played 1940’s games like jacks, hopscotch and marbles. We all did skipping; I thought it was funny when the leaders joined in. We had a delicious dinner of corn-beef hash, bread, homemade butter and potatoes. I had jelly and custard for pudding. Billy went up for seconds, thirds and even fourths!
We built an air raid shelter for us to jump under in case of an air raid. Then I tried to learn how to knit, I couldn’t do it so I learnt how to make a roast chicken with a tea towel and had some free time. Then there was an air raid. We got under our shelter, which was made out of tables, and listened to the war sounds. The All Clear sounded and we got back out.
We played some more until the siren went off again and you could hear the building crashing down around us. Then we resumed playing. We played ‘Akela Says’ and ‘Zip Zap Boing’. We were in the middle of the second game when the sirens went but before long we were back out and playing ‘Wink Murder’ and a story game where you had to finish the story. Again, the sirens went off and we had to rush to the shelter. The room collapsed, you could hear it.
The All Clear sounded and we got out and started packing up for bed. When we were ready for bed we had yummy hot chocolate and biscuits. We got into our beds and listened to a radio play called ‘How the whale got its throat’ by Rudyard Kipling and then it was ‘Good Night’.
Me, Ben and Daniel woke up and started waking everyone else up, including the leaders- Sorry! We got back in our sleeping bags and had a worm fight where we push each other over. After packing up our beds, we had breakfast, bacon sandwiches. There was porridge as well but nobody ate it!
After that, we played ‘Capture the Flag’ and wrote a letter about wars before a quiz on World War 2. Bryn won a jigsaw. We stood in a circle and thought about World War 2 children. Then we got our badges and started packing up ready for our parents to come and take us home. What an Awesome Cub Camp!
Joshua Loosley
