Histon Guides took part in the Giant Sleep Over - which is an event run by .

This is done in order to break a world record of children holding sleep over at the same time in order to get into , and also to raise money for .
The event is sponsored by lots of different organisations including;

At the end of the sleep over the girls were all given a goodie bag.
We invited our Guide friends form North Cambridge to join us and registered 33 people as taking part.

After blowing up our mattresses and making our beds (with a great deal of help form parents) we went outside to build fires in order to cook our tea. We then attempted to cook some bread rolls on the fire in our oven - 90 minutes later we did have something that resembled bread!

After tea we played a couple of games run by one of our Guides who is working for the Baden Powell Award then we moved back inside to begin to make our Turks Head Woggle (we make new woggles at all sleep over events).

To raise money for  This year we decided to have a sponsored sing, so we went out side to build a campfire and start our singing.

At about 10.30 we went back inside to get ready for bed - once in bed we learned about  MUAC bands (MUAC stands for Middle Upper Arm Circumference). This is used to measure the circumference of a child’s upper arm, to assess whether a child is malnourished

At 11.30 it was time to start our MIDNIGHT FEAST. After this the lights went out and the girls went to sleep (well some of them did others managed to talk and talk and talk - I believe the last girl was quiet at 3.45 and the first girl woke at 5.45!! - the rules say that you have to have the lights out for 7 hours - but luckily they don’t actually say that you have to be asleep :-).

In the morning we woke and after packing away our beds we had breakfast that was sponsored by .

At 8.30 we took part in another attempt to get in to .  This was the   Minty Mouth Challenge - simultaneous tooth brushing for two minutes.

Next we made cards to sent to the Prime Minister about outlining the work of .
We then moved outside and sang a few more action songs and handed out the goodie bags.

The girls were collected at 10.00am and most likely went home to sleep for the rest of the day.