January brings in a monthly theme of games! Your Wolf Handbook is filled with games for Cubs. Why not use these games to fill your monthly theme and grab more easy Arrow Points along the way? Also up for the theme is the Chess Belt Loop and the Marbles Belt Loop!
I know, Jurassic Pack isn't until April, but I had to share the awesome stuff I found at the Dollar Tree today! I found this Dinosaur Fossil Kit, Dinosaur foam stickers and the Dinosaur scratch stickers. All for a $1 each.
These are just a few ideas for service projects. The holidays makes it easy to learn about serving and thinking about others first.
Today I took a couple of my wolf den boys to go vote with me. We were very fortunate, there were no lines and when the staff found out that we were Cub Scouts, they gave the boys sample voters registration cards to "fill out" for when they were old enough to vote : )
My husband is a huge car enthusiast. So it was fun to go to the car museum with him. Lane Motor Museum features foreign cars and one of kind vehicles.
engines. Cars that were pedal powered, cars that looked like planes, cars with wings and planes that could fit in your garage. Fast cars, slow cars, old cars, new cars. This is beginning to sound like a Dr. Seuss story!
Last week we found out that our den would be the Color Guard at the next Pack meeting. None of our boys have ever been on Color Guard, so we took the flags and divided the boys into 2 teams. I went off the boys sizes so that we had the same amount of bigger boys and smaller boys on each team. I found one team was very serious about their job and one team was playing around. The serious team was rewarded by being allowed to carry the American Flag during our next Pack meeting. The team that will be carrying the Pack flag got serious after that. Sometimes the honor of doing, or in this case not doing, is enough to make a difference with 8 year old boys.
Tonight I tried something that really was not part of my den meeting plan. I found a book with a Pirate theme in my son's room, so I thought that since we're doing books and a Pirate theme in our den, I would take the book and read to them. We were in the sanctuary practicing our color guard ceremony for the next Pack meeting and I sat down on the altar stairs and had the boys sit around besides and behind me while I read the book to them. It was the first time my boys were quite. They sat attentively as I read to them.
All of our crafts will be done with a Pirate theme this month. We did a demonstration for the boys to show them how the stories had to include each of the items in the bag and they had a blast. Many of the parents stopped me on the way out and said that thier son's were already working on their stories in the car!
We included the following items to be included in the stories:
Bandana
Eye Patch
Tattoos
Gold and Silver or coins
Jewels
Treasure map
Ring
Remember: To Err is Human, to Arr is Pirate!
Boy's Life is having it's annual Reading Contest. Details are below. This is a great way to incorporate the October theme of "Adventures in Books". You can also use this activity to work in the electives on Computers and also the Computer Belt Loop!
Wolf Elective 21B Write a Report
Computer Belt Loop:
Say Yes to Reading Contest:
Everyone who enters gets a free patch! First place winners in each catagory get a $100 gift certificate for the Boy Scouts official retail catalog, 2nd place winners get a $75 gift certificate and 3rd place winners get a $50 gift certificate.
Include your name, age and grade in school on your report.
Mail your report along with a business sized SASE to:
Boys Life Reading Contest
S306
P.O. Box 152079
Irvine, TX 75015-2079
We added blue and gold feathers and our boys and parents have already started adding more embellishments to our flag and flag pole to make it their own! Our flag pole also carries our den doodle, so there are lots of strings and beads hanging off our flag! This was a super fun project and the kids love our flag.
On the back of our flag, we have a second flag with the Cub Scout Patch and foot prints of our Sprouts. We incorporate our Sprouts in all of our activities and they are thrilled to be included with thier own flag.
Collecting Belt Loop:
For more information or to find a participating store near you, visit www.baseballcardclubhouse.com
Bowl number 2:
Mix the Elmer's with the water. Then in a separate bowl mix the water and the Borax powder. When the Borax is dissolved, slowly add the Borax mixture to the glue mixture, stirring 
constantly. You will see the slime start to come together. Remove the slime from the remaining water and kneed the slime until it is firm and consistent. Throw away the remaining water.
Store your new slime in a tight container or zip lock bag. The fun of putting the slime in a container is that if the slime is the same size as the container, it will make farting sounds as you push it in with your fingers... what boy doesn't want that?
Be sure to refrigerate your slime when done. Do not eat of ingest your slime.
*Borax is a laundry booster. If you don't already have some at home, you'll find it in the laundry aisle at the supermarket.
Most of these are requirements that you'll be doing already, so go ahead and work them into your BSA Family Award!
To earn the Citizenship Pin:
safety and skills). At first, my little Wolf Cub didn't care for ice skating, but then we met some boys the same age who wanted to teach my boys how to skate (young hockey players), and by the end of the 3 hour session, we were doing pretty good. So good infact, that they want to go back and do some more ice skating!
These are great activities on trusting. Choose one, to complete the Trusting section.
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