BSA Family Activities 7

This weeks BSA Family Activity is from Section 5 Handling Difficult Situations. The section that we are looking at is Loss of Loved Ones. Choose one for BSA Family credit.

From the BSA Family Workbook: The purpose is to help each family member cope with the pain and confusion of the death of a family member or loved one, and to understand that each person does not deal with grief in the same way.

• Plant a tree or perennial flower in memory of a deceased loved one. Wolf Elective 15B Plant and raise a flower bed, Beautification Scout Award


• Look through old family photographs. Look for pictures of relatives who have died and talk about them. How did they die? How old were they? How were they related to you? What do you remember about them? Heritage Pin


• Learn about Memorial Day. As a family, do an activity to commemorate Memorial Day. Flag Placement Ceremony

Wolf Den field trip

We are scheduling a Wolf Den Field Trip for Monday August 4th to visit Metro's Recycling Center for Wolf Requirement 7C. It is the only day that we will be able to get in before school starts and the Recycling Center only does tours on Mondays and Fridays. This is a free activity and the tour lasts just 1 hour and the kids get a "recycled" product at the end.

This tour also fulfills one of the 3 requirements for the Beautification Scout Award that Metro offers as well.

Currently there are only 5 spots left for our group tour. Please let me know if you plan on attending since there is a cap on how many people can attend each tour. Email me for our group tour time.

Attending:
TR4
LM3
JL4
JG3
RJ3
LD3

Beautification Scout Patch

Did you know that Metro Nashville offers a Beautification Scout Patch? Wolf Cubs must complete activity #1 and then 2 other activities.

1. Plant a tree
2. Visit the Recycling Education Station in Nashville (Wolf Requirement 7C)
3. Have an aluminum can collection through your troop
4. Make a campaign slogan or advertisement for one thing everyone can do to reduce his or her waste
5. Take a tour of the local landfill
6. Learn about composting http://www.nashville.gov/beautification/Publications/HomeCompostingFlyer.pdf
7. Organize a litter clean up with your troop, family or friends. (Wolf Requirement 7D and can also be used as a Leave No Trace Service related project)
8. Participate in the Great American Clean Up in March, April or May
9. Plant a flower bed or wildflower meadow (Wolf Elective 15B)
10. Participate in a Ring around the School clean up (Davidson County Schools)

Here is the link for the Beautification Scout Patch program.
http://www.nashville.gov/beautification/scouts/index.htm