Seeds of Kindness

This month we've been talking about seeds of kindness. It's the perfect theme for November because you can tie it into all kinds of service projects for your boys. Our Pack collected food for the local food pantry. Our Den made cookies and delivered them to our local police and fire fighters. We are working on making Christmas cards for a shut in child with cancer.

This month has so many possibilities! Thanksgiving brings opportunity to teach a grace song Elective 11E. We are learning the We Will Rock You grace (found at www.boyscouttrail.com). Also check out Requirements 8A-E all of the food and cooking requirements. There are also Citizenship Belt Loop requirements for participating in a service project.

We found Kindness Coins at www.orientaltrading.com and have had the boys give out kindness coins for the last couple of weeks to people who have been kind to them. Teachers, friends, people at the grocery store. They've had fun giving away their coins to those who have been helpful and kind to them.

In thinking about all the events that are going on this month, there are lots of ways to tie them into the Wolf den program.

BSA Family Activity 8

This weeks BSA Family activity comes from the Developing Responsibility section of the Teaching Responsibility portion of the BSA Family Award. If you choose one of these activities and have completed one of the Being Prepared activities, you will have completed the 2 requirements for the Teaching Responsibility Section.

From the Book: The purpose of these activities is to help family members become responsible people by doing their part to help others.

Choose one of the following:

• Complete a family service chartlisting all chores and the family member assigned to each job. The family decides how often to rotate jobs on the chart. Wolf Requirement 4E


• Get a plant or pet and teach your child how to take care of the of it. Discuss with your child how the plant or pet depends on its owner. It takes a lor of work to be responsible for living things. Wolf Elective 15C (plants) Wolf Elective 14A (pets)


• Let children pick their favorite meals or snacks and help prepare them and clean up. Wolf Requirement 8B (plan the meals that your family should have for one day), Wolf Requirement 8C (help fix at least one meal for your family), Wolf Requirement 8D (fix your own breakfast) and Wolf Requirement 8E (with an adult, help to plan, prepare, and cook and outdoor meal).

Most of these are requirements that you'll be doing already, so go ahead and work them into your BSA Family Award!

4th of July!

Happy 4th of July to all of our Wolf Den members! I know that you are all celebrating with family and friends with lots of activities planned. Here a few things that you can get Wolf Credit for and are probably already planning on doing them.

1. Watch Fireworks. BSA Family Award

2. With an Adult, help to plan, prepare and cook an outdoor meal. Wolf Requirement 8E

3. Help plan and hold a picnic with your family. Wolf Elective 18A

Have a safe and happy 4th of July!

BSA Family Program Activities 2

This week we are selecting one of the following activities for the BSA Family Award from the second catagory: Strengthening Family Relationships. You may select one of these activities as the first of two Strengthening Familes Activities. There will be more activities from the Strengthening Family Relationships in the coming weeks to select your second activity.

This weeks selections come from the "Making Mealtime Meaningful" section.

From the BSA Family Workbook: Purpose: To make mealtime a more meaningful for the entire family and to help children develop mealtime social skills.

1. With your children, plan several days of meals together. Make a list of ingredients and check to see what is already on hand. (Wolf Requirement 8B)

2. Let each child help prepare a meal for the family. Help set the table, cook the food and wash the dishes. (Wolf Requirement 8C)

3. Have a backyard cookout. Give each child a task in preparing or cleaning up the meal. (Wolf Requirement 8E)