Cub Scout subway Art

I thought I would share with you a subway art I made for our blue and gold banquet last year, since I have had several people ask me about it.

If you are interested in a copy with your pack number on it leave me a comment with your email address and pack number or email me at runningwithpack4292@gmail.com 

***Please remember this is for personal use only and can not be sold or shared in any form digital, printed, original or altered.You may not sell my design as your own Please link back to my original post if you use/share.

Law Enforcement is a big job.

Here is a fun activity and game to help the boys pass off part of Bear Achievement 7-Law enforcement is a big job. 

 I took a small spiral bound notebook and made the cover for it.  Inside the book you can have the boys do their fingerprints and an adults fingerprints to pass off Bear achievement 7a. Also have them write numbers of neighbors down to pass off 7d, and emergency numbers to pass off 7e. I found the idea for this HERE

 Inside I put a picture of the different types of fingerprints. After they finish their prints have them use a magnifying glass to examine their prints and figure out what type of fingerprints they have (tent,loops,whorls).

Use Ed Emberly's Fingerprint Drawing Book and let the boys turn their prints into animals. 

 How cute are these animal fingerprints.


You can also play the Who ate What? game. Sorry I do not have pictures on mine, but I think you can figure it out.

Ahead of time take pictures (you need 4 or you could do more) of people from your neighborhood/pack that each boy knows and would recognize (cub master, den leader, parent etc.).  Take two sets of finger prints from each person.  Tape one set of prints along with their picture to a poster board or wall along with the words, "Who Ate What?"  On a second poster tape the other set of prints with the location where they were found (ice cream carton, candy bar wrapper, etc with one being on the cookie jar).  The boys then have to match up the finger prints to figure out who ate what.  

Clucking Chicken

I am sure you have seen these clucking/squawking chickens before, but if you haven't today is your lucky day. I was in charge of a pre-opener for round table this week and the theme was Down On the Farm, so I decided to give them instructions on how to make them.  

 They are so easy and fun and the boys LOVE them. The yellow one is actually one that my son made at Philmont when we were there. The white ones are ones I just made up as examples.

INSTRUCTIONS:

1. Take one disposable plastic cup and poke a small hole in the bottom.

2. Tie a large knot in a piece of nylon string and thread it through the hole, leaving the knot on the outside so that the string won't go through when it's tugged on.

3. Decorate your cup so that it somewhat resembles a chicken/rooster. Stick on some feathers, use paper, fun foam, or felt for the beak.Use google eyes or just draw eyes on with a sharpie

4. Cut a small rectangular piece of kitchen sponge and tie to the end of the string inside the cup.

5. To make the chicken cluck: slightly dampen the sponge, fold the sponge over the string (at the top) and run the sponge down the string holding it firmly with quick, short tugs and it makes a loud clucking sound.

 This little guy turned out so cute. I made him into a neckerchief slide. To make him use the 3oz bathroom cups, then follow the directions above, and add on a piece of pvc pipe on the back.

 He makes me giggle every time I look at him and he sounds super cute.

Stick Dice

I recently had the AMAZING opportunity of attending a den leader conference at Philmont (if you are not familiar with Philmont check it out HERE). One of the things we talked about were game boxes and the importance of them. If you do not have a game box I strongly suggest you start one. Start with a box of any size and start gathering supplies that could be used for games. Some suggestions are 

• 4 bean bags
• package of balloons
• pie pans
• clothes pins
• washers
• marbles
• ping pong balls

Here is a great game to get you started on your game box. You can have each boy make a set to take home and play with his family and you can keep a few sets in your box. 

Stick dice

·         You will need 6  craft sticks for each boy

·         Sharpies or markers

·         On one side of each stick draw symbols or shapes using one color. On the other side draw symbols or shapes using a different color. The symbols/shapes do not need to match.

o   If you use symbols from wolf book and have them tell a story on their sticks you can pass off wolf E10f.

o   Making and playing this game will pass off PART  of Bear E24b

 This is side one.

Side two

To play the game: Put boys in teams of two. Each player gets three sticks and take turns throwing the dice(sticks). The first player tosses the dice on the floor; the score depends on how the dice fall. (see chart below). Players continue taking turns until one has twenty points.

            Three black sides up= 3 points

            Three red sides up= 2 points

            Two black and one red = 1 point

            Two red and one black = no point

Second option of playing the game: give each player 3 sticks have them throw their dice they get 1 point for each red side up. Players continue throwing their dice and adding up their points. The first player to reach 10 points wins. 

Have fun and be creative.

Round Table New Leader Handout

Not only am I a den leader I also teach round table and this month I was in charge of the new leader handouts. We tare taking off next month so we are covering two core values...honesty and courage.So here is what I did.

Father's Day gift

I wanted to do something simple that the boys could make for their dads this year, but I also wanted it to be something that their dad would use. So I decided to do a pen holder for them to put on their desks. 

I had originally planned another idea but decided it would be a little more work. I will share it with you in case you want to make it.

 I made these boxes using the printable set from Parties and Patterns

 Then I filled them with different candy.

 Bought root beer in a glass bottle, cause the glass bottle looks so much cooler than just a can of soda.

Here it is all done. The printable even has instructions on how to make the box, I made mine a bit bigger because I used different wood then it calls for.

Since I didn't end up using this, I took the box and am going to paint it black adding felt to the bottom(so it doesn't scratch up my table) and will put it on the bottom shelf of my end table to hold all the charging cords for cameras and i pods.

Pinewood Derby Neckerchief Slides

We are making neckerchief slides as participation awards for our boys for our pinewood derby. I found the idea HERE

Materials needed:

• baseboard (we got 75ish from a 5ft section)
• spray paint in whatever colors you would like plus black
• thumb tacks
• pvc pipe and cutters.
• silver sharpie
• hot glue gun

Cut 1 inch pieces from baseboard


Poke thumb tacks into piece of cardboard or cardboard box

Spray paint black...I did two coats.

Spray paint your "cars" the colors you want them, in my case I did them green

red and

blue.

place painted thumbtacks in sides of  "cars"

Use a hot glue gun to attach PVC pipe piece(about 1/2" wide) to back of "car".

Use a silver sharpie, or white paint to add headlights. You can also add stickers to it.