September Round Table part ONE- Native American activities

Here are some great ideas that Cynthia shared with us to use to pass off the Native American section in the books. Wolf Elective 10 and Bear Elective 24.

 Make an ice cream cone teepee treat the boys are sure to love. Step by step directions can be found HERE

 Weave baskets out of newspaper by following the tutorial HERE

How fun are these drums. HERE is the link on how to make these.

Here is what Cynthia says:
"Here is a cool website that shows how to make all kinds of musical instruments out of stuff you can find around the house. I made my drums with an empty container and a balloon. Cut off the end of the balloon where you blow it up.Then stretch the balloon over the empty container. Use a pencil or a stick to strike the top and make noise. Decorate the container any way you like. I found that decorative duck take is easy and fun. But use whatever you have on hand. I made drumsticks with a pencil. I put a cotton ball over the eraser and taped the whole end with duck tape. This is not necessary, but it just made it more fun."

And of course we can not forget her money game that she made to help the bears pass off Achievement 13f.

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.