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Hey Scouters, let's do something a bit different this week. It's challenge time! Feel free to tweak this as you see fit for your own unit. For example, instead of a committee member, maybe it should be an SPL, ASPL, Troop Guide, JASM, etc.
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1. Only Patrol Members with brown eyes may speak.
2. Have each Patrol member obtain a piece of paper and a pen or pencil.
3. Have each Patrol member, working alone, draw as many official map symbols
as possible in one minute.
4. Have the Patrol compile as many different map symbols as possible, from each
Patrol members papers, in 1 minute.
5. Have the Patrol draw a map of a fictional kingdom, using only the map
symbols your patrol has compiled and present/explain it to any Troop
Committee member.
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You can follow up on the challenge with a reflection asking the Scouts how it felt that only those with brown eyes could talk? Do they think that might be similar to how those of different skin colors or religions might feel sometimes? How many map symbols were they able to remember and draw? What might the rules of their fictional kingdom be? Would it be fair if that kingdom had a rule that only those with blue eyes would-be leaders?
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When I was still a Scout we were on a backpacking trip. It was a windy, but clear day. The ground was all solid rock, it was just the way this location was... one big slab of rock. When it came time to set up camp we Scouts needed to stake down our tents, because of the wind, bu......
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How to use a compass Finding the directions without a compass You are lost. I mean really lost. Standing in the middle of nowhere, and you have no idea where to go. If you are really in trouble, ......
The Lord he though he'd make a man Dese bones gonna rise again Took a little bit of water and a little bit of sand Dese bones gonna rise again I know it, brother I know it, brother I know it, brother Dese bones gonna rise a......
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Tiger Cub Coordinator: (Call Tigers forward by name and their parent) As a group you have taken part in Big Ideas together and now the time has come for you to go forth and seek new adventures through Cub Scouting....
Two ditch diggers are digging a ditch when their boss walks by and then just stands around. One digger turns to the other and ask why they have to do all the work, while the boss gets paid more. The other man does not know and suggest the he go ask the boss. He the......
You will need: construction paper, pressed leaves and flowers, craft glue, crayonsor markers.1. On a sheet of construction paper, arrange flowers and leaves to makedifferent shapes. Perhaps a leaf is a fancy dress, a flower is a hat andmaple keys (seeds) are ......
 I recently created a few, what I dub as "Cool Graphics". Please look at them below and let me know what you think. Also please feel free to share them.  ...
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PERSONNEL: 5 Cub Scouts EQUIPMENT: Barbells with letters on each end to spell GOOD HEALTH SETTING: Boys holding barbells CUB #1: Eating the right foods is really important if our bodies are to be strong and healthy. CUB #2: Proper dental care will help us keep our teeth a......
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Tomahawk throwing can be a rigorous yet rewarding activity. The secret to throwing tomahawks is “lots of practice and follow-through, †according to Life Scout Claudia Mattingly. To properly throw a tomahawk, stand several paces from your target. Grab the tomahawk at the bottom of the handle like you’re shaking someone’s hand. Face your target. When you throw, bring the tomahawk straight back and straight forward to release. No fancy wind-ups. Your grip should be loose so the ax glides out of your hand. You don’t need to put a lot of muscle into your throw. If the tomahawk ......
If you’re hungry for a safe and easy fundraiser that can boost your unit’s profits, you can’t make a more delicious decision than going with Country Meats. A family-run business since 1978, the company offers 12-plus flavors of smoked snacks that Scouts can sell for $1 each. You keep 45% of the profits. Traditionally, Scouts would buy cases of 144 snacks and sell the individual snacks, often in front of a retail store or door-to-door. They also could take pre-orders and distribute them when the cases arrived. Now, Scouts have a third option. Last September, Country Meats launched a contactless ......
I call "thru loops" any slide that either naturally has a hole in it or a slide that I have drilled or carved a hole through. There are quite a few Whittlin Jim and others who had designs in the round that encompassed a 180 to 360 degrees which required having a hole down the middle of the slide. Natural hole loops Bone Horn Cow horn Bamboo Drilled holes Drilled as part of the slide Drilled as part of the slide 2 Drilled ......
Some of my readers are brand new to Scouting, so every now and then I am going to give some information about leadership positions in one of the divisions. In Cub Scouting, adults work together to deliver program to the youth members. One of the adult positions is the Cubmaster. The Cubmaster must be at least 21 years old and be a registered BSA member. The Cubmaster can be male or female. In many cases, the Cubmaster is the most visible adult leader in the Pack, and therefore the one most parents look to when they have ......
For as long as there have been mountains to scale, there have been women who are trailblazers—resilient, innovative women who confronted challenges head-on and created a better world for everyone.  Sounds like a lot of Girl Scouts we know!  This Women’s History Month, we celebrate the strong change-makers who came before us and those who continue to push for a more just, equitable society. These tenacious role models also show us what it means to unlock our own resiliency and strength—and that feels particularly resonant as we continue to work through the challenges of a global pandemic.  Each Wednesday, we’ll ......
Our trails and pathways are a shared resource, places where everyone should be able to enjoy nature safely. During the last year though, the meaning of that has changed. Masks have become an important safety tool on our trails. Here are some tips for using them on your next outing. Start by researching the local area’s guidance. Mask requirements can differ depending on the area you are in. Plan ahead and prepare by looking up not just the mask requirements, but all the Covid-19 guidance for the area you are getting outside. Even if masks are not required in ......
In an outdoor setting – whether you’re exploring a trail, enjoying a park or splashing in a river – tapping into the Leave No Trace vibe comes easily. It’s almost an instinctive reaction to pick up a piece of trash spotted on the side of a trail, or to fish out a soda can floating in a stream. But, when you’re stuck at home and maybe feeling a little less connected to nature than you’d like, what can be done to protect the natural values that Leave No Trace supports? One impactful and relatively easy step is to learn ......
One of the things scouts love about camping is the campfires. Sitting around a fire, toasting marshmallows, and talking. I really enjoy a nice fire also. What I don’t enjoy is sounding like a broken record with my Webelos. “Stop poking the fire. Stop throwing stuff in the fire. What goes in the fire stays in the fire.†Its not that I want to be a killjoy, but they like to put sticks in the fire until the ends are on fire and then pull them back out. Something else catches their attention, they turn, flaming stick ......
CALVIN: What did the janitor say when he jumped out of the closet?KATE: I don’t know.CALVIN: “Supplies!â€...
Troop 46 Tyngsborough had their Scouting for Food Drive in February and almost doubled the items received from their previous years....
[NO. 668 – MY 20TH YEAR OF HELPING SCOUTS, SCOUTERS, PARENTS] We’ve been looking at various viewpoints on uniforms in the past several weeks. Here are some more that just came in. We also have some further comments about parent-drivers staying at a troop’s campouts, sometimes with dining provided by the Scouts… Hi Andy, When I first joined Scouts, I used the money I earned selling newspapers (and netting 2.5 cents per paper) on the streets of southcentral Los Angeles to buy my own uniform: $10.41. Later, I bought the green-with-white-belt Explorer uniform for only slightly more. That took ......
This is a fun song for a campfire or for some audience participation at a Pack meeting. Plus it encourages healthy eating habits! Scouts will love it! I’ve usually heard it done like a rap, so I can’t name a tune it should sound like. Chances are, that one of the members of your unit is a rapper, so let him take the lead. You can add some clapping or knee slapping in also. Milk Song Do this song like a rap. When you get to the “Moo ......
He made fun, interactive videos his fellow Scouts could watch from home. He worked with his patrol leaders’ council to devise fun games, like “Scout Jeopardy, †that would engage all 143 Scouts in his troop. And he found a way to safely lead 21 in-person troop meetings during his 10-month term. Every meeting was held outdoors while following local and BSA guidelines, and not a single troop member tested positive for COVID during that span. For that, Ben Buxton deserves some kind of award. But to hear Ben tell it, he was just fulfilling the promises he made when ......
Cub Scouts love to create and do hands-on activities. Making a terrarium is a great springtime activity.  Plus – it reuses a plastic soda bottle, which is great for starting a discussion about Earth Day approaching. Reduce – Reuse – Recycle! I think all of my kids have made these at one point or another – either in scouts or at school. They usually last several months, even though the kids seem to alternate between completely forgetting them and then smothering them with too much love and water. Materials one 2 ......
The recruiting pitch starts off pretty well: “If you join Pack 123, you’ll get to have fun, make new friends and enjoy hands-on experiences you can’t get in any other organization for youth.†But then the realities of the pandemic settle in, and the wheels start to fall off like a half-finished Pinewood Derby car: “Oh, but wait. You’ll have to do all that at home, at least for now.†Recruiting new families to join Scouting during a pandemic is hard — whether your unit is conducting activities virtually or in person (while following state, local and BSA guidelines, of ......
Maria LeBlanc became homeless when she was 50. For nearly the next 15 years, she relied on the generosity of others while living on the streets of Vancouver, Wash. She would hold up a cardboard sign, asking for money, which she would then use for food and supplies for her camp. Standing off of a freeway exit for hours was boring, so she would make up little rhymes in her head. When she returned to camp, she’d jot them down on a piece of paper. One day, she got inspiration for a new poem, thanks to a Wolf Cub Scout. ......
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An attorney representing over a thousand former Scouts calls the bankruptcy reorganization plan submitted by The Boy Scouts of America this week ......
The Girl Scouts of Cranford (Service Unit 48) recently held its 8 th Annual Pinewood Derby, boasting entries from 39 different troops. According to the release, more than 135 Girl Scouts of all ages ......
Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts from south-central Wisconsin will be going door-to-door this March to collect food for area families in need. Part of the annual Scouting for Food drive, ......
Cub Scout Pack 251 held a bridge crossing ceremony for two girls crossing from their Arrow of Light pack to an all-girls BSA Troop 287 at the Copperas ......
Boy Scout Kaleb Ross saw a need during this pandemic that meshed perfectly with the outreach activities of his boy scout troop and an opportunity that would serve as his Eagle Scout project – ......
All six SCOUTING BSA (Boy Scouts of America) councils from across S.C. are partnering with POWERPLANTSC as scouts prepare to assist with the ......
HOWARD — Boy Scout Troop 353 and Cub Scout Pack 353 in Howard will host a Winter Festival in Howard Community Park on Saturday, March 13 ......
Future Scouts and families will meet with troop leaders and be introduced to its programs. Face masks are required. On Tuesday, Feb. 23, Somers’ Scout Troop 376 hosted an open house for senior Webelos ......
Pandemic-era scouting has forced leaders and scouts to be creative with activities and merit opportunities that mean more than merely staying active....
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For more than 4 decades Austin China has spent time on camp staff and supporting local Scout units in South Carolina. He is known as a master camp song leader. Some guys just have it and you will see in this video how quickly he wins over the mostly middle school age audience and brings the house down. He is not one to get captured on video very often so this elusive cat was captured on tape in the summer of 2019 at Camp Barstow on Lake Murray in South Carolina. You can visit out website ......
In the summer of 1989 the Boy Scouts of Melrose Troop 68 attended a week long adventure at Crow Win Scout Camp located near Nevis, Minnesota. This video includes a lot of the activities during the week and the closing campfire held Friday night....
For giving kids something to look forward to, thank you to our more than 16, 000 volunteers. Your dedication and passion continue to make a positive difference in the lives of youth in Scouting, we couldn't do it without you....
Report to State - February 1, 2021 I am Eagle Scout and Patrol leader, Michelle Bourland, of Scouts BSA Girl Troop 496, chartered by St. Mary’s Hall. I am fortunate to be both a Gold award recipient from the GSUSA and also celebrate being part of the Inaugural class of Female Eagle Scouts with the Boy Scouts of America. The Alamo Area BSA currently serves 192 female Scouts in 17 all-girl Troops. Within all program offerings, over 2902 female Scouts were active in 2020 in the Alamo Area BSA’s 13 county service area. I am honored to ......
Here it is. Our 2021 Promotional Video is looking great! We're excited about the summer, are you?...
Full Zoom Donor Recognition Event held on Tuesday, February 23, 2021....
In February 2021, just two years after young women were invited to become Scouts BSA members, our Council presented 13 trailblazers with their Eagle Scout Award. Their achievement will lead the way for many more female Eagle Scouts in our community that will follow. We spoke to a few of these Scouts and they shared some of their favorite memories from their Trail to Eagle - check it out!...
Order of the Arrow cataloging going back 50 years is the topic of this month's Scouting Hot Finds Insiders Round Table. Bill Mulrenin served as the New York State Editor on the Blue Book project for the last 3 editions. So in the discussion we take it all the way back to Bill Price books of the 1970s to describe how far this has come. The next big leap forward that we cover is the 1979 publication of the Arapaho book which really helped the hobby. The key feature here was adding high quality images to ......
If I had a nickel for every time in this video I said wow that patch from Hawaii was beautiful! I hope you will agree when you watch the unboxing. This collection comes from a military brat (hey I was one too!). His dad was a Lt. Colonel in the USAF and the family was stationed in Hawaii during most of his Scouting years as a youth in the early 1970s. The capstone event of his Scouting career was being on the BSA contingent to the 1971 World Scout Jamboree in Japan. If you enjoy ......
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Crack the Code – Penguin Facts – Codebreaker Worksheet Going along with the Cold theme, I thought we could learn a little more about some of the animals from the colder regions, specifi…...
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50 Fun Games and Activities to Try at Your Virtual Troop Meetings. Try some of these ideas for your next virtual troop meeting with your girls. Some are great for adding more, while others can be full meeting ideas....
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