Activity Day

When I was an activity day leader during March we talked about service. Our primary had all the 8 to 11-year old boys and girls come to the church and do the weekly cleaning for one of our activities. A service scavenger hunt would be fun-make sure each group has a leader with them and that the girls know not to go inside of any homes. Some ideas of service include: sweep porch or walkway, read a story to a child, bring in garbage can, play a game with a child, pull ten weeds, sing a song, wash a front door, pick up trash from the front yard. Here is a fun game where they can serve each other.

Frozen Bean Bag Game: The children begin by moving around the area balancing a beanbag on their head. If a player's beanbag falls, they are frozen until another player picks up the beanbag without losing their beanbag to free the frozen player. Each player keeps track of how many players they have helped. The object of the game is to help as many of the other players as you can.

We also did a fun kitchen craft making spring chicks from deviled eggs:

(I used bits of olive for the eyes, and bits of carrot for the beak)

Cub Scouts

For our den this month we are learning to use tools. They boys had lots of fun pounding nails, driving screws,  sawing boards, and drilling holes with a hand drill. I am lucky to have the old fashioned hand drill that my father gave me many years ago. To build something useful, our two wolves made a flag stand for our little flag we use each week in den meeting.

The boys had to cut the wood with a hand saw and then drill a hole for the flag. The bears were able to pass off the requirement to demonstrate how to use tools.

Our bears are also working on the jot it down requirement this month. They made a list of things to do and we are planning on having them write about what we have been doing in our den this month for our church bulletin. They wrote thank-you notes when we did the good manners belt loop and I am planning on having them write thank-you notes to the mothers for mother's day.

We will also pass out Scouting for Food bags around our neighborhood for a service project. Our local hardware store does a kids workshop once a month, and most of our boys went and made something from wood this month. Making something from wood also is listed under developing talents in the Faith in God book.