Activity Day

When I was an Activity Day Leader, we liked to talk about goals and choice in January. We talked about setting a goal to read scriptures everyday and fun ways to mark their scriptures. We suggested that the girls look for what Heavenly Father is asking us to do and marking that in one color; and then look for His promise to us and mark in a different color.

We made cookies and divided the dough into individual portions and let the girls choose one add-in (raisins, cranberries, coconut, chocolate chips, nuts, etc). One of the girl, while mixing in her add-in asked if she could do a second. It was a good chance to talk about how sometimes the choices we make limit future options. She had made her choice and no longer had the other choices available.

The girls would also have fun shoveling snow for the senior citizens in your neighborhood if it happened to snow on the day of your activity.

Cub Scouts

For January we worked on The Past is Important for the Bears and played Old Fashioned Games for the Wolf elective. We had a visitor come one week and tell about what he remembers from when he was a Cub Scout many years ago. We then played a fun Jeopardy game with questions on the history of our nation, our state, our city, and our neighborhood. We had the nine-year-old boys do pedigree charts (for both Bear and Faith in God). We also did the Respect Character Connection.

In addition we worked on the Marbles belt loop. We try to do a belt loop several times a year so the boys have something to be awarded at pack meeting. (Sometimes it takes them a long time to finish their rank advancement, while the Webelos all get awards every pack meeting).

January is also a fun time to do a service project. If it snows on your meeting day you can go around the neighborhood and shovel snow from the walkways of senior citizens. If there is lots of snow, they can shovel the snow away from fire hydrants. This January was bitter cold, so we opted to do the belt loop instead of snow shoveling.

We have started having a opening for every meeting. We do a short flag ceremony with the pledge of allegiance  an opening prayer, recite the cub scout promise together, and then recite an Article of Faith together. Sometimes we go through the Article of Faith several times if the boys are having trouble with it.