Need a way to track progress in Cubs?

Here is a link I found where software can be downloaded for free.
http://trax.boy-scouts.net/cubtrax.htm There may be others that you find more useer friendly, but this one is an Excel spreadsheet format. If there are others you find and want to share, please do and I will share with others in the Stake.

Cub Scouts is a huge job in itself,let's help one another make it easier by sharing what works for each other. We want to have fun in our callings!

Castaway Cubs

Castaway Cub Scout Day Camp was a sucess! A big THANK YOU to all of the volunteers and those who worked hard to make Day Camp happen. It simply could not be done without YOU! I am thinking about next years day camp already and a real possibility of BB GUNS is in the planning stages!!! Again, I am so grateful for your willingness to participate and be there for the Cubs, for we know it is all about them...creating a love for Cub Scouting is the pre-requisite for the love of Scouting! Check out the blog at http://chemehuevicastawaycubs.blogspot.com.

Paper towel roll request & other requests

I am requesting that if you can save your empty paper towel rolls, it would be used for Day Camp. I may have odd requests as we go along and forgive me as I will pass them along at different times.

Thank you for helping to prepare for Day Camp! Any questions, please do not hesitate to inquire. I am also looking for certified medical assistance. We will need three people each day of Day Camp. Looking for a person that is a GREAT story teller to embellish maybe with some live action...pirate story line with a good moral. Volunteers...please seek volunteers...last year we had approximately 50 people helping on a daily basis. Day Camp Den Leaders are needed, two per Den, station leaders, medical assistance and "help" in general!!

Thank you again for making Day Camp a great experience for the boys!

March Theme Roundtable Packet Available

I have a copy of the March Theme Packet...you need a copy just drop me an email at Momovfive@aol.com and I can send you a pdf file.

2009 Day Camp Castaway Cubs BRAINSTORMING

February 2 at 10 am in the South Stake Chapel. Check back to see when the next meeting shall be...anticipate a meeting in the evening and we should be good to prepare for a GREAT Cub-matey experience!

Den Meeting ideas...

What about map reading skills? Make it a game by calling out street names telling them to turn left or right and other details...have the scout make his path through the local map with a crayon...see if everyone ends up at the same destination.

Flag Ettiquette is very appropriate for this month. IF interested, I have an entire packet on Flag Ettiquette. Invite a councilman or military...they often bring "goodies."

Webelos activity badges are Scholar & Engineer. They can choose a place to research and turn their findings into placemats for the banquet!

Check the Dollar Tree store for flash cards! USA maps and much more for your den meetings!

American ABC's - February Theme

Its time for your annual Blue & Gold Banquet! This month serving a dinner, it might not be a bad idea to appoint a Chairperson to manage the Blue & Gold Banquet. This is a time to celebrate the birthday of Scouting! The banquet idea started informally in 1933! Michigan Pack 1 Committee members were thinking it would be great to get together with families as well as the Scouts. So Father & Son "bean dinners" began and the father and his cub scout were busy whittling away wood to make serving spoons for the dinner. Family potlucks began to be commonplace also. Now, you think of this timing...we are talking right in the heart of the Great Depression, yet families were reaching out and "doing their best," just as the Cub Scout Motto proclaims. It was in 1943, it officially began to appear in BSA literature as the Blue & Gold Banquet commemorating the Scouting Birthday.

Our theme this year is very wide open for a variety of ideas. One pack will be traveling Route66 discussing cities along the way and eatting hotdogs and chips. Simple and FUN! Wanna celebrate with pizza? How about New York style, Chicago style or Hawaiian pizza? Celebrate in a monumental way with our National Monuments!

Post a USA map and hand out tiny dot stickers for each family to mark 5 places they have lived or visited...see if your Pack has been in ALL 50 states.

Post the National Monuments and see who KNOWS their National Monuments. Assign families to make a poster about places they lived or visited complete with pictures, travel brochures, maps, etc and you have wall decorations. Table toppers can be so simple as cutting an old map into a square.

Please make sure all the Cub Scouts are awarded with something this month. Check at the Trading Post for temporary patches if you have some scouts that have not earned anything since we have all been busy with the holidays. Take a moment and think about those that are serving in scouting positions...RECOGNIZE them also!!! We all like a pat on the back from time to time. Each month we should be making our award ceremonies just that...ceremonies...presenting them differently each month will make it more exciting and inviting ~ and it makes a memory!

I love each of you for all the work and effort you put in behalf of our future Boy Scouts!!! Keep up the great work! Have great fun at your Blue & Gold Banquets!