So, for the March pack meeting I am going to incorporate a few things. First, I am working on the “Take Flight” theme. The opening I am going to use is having the boys making paper airplanes and trying to get them into hula hoops from the stage we have at the school gym.
We will have the opening flag as I discussed in an earlier post. It worked very well at the Blue & Gold. The great thing is that our new Webelos I scout was able to participate without practicing an actual Flag Ceremony. I know the DL will go over it with him and we will have them do a normal flag.
However, it got the whole Pack into saying the promise and oath. Even if the Webelos Den Leader also a ASM slipped in the Boy Scout Oath.
However, I am wanting to introduce and moreover promote the Beltloop and Pin program. I bought a few of them and mounted them on a small letter size construction paper. Super glue works wonders for the beltloops. I used the pin to fasten those to the paper.
I am using Map & Compass, Baseball, Snow ski & Board sports, Hiking, Family travel and Skateboarding as an intro. Yes, I will talk about the Video Games achivements.
My point about having this as part of the pack meeting is to get the parents/family more active and allowing the cubs to earn awards on their own and maybe not as a den or pack.
I suspect that if the boys have sisters in Girl Scouts there are similar programs and achivements that they might be able to do together. Two birds one stone!
[...] your into math, science, space, geology or things like that, there is a beltloop for you. I did a whole pack meeting last year about this very [...]
[...] Along with that, I am going to re-introduce the Beltloops to the boys. I did it last year and blogged about it. I am also going to explain the BSA Family Program. I believe that my Webelos I Den [...]
Yes, I saw the BSA retweet. Very honored. Yes the scouting.org site is really good for pointing out to parents so they do not have to buy a lot of stuff. I did that for the pack and the boys are working on several beltloops. If you follow me on twitter you will get a more updates since I tend to pass along cool info and items about podcasts.Take careYIS
Ok. I am an assistant den leader for my son's wolf den and I have always just pointed people to the website since it's free
Just wanted to see if the book had anything extra in it to be worth the extra $$. Just found your site thanks to the BSA twitter account. Thanks.
I have only briefly looked it over. There is a lot of detail in the ones I looked at. however, the requirements are all there for the website and book.
Does the manual have anything that is not on the Scout.org website? http://www.scouting.org/scoutsource/CubScouts/Awards/Boys/sanda.aspxdj
I actually have the 2010 version. I gave my copy to the Wolf den Leader since she was wanting to buy it in the fall. I am going to make a few flyers of info and point them to where they can go get it. The fun thing would be to get a Scout Parent to be in charge of the Beltloop/Pin program! Hoping it could be a soon to be Webelos I parent. Thanks for the idea.
If you have a couple copies of the Academics and Sports manual (http://ow.ly/1bLIh) on hand, you'll sell them! And probably encourage more loops to be earned.The manual has a ton of great resources and information that none of the websites really do. Well worth $7.50!
I should say that as a 2nd year Tiger Den Leader we are going to work on the Map & Compass Beltloop the next Den meeting before the Pack meeting. I have already sent out the worksheets to the parents letting them know what I am going to do. This way they can talk about it if the chance comes up.I also forwarded the Ski & snowboard one to one Tiger parent. That Tiger goes skiing/boarding every weekend and also went to the opening of the Vancouver Olympics. If you set the boys up for success, they will flourish!