#2 Brave/Super Cub!

For September's Round Table We Shared Ideas For
October's Scout Law Point and Theme
Scout Law Point: Brave
Theme: Super Cub!

Opening Brain Teaser - This would be a great thing to write on the chalk or white board for boys and parents to have something to think about while they wait for everyone to arrive at a Pack or Den Meeting.  (An idea you could use would be to reward the cub scouts a piece of candy if they get it right).

How many triangles are in the diagram above?
*Answer is at the end of this section. (scroll down)
(Brain Teaser taken from: The Little Black Book of Mindbenders by John Samson and Elsie Samson; pg. 84)

Gathering Activity - Jokes
Write the questions on a board. and have everyone try to guess the answer. Then sometime during the meeting tell everyone the answers.
Q: Imagine you are in a sinking rowboat surrounded by sharks. Which superhero would you need to survive?

A: You don’t need a superhero at all. Just stop imagining that!

Q: What is light as a feather, but even the strongest hero can’t hold it more than a few seconds?

A: His breath!

Q: What is a policeman’s favorite snack?

A: Copcakes.

Q: What kind of food do brave soldiers eat?

A: Hero sandwiches.

Q: When does a police dog not look like a police dog?

A: When it is an undercover agent.

Flag Ceremony
 

Materials: large cards spelling out H-E-R-O, with lines on the back for Cub Scouts to read as they hold up their signs:

Cub #1: H - Help is on the way. A hero is someone who helps.

Cub #2: E - Everyone can be a hero. You just have to be prepared and know that you can make a difference.

Cub #3: R - Remember that even brave people can be afraid. It is taking action even when you are scared that makes you brave.

Cub #4: O - One person can make a difference. One person who helps can change someone’s world.

Please stand and join me in the Pledge of Allegiance and the Scout Oath.

Super Hero Tree

This craft would be an awesome idea for either a pack or den meeting.  The ornaments can be made as a gathering activity.  Then at the next pack or den meeting/s, the boys can put an ornament on the tree for each service they did in between their meetings.

Materials: A copy of the Hero Logo Circles & the Tree Star/Circle page, E600 glue, scissors, 1 inch hole punch, color pencils, decorative string, bottle caps, 1.25mm metal hole punch & Clear Circle Epoxy Stickers.  You will also need which is not shown in the picture, thread & needle, Elmer's glue and a small Christmas tree.
Click here to print out the Hero Logo Circle page:https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B0revQcSgs4ONG1xMm1Xc3lVdms

Click here to print out the Tree Star/Circle page:https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B0revQcSgs4OdnFJUTE2WV8xNlU

Directions:

1) Take the Tree Star/Circle page and either cut out the stars or the circles.

2) Put glue along one of the shape's backside edge except on the bottom. The put the two together.  While it is drying, you may want to put a stack of books on top so it dries flat.

3) Cut pieces of paper with the Logo Circles for the cub scouts to color or design their own  super hero logo.

4) Using the 1 inch hole punch cut out the colored & printed Logo Circles.

5) Using E600 glue, glue the paper Logo circles inside the bottle caps.

6) Peel off the epoxy circle stickers and put one over each paper logo circle in the bottle caps.

7) Using the 1.25mm metal hole punch, punch two holes side by side in the bottle cap.  Make sure they are at the top of the logo design glued inside.
8) Thread your decorative string through the two holes.  - If you got a Decorative string that unravels easily and will not go through the two bottle cap holes you just made, like I did, follow these steps to help out.

8a) Thread a needle and tie a knot in the thread about an inch and a half from the needle. 
8b) Take the decorative string and put it through the loop you created with the thread.

8c)Pull the decorative string through the hole in the bottle cap with the needle and thread.

8d)Once you get the decorative string through both holes, tie a knot with both ends of the decorative string to make an ornament you can hang on a tree.

9) Repeat steps for each bottle cap.
10) Once done you can have the cub scouts put a Hero Ornament on the tree for every good turn they do.

Arrow of Light Ceremony - Glow Bracelets Inside Pop Bottles
Materials: A copy of the Ceremony (Click here to print it out: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B0revQcSgs4ObjY1ckdobzBIWEk), a small flash light to read the ceremony in the dark, 7 - 2liter Pop Bottles (Save the caps.  This will help the water from pouring out if the bottles get knocked over.), Goof Off cleaner, clear plastic wrap, water, 2 to 3 glow bracelets of each of these colors:  green, orange, blue, purple/pink, white, yellow & red.  After Holidays, especially Halloween & Forth of July, they would have discount sales on these.

Directions:
1) Clean off the label of the 2-liter pop bottles with "Goof Off".

2) Stuff some clear plastic wrap into the bottles.  The clear plastic wrap gives more surfaces for the light from the glow bracelets to bounce off it making it brighter.  (Note: You do not have to use the clear plastic wrap if you do not want to).
3) Pour some water into the bottles and fill it to the top. Then put the lid on.
4) As you do the ceremony, crack the glow bracelets and stuff them into the bottle.  It will be somewhat difficult to stuff the glow bracelets inside so I would suggest you try stuffing along the inside walls of the bottle.

PVC Person

Click on this link for the Diagram and plans:https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B0revQcSgs4OWHI1YnZnUmw5MUU

Click on this link for the 'Super Hero' sign:https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B0revQcSgs4Od3ljMkpvR2dXcEU
 

You can use this PVC Person as a display for many Cub Scout meetings as well as Scout meetings.  You can tape a sign where the head is supposed to go to get a point across.  As far as the color of the PVC person goes, I like yellow for Cub Scouts and orange for Scouts.  These colors help their uniforms stand out. 

Audience Participation - CYBER HERO STORY
Divide the audience into six groups. Assign each group a part to perform when their designated word is read in the story. Have the groups practice their motions and words before the story begins. The narrator should say the key words with great drama and pause to signal the groups.

Message: Swing one arm rapidly in a circle and say, “You’ve got mail!”

Computer: Stand straight up, arms at your sides, and say, “Beep!”

School: Hold arms overhead, swing back and forth, and say, “Ding-dong!”

Teacher: Cup your hands around an imaginary apple and say, “Thanks for the apple!”

Virus: With arms out in front, wiggle your fingers and say, “Glub, glub!”

Cubby: Stand and give the Cub Scout salute, and say, “Do Your Best!”

One morning, a young boy named Josh got up early and checked his email to see if he had a new MESSAGE. Josh turned on his COMPUTER and dialed his SCHOOL. The MESSAGE from his TEACHER came back immediately: “Emergency! Every COMPUTER in the SCHOOL has got a VIRUS!” The young man knew this was no ordinary disaster, so he turned off his COMPUTER and quickly changed into his special superhero costume. Josh became CUBBY, the Fearless VIRUS Catcher. When CUBBY arrived at SCHOOL, he spotted his TEACHER.

In his deepest voice, he said, “Good morning, ma’am, I received a MESSAGE that this SCHOOL has a  COMPUTER VIRUS.” “Why, it’s CUBBY!” she said, “the Fearless VIRUS Catcher! Right this way.” The TEACHER led him quickly to the COMPUTER lab. CUBBY pretended he didn’t know his way around the SCHOOL, just to protect his secret identity. CUBBY leaped into action! Neatly folding his cape, he turned into a stream of electrons and entered the nearest COMPUTER like a lightning bolt! Looking out through the monitor screen, CUBBY could see his TEACHER gasp in surprise. Then he looked inward, and over in the corner by the memory chips slouched the nasty VIRUS! CUBBY grabbed the VIRUS by its tail and trapped it in his special Containment Unit. Immediately, he sent a MESSAGE to his TEACHER: “One COMPUTER freed, nine to go.” The SCHOOL was going crazy, as word of the VIRUS hunt spread. From COMPUTER to COMPUTER he jumped, trapping each VIRUS, then sending a MESSAGE to his TEACHER: “Another COMPUTER saved!” Finally, CUBBY was down to the last VIRUS, but it was nowhere to be found. He crawled through the COMPUTER, searching behind the power supply, around the hard drive, and through the circuits. At last CUBBY spotted the VIRUS on a floppy disk in the disk drive. Letting out a fierce yell, CUBBY jumped on the VIRUS and wrestled it into his special Containment Unit. Exhausted, CUBBY  materialized in front of his TEACHER, dragging the smoking Containment Unit holding all the VIRUSES. “I got the last one, ma’am,” he said proudly. “You truly are a superhero!” cried the TEACHER. “All in a day’s work,” said CUBBY, as he rushed off to change. A few moments later, Josh wandered into the room saying, “Hey, it looks like I missed all the excitement.” The TEACHER scratched her chin and thought to herself, “I wonder why Josh is never around when CUBBY is chasing a VIRUS. ...”

Cheers
High-Definition Applause:  The group yells several times, "Brave and loyal, strong and true!"
Superhero Applause: Hold arms out in front and upward and yell, "Fly into action, superhero!"
Super-scout: Faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound. It's Super-scout!

Opening Brain Teaser Answer: 16

Clean/Cubservation

For August's Round Table We Shared Ideas For
September's Scout Law Point and Theme
Scout Law Point: Clean
Theme: Cubservation

Opening Brain Teaser - This would be a great thing to write on the chalk or white board for boys and parents to have something to think about while they wait for everyone to arrive at a Pack or Den Meeting.  (An idea you could use would be to reward the cub scouts a piece of candy if they get it right).

Change the word FOOT into the word HAND in five steps by replacing one letter at a time to form a new word, without changing the order of the letters *Answer is at the end of this section. (scroll down)
(Brain Teaser taken from: The Little Black Book of Mindbenders by John Samson and Elsie Samson; pg. 62)

Gathering Activity
ANIMAL RESCUE
Materials: Slips of paper with names or pictures of North American animals.
Place the slips of paper on your back.  Go around and ask someone to give you a description or clue about the animal.  To rescue the animal, you will need to guess which animal is on your back. 

Flag Ceremony

CONSERVE

Cub Scouts hold cutouts of cars made from poster board, with letters printed on each one to spell out the word: CONSERVE.

Cub #1: C – Cars and buses and such were invented by men.

Cub #2: O – Oil fields were also discovered by them.

Cub #3: N – Nobody really worried about the amount of fuel this would take.

Cub #4: S – So on no transportation did they put the brake.

Cub #5: E – When it came to fuel, there was never a drought.

Cub #6: R – Raising on everyone’s mind a great big doubt.

Cub #7: V – Very soon the world’s traffic was put to the test.

Cub #8: E – Everyone, to conserve fuel, must now do their best!

Pizza Box Sun Oven
(Suggestion: Make the Pizza Box Sun Oven with your cub scouts the first week and then at the next den meeting cook the food.)
Materials: pizza box (When you buy your pizza, request that your pizza not be cut and that they do not put any sides, like peppers inside the box.  When you get home, do not cut the pizza in the box.  Take the pizza out of the box and cut it on a cookie sheet. This way you will have the least amount of grease or oil on your box), ruler, marker, knife, Duct Tape, 1- gallon size Zip Lock Bag, scissors, 1 empty toilet paper roll, 1 pipe cleaner, black construction paper, glue, black spray paint, aluminum foil, newspaper, pie tin or 9x9x2 tin. 
Directions:
1) Get rid of any crumbs in the pizza box.

2) Measure 2 1/4 inches from the crease or bend of each side of the inside of the box lid. Using a marker, draw a dot.  Do this two times per side.  Then take the ruler and draw a line through the two dots. Repeat on each side drawing a perfect square.

3) Using the knife, cut out three sides of the square except the side closest to the bottom half of the pizza box.  Score along the line that you did not cut.  Then bend the cut out section of the pizza box back.

4) Put a piece of Duct Tape along the bend of the small lid you just created.

5) Take a thin piece of Duct Tape and thread it though a toilet paper roll.  Tape this down alongside the bottom of the opening you just created.

6) Cut apart a gallon size bag by cutting off the top and seams on all three sides. This will create two square plastic sheets.

7) Tape the square plastic sheet without any writing on it to the inside of the pizza box using Duct Tape, covering the opening you made earlier.

8) Put Duct Tape on all the four corners of the pizza box.

9) Take some black construction paper and first form it to the inside of the bottom of the pizza box using your fingers to make creases along the folds and sides. Then glue the paper in the bottom of the box.

10) Fold the pizza box up.  Paint the outside of the box black. You do not need to paint the bottom of the box or the flaps of the lid.  (The flaps get tucked in when you use it to bake something).

11) Take some scissors and make two holes in the lid.  These should be big enough for the ends of a pipe clean to fit through.  The holes should be located toward the bottom of the smaller lid, but at the level of the height of the toilet paper roll. See picture above.12) Take some foil long enough to wrap around the smaller lid of the pizza box.  Using a pipe cleaner, poke a hole through the foil where you made the holes earlier.

13) The foil should extend above the lid.  At the top, you can fold over the foil on itself to give the foil a finished look, but do not fold it down to the lid.  (The more foil you have exposed, the more heat that reflects back into the box).

14) Take the pipe cleaner and thread it though the toilet paper roll and through the holes.  Then fold the ends of the pipe cleaner back so the lie against the smaller lid.  This will keep the lid open when you are baking something.

15) Take newspaper and roll it up to insulate the sides, inside the box. 
16) Use a pie tin or 9x9x2 tin to cook your food.
S'mores and/or Tortilla Chips with Cheese:
So because a den meeting is 1 hour long, I looked for something that would take less time than that to cook in the Pizza Box Solar Oven.  I came up with these two items.

For the S'mores I would recommend that you have the boys assemble them and wrap them up in plastic wrap, so the chocolate and marshmallow will not melt all over.  Have the boys put them together for the Gathering Activity as they arrive at the den meeting.  Then as soon as possible, start cooking them in the solar oven.  At the end of the den meeting they will be ready to eat as a treat. See below for temperatures and times. 

For the Tortilla Chips with Cheese, spread some tortilla chips on a tin pan and spread some grated cheese on top.  You do not need to cover with plastic wrap.

This was done in Arizona June 20, 2015
S'mores:
Official Temperature at the start time: 95 degrees F
Time started baking: 10:18am
Temperature on candy thermometer outside of the box at the end of baking: 115 F
Temperature on meat thermometer inside box at the end of baking: 160 F
Finished baking at 11:03AM (45 minutes)
Official Temperature at the end time: 97 degrees F
*Note:  I put the pizza box outside right when I started cooking the S'mores.  If I had had the box already warming up from the sun rays, I would conjecture that it would take less time to bake them. 

*An Experiment: I was curious to see what would happen if I tried baking a S'more outside the box with the Arizona heat.  So I assembled one by using a clean plastic fruit cup and putting the S'more inside, wrapping plastic wrap around it.  The results of my experiment were that the marshmallow in the S'more cooked outside of the box was only soft, not melted.  I thought the S'more made inside the Pizza Box Solar Oven was perfect. Try this experiment with your cub scouts, but don't tell them ahead of time the results.  It would be fun to let them discover it for themselves.   - Also, it would be a great learning experience for the boys if you use two thermometers; one inside the box and one outside like I did and have the boys record the temperatures and then talk about the results afterwards.

Tortilla Chips with Cheese
Official Temperature at the start time: 97 degrees F
Time started baking: 11:08AM
Temperature on candy thermometer outside box at the end of baking: 120 degrees F
Temperature on meat thermometer inside box at the end of baking: 165 degrees F
Finished baking at 11:23AM (15 minutes)
Official Temperature at the end time: 97 degrees F
Note: The pizza box was already warm from use when I baked the S'mores, so it would take a little bit longer to melt the cheese if I had JUST put the box outside.

Clean Water Experiment
Click on this link for the instructions and diagram:https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B0revQcSgs4OS29vZ09uLWR6eWc  (Note: Be sure to explain to the boys that this experiment with water does not make it drinkable. A more refined purifying method is needed for drinking water.)

Good to Know Information in relation to this experiment: Veterans Oasis Park (NE Corner of Chandler Heights Rd & Lindsay) covers 113 acres and features both lush wetland and arid habitat suitable for the diverse plants and wildlife of the Sonoran Desert. This "non-traditional" facility capitalizes on the divergent and plentiful outdoor recreation opportunities at the site created by the park land, lake, and wetlands/groundwater recharge basins. The shallow basins infiltrate high quality reclaimed water to the subsurface aquifer for storage and recovery as part of the City's comprehensive reclaimed water management plan. The park also includes 4½ miles of trails, wildlife viewing areas; ramadas and picnic areas; a butterfly and hummingbird habitat; an outdoor amphitheater; a unique, learning-oriented playground; a 5-acre “Community fishing” lake; a Solar System Walk; equestrian trails; and interpretive signs and exhibits.

Litter Sweep Relay

Materials: a broom for each team and a small pile of dry trash.

Divide the Cub Scouts into two teams and give each team a broom and a small pile of dry trash—soda cans, paper, small plastic bottles, etc. At the start signal, the first boy on each team sweeps the trash to a certain point and back. The next team member then takes over, and so on until all have run. The first team to finish wins. If a boy loses any trash, he must sweep back and pick it up.

Robot Made from Recycle Materials

Shared by Michelle

Materials used: 2 large soup cans, 2 toilet paper rolls, 1 cereal box, two baby food jar lids and 2 craft eyes. 

Cheers
Rainstorm Cheer:  To simulate rain, have everyone pat one finger of the left hand and one finger of the right hand on the table. Gradually increase the intensity of the storm by patting more fingers against the table.  Decrease the number of fingers as the storm passes.
Coyote Cheer: Have everyone stand and say, "ARC, ARC Arooooooooo!!  GEE, it sure is lonely out here."
Flower Cheer: Like a flower blooming, raise part way in your chair, look around and jump up yelling, "Spruuuuuuung!"

Opening Brain Teaser Answer: FOOT 1)food 2)fond 3)bond 4)band 5)HAND