With two Cub Scouts close to going up, and within just 1-2 tasks each of having their Grey Wolf badges, we spent the evening finishing off the Our Scouting Traditions part of the boomerang work and one or two other points of tidying up.
The night started not with a game but some music, played to us by one of the Cub Scouts mentioned above.
A talent you have kept hidden from us all these years!
Of course by now everyone wanted to play a game, so we played a story relay, about the History of Baden Powell and the Scout movement.
Followed up with the Brownsea Island Experiment, another story but this time with mostly actions rather than running.
We then learnt the story about why Scouts shake with their left hands, and played Left Hand Tag. The Cub Scouts sat in a circle while the ‘it’ person walked around and picked somebody. That person then stood up and they shook hands, left of course. The ‘it’ cub then got to choose to run clockwise or anticlockwise, while the other Cub Scout had to run the other way, with a race to get back to the starting point and sit down. Last person back was now ‘it’.
It worked well, lots of fun, and no collisions!
We then had a chat about the the current region badge, and the district badges that came before it. Before filling out a short quiz, the answers to which we had covered over the last 2 weeks.
There was just time for the sixer of red six to read out his reflection, this was based upon what he has done to complete his Grey Wolf badge, before we had parade and a few badges to award.
