Not More Knots!

Not More Knots!

We are in the season of school camps at the moment so our patrol was down to 3 people this week, so what we learnt this week you will all be able to show to the others next Tuesday night. We started, as always, with a game. Each Scout was given a bottle of water with...
Australia’s Knot Talent

Australia’s Knot Talent

Yes this weeks theme for the Cub Scouts was knots, but first the stick game. All the Cub Scouts stood in a circle each holding a large stick upright. On command they had to move either left or right, letting go of their stick and catching the respective new stick...
Campcraft Knots

Campcraft Knots

Our first night back in term 3 started with a game of Noodle Marco Polo. One Scout was blindfolded and given a pool noodle, they then had to call out “marco” and the other Scouts reply “polo”. The blindfolded person had to follow the sound and...
Waterwise Badge Week 3

Waterwise Badge Week 3

We mostly completed the Waterwise Badge this week, there are still the water use sheets to bring back next term. Remember you need to record you water meter twice, once at the start and again 7 days later. We started the night with a game, the Cub Scouts had to run...
Patrol Activity Planning

Patrol Activity Planning

Somehow we have already reach the last night of the term, so the Scouts needed to get most of their patrol activity planning sorted tonight. As usual however we started with a game, with the Scouts needing to circumnavigate the hall without touching the floor. The two...
Waterwise Badge Week 2

Waterwise Badge Week 2

Our first game tonight had the Cub Scouts thinking about all the things they learnt last week, and at the Hinze Dam visit over the weekend. A number of questions were read out which were all true or false, if the Cub Scout thought it was true they ran to one end of...
Gruesome Detective Challenge

Gruesome Detective Challenge

As we have been doing so much badge work this term it was time for a little extra fun this week with a Gruesome Detective Challenge. However first while the game was being set up the Scouts needed to get warmed up with a little exercise! Then it was time to...
Cubs Scouts Visit to Hinze Dam

Cubs Scouts Visit to Hinze Dam

The Cub Scouts were able to enjoy a visit to Hinze Dam this weekend as part of their Waterwise badge. We arranged to meet up at 10am and started our tour shortly afterwards, this was an inter-pack activity and we were joined by a number of Cub Scouts from Canungra as...
Waterwise Badge Week 1

Waterwise Badge Week 1

For the next few weeks the Cub Scouts will be undertaking one of the specialist badges, this will include a trip at the weekend to the Hinze Dam. We began the evening with a game of Rain Clouds: Cub Scouts lined up in Sixes. Sixer was the ‘Cloud’ who starts in the...
Tidying Up Loose Ends

Tidying Up Loose Ends

This week we took some time to tidy up most of the loose ends left from the Citizenship badge, and re-affirm a few of the important points we have covered over the last few weeks. As usual however we started with a game, the Scouts were all blindfolded and then had to...
Happy 160th Birthday Queensland!

Happy 160th Birthday Queensland!

Tonight was not only the first time in a few months the Cub Scouts were back in our usual hall but it was also the 160th Birthday of our home state Queensland, we certainly didn’t need any more of an excuse to have a bit of a party! We started the night with a...
Back Home – Tidying and Catching Up

Back Home – Tidying and Catching Up

At last we are back in our usual hall, so the first jobs tonight were moving everything back in to the storage cupboards and having a bit of a tidy up. Everything was going well until a collection of safety pamphlets was moved, the plastic bags they were stored in had...