Bear Cub Den Meeting 2 Agenda "Science Academics Pin"

I found the skeleton blank label sheet here:

http://www.evacreando.blogspot.com.es/2013/02/el-cuerpo-humano-en-pop-up.html

Here is an answer key I found here:

http://www.chartjungle.com/education/skeletonlabeled.html

We also made a skeleton craft...here is how my son Jayden's turned out:

Here is where you can get the printable for the skeleton craft:

http://www.thefunnyz.com/funny/39339/#.UnqhxfmsjZE 

Here is the erupting pumpkin experiment I did with my two boys at home with dry ice:

Cub Scout FREE Orientation Hand Out

Bear Den Meeting Orientation Hand Out Sheet

Hello everyone! Here is an orientation sheet I made for my cub scout parents explaining how meetings are run and how our "bear buck" program will work. Also on this post you will find the bear buck printables and an "About Me" printable I created for you. This was part of our 1st meeting agenda.

Inspiration for this orientation sheet came from here: http://akelascouncil.blogspot.com/2013/02/cub-scout-orientation-for-new-cub.html?m=1

Bear Bucks (print out) I found these printables at this website HERE

Milk Carton Haunted House Bird Feeder

Milk Carton Haunted House Bird Feeder 

Cub Scout Meeting #1

Hello everyone! The first week of October I held my first den meeting as a den mother and we had a blast!

My den is a group of Bear cubs (3rd graders) and we needed to work on our "Achievement 5 Sharing Your World with Wildlife" for earning towards our Bear badge. The achievement 5a states to make a bird feeder. I figured that since its October that it would be fun to make a Haunted House bird feeder. 

Our den meetings are held in the library so it wouldn't be a good idea for the boys to paint the milk cartons themselves so I prepared the cartons by washing them, drying and then painting them with black acrylic paint. I was able to paint 12 cartons with just one small bottle of black acrylic paint. (right...middle picture shows my box ready to go with all the pre-painted milk cartons and snapware containers that held all the small bottles of glue, stickers etc. 

The windows on the milk carton are actually glow-in-the-dark duck tape =D I was so thrilled to find this!!! (its pictured in the upper right in photo) For the dimensional stickers, they were purchased at Michael's craft store for $1.00 a pack. I bought 6 packs (2 ea of bats, spider in web stickers and eyeball stickers) and divided up the stickers among the boys.  To make things run easier at the meeting I didn't want to bother with cutting all the duck tape strips for the shingles on the roof. What I did was cut the strips in approximately 2 inch length and then folded the strip leaving part of the sticky strip exposed and then I adhered them to baggies. The boys then could just peel off the strips and place them on the top of the carton. I make a pre-cut slit at the bottom of the opening on the milk carton so that the boys could just slip their wooden stick (also purchased at Michael's craft store in a pack) right into. This way I didn't have to deal with cutting and messing with it at the meeting. I also cut out the little ghosts and bats you see on wire floating above the feeder. I laminated them and once cut I taped them to pre-cut craft wire so all the boys needed to do is tape the wire to the roof. The last thing I did to prepare the feeders for the meeting was to hole punch the top of the carton and attach the string for the feeder to be hung up. 

Here is a printable I created of how I prepared the milk carton feeders:

Here is a printable of the ghosts (print and laminate)

Here is a printable of the bats (print and laminate)

Trick or Treat sign (print and laminate)

Bear Den Meeting 1 Agenda

Bear Den Meeting 1 Agenda

Den meetings are usually held after school or on the evening. It is up to you as the den leader if you would like to meeting on a weekly basis or bi-weekly. For my den we plan to meet bi-weekly. The den meetings last approximately an hour. As a den leader you will be investing your time in other meetings as well such as:

* One evening each month for a pack meeting 

* One evening a month for the Cub Scout Roundtable ( at the roundtable you will get good program ideas based on the monthly core value and meet other leaders in your pack)

* One evening each month for a planning meeting with other pack leaders.

Tomorrow will be my first meeting as a den mom =D Here is the agenda I am starting out with for our first meeting. Since this is the month of October I thought it would be fun to work on achievement 5a making a bird feeder in a haunted house theme. Stay tuned for pictures and a tutorial on how we made it!

Wish me luck!

Cub Scout Forms Free Printables

I'm getting ready to have my very first Den meeting for my Bear Cub Scouts!

I found these 1" inch white binders (in picture above) at Target for only .90 cents =D I made the cover (pictured on the left). These will folders will be given to my Scout parents. Inside has a list of our den, information on uniforms and where to put the patches, year events calendar and our October newsletter that I made up. (I will be posting this so stay tuned!)

Here are forms that I created that are in my leader binder. 

This is an activity sheet that I have for my Bear cubs to fill out at our first meeting. I will be hanging onto these as the first page to our scrapbook. I will be making a scrapbook for each cub that I will give to them at the end of their scout year as a gift.