Guide to Planning Activities in Pack 29

Having celebrated its 40^th anniversary a few years ago, Pack 29 has planned and participated in a number of activities. You can see evidence of some of our activities by the number of banners on our Pack flag, the patches on the Cub Scouts’ uniforms and bragging vests, the stories in the newsletters, on our web page www.pack29.org and in the memories of the Cub Scouts and their parents.

One of the basic parts of Cub Scouting is family involvement. Pack 29 plans and participates in activities where families are together having fun with a purpose. Some of these activities help Cub Scouts complete achievements toward rank or learn new skills, some help the boys learn to appreciate the great outdoors, some are for celebrations and others show our duty to country. For more information on Cub Scouting see http://main.pack29.org/what_is_cub_scouting.htm

Pack 29 has a tradition of including everyone in the family, including siblings, in almost all activities. The exceptions would be district-sponsored events such as the Cuboree, Webelos Woods (Camporee) and day camp. Some of our families are “traditional” two parents with children, some include parents and stepparents, other Cub Scouts’ families may include a guardian or a grandparent. Whomever the Cub Scout calls his family has been welcome to join in our activities.

While I said that the Pack plans and participates in activities, you can guess it wasn’t “a Pack” but the people – the family members in the pack – who actually plan and participate in these activities. There are new people involved in the Pack each year as Pack 29 welcomes new boys and their families into the Pack (mostly in the fall) and says good-bye to others as they graduate into Boy Scouts in the spring. As our Cub Scouts graduate into Boy Scouts, their parents who planned some of these events leave and other parents volunteer or as my old mentors would say are given the opportunity to plan an activity. 

Perhaps you are the new person who is going to be planning an activity for the first time. I have created this guide to help you plan some of the traditional activities that Pack 29 has participated in over the years. I have collected information and materials from these events over my 9 years in Cub Scouting in Pack 29. Much of the material and ideas are not original to me but are what I’ve learned from others, collected from Roundtables and Pow Wows or have been passed down to me by others. I have been on the planning committee for each of these events at least once but am by no means an expert. This is a continuation of the Activity Planning Packets started about 7 years ago by then Cubmaster Frank Vucic. Unfortunately, there was only one copy of the packets and over time many of the packets didn’t make it back to the Pack after the planning was completed. I hope I have included most of the information that was in those packets.

The activities in this guide include traditional activities such as School Night and Blue and Gold Dinner and other activities we have planned and participated in over the last few years. Just because an activity is in the guide does not mean that you have to do it, nor if an activity isn’t here doesn’t mean that you cannot do it. If you do plan the activity, I hope that some of the information here will help make the planning easier so you don’t have to “re-invent the wheel”. As others have allowed me to use their material, feel free to use this material in other documents as long as it is for Scouting.

The Cub Scout program continues to grow and change. As I write this guide, Tiger Cubs wear orange T-shirts and graduate to become “real” Cub Scouts who wear the blue uniform. Over the next few years, Tiger Cubs will wear a blue uniform and have their own Tiger rank, which will go on the bottom of the diamond on the blue uniform. The Webelos Scouts will have a different uniform that is more like a Boy Scout uniform. I am digressing but what I am trying to state is that the rules, achievements and traditions will change. So, please keep that in mind as you use this guide.

This guide is part of Terri Washburn's Wood Badge Ticket to achieve part of her vision for Pack 29: that “Pack 29 will deliver scouting values to youth into the future”. She dedicate this guide to her sons Brian and Alan who are the reasons why she is in Scouting and to all the Cub Scouts and their families who she have had the pleasure to know in her Scouting adventures. Special thanks to Frank Macaulay, her Troop Guide at Wood Badge WB BSA-2000-X2, David Short, her Wood Badge Ticket Counselor, and Helen Cripe who proofread this guide.

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 Appendix – Tour Permits

 Appendix - School Night Open House

Welcome Packet

 Appendix - Camporee / Webelos Woods

Appendix - Sleepovers – Delaware Museum of Natural History

Appendix - Popcorn Sale

Appendix - Pinewood Derby

Here is a version of the helps in Pinewood Derby activity. 

    Appendix - Blue and Gold Dinner

    Here is a shorter version of the helps in planning a blue and gold dinner.   

Appendix - Cuboree

Appendix - Sleepover – Carrousel Farms

Appendix - Jamboree on the Trail

Appendix - Family Picnic

Appendix - 4^th of July

Appendix - Cub Scout Day Camp

Appendix - Webelos Resident Camp Appendix                       

Blue Rocks Sleepover

Appendix of Other Information

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