Scouting, Volume 41, Number 6, June-July 1953 Page: 12
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BEAN BAG
HORSESHOES.
Each player has
two bean bags of
same color. Mark
two triangles on
ground. Play like
horseshoes
BEAN BAG BOMBING.
Toss bean bags with
identifying colored
streamers over cross
arm onto target
marked on ground.
Count up scores.
SPORTS CARNIVAL
THEME FOR AUGUST
Carnival? Sure! That's something people go to
for fun and relaxation. It's an affair where fam-
ilies and friends know they'll enjoy themselves.
This month in Cub Scouting we're going to have a
Sports Cafnival. Keep it simple, with activities
confined to the Den and Pack. Remember our Pro-
gram is designed to give boys things to do where
they are.
HOW TO PROCEED
After studying the Pack Annual Picnic pages, the
Den Mother will select the skills, games and con-
tests her Cub Scouts will need to practice. Some
require equipment/which can be started or discussed
in the Den Meeting and finished at home with dad's
help. Ask the Den Chief to help the Cub Scouts pre-
pare and conduct the opening and closing cere-
monies. Refer to his Den Chiefs Den Book and the
Flag Achievement in the Cub Scout books. Boys
must be selected on merit and for participation
equally in a definite number of events at the Pack
Sports Carnival.
WHAT TO DO
If you are near water assign Den parents to
give boys an opportunity at least once a week to
swim. Plan instruction for the beginners. Get out-
doors and practice ball throwing for distance and
accuracy, broad and high jumping, starts for run-
ning races, baton passing relay, sack race, three-
legged race, shoe race, "throwing-sticks," ski race
run on grass using homemade barrel stave skis, tire
rolling race. Add to this other activities necessary
to prepare for the big Pack Sports Carnival at the
Annual Picnic.
ACHIEVEMENTS AND ELECTIYES
Den Mothers should check carefully with parents
so boys receive credit for all their performances in
feats of skill, family fun, swimming, keeping strong,
handicraft and so forth.
FAMILY ACTIVITIES
In addition to helping Jimmy with the things
you will have to make for the Pack Carnival, the
family should enjoy table tennis, badminton, horse-
shoes, tennis or brisk walks to explore neighboring
woods or parks. Let dad tell something about his
sports experience.
PACK SPORTS CARNIVAL
On the following pages you will find a wide va-
riety of activities designed for Cub Scouts and par-
ents. Let the Den Dad and Den Chief be in charge of
the boys and their participation in the activities.
Each Den makes a Den Totem on a six-foot staff to
be used for scoring. After each contest a colored
slip of paper is given to each boy who presents this
to Chief Akela. Akela tacks to each Den Totem a
colored strip of cloth for the place they won. First:
blue, second: red, third: green, fourth: yellow. All
others get a white one for participating.
Invite a friend and his family to the Pack Meet-
ing. Arrange some type of picnic supper or corn
roast to climax the activities.
FALL ROUND-UP
Pack Leaders should plan some definite steps to
recruit new families and select and train new lead-
ers. Tie in with your Local Council plan. If there is
no such plan, use the ideas on the preceding pages to
rally all the enthusiasm possible as you launch your
Pack Program for the coming year.
KITE KITS
One of the most difficult phases of making a kite
is getting straight, thin sticks of wood for the frame.
Realizing this problem the National Supply Service
Division makes available a kit of materials including
16 Va" x %" x 36" cut sticks, and 8 sheets of kite
paper. This is enough to make 8 cross-stick kites.
Catalog number is No. 1895 and it retails at $1.35
per set.
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