Stake Cub Scout Day Camp

In honor of the 100th Anniversary of Scouting, we held a Stake Cub Scout Day Camp in June. Many, many hours and many, many hands helped to make it a day of fun and achievement for the Cub Scouts in our Stake. (I just received these photos; that's why I'm finally including this in the blog!)

For our gathering activity, the boys each made a #10 can head to store their scout "stuff" in at home. Jacob likes to dress his up with his scout hat and neckerchief.

Then the boys split into groups for the day's activities. My favorite: the scouts folded little pocket flags to send to deployed troops throughout the world.

The finished product!

Each of the scouts were able to write thank-you cards to go with the flags they folded.

Another highlight of the day was having a real State Senator come to speak to the boys about service and citizenship. Senator Verschoor is a member of our Stake and was so good with the scouts!

Each boy made a poster about being a good citizen, especially at home.

One of our rotations was about the outdoors. Since this is Arizona we didn't want to spend too much time outside the air-conditioned comfort of the church building, so we brought the outside in. One of our Cubmasters talked about local plant and animal life and how to "leave no trace" when you are in the outdoors.

The scouts did a service project of picking up trash from the church's parking lot (it really needed it after our next activity...see below!).

Water Balloons!!! This was a riot! The boys used balloon launchers to soak each other and then played a very wet game of baseball in the parking lot.

Another favorite class was about Leadership and Cooperation. The boys learned about good leaders and group participation through some fun games. In this one, one boy from each team was blindfolded and led through a maze of chairs by listening to just his partner.

Jacob especially liked crawling army-style under the tunnel of chairs.

In the Manners class, the scouts earned their Good Manners belt loop and pin. They wrote thank-you notes...

...learned how to eat finger foods appropriately (yummy popcorn!)...

...and all about phone manners and treating others with respect.

This is Niki, the Stake Primary Secretary and her adorable boys (that was Jennifer, the other Primary counselor above, with the popcorn).

The class we don't have pictures of was one of the boys' favorites: Volleyball! It really helped get out lots of energy. They were tired as we gathered at the end of the day.

Jennifer took this picture of me. I know it's not pretty, but it makes me laugh. I was so concerned about watching the time all day long!

Dear President McClellan. He is our biggest cheerleader and came to speak for a few minutes at the close of the day. What a great man! All in all, we had about 75 boys participate in day camp and earn the 100th Anniversary patch and ribbons (not to mention the numerous achievements and other awards they passed off). I'm both super proud and super humbled that it came off as wonderfully as it did!