Scouts2Mom

I know this is late, but i have my Cubs, and new to camping parents, use this product found at home depot / lowes. It is basically bubble wrap with the thin silver space blanket material on both sides.And it reflects like 90% of your heat back at you, and 90% of the cold ground back at the ground. Reflectix 50-sq ft Reflective Roll Insulation (24-in W x 25-ft L) About $25 Cut a length and slip it into their sleeping bag. Or sleep on top of it. Put some on your camp chair and make a "hot seat". Even make a pancho out of it and duct tape. The only down side, is it is slightly loud in the middle of the night as you roll over. But we have used this in our beds in the north east when snow storms have cut power for days. It is like sleeping on a full length heating pad.

I had the same problem. But I complicated it by having both Webelos 1 & 2's who were new to scouting, as well as "old hands". . What I finally decided was to have 1 weekend day meeting (for us, Sunday 1:30 - 4ish worked best), and 1 week night plus the Pack meeting each month. The weekend allowed us to go out, hike, build fires, cook, build stuff, etc. Just be older boys doing fun scout like stuff. The weeknight was to catch up with book work, AND to do stuff with the other dens - we all meet the same night / school in different rooms. And my boys liked working with the wolf den, or at least the snacks they always had As for scouts not completing requirements, every month or so I sent a report home saying what they had completed, and what was left, I included: "As always, your scout is NOT required to do this "home" work. It is perfectly fine if he just wants to come to scouts & have fun (and learn stuff btw). However, your scout will NOT EARN the rank without completing his homework. He will, however, advance on with his den to the next rank at the end of the year." So yup, I passed it right back on the parents and the scout. Where I think it belongs once they get to Webelos. No one will do even as much as I did (monthly status reports) once they get to troop level. And it takes all the pressure off me.

Does anyone know this one? Back when my oldest crossed over, (5 years ago), we used a ceremony where the AOL's carried a candle over to the different dens, & lit a candle there. This involved ALL the scouts in the AOL / crossover, not just the 5th graders. CM lit the candle of the 2 AOL scouts, who then took turns going to the dens, and lighting a candle that stayed with the dens. While the CM talked (about what the AOL had learned at Tiger rank? I don't remember) all the boys in the Tiger den passed their candle from hand to hand till it ended up with all the Tiger den jointly holding one candle. Then the CM lit a second candle, and the AOL carried it over to the Wolf den, and they passed it hand to hand till it ended up with all the Wolfs holding the one candle, as the CM talked about being a wolf. And then with Bear, and Webelo1. Ended up with each den holding one candle, and then the 2 AOL's had their own special candle. The thing I really liked was it *involved* all the younger scouts - they were very solemn and really vested in watching the ceremony. My goal is to make the younger boys really want to earn AOL & cross over. Does anyone know what this ceremony is, or something similar? I need a ceremony in 2 weeks. I've looked on line, but all the "candle" ceremony's I can find involve the AOL lighting candles up front with the CM. And these do NOT involve the younger dens. Help please?