cub-o-ree ideas for cubscouts

[chadman]

I am the district chairman for our annual CUB-O-REE. I just wanted to know if anyone some new or different ideas.

[Melinda]

Please excuse my ignorance, but what exactly is a Cub-O-Ree? I've been to a Webelos-O-Ree, but that was an overnight event. I imagine you wouldn't be planning a District wide overnight for boys of all Cub Scout ages. Is it a day long event? How many boys do you expect? What time of year will it occur? Perhaps with more information, you will receive more suggestions!

Thanks,

Melinda

[jbroganjr]

First off, what is the theme? Many ideas can be incorporated into a theme. I am assuming (a dangerous adventure that ;-}, that a cub o ree is the same as a cub camporee (without the camping) Ideas: Get the Cub Scout How to Book, The sports and academic pin book, and peruse the scout books (wolf/bear/webelos) for activities, make them fit the theme and you should have enough ideas for 20 units to do. Also, what games do you like to do? Pick a couple that the boys can do either solo or as a den or as den/den competition. I'm a big believer in having a slide making station. Examples I've seen in the last year: Medieval Theme: Took the science pin for webelos, added a lot of fun ways to do the expirements and called it Merlin's Workshop.

I have run the last two cub camporees for our district and I had the following: For the spring '00, Civil War themed: Obstacle course (Called the underground RR course), The mine field game, a geopgrahpy game, a scouting game (look at a bunch of objects for 10 seconds and tell what you remember) Stretcher races to the front lines. Supply movement, cubs moved 200 lbs of gear on sleds using fulcrams and pipes in a race.

Fall '00 Fall Fun: Science station, pumpkin bolwing, bobbing for apples on a string, mummy wrap races (dens/pairs of scouts, raced to wrap another cub in T.P. to make a mummy, a HUGE refrigerator box maze, Rocket launches, Ham Radios, Slide Making, Magic Wand making station (craft) and A Haunted Hike.

 

[Mike Long]

Our Troop hosts 2 event each year with our Cub Pack.

 

The first is a overnighter with the whole Pack and the Boy Scouts spend the morning teaching Scout Skills to the Cubs. The afternoon is filled with games to test the Scout skills they learned in the morning.

 

The second is designed like a typical Scout Camporee for the Webelos. We divide the Webelos into patrols and have competition games for them. The Cubs actually compete against the Boy Scouts. The games are designed with the Cubs knowledge in mind (ie no advanced pioneering ect.)

The Cubs cook their own food (with a Boy Scout Buddy helping) That night we have a campfire and award ceremony where we all do skits and songs. Only the cubs get awards from the competition. The Boy Scouts get recognised as the staff. Our basic theme is a typical Boy Scout Camporee.

 

One thing you should do is get your OA Chapter and all Den Chiefs to staff the event. We did that when I was a boy and it worked out great. Your Cub parents can spend their time coaching and managing their boys and the OA can run the show. The best part of that arrangement is that you don't have parents tring to pull double duty. If you have Troops that are associated with Cub Packs get a Boy Scout Staff member to work closely with the packs as a sort of Troop Guide. The main reason for doing this is that the Cubs get to know a Boy Scout in the Troop that they might crossover to. We have found that if a Cub knows about a Troop and knows Scout in that Troop the less likely that he will drop out after Cubs.