Cub scouts
07-05-2015, 06:26 PM
#3
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Iowa (Heartland USA)
Posts: 3,249
Making a sun dial, id different leaves by their shapes (I'll never forget my pack leader taught us how to differentiate between red oaks and white oaks: Think of cowboys and Indians. Red oaks have pointed leaves like arrowheads and white oaks have rounded points on leaves like bullets which is probably no PC today. Like previously said, plaster animal prints. Find saplings to make walking sticks out of and then decorate them with feathers, painted on symbols of scouting, etc.
07-06-2015, 03:39 AM
#5
Fork Horn
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Rowan County, North Carolina
Posts: 182
When I "mentored" a den many years ago, we used the recycle theme with most of our projects. Be surprised at how many things you can do with a 2 liter soda bottle. Put one of those things in front of them and let each member come up with an idea. Another thing we did, over the course of several meetings, was put together a mini survival kit.
07-06-2015, 07:48 AM
#8
Little Doe Peep
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Japan
Posts: 14,945
Originally Posted by AF Hunter
Show them how to determine directions (north, south, east and west) by using a stick and the sunshine. Since you said cub scouts, I would avoid teaching the fire starting.
My husband has never owned a GPS, just uses a compass as needed.
07-06-2015, 08:19 AM
#9
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Allegan, MI
Posts: 8,019
Originally Posted by sachiko
When I took Hunter Safety we were taught how to use a compass. We had one of those where the sighting thing flips up with a thread to allow you to sight on a target. You then go to the target and take a new sighting. Cool stuff. Useful in Michigan where the trees often make a GPS useless.
My husband has never owned a GPS, just uses a compass as needed.
My husband has never owned a GPS, just uses a compass as needed.
07-06-2015, 09:02 AM
#10
Little Doe Peep
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Japan
Posts: 14,945
Originally Posted by Topgun 3006
That's called "taking an azimuth" Sachiko. For many years I have carried the compass my Dad used in WWII that has as you put it "the sighting thing that flips up with a thread"! I carry a Garmin GPS because you can get within a few feet of a coordinate you're looking for, but I'd never be without that compass since any new fangled gadget can go bonkers at any time and it doesn't need batteries!
