Water Rockets

“A good Cub program should not be rocket science … but it can involve Rocket Science!”
A bottle rocket is a 2-liter (soft drink) bottle with compressed air and water released in an upward direction. We can use this model to learn many concepts about motion, forces, energy and flight.
Why do bottle rockets fly? The [...]

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Swimming Sports

Cub Scout Swim Carnival
Objective: Cub Scouts swimming carnival, there are no trophies or competition between Packs. The main objective is to have fun!
Where: Use a local swimming complex with an 8 lane 25 meter pool.
Who can participate? All registered Cubs. All participants must be between 7.5 and 11 years of age on the day of [...]

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Klondike Derby

A Winter (Snow) Camping and Outdoor Skills competition
Klondike Derby is a Scouting Winter Skills and Camping event, held every winter in the snow. Sometimes it involves an overnight campout and multiple Camporee type competitions, where Teams compete against each other. Each Team uses a Dog Type sled that uses Scout power to pull it instead [...]

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Spooks Night

Halloween Programs
Halloween is the evening of October 31st it is followed by All Hallows’ Day or All Saints’ Day on November 1st.
The feast of Halloween, also as All Hallows Eve, began in pre-Christian times. It was originally a Celtic festival celebrated widely among the peoples of the British Isles and northern France as the ancient [...]

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Billy Cart Derby

Billy Cart Derby
A traditional Cub Scout competition
BILLY CART — A child’s four-wheeled go-cart. Billy comes from billy goat. In the past the term applied to a small cart, often two-wheeled, that was pulled by a goat. These billycarts were used for such purposes as home deliveries, and they were also used in races. The term [...]

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Scouting Adventures (Adventurous Activities)

Adventurous Activities are defined in the Victorian Branch “Info Book”.
Activities that present a greater element of risk than any other normal Scouting activity are referred to as “Adventurous Activities”. (These are activities for which our leaders are required to undergo specialised training and/or to demonstrate a prescribed level of competency [RPL] in any one or [...]

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Jungle – The Law of the Jungle

The Law of the Jungle
‘We be of one blood, ye and I’
Baden-Powell used the Jungle Book, written by Rudyard Kipling, as the symbolic framework for the Cub Scout section. The Jungle Book is a wonderful story about what education really is.
This section will look at how Baloo teaches Mowgli the Laws of the Jungle;
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Jungle – Council Rock

THE COUNCIL ROCK AND CIRCLES
When the wolf pack met in the Jungle, Akela, the old wolf, stood on a great rock in the middle, and the pack sat in acircle all round it.

We use this rock and circle symbology within the Cub Pack …. I’ll describe some of the original methods used, but most modern [...]

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Jungle – Pack Totem Poles

PACK TOTEM POLE
We don’t see many of these anymore…

Figure 1. The Pack Totem Pole.

The Cub Pack carries a Totem Pole, made up of a staff with Wolf’s head at the top. Ribons are attached to the pole every time you get a Proficiency (Acheivement) Badge. The ribbon is the same colour as the group [...]

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Jungle – Jungle Plays

JUNGLE PLAYS
The Dances may truly be called Jungle Plays, and will be referred to in this booklet as Play (Dance) to indicate the dual nature of the activity in the history of Cub Scouts.
There are a number of Jungle Plays (Dances) which are based on parts of the main stories of Rudyard Kipling’s “Jungle Books”. [...]

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