March 30, 2024 – Waterdown Scouting

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Building & Racing Beaver Buggies!

Posted on March 30, 2024March 31, 2024 by waterdownscouts

Beaver Buggies, Kub Kars, and Scouts Trucks are a huge part of the tradition of Scouting. Combining building, creativity, and STEM, racing your own design down our tracks is a huge component of our program. Pit Crew Starting in Beavers (Sr.K to Grade 2) our Beaver Buggies kits are focused on Continue Reading

Cub Reporting: A Parent’s JourneyMay 7, 2024
Back in September of 2023, at the Parents Information meeting, just before the start of the Cub Scouting year, our Akela shared he was working on a new initiative of starting a web-based Cub Reporter program. My son was at this meeting and this was definitely of interest to him. Continue Reading
CHAIRS, TABLES AND CUB CARS OH MY!May 3, 2024
Hello, it’s me, Ben and the past two weeks of meetings in Cubs we were building chairs & tables along with finishing Kub Kars for those who had not yet completed this task! The pack was split into thirds, one doing chairs, another doing tables and one doing Kub Kars. Continue Reading
We’re Movin’ Up! April 22, 2024
This week’s meeting was moved from Tuesday to Wednesday as we were doing advancement! The Advancement ceremony is where you move up in your age group. Take me for example, in Cubs this year I am a Howler, which is year three, so at Advancement I moved up to Continue Reading
Trail Skills and Pick Up ThrillsApril 11, 2024
Hello everyone! Our Cubs meeting included a very interesting and eco-friendly adventure. And you’re in luck, your favourite reporter, Benjamin Zammit will be writing this article. With sunny skies and warmer temperatures, we walked along the Bruce Trail cleaning up garbage. We walked 3.3 KM from Flanders Drive [Waterdown] to Continue Reading
PIVOT! Paracord Bracelets, Board Games and Badge Designs! April 4, 2024
This week at Cubs we were making paracord bracelets, doing board games, and making badge designs! Our Akela, Scouter Joanne was running badge designs while other leaders were running board games and paracord bracelets. Half of our Cub group was working on making paracord bracelets, which are made by re-looping Continue Reading