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
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We’re Movin’ Up!
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 Thrills
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!
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
Building & Racing Beaver Buggies!
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
Pulling back the Curtain
Yesterday we had an amazing day at Blue Springs … I mean Blue Heron (part of Blue Springs and across the street from Blue Springs on the left), I am truly sorry for all the confusion, and like myself you probably passed right by the lot and had to turn Continue Reading
Thinking Day or Spirit Hike
No matter what you call it this year’s hike last night was amazing. Scouter Dave from Rover Crew came out and led us on a rain or shine ‘Winter’ hike through Joe Sam’s trail system. The message ‘be prepared’ was spot on as we had to deal with a Continue Reading
Kub Kar Fun Day!
Congratulations to all who participated in today’s Kub Kar Rally. 3rdWaterdown had the largest Pack there at 22 Cubs! We had one finalist for the fastest car that raced in the afternoon and we cleaned up in the design Categories. Congratulations to the winners and all participants from Continue Reading
Kub Kar Kraziness
Today at our Cubs meeting, half our pack was sewing and the other half was carvingand sanding Cub Cars. For those of us who were working on Cub Cars, before the meeting we needed tocreate our design for the car on paper, and at the meeting we drew the cut Continue Reading
Winter Camping with Group is in the books!
Happy to report everyone survived and it sounds like our Cubs had an amazing time. Big shout out and Congratulations to our Two Cubs whose designs were combined to make our Camps Badge featured above. Amazing job! Parents ask how we do it and I’m going to share a bit Continue Reading