The Last Webelos I Meeting...

We had our last regular Den Meeting last night - I can't believe another year has gone by. The boys will cross the bridge in July - get their Webelos badges and change to tan/olive uniforms - getting ready to be Boy Scouts next February...

First the boys brought their crystals back from the last den meeting...

they didn't really travel all that well - some of the crystals fell off - the sugar crystals held up better and they ate those...

We will be going to Webelos Camp in July and so for this last den meeting I just did several team building exercises and some games - it was a lot of fun - first we played 'Everybody Up'...

you practice pulling each other up and then you get in a circle and try to get everybody up at once...
it took several attempts - this one didn't work...
It was fun to watch them work together and decide how to try it this time...
criss crossed hands...
also didn't work...
side to side - obviously isn't going to work - there's nothing to pull against...
let's try again - this one finally worked...
This was the team drawing game - they had to hand off the pen after drawing one line each and go to the back of the line and no one could talk - a pretty standard house structure here - but it was a lot of fun...
Next up - build a teepee with pretzel logs and licorice ropes...
again, it was fun to watch them try something decide it wasn't going to work and try something else...
some of us tried the candy too...
but everyone eventually managed to build a teepee-like structure...
Next we played the 'Wacky Animal' game - I highly recommend this one the next time you need a group activity - it took about 15 minutes - but it was hilarious...
There were 4 baskets with one descriptor in each one - each cub drew one word from each basket and used those to form the 'name' of his critter - the Man-Cub got a 'Three Taloned Snake Whiner'...
Everyone first drew their animal and then told the group about it's habits, food, habitat, etc. - it was so funny...
This is the 'Six-Eyed Pinetree Warbler'...
...and the 'Five-Bellied Toadstool Grabber'...

And last at snack time - we played 'Feed Me' - but their right arm had been broken - so we splinted everyone's right arm (really just to remind them that they couldn't bend it)

- then I told them that their left arm was dislocated at the shoulder (man - that must have been some hiking accident) - so they had to tuck it behind them - OK - I told the scouts it was snack time...

It was funny to watch them try to eat - some of them scooped up a spoonful and laid their spoon down and ate off of it - some tried to toss them into the air and catch them -

but eventually they figured out that they could easily feed each other - no one would go hungry...

Then there was the requisite game of 'Hot Lava Dogs' - it's a sort of tag game - that involves a designated area of 'lava' - it's a game of their own invention and they beg to play it at every den meeting...

and it was warm enough to play it outside...