Category: Scout Meeting

Mouse Bookmark

Use inexpensive supplies to make this mouse bookmark; shoestring, beads, felt, googly eyes and a pom-pon.

complete instructions here

Scout Idea: have your scouts make the craft and write out the poem to keep.

They then tie a knot in the string every time they do a good deed.

This saucy creature is a mouse
Most mothers won’t let one in the house
See, this one it has quite a tail,
Each scout made one without fail.
Take it home and help all week,
and for good turns you must seek
for every good turn that you do
tie a knot in the string…make quite a few.
Remember why each knot you tied
and how much to help you really tried
and then next week, please take your turn
to tell us all, so we can learn…
just what you did to help at home
a ready helper you have grown!

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Play With Shaving Cream

This is a very fun, and generally clean playtime activity. All you’ll need is:

Foam Shaving Cream
Table with Laminate Surface
Kid(s)

Directions: Spray some shaving cream on the table and tell the kids to rub it around, write letters, make pictures, etc. all with their hands.

Make sure kids know not to touch their face/eyes, while playing. Clean up is a breeze too. Just rinse hands, and wipe off table.

Hula Hoop Game

This is a fun game for a group of 4 or more kids. Especially good for getting a group of kids to work together.

All you’ll need is a Hula hoop, and a space big enough for kids to join hands in a circle.

Instructions:

Ask the kids to stand in a big circle, slip a hula hoop onto one child’s arm, and have them all join hands.
They then must find a way to move the hula hoop all the way around the circle without letting go of each other’s hands.

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