But it's my news which I'd like to share.
First up: kids are fun! Two weeks ago I challenged two of the oldest Cubs in our Pack (they are both nine years old) to come up with some activities for the Cub meeting last night. They and their parents had clearly put some effort into this and came up with the following:
1. Making figurines out of silver foil. This appealed to all the Cubs and the results were, in some case, amazing! We had a parachutist, a space-man, an old lady, long-skirted and wielding a walking stick, and a wee stubby one that looked like R2D2.
2. A bum-whacking game! 'Truncheon' made of rolled up newspaper. An adult walks around the circle of kids, gives the truncheon to one of them and then calls out a number of another child. Truncheon bearer has to try and thwack the numbered child on the bum (bums only was specified!) as they run round the outside of the circle but before they get back to their place. The kids loved it.
3. Morse code in the dark. We did a bit and will do some more next week.
4. Rocket balloons – you attach blown-up balloon to a straw on a string and then let go. There wasn't time for this so we'll do it next week. We have done this before too. again!
And one of the nicest 'results' of this challenge is that now lots more of the Cubs want to bring ideas of things to do.
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