Climbing Wall

We were a bit short on the ground tonight. Green Six were missing in its entirety - it seems they are all away with the school. This scuppered our plan to do the fitness challenge with the Cubs.


It did allow us to hit the climbing wall though!

We had a few quick rounds of Mosquito Tig and Silly Chicken but this was just to limber them up.

After an introduction and a quick traverse of the lower wall we got the cubs harnessed up and let them attempt the full wall.

The cries of "its easy" quieted down as they made their attempts, but they all did really well.

They all managed to ring the bell at the top.

A full on game of hockey followed by a few rounds of the 60 second game finished the evening.

Next week its the Fitness challenge (fingers crossed)

Short Table Tennis?

Tonight we brought out the table tennis bats and set the cubs up for a game.
After a few attempts we felt that the level of bounce was beyond our ability so we invented Short Table Tennis. This replaces the normal ball with a normal tennis ball sized foam ball. This makes the game much slower. By adding an element of volley ball (any number of bounces on each side) we began to get some rallies.

While we were inventing this game, the other cubs were playing table air football.This involves 2 teams, straws, and a table tennis ball.
We finished off the evening with a rousing game of Total wipeout followed by the 60 second game.

We obviously got their heart rates up tonight as no one hit the times as accurately as normal.

Remember the Armistice Parade this Sunday at 1015 at the Scout Hall. Full Uniform please.

Also no Cubs next week (13 Nov) as too many cubs will be at Parents night at school

Happy Halloween

Tonight was the Halloween party. Cue Cubs in a variety of costume - we had a pair of clowns, a pair of ghosts, a manic doctor, a giraffe, a skeletal pirate, a werewolf, to name a few.
Good fun all round!

Back from Holiday

Welcome back from holiday.
We started off tonight with a new game - Chinese football. This is where you have two teams defending their goal by linking hands and blocking the goal. The scoring team can only hit the ball with their hands and have to bend over to do it. The 'Chinese' part comes from the fact that it suits a large number of players at a time. Sadly, with our small numbers it didn't work well at all. A fiasco might be a better explanation. Perhaps once we recruit more or have a shared event...

We quickly followed this with Husky racing. A cub sits on a tea tray while another has to slide them to the end of the hall where they swap positions. The first team to get all their cubs to the wall and back win. The first few attempts were pushing.

They soon found out that all of them pushing was even better. Soon someone realised that pulling was even quicker!

After this we took advantage of the smaller than usual numbers and managed a 'proper' game of indoor hockey - the first time I think we have ever managed to do this.

After a well needed rest and drink it was clothes peg tag. This is where each cub has 3 clothes pegs clipped on their back. They have to capture pegs of everyone else while defending their own pegs. Captured pegs are clipped to their front. Last one with a peg on their back wins and who ever has the most pegs comes second.
To slow everything down for the end of the night we played sneak the keys.  A blindfolded cub armed with a torch, has to listen for the cub trying to sneak the bunch of keys from beneath his seat. If the cubs hears you and shines the torch on you, you are out.
Good fun and lot of laughs tonight.
Next week its the Halloween party. Costumes and no uniform required.

Model Painting

We had part 2 of our clay model making but before that we had a quick game of something like volleyball or croquet...
We had the Cubs stand in a circle with their legs apart. They then had to get a ball through another Cub's legs in order to eliminate that cub. Last one standing won.

Despite being quite a simple game it got quite competitive.

We then got the clay models out from where we left them to dry last week. We were lucky and all had dried and none seemed to have broken, but some we a bit delicate so the glue came out to repair some paint damaged petals.

Once the paint was on, glitter was added and masterpieces were completed.

The last event of the evening was bucket ball with a sin bin. Bucket ball is always a popular game (its like basketball but you have a team mate hold the bucket to catch the ball)

The introduction of the 'sin bin' was tried for the first time tonight. Traditionally, there is always a bit too much running (once you have the ball you are not allowed to move your feet) and crowding of the goal catcher (there is an exclusion zone around the bucket). Tonight we simply set the offending cub into the bin for a short time. It worked a wonder. After the first few exclusions the game picked up quite well.

No cubs next week as the schools are out.

Bonfire Night

We have organised our annual bonfire and fire works display for Sat 3rd November. We hope you and your family and friends shall come along and support us.

We shall light the fire at 6.30pm and set the fire works off at 7.15pm.

We shall provide a B B Q with hot and cold drinks for all.

If you have any queries, please feel free to give me a call.

PS – any donations of home baking/cakes would be very welcome – if these could be dropped off at the hall on the Saturday afternoon that would be appreciated.

Armistice Parade

This year’s Armistice Parade will take place on Sunday 11th November.  

Our short service of Remembrance will be conducted in the Scout Hall, Loans.  

We should all gather there at 10.15am for the service starting at 10.30am.  

The collection, as usual, will be sent to the Earl Haig Fund.  

Cubs and Scouts will, thereafter, march to the Memorial at the Village Cross to lay our wreath at 11.00am, with Beavers and parents walking along to join us there.  

We normally have an excellent turnout for this event and would hope to see you all again this year.

Many thanks

Philip McGowan

Group Chairman