Exercise With Your Child Week: 4-10
Exhibitor Appreciation Week: 5-9
Psychic Week: 5-9 (First full week)
Sturgis Rally: 5-11
National Hobo Week: 8-11
Elvis Week: 10-16
National Smile Week 11-17
Feeding Pets of the Homeless Week: 11-17
Weird Contest Week: 11-17 (Second Week)
National Aviation Week: 15-21 (Always week of Orville Wright's Birthday on 19th)
Little League Baseball World Series: 18-24
Friendship Week 18-24
Minority Enterprise Development Week: 18-24
Be Kind To Humankind Week: 25-31
National Safe at Home Week: 26-30
August, 2013 Daily Holidays, Special and Wacky Days:
1 National Raspberry Cream Pie Day
2 National Ice Cream Sandwich Day
3 National Mustard Day
3 National Watermelon Day
4 Friendship Day - First Sunday in August
4 International Forgiveness Day - First Sunday in August
4 Sisters Day - First Sunday in August
4 U.S. Coast Guard Day
5 Work Like a Dog Day
6 Wiggle Your Toes Day
7 National Lighthouse Day
8 Sneak Some Zucchini onto Your Neighbor's Porch Day - now that's nasty!
9 Book Lover's Day
10 Lazy Day
10 National S'mores Day
See recipes in Cub Grub
11 Presidential Joke Day
11 Son and Daughter Day
12 Middle Child's Day
13 Chinese Valentine's Day/Daughter's Day - 7th day of 7th Lunar Month
13 Left Hander's Day (For CD's wife)
14 National Creamsicle Day
14/15 V-J Day
15 Relaxation Day - now this one's for me!
16 National Tell a Joke Day
17 National Thriftshop Day
18 Bad Poetry Day
19 Aviation Day
20 National Radio Day
21 Senior Citizen's Day
22 Be an Angel Day
22 National Tooth Fairy Day
23 Ride the Wind Day
24 Vesuvius Day
25 Kiss and Make Up Day
26 National Dog Day
26 Women's Equality Day
27 Global Forgiveness Day
27 Just Because Day
28 Race Your Mouse Day -but we are not sure what kind of "mouse"
29 More Herbs, Less Salt Day
30 Frankenstein Day
30 Toasted Marshmallow Day
31 National Trail Mix Day
PACK & DEN ACTIVITIES
Honesty Ideas
Alice, Golden Empire Council
Weave a Den Meeting About Honesty
Felicia, who does the Bear Den Meeting Ideas for Baloo’s Bugle, came up with this great Cub Grub recipe for Spiders ~ and using the old time phrase. That got me started on this whole den meeting idea. As any teacher can tell you, the more ways you present an idea, especially hands on or with something edible, the better the lesson sticks.
Thanks, Felicia!
As a Gathering Activity, tell the boys you are going to be doing some weaving – then give each boy a half-page instruction sheet showing how to weave together an Amazing Flying Machine. Challenge them to throw their machine like a disc in an enclosed space. When it hits the wall it will explode – that why we used to call them “Bomb Pops.” They were made from POPsicle sticks and exploded like a bomb.
There’s someone else that does a lot of weaving. Here’s a hint: You’ll find the results up in the corners of a room, or in a hidden space between the table and wall, or even on a bush. It’s made by a creature with 8 legs.
(Answer: Spiders Weave Webs)
We played a fun game using hula hoops to see if we could work together to “weave” a web. Have three or four boys get inside a hula hoop, facing out so their backs are together. Now they must move diagonally across an area from point to point as if weaving a web - at least two of the boys are always going backwards. The goal is to finish a course that would “weave” a web across the room in the fastest time. The team with the fastest time wins. But if they fall over, they have to start over! This is harder than it looks.
Show Spider Treats with a slip of paper that has this saying on it. (Oh What a Tangled Web We Weave, When First We Practice to Deceive) See Cub Grub for the recipe.
Talk about the saying with the boys, and make sure they understand what the words mean – and about examples of honesty and when it’s hardest to be honest. Boys could also make the spider treats for their family – and take home a lesson to share. My note home follows:
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