Sorry it's taken me a couple of days to get this post together...with the push to finish belt loop requirements and the end of the school year I've been a little busy to say the least...But here it is finally! I hope you enjoy!
Over the past couple of weeks Aiden and I have been working really hard to tie up some loose ends in his Wolf Adventure and I am proud to say that when he earns his Wolf rank he will have completed 17 of 19 possible Wolf Belt Loops and the 2 that he didn't earn this year were Tiger belt loops that he earned before the program changed last year...soooo...WoW! I am so proud of him for putting in the work and earning so many belt loops and badges this year!
Motor Away #2 --- we built more than the two required boats and then Aiden and the girls had fun testing out their designs in the bathtub that night. The whole project took about an hour to complete and cost me about two hot glue sticks... Otherwise the kids used recyclables, some craft supplies and their imaginations to create some really neat boats...Some floated really well and some sank when you blew on them...Aiden loved the project so much that he went back to building boats after his bath time was over.
Finding Your Way #4 --- Aiden had to go on a scavenger hunt using a compass. Our hunt was more like a treasure hunt, but he used the compass to find each clue. I got 10 pieces of paper and walked a path around the yard noting which direction I had to travel to get between each clue and then I gave the kids a compass and their first clue telling them to go out the door of the house that faces SW...off they went and after following 10 clues successfully they were each rewarded with a Pokemon card! Then they made their own clues and went on their own treasure hunts until it was bath time and time to try out those awesome boats we had made earlier in the day.
Hometown Heroes #6 - Aiden needed to participate in a ceremony to celebrate Heroes. We went to Mountain View Cemetery in Vinton, VA, where we met a couple other Packs to place American Flags by the graves of Veteran's in preparation for Memorial Day! There were over 700 flags donated by the cemetery and it took about an hour to place them all. There was even a reporter there from the Vinton Messenger and she wrote up a nice article about the service project that you can view here!
Above is Aiden placing a flag by his Great-Grandaddy's grave and giving him a big salute and below is a picture of Isabella and her Grandma Dee-Dee placing a flag for another Veteran as well as a great shot of all three of my kids helping with the project...ok maybe just two of them...lol...Emma was getting tired by then and thinking hard about resting on the headstone...smh...
Collections and Hobbies #5 -- Aiden had to choose a famous person to write a letter to requesting an autographed picture. We talked and talked about what makes people famous and after giving him several people to choose from Aiden chose to write to Dolly Parton. Aiden's sisters received books from the Imagination Library and he really enjoyed the books as well! So... we started with an introduction, followed by a Thank-you and finished with a P.S. photo request. I hope that he at least gets a response and even more awesome would be to know that Dolly actually saw his letter. I do have one friend that is a Super Fan of hers and he gave me an address to send the letter to. I will post an update if we get a response.
Next week is a Cub Scout Carnival Graduation that is sure to be lots of great fun and then Aiden will start his Bear Adventures and we will start the hunt for our new Pack in the NRV!
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