Northern Lights - 15th May 2009

This week at Cubs we took a trip to Alaska to see the Northern Lights!

But first we opened with the Grand Howl and did inspection.

On arriving at the harbour to board ship we noticed that there were millions of people. Luckily we had all been given pictures of flags so that we could easily find our partner!

Cubs ran around and on the blow of the whistle had to quickly look for their partner by shouting out the country they came from.

On embarking we knew we would need our passport.

Cubs were given a preprinted polar bear and a photo of themselves. They pasted this together to form a passport.

One complete passport ready for stamping

Passport Control was happy with all Cubs

The seas were choppy and the waves were high! and we knew the Captain was a very capable sailor but we wondered if he knew how to navigate icebergs!

Here the cubs are helping to navigate!

In relay formation, cubs are blindfolded and the first cubs proceeds with the help of his Six. An obstacle course is set up with items that have to be collected along the way.
So if the cub can hear properly what the rest of his Six is telling him (go left, on the floor etc) he will navigate the icebergs well!

By this this we were all starving!

..... and a bit of fishing was in order.

Cubs were in a circle, each one with a fishing rod.

They caught their fish and ran and put it into the 'bucket'.

The winner was the one with the most fish in the bucket.

At last we arrived in Alaska and we saw the most beautiful sight.

The Northern Lights.

For more details on how to do this go to Crafts for Creative Hands.

Even Akela had beautiful painted hands!

The Northern Lights danced across the skies.

and everyone had a chance to make some for themselves.

Till next Time

Keep Cubbing

Akela Joy