District Cycle Rally 16 June

Our District Cycle Rally was held on Saturday 16th June. We had a great turn-out and the cubs had a marvelous time riding around the Korsman's Bird Sanctuary in Benoni. One lap around the sanctuary was nearly 3 km! .... and some of the cubs completed 11 laps. We are so proud of them!

We have attached a number of photos for you to browse through...

The Winners for the day were:

Cheetah Cup : 4th Benoni

Leopard Cup : 4th Benoni

Lion Cup : 9th Benoni

Overall Winner : 4th Benoni

Well done to all the cubs and friends that made this day so enjoyable.

Till next time

Keep Cubbing

Akela Joy

Meeting 15 June

It was time for some creative fun!

This week we made a soapbox cart and a jungle woggle.

Cutting out the woggle from leather.

Putting the soapbox cart together...

Working hard...

.. a completed soapbox cart.

Made from pre-cut pieces of wood, string, screws and cool-drink bottle tops.

and our elephant woggles!

We also had a very special visitor on Friday - Forrest - who joined us for the meeting.

Till next Time

Keep Cubbing

Akela Joy

An idea

I thought it might be good to sometimes put an idea on the blog for all the Leaders out there! A Guider colleague of mine made up this "heart basket" and presented it to me with a few biscuits - really cute. An idea would be to make it for Father's Day with some fudge or nuts or even some biltong inside. Enjoy!

Till next time

Keep Cubbing

Akela Joy

Red Flower - 8th June

Today in the Jungle we learnt about Red Flower - the fire!Fire is very dangerous! and here the cubs are making sure they avoid the fire!

The cubs stand in a cirlce while the leader swings a bottle around on the end of a rope while the cubs jump over it.

While telling the cubs the story of the Red Flower, they learnt that Mowgli had to get the Red Flower from the Village. Cubs were blindfolded and lay on the floor around a lit candle. A chosen cub had to take an unlit candle and work his way to the centre to light his candle without being heard. If heard, the cub must put out his hand.

With our fire we decided to do some cooking ..... in a shoebox! We made delicious bananas and marshmallows!

Our little oven!

Cubs preparing their feast!

While their food was cooking, the Lions checked that they knew all the safety rules for fire.

Making sure of Fire Safety.

The Cheetahs were learning to tell the time.....

while the Leopards were learning what to do in an Emergency.

..... and then the food was ready!

Scrumptious, mushy marshmallow and bananas.

Time to eat!

Till next week...

Keeep Cubbing

Akela Joy

Pack Meeting 1 June 2007

Our story of the Jungle Book continues.

Before we get started, let me explain what our "funny money" is. Each week our cubs bring along with them a little bit of their pocket money. This money is collected and counted and goes towards a worthy cause. After this meeting we counted what was in this bottle and it totalled a wopping R295. With this money we have purchased stationery for the poor - as part of our National Cub Challenge.
This week we learnt about Kaa's Hunting expedition.
A game that we played was that all cubs sit in a circle and one cub who represents Kaa who has a "tail" tied onto him, runs on the outside. He taps someone on the shoulder and they must chase Kaa until caught. If caught, they become Kaa.... and so on.

Kaa got extremely hungry and he agreed to go to the Cold Lairs to help rescue Mowgli but first he need to shed some skin to make space for all the monkeys he was going to eat!

He the cubs are shedding their skin.

While we were busy in the Cold Lairs, our partners were trying to be like Chil and learn to fly!

1st Benoni - next door - were having fun on the aerial runway.

Till next time

Keep Cubbing

Akela Joy

In the Jungle - Learning with Balloo and Bagheera

At the pack meeting on Friday, the cubs had to learn a few "jungle tricks"! As with any jungle there are lots of obstacles to overcome and here you can see our cubs during their obstacle course.
During the obstacle course certain tasks also had to be completed.

Balloo was there to teach Mowgli the way of the Jungle. Here our cubs have been taught how to make Potato Heads!

James showing us his beautifully made Potato Head.

...... and some special jungle style Mother's Day cards

.... made for our dear moms.

Till next time

Keep Cubbing

Akela Joy

One World One Promise - 23 April 2007

We ran our Centenury Programme on Friday 23rd April which coincided with St Georges Day - St George being the patron saint of Scouting.

After explaining that Scouting is found in all four corners of the world we played a quick game of North, South, East and West where the compass points are countries.

We then visited some countries around the world. Cubs were shown flags of these countries and chose which one they would like to colour in.

Here we have 2 of our Cheetahs learning how to strike a match....

and some cubs doing Woodcraft Trails.

As the Scouting movement, we are "one world - one promise" and our next game really showed this. Cubs were put into a relay formation and had to run up, one at a time, collect one item and return to build the Cub Promise.

...... and here we have it completed.

One of our New Chumbs being invested with his dad putting on his cap.

Till next week

Keep cubbing

Akela Joy

Jungle Book - Meeting Mowgli - 13th April 2007

Our theme this term is the Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling. After a quick run-around game, we settled the cubs down to listen to the first part of this very exciting story.

In order to help the Cubs remember who's who in the zoo, we played a mix and match relay game whereby a picture of a Jungle Book character and the correct name had to be matched.

As part of the Advancement, here you see the Leopards doing some knotting.....

...... and success at last!

Being in the jungle we needed to make sure that all the birds were fed ........

.... and the Lions made these stunning feeders.

Our programmes so so jam-packed with fun and adventure that we decided to join Mowgli in the jungle. Now you have to understand that to be in the jungle you have to go in disguise..... and what better way than to go as a Wolf Cub!

Here we have two of our Pack Helpers tracing wolf cub masks.

and I am sure that Mowgli, Baloo and Akela would never have noticed any of our darling cubs creeping around the jungle! Do you?

Aren't they just precious?

Till next time

Keep cubbing

Akela Joy