The scout scoop

The Space Place

I had someone at NASA email me the other day and he wanted me to share a new site they have for the cub scouts. Check out this site to find some fun activites to help make getting your rank fun.

Go to the NASA website.

Bring your can goods for a good cause and get some raffle tickets at the next pack meeting.

At the next pack meeting we will be having a raffle drawing for some prizes. Here is how it will work.

For every can good you bring you will get a raffle ticket up to 3 tickets. Pretty easy isn't it.

Bring those can good and we will see you at the next Pack meeting.

Make your rank fun

The Houston Zoo is offering several programs throughout the year to help your scout(s) make there rank.

The Zoo is a remarkable resource for helping Scouts of all ages earn badges and other achievements. Check below for upcoming programs and events as well as registration information.

Cost for 2 hour Badge Program
$15 per scout, $9.00 per chaperone

Cost for 3 hour Badge Program ***

$18 per scout, $9 per chaperone, Free for Adult Zoo Member

Cost for 4 Hour Merit Badge Program *

$20 per scout, $9 per chaperone, Free for Adult Zoo Member

Cost for 6 Hour Merit Badge Program **

$30 per scout, $9 per chaperone, Free for Adult Zoo Member

NOTE: For the 6 hour merit badge programs a 30 minute meal break will be given. Scouts should bring a sack lunch.

For complete schedule go to the link below.

http://www.houstonzoo.org/en/cms/?2250

UPDATED: Fall Camp out

Find your campsite, download this.

The fall campout is sold out. We have a couple families that have not paid and a waiting list has been started. We currently have a little over 50 families going to the campout. During the upcoming days I will be grouping the dens together for camp assignments. I know that I was not going to do it this year but, because of our numbers I will have to group the families to make 8 people per site.

A complete schedule will is online on the packs calendar page. The day of the camp out Lalen will be going to the park early and getting the sites. As soon as I have site numbers you will be able to come back to the website to get your campsite numbers. We will have them at the headquarters site as well.

Don't forget to do your Rain Gutter Regatta boats in a pirate theme for the contest and there is a pumpkin decorating contest and dens have to supply there own pumpkins for the contest... one pumpkin per den is allowed in the contest.

All of the information about the camp out can be found at ... http://mypack1550.org/apps/calendar/view.php/243/Fall_Campout

Weather forecast

Friday, October 9th

Saturday, October 10th

Sunday, October 11th

T-Storms

High: 77°
Low: 57°

Chance of rain 80%

Mostly Cloudy

High: 75°
Low: 60°

Chance of Rain 20%

Mostly Cloudy

72°
65°

Chance of Rain 10%

See you there.

Just in time for Halloween

Just in time for Halloween. The Better Homes and gardens have a cool website to help get you the perfect pumkin stencil.

Better Homes and Gardens Website.

Popcorn Time

It is popcorn time so start your engines. Kennon has started to visit some of your den but, if he has not gotten to yours yet you can start now.

Here is a link to get the brochure.

Popcorn sell start October 1 and finish November 8th. Popcorn will be picked up on November 21st.

Campout skits needed

Campout is almost here. If your den is going to participate in a den skit, run on or song please email Robert Birkline so the scout can be added to the Campfire program.

You can email me at campout@mypack1550.org with your details.

Deadline is Oct 6th.

Current dens skits....

Tornatoes, song and skit
Thunderbold, skit
Wolf 5, skit and run-on

Committee/Den Leader Meeting Date Changed

Our October Committee/Den Leader meeting date has change from Monday, October 5th to Sunday, October 4th to accomidate our Webelos II Den Leaders. Please change your calendars. We will meet at 6:30pm as usual at Spring Creek Forest Club House.

Cub Scouts

Cub Scouting means "doing." Everything in Cub Scouting is designed to have the boys doing things. Activities are used to achieve the aims of Scouting-citizenship training, character development, and personal fitness. Many of the activities happen right in the den and pack. The most important are the weekly den meetings and the monthly pack meetings.

Apart from the fun and excitement of Cub Scout activities, the Cub Scout Promise, the Law of the Pack, and the Cub Scout sign, handshake, motto, and salute all teach good citizenship and contribute to a boy's sense of belonging.

Join Us in Cub Scouting!

To the left you can select the part of Cub Scouting that best applies to you and you will learn how you fit into Cub Scouting and how well it will fit you, too!

Cub Scout Promise

I, (name), promise to do my best

To do my duty to God and my country,

To help other people, and

To obey the Law of the Pack.

Law of the Pack

The Cub Scout follows Akela.

The Cub Scout helps the pack go.

The pack helps the Cub Scout grow.

The Cub Scout gives goodwill.

Cub Scout Motto

Do Your Best

What Is Cub Scouting?

If you are a boy in first grade through fifth grade—or you're 7 to 10 years old—then Cub Scouting is for you. It's for your family, too. This is the first and the biggest of the three Scouting programs (Cub Scouting, Boy Scouting, and Venturing) from the Boy Scouts of America.

Cub Scouts Belong to Packs and Dens.

Every Cub Scout is a member of a Cub Scout Pack. A Pack is a large group of boys.

The Pack is divided into smaller groups called Dens. Each Den has about six to eight boys. All of the Cub Scouts in a Den are about the same age and live in the same neighborhood.

The Cub Scout Pack is chartered by a church, a school, or some other group of people in your community or neighborhood. This group makes sure your Pack has good adult leaders, a place to meet, and exciting things to do. The group gets help from the Boy Scouts of America, which is part of Scouting around the world.