Bear parents,
Instruction to earn the Whittling Chip continues in our next meeting.
The bears will practice carving soap with an actual knife.
Please bring an appropriate pocket knife with you to the meeting for your scout to use in the meeting (an adult needs to bring the knife - not the scout).
I can also provide an extra knife to use if you let me know.
Contact me if you have questions and I look forward to seeing you at the next meeting.
Brian
Bear parents,
FYI. We are going to start earning the whittling chip this week. The Whittling Chip gives the scout permission to carry a knife. All knife use MUST be closely monitored by an adult at Scout functions and I strongly encourage you to maintain the same standard at home. This week will be knife safety with maybe a little soap carving with plastic knives. I will provide all materials for this topic - DO NOT SEND KNIVES WITH THE BOYS.
Brian
DO NOT use any type of metal spoon or bowl for mixing.
DO NOT refrigerate. When air builds up in the bag, let it out.
It is normal for the batter to rise, bubble and ferment.
Day 1 Do nothing – Date on Bag
Day 2 Mush the bag
Day 3 Mush the bag
Day 4 Mush the bag
Day 5 Mush the bag
Day 6 ADD to the bag – 1 cup flour, 1 cup sugar and 1 cup milk. Mush the bag.
Day 7 Mush the bag
Day 8 Mush the bag
Day 9 Mush the bag
Day 10 Follow the directions below
1. Pour entire contents of bag into a non-metal bowl.
2. Add 1 ½ cups sugar and 1 ½ cups milk.
3. Measure out 4 separate batters of 1 cup each into 1 gallon freezer bags.
Mark each bag with the date.
Keep a starter for yourself and give the other 3 away
to friends along with a copy of this recipe.
Should the bags not be passed onto friends the first day, be certain to tell them what day the bag is on.
4. Preheat the oven to 325 degrees.
5. Add to the remaining batter in this bowl, the following:
Dry ingredients:
1 cup sugar
1 ½ tsp baking powder
2 cups flour
2 tsp cinnamon
½ tsp baking soda
2 small boxes of instant vanilla pudding mix
½ tsp salt
The Rest:
3 eggs
1 cup oil
½ cup milk
½ tsp vanilla
Cinna-sugar:
½ cup sugar
1 ½ tsp cinnamon
6. Grease 2 large loaf pans and mix additional .
Dust greased loaf pans with half of this cinna-sugar mixture.
7. Pour the batter evenly into the pans and sprinkle the remaining mixture of sugar on to the batter.
8. Bake for one hour. Cool until the bread loosens from the pan evenly, about 10 minutes.
Optional:
Add 1 cup chopped pecans
1 cup dried blueberries
1 cup dried cranberries
or a combination of all three.
If you keep a starter for yourself, you will be baking every 10 days. The bread is very good and makes a good gift. Only the Amish know how to create a “starter” so if you give them away, you will have to wait until someone gives one back to you…ENJOY!
Please plan to be at the General Aviation Terminal at 6:15.
Free 4-hour parking located near the terminal.
Video directions are included here:
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OLD Message:Wolf and Bear Dens only.
I have updated the Pack calendar with the date and time. More details coming soon.
Thanks,
Juan
Hey everyone,
It was great to see several new faces at the meeting tonight. As discussed with everyone tonight, we need to have a meeting next Thursday for those boys who are going on the Campout October 23-25. During next week’s meeting we will organize all of the boys who are going into their dens for the event (mixing all of the dens together). Once we do that, the dens will work on a den name and decorate a flag for the dens for the Chuck Wagon Derby and then begin work on their Chuck Wagons. We will meet again from 6:45 until 8:00 or so to get as much as we can done and then we will work on finishing them up the following Thursday, October 22. We just didn’t feel we’d have enough time to work on them the day before having to go out to the campout event.
I do need one parent volunteer to coordinate getting the food for the weekend. The Pack will provide breakfast on Saturday and Sunday morning and dinner on Saturday night. Everyone will be on their own for dinner on Friday night and are asked to pack a bag lunch for Saturday afternoon “on the trail”.
Also, with all of the new faces and several new leaders of dens, I am looking to schedule a parent meeting in early November to try to fill out some roles that we need to get coordinated and put people in charge of, so be looking for details on that for early November.
Thanks everyone and we’ll see you next Thursday.
Randy
Parents,
Our trip to InsideOut Sports in Cary worked out great. We put a lot of tasks in the books for Achievement 14 in the Bear Cub Handbook and the scouts have successfully earned their Bicycling Sports Belt Loop. They are now just a few steps away from earning their pin.
To complete the Bicycling Sports Pin, they need 10 hours of bicycling (a chart listing each hour completed) along with any four of the following tasks:
Don’t forget that on Saturday August 8th we have our Pack Bike Safety Ride from 11:00 am to 2:00 pm.
Thanks,
Juan
Scouts are required to bring:
The scouts learned a blanket stitch to secure their fabric. From our last project, the corn hole game set, we found that the glue did not dry fast enough and our beans leaked through the holes. Be that as it may, I provided them with two more pieces of t-shirt fabric to SEW new bean bags. They can decorate it before adding the beans and sealing the bags.
Please help them with the process without doing it for them.
I am securing a local tour permit to visit InsideOut sports for our bike safety requirement July 23 (our next den meeting). I will update everyone in two weeks if that is a go.
Below are two articles that came in the Sunday Paper for July 5th. The scouts could read these and complete their “What Makes America Special Achievement” (achievement 3).
Source: Parade Magazine
Source: Parade Magazine
Thanks,
Juan
The upcoming holiday is a perfect time to look at completing some achievements for section 3 (What Makes America Special).
I was thinking about making July bike month for the Den with our bicycle safety field trip and bike course achievement in our sights. That way we will be more than prepared for the August bike ride with the pack. I will confirm these plans after the holiday.
FYI - the Parent/Leader meeting is cancelled for next week due to the holiday. There should be an email coming soon on this.
Den Decode of the Day
23-8-1-20 4-15 25-15-21 3-1-12-12 1
7-18-9-26-26-12-25 23-9-20-8 14-15 20-5-5-20-8?
7-21-13-13-25 2-5-1-18
Source - Boy’s Life Magazine
Thanks,
Juan
