April 2015 Webelos Handout

April 2015
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CUB SCOUT ROUNDTABLE 2014-2015
Theme: Health & Fitness/Backyard Fun
Webelos Topic: NEW PROGRAM Webelos Adventures
Cast Iron Chef
First Responder
Stronger, Faster, Higher
Webelos Walkabout
Debby Martin 435-228-8859 [email protected]
Derrick Scriven 801-205-5774 [email protected]
Alicia Chadwick
435-830-9020
[email protected]
District Website: http://www.deseretpeakcubscouting.com/
Webelos Topic:
New Program Webelos Adventures
Cast Iron Chef
Presented By: Derrick Scriven
Youth Handbook Snapshot of Adventure—Food is an important part of our lives, and eating
healthy helps us grow, gives us energy, and keeps our minds sharp. In this adventure, you will get
the chance to help plan healthy foods you can prepare for your den or family, set nutritional goals
for yourself, and build something to cook your meal in/on. You will be part of the cooking process, from learning how to lay and light a campfire to eating all the snacks you prepared!
Do all of these:
1. At an approved time in an outdoor location and using tinder, kindling, and fuel wood,
demonstrate how to build a fire; light the fire,
unless prohibited by local fire restrictions. After
allowing the flames to burn safely, safely extinguish the flames with minimal impact to the
fire site.
2. Set personal nutritional goals. Keep a food
journal for one week; review your journal to
determine if the goals were met.
3. Plan a menu for a balanced meal for your
den or family. Determine the budget for the
meal. Shop for the items on your menu while
staying within your budget.
4. Prepare a balanced meal for your den or
family; utilize one of the methods below for
preparation of part of your meal:
a. Camp stove
b. Dutch oven
c. Box oven
d. Solar oven
e. Open campfire or charcoal
5. Demonstrate an understanding of food safety
practices while preparing the meal.
Ideas for Week 1
Personal Nutrition Goals
• Keep a Food Journal for one week with goals and review the journal to see if goals are
met.
• Folding Journal: Front cover: Goals, Inside folds: 1 triangle for each meal (note
snacks as you go), Back cover: Track goals. You can color code each day if you
want.
• Plan a balanced meal for your family or den
• Create a game: Jeopardy questions with categories such as Fruits and Vegetables,
Portion sizes, Snacks, Dairy, Meats, Choose My Plate, etc.
• Dice game: Divide meal planning into six categories.
• Create the menu for the meal you plan to cook.
Ideas for Week 2
• Follow up and review the Food Journals
• Discuss what the boys learned about how they eat. Give positive encouragement for good choices; offer suggestions and set new goals for improving other
choices.
• Budget and shop for your meal
• Use grocery ads or the internet to help with pricing for your budget. Discuss buying food on sale and coupons.
• Go Shopping! Take the boys to a local grocery store to match prices against the
budget. Have prizes for things like under budget, biggest savings on one item,
most creative menu item, healthiest meal, etc.
• Box or Solar oven (Time permitting in week 1 or 2)
• Simple Box oven: Take a cardboard box and line it with HEAVY duty aluminum
foil. The thicker the better. Elevate wire rack: rocks, soda or soup cans. Place
charcoal in a pie tin or aluminum roasting pan for heat source.
• Simple Solar oven: Take a cardboard box with a lid. Line the box and the lid with
HEAVY duty Aluminum foil. Place food in the oven and put a film of plastic wrap
TIGHTLY over the box. Point the oven in direct sunlight to cook.
Ideas for Week 3
• Build a fire and fire safety
• Build and light a small fire, be certain it burns and extinguish it.
• Fire starters- Egg carton: using one cell from an egg carton tightly pack
dryer lint and sawdust and seal with wax. Cotton ball: In a double boiler
or similar system place petroleum jelly in a small pan until melted. Dip
cotton ball in petroleum jelly and dry.
• Kindling- Demonstrate using different sizes of wood starting small and
moving up. Den Chiefs would be good for this activity! Stress DRY wood is
best.
• Different building methods: Most common teepee, log cabin, and lean to.
• Extinguishing a fire
• Talk about having at least two ways to put the fire out (water, sand/dirt,
and chemical). Teach and review DEAD OUT –No heat can be felt with the
palm close to the fire.
• Talk about minimal use of fire area. (Leave no trace) Safety issues.
• Prepare Meal using different methods and Food Safety Practices
• Prepare the planned meal using either a camp stove, Dutch oven, Box oven, solar
oven, or open fire/charcoal. Discuss advantages and disadvantages of the different
methods. Discuss how weather and location may determine your choice of preparation method.
• Food Safety
• Discuss cleanliness of cooking area utensils and cooking method. Review safety
practices with cutting utensils and preventing germs from spreading. Review good
practices for cleaning and disposing of garbage. Discuss rules for outdoor cooking
versus indoor cooking, weather, etc. Again review Leave no Trace practices.
ENJOY!
First Responder
Presented By: Debby Martin
Youth Handbook Snapshot of Adventure—You will have the chance to put the Scout motto, “Be
Prepared,” into practice in this adventure by building your own first-aid kit, planning and preparing for emergencies of all kinds, and seeing how professional first responders help their community. This adventure will leave you feeling more prepared in case of an unknown emergency, and
have you ready to help if you are first on the scene.
Do all of these:
1. Explain what first aid is. Tell what you should
do after an accident.
2. Show what to do for the hurry cases of first
aid:
a. Serious bleeding
b. Heart attack or sudden cardiac arrest
c. Stopped breathing
d. Stroke
e. Poisoning
3. Show how to help a choking victim.
4. Show how to treat for shock.
5. Demonstrate that you know how to treat the
following:
a. Cuts and scratches
b. Burns and scalds
c. Sunburn
d. Blisters on the hand and foot
e. Tick bites
f. Bites and stings of other insects
g. Venomous snakebite
h. Nosebleed
i. Frostbite
6. Put together a simple home first-aid kit.
Explain what you included and how to use each
item correctly.
7. Create and practice an emergency readiness
plan for your home or den meeting place.
8. Visit with a first responder.
First Responder Relay Stations
Requirements 5, 7 and Emergency Services
The new “Webelos Leader Guide” has lots of help for all of the Adventures. For First
Responder they provide a First Responder Relay Stations activity. This would be a great activity
to do with the boy scouts. The Boy Scouts could run the stations and the Webelos can learn from
them. If you can’t get their help, try parents. The Leader Guide provides cards with a scenario for
each station that the boys will need to determine the first responder action that needs to be taken.
The activity uses the “Check, Call, Care” method to evaluate and accomplish each scenario. Here
is a sample of one of the activities:
Simple First Aid: cuts and scratches
Simulate a small cut with a red marking pen by drawing a line on the arm or hand of a helper,
less than half-inch in length. Be ready with small adhesive bandages and soap and water to
simulate treatment.
CHECK – Review seriousness of injury.
CALL – Not necessary to activate EMS for this injury; it would be wise to inform an adult.
CARE – Clean wound. Apply bandage.
The Leader Guide also provides Activities, role playing games, Questions for first responders, appropriate items for the first aid kit, and fun ways to make fake injuries for the Relay Stations look
a little more real.
Stronger, Faster, Higher
Presented By: Debby Martin
Youth Handbook Snapshot of Adventure—Fitness is an important part of our lives. It helps keep
our bodies and minds healthy and strong. There are so many different ways that you can be physically active in your day, including some that you are probably already doing, and you don’t even
know it! Through the Stronger, Faster, Higher adventure, you will begin to understand how to
exercise in a healthy and safe way, while coming up with creative ways to be active every day.
Do all of these:
1. Understand and explain why you should
warm up before exercising and cool down afterward. Demonstrate the proper way to warm
up and cool down.
2. Do these activities and record your results:
a. 20-yard dash
b. Vertical jump
c. Lifting a 5-pound weight
d. Push-ups
e. Curls
f. Jumping rope
3. Make an exercise plan that includes at least
three physical activities. Carry out your plan
for 30 days, and write down your progress each
week.
4. With your den, prepare a fitness course or
series of games that includes jumping, avoiding obstacles, weight lifting, and running. Time
yourself going through the course, and improve
your time over a two-week period.
5. With adult guidance, lead younger Scouts in
a fitness game or games as a gathering activity
for a pack or den meeting.
6. Try a new sport you have never tried before.
Requirement 2: Notice that this requirement is very similar to the currents programs Athlete #5
with a couple of changes.
Current Requirements Removed
New Requirements Being Added
• Pull-ups
• 20-yard dash
• Standing long jump
• Lifting 5-pound weight
• Quarter-mile run/walk
• Jumping rope
Tip for weight lifting: You can buy an actual 5 pound weight or you can use a gallon jug. A full
Gallon of milk is 8.6 pounds. If you save the jug and add enough water to only be 5 pounds, you
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• Stakes with string crisscrossed back and forth through them to make an army crawl station
• PVC pipes and elbows made into low bars you can put in the ground that the boys can jump
over
• On a hot day have a sprinkler running they have to jump through just for the fun and cool of it
• Between each activity have the boys do fun moves like jumping jacks, frog jumps, giant steps.
Webelos Walkabout
Presented By: Alicia Chadwick
Youth Handbook Snapshot of Adventure—Hiking can be great exercise and a fun activity to do
with your den or family. It is important to remember that hiking is something you will need to
plan for: what you will bring, what you will see, and what to do if there is an emergency. This adventure will give you a chance to plan and be prepared for a hike, go on a hike with your den, and
help your community by doing a hiking-related service project.
Do all of these:
1. Create a hike plan.
2. Assemble a hiking first-aid kit.
3. Describe and identify from photos any
poisonous plants and dangerous animals and
insects you might encounter on your hike.
4. Before your hike, plan and prepare a nutritious lunch. Enjoy it on your hike, and clean up
afterward.
5. Recite the Outdoor Code and the Leave No
Trace Principles for Kids from memory. Talk
about how you can demonstrate them on your
Webelos adventures.
6. With your Webelos den or with a family
member, hike 3 miles (in the country if possible).
7. Complete a service project on or near the
hike location.
8. Perform one of the following leadership roles
during your hike: trail leader, first-aid leader,
lunch leader, or service project leader.
There is a list of different levels and lengths of hikes found at www.tooelecountytrails.com that
can be used with this adventure.
Hiking First Aid Kit
Outdoor Code
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Personal medications
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Butterfly bandages
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Antiseptic wipes
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Band aids
As an American, I will do my best to - Be clean in my outdoor manners. Be careful with fire.
Be considerate in the outdoors.
Be conservation minded.
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Tweezers
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Latex gloves
Leave No Trace Principles
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Antibacterial wipes
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Antihistamine tablets
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Antibiotic cream
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Aspirin / ibuprofen
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Personal information / contact person
Plan Ahead and Prepare
Travel and Camp on Durable Surfaces
Dispose of Waste Properly
Leave What You Find
Minimize Campfire Impact
Respect Wildlife
Be Considerate of Other Visitors
Poisonous Plants
The following web site has great information on the most common poisonous plants found in
Utah.
http://health.utah.gov/licensing/forms/All/Poisonous%20Plant%20Info.pdf
Theme:
Health & Fitness/Backyard Fun
Health and Fitness
A personal commitment to health and fitness means keeping our minds and bodies clean
and fit.
Why “Backyard Fun” for Health and Fitness?
Through Cub Scouting we encourage families to be more physically fit and, at the same
time, to enjoy the outdoors in their own backyards. By staging this month’s pack meeting
outside, we encourage our Scouts to turn off the television, computer, and video games,
and help keep the “Outing” in “Scouting”.
Scout Law equivalent to Health and Fitness is “Clean.”
A Scout keeps his body and mind fit and clean. He chooses the company of those who live
by high standards. He keeps his home and community clean.
Flag Ceremony
Personnel/Materials: 7 Cub Scouts, each holding a poster with a large letter on the front and his
line on the back in large print. They line up beside the U.S. flag.
Cub #1: O - is for outdoors, where we like to play.
Cub #2: U - is for umbrella, needed on a rainy day.
Cub #3: T - is for trees we see on our yards.
Cub #4: S - is for s’mores that we like to eat.
Cub #5: I - is for ideas our leaders bring along.
Cub #6: D - is for direction in singing a campfire song.
Cub #7: E - is for everyone having some fun. And now, for our
pledge, might we all stand as one?
(Audience rises for the Pledge of Allegiance.)
Cheers
Applause: Big Hand
Everyone needs to lend a hand to the environment when having fun outdoors—a “big hand.” This
is done quietly, and in the background. To give a big hand of applause, extend your open right
hand into the air. Then there’s a big hand with feeling: Tickle the palm of your right hand with the
pointer finger of your left hand. Let’s give ourselves a BIG HAND … with feeling!
Cheer: “Go Bananas”
Bananas are a healthy food, easy to eat during backyard fun and high in potassium—something
needed during exercise. This cheer adds even more fun. Teach it by saying the words and demonstrating the actions. “Bananas of the world unite.” Clap your hands together over
your head and hold them. Then pretend to be peeling yourself as a banana while saying, “Peel,
peel, peel-peel bananas. Peel, peel, peel-peel bananas.” Then wave your hands wildly in the air and
turn in a circle while yelling, “Go, go, go-go bananas. Go, go, go-go bananas.”
Advancement Ceremonies
A Game with a Purpose
Materials: rank badges with small safety pins attached.
Cubmaster: The founder of Boy Scouts, Lord Baden-Powell, taught us that “Scouting is a game
with a purpose.” Today, in our pack meeting, we’ve been playing Scouting games, and all year we
have been having Scouting fun in our pack. A number of our Cub Scouts have had so much fun
that they’ve achieved the purpose of getting their rank advancement for this year! Will the following from the Tiger Den [number] please come forward with their parents? (Call the boys up
by name.) Boys, you have completed all the requirements and earned your Tiger badge. We are
proud of you. Parents, will you continue to help your Tigers along the Scouting trail?
(The parents say, “Yes.” Cubmaster hands the badges to the parents.)
Cubmaster: Please present your son his Tiger badge and pin it on his uniform for tonight. (Leads
cheer and repeats the presentation for Wolves, Bears, Webelos, and Arrow of Light, as needed.
Leads a cheer for each group.) The next time I see any of you, I hope to see you proudly wearing
your badges on your uniform. Let’s have one final cheer for the boys and their parents that helped
them! (Leads cheer.)
The Fire of Cub Scouting
(This is an outdoor ceremony. If you need to do it indoors, use a fake fire and have someone
hidden that plugs in the light for your fire at the appropriate time.)
Materials: steel wool; dry-cell battery; length of speaker wire with ends stripped; dryer lint;
kindling; wood for campfire. Practice beforehand and have available an alternate means of lighting the fire. Set up the wood for the campfire in a “log cabin” or “tepee” arrangement. In the base,
place the steel wool in contact with one end of the bare wire so that the speaker wire is making
good contact with the steel wool. Place dryer lint around the steel wool as tinder. Conceal the wire
and run it to an area where another leader can see the campfire but can remain unnoticed. For the
ceremony, the fire is not yet lit.
Cubmaster: Thank you for joining with us tonight. The following boys have completed the requirements to earn their Bobcat badge, and I would like them to join our fire circle. (Reads boys’
names and has them come forward with their parents. Does the same for Tigers, Wolves, Bears,
and Webelos ranks. Leads a cheer for each rank or award.) These boys have worked hard and honestly to earn their badges, and I believe that their hearts are true and that they bring the spirit of
Cub Scouting with them tonight. Their spirit builds on the spirits of other Cub Scouts who have
walked the path of the Bobcat, the Tiger, the Wolf, the Bear, and the Webelos in days gone by. By
joining the ranks of these Cub Scouts before them, they add to the energy of Cub Scouting, and I
believe their energy is strong enough to light our fire tonight. I ask everyone here to concentrate
on their favorite Cub Scouting memory as they gaze toward our fire, and see if the Cub Scout
spirit is indeed strong here in our circle tonight. (At this, the other leader touches the other end
of the wire to the battery, which will send current through the steel wool, remotely igniting the
tinder.) These Cub Scouts truly are deserving of their new ranks, and we thank them for giving us
the Fire of Cub Scouting. (Leads a final cheer.)
Skits
Backyard Camping
Materials: pillows and blanket.
A Cub Scout and his father walk out as the narrator speaks. They
quickly put up an imaginary tent and lie down with the pillows
and blanket to go to sleep.
Narrator: A Cub Scout and his dad set up their tent in the
backyard and then settled down for a good night’s
sleep. A little bit later, they woke up and the Cub
Scout said …
Cub Scout: Dad, look up and tell me what you see.
Dad: I see the moon and the stars. How beautiful!
Cub Scout: Dad, what does that tell you?
Dad: It tells me that the world is a great and wonderful place, and
we are only a small part of it. What does it tell you, son?
Cub Scout: It tells me that someone has taken our tent! It must
have been the raccoons!
They jump up and run off screaming.
Potful of Good Stuff
Materials: large pot containing wet socks; 1 ladle; 3 cups.
Cub Scout #1 sits on the floor, stirring a large pot with a ladle.
Cub Scouts #2, 3, and 4 walk in—one at a time—each with a
cup in his hand.
Cub #2 (walks in, sees the pot): Hi! That looks good. Can I
please have some?
Cub #1 (stirring pot): Sure. (Pretends to pour some liquid
into # 2’s cup.)
Cub #2 (pretending to drink): WOW! That’s the best hot
chocolate I’ve ever tasted! Thanks. (Exits.)
Cub #3 (walks in, sees pot): Hi! That looks good. Can I please
have some?
Cub #1 (stirring pot): Sure. (Pretends to pour some liquid
into # 3’s cup.)
Cub #3 (pretending to drink): WOW! That’s the best hot cider
I’ve ever had! Thanks. (Exits, as Cub #1 looks into the
pot, shrugs, and continues stirring.)
Cub #4: (walks in, sees the pot): Hi! That looks good. Can I
please have some?
Cub #1 (stirring pot): Sure. (Pretends to pour some liquid
into # 4’s cup.)
Cub #4 (pretending to drink): YUM! That sure is wonderful
onion soup. Thanks. (Exits.)
Cub #1: This has taken a while, but they should finally be
clean. (Pulls wet socks out of pot.)