Leader Training & Helps ~ Great Salt Lake - Cub Scout Themes - PowWow Books - Pack Meeting Plans

Leader Training & Helps was an additional section added to the 2006-07 Great Salt Lake Utah Council PowWow book.  This is a great section, and many of the ideas that were used back then can still be used today.

To open the PDF for this theme, CLICK HERE


Some of the things you will find in this PDF are:

• New Leader Essentials
• Aims of the Boy Scouts of America
• Methods of Cub Scouting
• Keeping Scouting Safe
• Additional Training
• Fast Start Training
• Unit Leadership Enhancements
• Roundtable
• Outdoor Leader Skills for Webelos Leaders
• BALOO - Basic Adult Leader Outdoorrientation
• Den Chief Training
• Wood Badge 
• Youth Protection Information
• Two Deep Leadership
• No One-on-One Contact
• Respect for Privacy
• Separate Accommodations
• No Secret Organizations
• Appropriate Attire
• Constructive Discipline
• Hazing Prohibited
• Junior Leader Training and Supervision
• Youth Member Responsibilities
• The Three R's of Youth Protection 
• Tiger Cub Den Leader
• What are Tiger Cubs?
• Tiger Cubs - How Does it Work?
• What is My Role as a Tiger Cub Den Leader?
• What about the Uniform?
• What about Advancement?
• Where do I go for More Help?
• Tiger Cub Advancement Form
• Den Leader Basic Training
• The Den Leader & Assistant Den Leader
• The Den Meeting
• Plan a Good, Quality Den Meeting
• Needs of the Cub Scout - Age Boys
• Resources
• Core Values & Character Connections
• Other Trainings
• Why Records are Important
• Experience
• How to Incorporate Themes with Achievements?
• Ceremonies and Recognitions
• Neckerchief Slides - What, Why, How
• Webelos Den Leader Basic Training
• Introduction
• Leadership
• Leader Training & Helps
• The Program
• Resources
• Leader Training & Helps
• The Scouting Side
• Cubmaster Basic Training
• Why Ceremonies??
• Use Ceremonies for:
• Do's & Don't for Ceremonies
• Resources for Awards & Ceremonies
• Simple Sample Ceremony
• Keep the Outing in Scouting
• Cooking
• Apple Delight
• Banana Hot Boat
• Chili Bag
• Corn
• Dog in a Blanket
• Egg in Orange Peel
• Eggs in Paper Cub
• Eggs and Bacon in a Paper Bag
• Foil Dinners
• No Cook Fudge
• Onion Oven
• Potato 1
• Potato 2
• Stick Bread
• Effective Delegation and Organization
• Delegation Model
• Delegation Tips
• Organization
• Volunteer Roles:  Leaders, Doers, and Members
• Organizational Roles
• Hypothetical Pack Planning and Meeting
• Miscellaneous Tips
• Committee Basics & Helps
• Pack Organization Chart
• Pack Committee
• Pack Committee Chair
• Secretary
• Treasurer
• Advancement Chair
• Public Relations Chair
• Outings Chair
• Membership & Re-Registration Chair
• Friends of Scouting (FOS) Chair
• Pack Trainer
• Den Leader Helps and Hints
• Hints for New Cub Scouts
• Letter
• Registration
• Achievement List
• Parent Involvement
• Optional Idea
• Planning Den Meetings
• Den meeting Helps
• Ideas for After the Meeting
• Denner Ideas
• Den Chiefs
• How Den Chiefs Can Help
• Meetings, Training and Projects
• Helpful Books to Have
• Webelos Leader Hints and Helps
• Do I have to do the pins in a certain order or at a certain time of year?
• How can I schedule to my scouts can earn all 20 pins?
• How do I find service/conservation projects?
• Do I have to do all the requirements for a pin in my den meetings?
• How can I keep track of everything my Scouts are passing off?
• Working with a Den Chief
• How does a Den Chief Serve?
• How is a Den Chief used?
• Using Den Chiefs
• Den Chief - The What and the How
• What is a Den Chief?
• How does he fit into Cub Scouting?
• Den Meetings
• Remember
• Hoe do I get a Den Chief?
• Training
• How to Best Use
• Den Meetings - Ideas to help
• Den Meeting - Ideas for help
• Praise
• Cub Scouts with Special Needs
• Lord Robert Baden Powell States:
• About Disabilities
• Cub Scouts is Easily Adaptable
• What the Den Leader Can do
• Den Meeting Ideas
• Use Encouraging Comments
• Use Non-Verbal Expressions
• Best of Blue & Gold
• Purpose of the Blue & Gold
• Planning the Blue & Gold
• Decoration Ideas
• Program Ideas
• Food Ideas
• The Arrow of Light Presentation
• Make the Webelos Scout Feel Special
• Have the Boy and His Parents Say something Good About Scouts!
• Inspire Others to Achieve Awards
• Teach the Values of the Arrow of Light
• Make the Ceremony Memorable
• What Not to Do
• How to Create a Ceremony
• Derbies
• Pinewood Derby
• History
• Purpose
• Planning
• Marble Racers Derby
• Cub-Anapolis Derby
• Description
• Car
• Race
• Other Suggestions
• Space Derby 
• Description
• Track
• Starting the Rocket
• The Rocket
• Space Derby Alternate
• Raingutter Regatta Derby
• Description
• Race Day
• Bike Rodeo Derby
• Description
• Rules
• Challenges
• Recognition and Appreciation Ideas
• Welcome New Cub Scouts
• Hurrah for our Leaders
• Leader Gifts and Appreciation
• Den Doodles

To see more Theme Ideas, and other PowWow books go to this page CLICK HERE

Cub-Anapolis ~ Great Salt Lake - Cub Scout Themes - PowWow Books - Pack Meeting Plans

This information for holding a Pinewood Derby was in the 2006 Utah Great Salt Lake Council PowWow book.  This is a great idea, and many of the things that were used back then can still be used today.

To open the PDF  to print this page,  CLICK HERE

CUB-ANAPOLIS
Description: A fun, easy to organize activity in which boys make individual cars out of cardboard boxes and then race around the track making required pit stops with their families serving as the pit crew.
Car: Each boy makes his own car from a large cardboard box. They can be as simple or as fancy as they would like. Some packs even have each boy bring their own box to pack meeting and work on them there. They can have plastic wrap windshields, paper plate tires, paper plate steering wheels, etc. Let the boys have fun and use their imagination.
Race:

• This race can be held indoors or outdoors depending on the weather and the time of year that you are holding this event.
  
• The boys race, wearing their race car, a designated number of times around the course while making pit stops as required.
  
• Some suggested pit stops:
  
  •  Refuel – Eat a cookie or cracker and drink some punch through a straw
    
  •  Change tires – Boys take off their shoes and socks and then put the socks on wrong side out and
    put their shoes on again
    
  •  Windshield wash – The boys’ families spray their goggles or sunglasses and then wipe them off
    
  •  Rotate the tires – Spin around four times
    
  •  Change the oil – Drink a glass of chocolate milk
    
  •  Check the brakes – put up a flag and each boy must stop immediately to see how well their
    “brakes” work
    Other Suggestions:
    
  1. 1)  Have the boys decorate their cars using a specific theme.
     
  2. 2)  Have obstacles along the track
     
     1. a)  Falling rocks – Plastic bags filled with wadded newspaper
        
     2. b)  Water hazard – Large squirt guns or wading pools they need to run through
        
     3. c)  Ice – long strip of plastic that is wet making it hard to run on
        

Planning a Cub-Annapolis Cub Scout Derby ~ Cars made out of boxes that Cub Scouts race for Pack Meeting ~ fun for the whole family ~ also known as the Cubanapolis

A special thank you to Charity Bartholomew who is in the Utah National Parks Council, Black Diamond district (Spanish fork area) for donating this amazing information on doing a Cubanapolis Cub Scout Derby.

How to build the cars, How to host the event, How to race the cars...  Each family receives or is in charge of finding a cardboard box for their "car".  They add 4 "hub caps" (butterfly brackets) and "tires" (cheap paper plates) to their car.  They can tape on paper headlights and tail lights, draw a racing number with markers, and any other decorations they would like on their car.  (They can paint these instead, if you want, just plan on supplies.)  To print a PDF that gives you the complete how to info, please print the document below.

• CLICK HERE to open a PDF document about how to plan your Cub-Annapolis Event
• CLICK HERE to open an editable document
• CLICK HERE to see other ideas for a Cub Scout Cubanapolis

Flyer to be handed out to families to explain the Cub Scout Cubanapolis ~ Great activity to do instead of a Cub Scout Pinewood Derby

Here is a flyer you can print from a PDF or open and edit and then print.  It helps to explain to parents what a Cub Scout Cubanapolis is, and what they need to do to get their boys ready.  It is great to give it out at the Pack Meeting the month before the event.  Then you can explain it and answer questions.

• CLICK HERE to open a PDF 
• CLICK HERE to open a document you can edit
• CLICK HERE to see more information on this blog about hosting a Cubanapolis

** PLEASE do not download these files and email or send them digitally to others.  These are for your personal use only.  If you would like to share these files with others, please copy the link to this post and send them to our site so they can print off their own.  We would love to have everyone that would like a copy to come here to get their own copy absolutely free.  We receive money to keep our website open where we store all of our documents and PDF files by people visiting our blog.  Please don't take money out of our pockets by bypassing our blog.

How to hold a hold a Cub Scout Cubanapolis ~ Cars made out of boxes ~ Also called a Cubannapolis or Cub Scout Annapolis

Alpine District Cubs have asked us to store their digital files for them since they lost their website where they used to be stored.

The Cubannapolis is an amazingly fun Cub Scout activity.  I hope you will give it a try.  Our boys enjoyed it MUCH more than the pinewood derby.  It was a lot more low key and fun and funny.  We got lots of great pictures!

The idea of the Cubannapolis is to set up a race course - a round area the boys can run around.  They line up at the starting line.  Mark, Set, Go!  They race around about 4 times, and stop them after each lap to do one thing.  We enjoyed having their families in the "pit" to be their crew to help them every time.  The ideas we did are...

1. Clean Windshield - Spray goggles 2 times and wipe with rag
2. Change Tires - Remove Shoes, turn socks inside out, put shoes on again.
3. Photo Op - Remove helmet.  Comb hair 10 times.  Smile.  Take Photo.  Put Helmet back on.
4. Re-Fuel - Fill glass to water line.  Drink all water thru straw.  (Use a brand new gas can and put lemonade in it.  It adds to the theme.)

I made up a rules sheet you could use.  Take it to Alphagraphics Copy Store and they can blow it up to 2 feet x 3 feet for $1.59, and then you can color in the different words with markers.  

• CLICK HERE to open a jpg version.
• CLICK HERE to see more items about hosting a Cubanapolis

 The boys had so much fun, that dads didn't want to miss out.  After the boys got done, there were many races between the dads.  The kids loved being in their dads pit stops to help their dads win the race!  So much fun...

 See the tunnel in front of the Cubmaster?  The boys could go through it or around it.  Most chose to go through it.  It was very popular!