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I am a new Tiger Cub leader and was wanting some creative ideas for a den flag. What info is needed on your flag? I have been through tigers with my older son but they just used the store bought flag. I was trying to do something a little more creative.

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I got some orange cloth and a bunch of felt. I had the boys draw/cut out whatever they thought represented their den - trees, outdoor stuff, den number, pack number. And I had them each put their handprint on the flag, along with their name. It occupied them for most of a den meeting, and the orange flag is very distinctive. Of course, it's only good for a year and we'll have to make a new one next year when they're wolves.

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When my wife was DL for my son's Wolf Den, she borrowed this idea from her earlier days as my daughter's Girl Scout Troop Leader: take a big piece of felt, put the den number on it, then let the boys trace their hands on contrasting color felt (both left & right hands).

 

The boys then glued their felt "hands" on the flag, one hand on each side, and wrote their names in glitter-pen. She also scanned their pictures, and they glued their photos on the flag.

 

She still has that flag, five years later, and she cherishes it.

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{quote]Of course, it's only good for a year and we'll have to make a new one next year when they're wolves.

 

geez - it sounds like they will just have a terrible time doing this AGAIN :p

 

thanks - this is something i may have to try with our wolves

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  • 2 weeks later...

Expensive, but here's what I did.

I bought blue canvas duck cloth and my wife hemmed the edge for me.

Used iron-on backing to add the large (6") rank patches to it according to what den it was. I add the next rank at the end of the year (i.e when the Tiger den became the Wolf den in June, I added the Wolf rank patch to the flag).

Made my own felt lettering to add the Pack and Den numbers.

Made it double sided too.

Put brass grommets in the 2 corners to hang it from the flagpole.

Glued brass threaded inserts into the pole and used brass screws to attach the flag to the pole (so I could remove the flag when needed and not worry about stripping out the threads of a wooden hole).

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