Scouts2Mom

I know this is late, but i have my Cubs, and new to camping parents, use this product found at home depot / lowes. It is basically bubble wrap with the thin silver space blanket material on both sides.And it reflects like 90% of your heat back at you, and 90% of the cold ground back at the ground. Reflectix 50-sq ft Reflective Roll Insulation (24-in W x 25-ft L) About $25 Cut a length and slip it into their sleeping bag. Or sleep on top of it. Put some on your camp chair and make a "hot seat". Even make a pancho out of it and duct tape. The only down side, is it is slightly loud

I had the same problem. But I complicated it by having both Webelos 1 & 2's who were new to scouting, as well as "old hands". . What I finally decided was to have 1 weekend day meeting (for us, Sunday 1:30 - 4ish worked best), and 1 week night plus the Pack meeting each month. The weekend allowed us to go out, hike, build fires, cook, build stuff, etc. Just be older boys doing fun scout like stuff. The weeknight was to catch up with book work, AND to do stuff with the other dens - we all meet the same night / school in different rooms. And my boys liked working with the wolf den, or

Does anyone know this one? Back when my oldest crossed over, (5 years ago), we used a ceremony where the AOL's carried a candle over to the different dens, & lit a candle there. This involved ALL the scouts in the AOL / crossover, not just the 5th graders. CM lit the candle of the 2 AOL scouts, who then took turns going to the dens, and lighting a candle that stayed with the dens. While the CM talked (about what the AOL had learned at Tiger rank? I don't remember) all the boys in the Tiger den passed their candle from hand to hand till it ended up with all the Tiger den jointly