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That sounds like a neat game idea. I'll talk to my husband about it.

I am currently on dial-up so I tend to stay away from internet videos but I will check it out. Thank you!

Oak Tree, You made a really good point about selling the parents not the kids. I had been gearing most of my stuff towards the boys. I will work on coming up with a good balance so the boys will want to join and the parents will want to sign them up. Thank you so much!

Erin, I know how you feel. When my husband and i joined Scouts this past September our Pack was well almost shameful. Many leaders were not trained and the ones that were didn't act like it. Everyone seemed happy to be underachivers. Our son was given the option to fundraise popcorn, whereas there was only two weeks left. He really wanted to do it so we spent about 2 hours going down one side of a street in our neighborhood. His only goal was to Fill up one page. He did so! His total sales amount was $610. He was the top seller of our Pack. I felt that was quite sad. Out of 32 registered boy

Thank you everyone for your answers. I love the idea of setting up the Derby track and cooking food, unfortunately for the upcoming fair we only have a 10x10 indoor booth to work with, but perhaps for our Spring Recruitment we could have an "Outdoor Area", that would be fun. As for 'Down and Derby' I have not yet seen it myself, just heard a lot of great reviews. We also have a promotional video that our District has put together, so I am thinking that will be the direction we will go in. Thank you for letting me know that the movie may not be such a great idea. Unfortunately our Pac

Hello Everyone, I recently signed up our Pack for a Recruitment booth at a Family Fun Fair our town is having, and then we will have our Spring Recruitment at the beginning of May. I have done recruitment for other NPOs and we have some ideas for the Fair and Recruitment Night, but I was wondering what tried and true methods other Packs may have? For the Fair our ideas so far include: Giving away popped Trails End popcorn in small bags Having an area where boys can make a few small crafts with their parents Having the movie Down and Derby playing Have all four Rank books on dis

Hello all, I am new to these boards as of yesterday. New to Scouting as of September of last year, though I have always wanted to be a Boy Scout so I have done plenty of research over the years On recruitment night in September my husband (An Eagle that started as a Tiger) and I got 'volunteered' to be the new Tiger Den Leaders. After one months time we realized our Pack was severly in need of revitalizing, and in these few short months we have made a huge turn around. I am currently our Pack Committee Chairman, and my husband is our Pack Trainer and our District Cub Scout Roundtable Commis

Burnside, I think you said it best - "(particularly one which our early American ancestors worked so hard to destroy)" This is one important reason to incorporate their traditions. We have a strong Shoshone and Temok tribes in our town, and from speaking to them they have expressed that they are happy that someone remembers, that we don't dwell on the our people hurt your people, but instead we work on re-building those friendships of some of our ansestors. As long as we stay in contact and ask for their experience and insight we are working on making a better world for our boys. On the o