What a great event to talk about security, economy, values, and health of the citizens.  Opening ceremonies is one of those events that is great to watch with your family or scout and see how diverse our world is as each country marches through the arena during the parade. 

Stop motion animation is a movie making technique that takes an object and manipulates it to appear as if moving on it's own. 

The four steps of advancement is a requirement that is found within the Scout Rank and Scouting Adventure.

Listed, in no specific order, are five different groups of musical instruments.

Click and watch the festivities as the prognosticator of prognosticators, Punxsutawney Phil predicts if there will be an early spring!

With all the excitement for the super, blue, blood moon, we thought it would be good to learn a little about this amazing satellite the goes around us every 27 days.

Have you ever stopped and counted the rings on the log your about to place in the campfire? 

French Toast receipe for the Cooking Merit Badge

Even though this post come out of the 1976 printing of the Bear Cub Scout Book, It is still valuable information to help you stay safe with your boat.

There is so much more to a coin than just simply heads and tails.

Sky is the Limit Elective Tiger Requirement 3. - Find out about two astronauts who were Scouts when they were younger...

PDQ BALLS is an acronym that will help your scouts remember safe swim practices.

Crickets are interesting animals. They're only an inch long yet they can be heard throughout the forest by rubbing their wings together...

One of my applesolute foods to eat while backpacking is apple leather.  For the most part, making these roll-ups of dehydrated fruit is extremely easy.  

There are many options for store bought backpacking meals.  The issue that I have found with these meals are that they are usually overpriced, and they usually don't taste very good.  One option is to dehydrate your own food to take backpacking...

Each time our troop has a patrol meeting, we as leaders always implement a team building activity to help the boys learn how to communicate and work together as a troop.  This activity involves the following:

Today were digging in the past with the Wolf Den and doing some research on dinosaurs.  Living in Utah, we hear and see a great deal about the Utah Raptor.  After driving past a billboard dedicated to this creature who walked the earth millions of years ago, I decided to look the beast up.

The past couple of weeks we have been working with the scouts on their backpacking skills.  Requirement 2a of the Backpacking Merit badge reads;

Last week we took the boys to our week-long scout camp. As the boys were working on their woodcarving merit badge, I also was carving my own creation out of wood.  As I was wittling away and attempting to create a wooden spoon, I noticed something about my knife...

Thursdays are a fun day to take a look at some of the older handbooks that I have collected through the years.  This edition is my favorite.  It was my Grandfather's when he was a scout leader and an employee at a Scout Camp in Iowa.