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Trout Coloring Book

Free printable coloring book put together by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife.

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Composting

Composting has many benefits, plus it’s really easy!

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Critter Care Two Week Tracking

Here is a free printable to assist your Bear in completing this activity belt loop. Have fun tracking your tasks. Use this opportunity to find out what you should be doing more or less for your pet.

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Pocketknife Pledge

Pledge that each Bear and Webelos Cub Scout will need to take when completing their Whittling Chip

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How To Read A Thermometer

In this digital world it’s so easy to ask Google, Siri, or Alexa, “What’s the temperature outside? The Bear adventure, Bear Necessities, has us learning how to read a thermometer.

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Ice Skating Safety Rules

With it being Thursday today, and It’s freezing outside, were going to throw it back to the 1976 Bear book and some safety items with ice skating and walking onto frozen ponds or lakes.

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Making A Cub Scout

Fun awards ceremony for all ranks. Combine the three ingredients for an awesome reaction. This ceremony is easily adaptable for a mad scientist theme during October.

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Knives Are Not Toys

As Bears and Webelos begin to work with knives, There are a few things that need to be completed with the youth. One of those things is reinforcing that their knife is not a toy…

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Black Rhino

The Bear Adventure; Fur, Feathers, and Ferns, has as taking a look at animals that are extinct or on the verge of extinction. This post focuses on The Black Rhino

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Marble Maze

Fun activity to do with your Bear Den to pass off requirement 4d of the Marble Madness adventure.

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Cub Scout Sign

One of the very first things your scout will learn in Cub Scouts is the Cub Scout Sign.

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Popular Tongue Twisters

Requirement 2 of the Bear, Roaring Laughter Adventure has us reading tongue twisters. Before we dive into these twisted phrases, let first get an understanding of what a tongue twister is. A tongue twister is a phrase that is designed to be difficult to articulate properly, and can be used as a type of spoken (or sung) word game.

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How To Tie A Double Half Hitch

The two half-hitches is a type of knot, specifically a binding knot or hitch knot. It consists of an overhand knot tied around a post, followed by a half-hitch. Equivalently, it consists of a half-turn around a post followed by a clove hitch of the running end around the standing part.

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How To Shoot With Bow and Arrow

Each Thursday I like to take a look in the library at some of the scout handbooks from prior years.  This one comes out of the 1976 printing of the Bear Cub Scout Book.

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