Cub Scout Day Camp: A Galactic Adventure!

The week after our family reunion was cub scout day camp. This was Dallin's second year, and he LOVED it. Plus Spencer got to be his den chief, which was awesome. 

I helped run the skills station one day, and it was a lot of fun. Spencer said that was always the most boring station (they do things like first aid and bike safety), so we tried to make it cool. We had communications, and I had the idea of using some kind of tube to play telephone. My friend Amy took that idea and came up with something amazing. She bought 200 feet of electric conduit and had her husband cut it up into pieces and bend some of them into all kinds of fun shapes. Then the scouts put them together with couplings to form super long tubes.

 

 

They took turns talking into one end and listening on the other. It worked great!

Shooting BB guns was definitely a highlight. They especially liked how it was organized this year. Half their group shot BB guns while the other half did archery, then they switched. That way they got to do both things every day, and there was no boring waiting.

 

Spencer loved how he got to do everything the cubs did while still being in charge. He also got to shoot during lunch every day.

Dallin got an award for shooting a bull's eye in archery.  

 

Friday was a half day, and then they invited all the families to join them for skits, awards and lunch.

 

Here's their whole den. After helping out that one day, I could see that they definitely had the BEST den of the whole camp. The Tiger cubs (6 and 7 year olds) were cute but needed lots of help and cried easily. The oldest boys were more competent but didn't listen or follow directions. These kids rocked!

Spencer kicked off the ceremony by leading a repeat-after-me song, Baby Bumblebee. He was super loud and energetic. It was hilarious.

Then each den came up and gave us their den yell. "We are the Apollo! We will lead and you will follow!" 

Their den did a bunch of run-on, mini skits between each of the other dens' skits. Dallin did one with his friend Mason. They were in the same den this year, yay!

Then they handed out awards. I was SO glad I left Levi and Chloe home with Jacob this year. It went on for hours, and they would have gone nuts!

It was a much smaller group this year - just 80 cub scouts, as opposed to the usual 120. I don't know why it was like that, but I liked it better.

After the awards was lunch, which was horrible. It was the worst hot dog I've ever eaten. I wasn't even going to get one, but I had an extra ticket since Levi didn't go. Then the fire department came to spray everyone.

 

This is always SO fun for the boys. They did it a lot more the last couple of years when it was super hot, but they did it just once this year. We really lucked out with the weather - it was in the mid-upper 80's all week!

 

Dallin was sad to see the week come to an end. He really thought it should have been 2 weeks long.

Tyler was totally bummed about being too old for day camp this year. I might volunteer the whole week next year so he can volunteer too. We love day camp!!!