We had a fun meeting last night!

The boys in my den are starting to work on the engineer activity pin and last night was a good start.

On Monday I was looking for some ideas for making a catapult on line and found a sort of sling shot thing the boys could make by lashing some wood and adding rubber bands. It was an idea that stuck with me for the rest of the day. That night I had a parent meeting for the troop but Baby was being more difficult than usual so I left early and took him for a ride in the car. We went to a hardware store just down the street to waste some time. I found some small pullies and then I remembered that great idea. I bought some string and wood stakes, the kind you use for tomatoes. I had the guy cut the wood for me. Then I went back to the meeting and picked up Scout.

Last night, Tuesday, I brought my supplies and started talking to the boys about the pin we would be working on. I showed them the drawings I found online and they were really excited about it. So we started to make the huge sling shot. I had each of them helping with building it. It was a little difficult for them to do the lashings by themselves but with my help they finished in just under an hour. All the while they kept asking who was going to take it home. They all wanted to keep it at their house. Finally finished they each took a turn using it. Our meeting usually end at 8 o'clock but this one kept going till all the boys had two turns. To say the least, the boys really enjoyed this one.

On a sad note, one of my scouts came to the meeting late and told us he would not be coming anymore due to the fact he was moving to another town. The boys were a little saddened by this. They asked him if he was still staying in their school and if they would still see him there. He did not even stay for two minutes. But he said bye to everyone and brought us the Den Staff. He was the Denner last month and they get to bring the Den Staff home each week and carve their name into it. The Den Staff is also used to hold all the beads for attendance. Each time a scout comes to a meeting he gets five beads. He earns two more beads for wearing his uniform.

On another note, we finally got the internet hooked up at home. And even though it is cable and not dial-up the boys still say its too slow. figures!

I need to start planning for the Pack meeting at the end of the month. We will definattly be bringing the sling shot. And we will have the trophies for pinewood derby to hand out too. Wonder what else we could do?...