February's badge work - a quick summary

Other than celebrating Chinese New Year (World Challenge Award) and the half-term Hike (Hike badge {various stages}, Adventure Challenge Award, Navigator badge {stage 1}, Personal Safety badge), we spent one meeting looking at the history of Scouting - and Lord Robert Baden-Powell in particular - and another when we discussed what badges the Cubs would like to do during 2019. Its important that Cubs shape what we do - its a key skill and their influence & opinion matters.

Half-Term Hike

Instead of an evening meeting, during half-term week we took advantage of the dry weather by getting outside for just over a couple of hours in the afternoon. The Cubs were joined by Beavers and some Mums (and two enthusiastic dogs) and did a circular walk around the west side fields of Wilmcote. This ticked-off quite a bit of badge work, got us some great fresh air and even allowed for a discussion about safe crossing at designated railway points, as we crossed the mainline twice.

"The Year of the Pig" - Chinese New Year

We celebrated the start of the Chinese New Year ("Year of the Pig") on 5th February. The Cubs' had a particularly busy meeting, during which they cooked a stir fry (to their own recipe), made cookies, decorated a Card to send someone and put together a red envelope in which they placed some "money" as a gift for someone. Red is the luckiest colour in China.
One or two Cubs were doubtful about doing a stir fry, but in the end (apart from William), each plate was quickly eaten up. The cookies didn't last long either!

January's badge work - a quick summary

We started the month off with a night of tin-can cooking, which is possibly the Cubs' favourite activity. They all cooked lots of pancakes on their tins. This was towards the Skills Challenge Award:

Following that, we worked on modules from the Teamwork Challenge Award, which included working out different types of roles within a team:

Finally - as well as the odd module from the Skills Challenge Award, we completed the Air Activities (stage 1) badge, so that the Cubs can look at completing stage 2 in the summer. This involved a number of requirements, including making paper planes and building model aircraft: