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| - | Caring for your Things | + | ====== Welcome to Scouting ====== |
| - | Opening Ceremony | + | |
| - | Ice Breaker | + | //If you have a new group of Otters or you scout on a yearly schedule as opposed to a year-round/ |
| - | Talk about being responsible for your own things | + | |
| - | Scouts carry and are responsible for their own packs | + | * Opening Ceremony |
| - | How to Pack a Backpack | + | * Name Game & Welcome New Scouts |
| - | Bring a poorly packed backpack (stuff sticking | + | * Sing Otters on a Cedar Log |
| - | Can you find the things you need in there? | + | * Demonstrate the Otter salute and sign |
| - | Can the kids help you pack it better? | + | * Talk about what scouting is and where it comes from |
| - | Teach them how to fold a shirt as part of the activity | + | * Who was Robert Baden-Powell? |
| - | Steam Off Game | + | * Read a Book About Otters |
| - | Story and Snack Time | + | * Talk about the difference between sea otters and river otters. |
| - | Read a story about helping at home/doing chores | + | * Steam Off Game |
| - | Have the kids share ways they help at home or think of more ways they could be helpful at home | + | * Raft game: the leader calls out "Rafts of [number]" |
| - | Play the Message | + | * Build a Holt |
| - | Closing Ceremony | + | * Have the kids collect sticks and build a holt |
| - | Edit | + | * Friends |
| - | Related Activites: | + | * Use Friends of the Forest to introduce the Otter Motto, Law, and Promise |
| - | Message Game | + | * Ask the kids whether the otters in the story are sea otters |
| - | Edit | + | * Steam Off Game |
| - | Items Needed: | + | * Red Light/Green Light where when they get caught they are frozen until they say the motto/ |
| - | Badly packed backpack | + | * Closing Ceremony |
| - | Otter-size shirts to practice folding | + | |
| - | Book for story time | + | ===== Items Needed: |
| - | Phrases to use for the message game | + | |
| - | Edit | + | * [[sections: |
| - | Badge Requirements Covered: | + | |
| - | Red Helping Paw | + | ===== Badge Requirements Covered: |
| - | Learn about caring for your clothes | + | |
| - | Find three ways to help at home | + | === Investiture Badge === |
| - | Play the message game | + | |
| - | otter, caring for belongings, ways to help at home, message game | + | * Learn a little |
| + | * Know a little about the Jones family from Friends of the Forest | ||
| + | * Learn a little about the history of scouting | ||
| + | * Say the Otter Law | ||
| + | * Show the Otter Salute | ||
| + | * Say the Otter Promise | ||
| + | * Participate in an opening and closing ceremony | ||
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| + | === Blue Activity Paw === | ||
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| + | * Learn the names of every otter in your den | ||
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