James attended his very first cub scout day camp this summer! I decided to volunteer the entire week and do it with him so that Rett could participate in the sibling den. So they put me in charge of his den of rambunctious 8 year olds! (I was sooooo hoping that they would put me in charge of lunch duty or something less stressful)
These are all of the cubs who attended from our ward. The camp ended up being held at our stake building, so it was nice to know where everything was.
The theme this year was "Under the Sea", so James's den decided that they wanted to be the Turtle Sharks. Half of them wanted to be turtles and the other half wanted to be sharks....so that was the compromise.
James's favorite activity all week, by far, was archery. Any free time he had in the schedule he would beg to go do extra shooting. He even got into an argument with the archery leader the first day because she thought he was too good to be a beginner and wouldn't let him do extra practice with the other beginners (why a full grown woman would argue with an 8 year old is a whole other story (!)
Each day they would rotate through 6 classes, 3 before lunch and 3 after lunch. They had 40 minutes each of archery, bb guns, crafts, science, sports, and scout skills. Crafts was usually the least favorite. I have yet to find a boy that loves crafts!
After the first day, the sports class got moved indoors to the gym, thank goodness!! Multiple days had heat indexes of over 102!
During scout skills the boys got to practice casting fishing poles with this magnetic fishing game. I stayed safely under the shade of the trees while they baked in the parking lot.
James liked doing BB guns, but thought that his BB gun at home was far superior in quality to the ones they were allowed to shoot. At least that was what he said when he missed the target lol.
More BB guns:
Every day after lunch, the kids got free time to go on a homemade slip and slide and eat snow cones.
James always wanted a snow cone, but after the first day he opted out of the slip and slide. There were so many kids waiting in line for it, they only ended up getting to go down once or twice before it was time to go. He decided that it was more worth it to spend all that time in archery.
The last day the Bear dens put on a mini carnival for the rest of the scouts. James chose to run the game of knocking over cans with a bean bag. He loved being in charge! He got really into character as the carnival attendant and didn't want to stop when someone offered to take over so he could actually play the games.
Rett had fun in the sibling den. They did crafts, played outside with bubbles, watched a lot of movies, and even got their own time for the slip and slide and snow cones.
It was a long, fun, and exhausting week! Every morning we would leave the house by 7:15 (the building is 45 minutes away) and be home a little after 5. Two days out of the week we went straight to basketball practice instead of home and on the last day we went straight to 2 back to back basketball games! I was dead tired every day and James was asking if we could go play at the pool before bed. Where do they get all the energy???
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