Scouting, Volume 38, Number 10, December 1950 Page: 13
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Think of the early Dutch who settled along the
Hudson, and that leads up to Rip Van Winkle and
the days of Washington Irving. Every river has a
romantic story.
CRAFTS GALORE
One of the first things which the Rivers theme
suggests are model boats. The Wolf, Bear, and Lion
Cub Scout books are filled with drawings of many
different types. Just look under Model Boats Elec-
tive in each book. There are designs for almost
twenty boats in these books alone.
Table-top river scenes are fun too. They can be
built up of clay or papier-mache, showing moun-
tains or hills, miniature cities and bridges, locks,
dams, etc.
A Den which chooses the Mississippi may like to
build a rough model of a stern or side-wheeler
around one boy's coaster wagon. It would make
quite a feature for the Pack meeting, nothing
elaborate, just waste materials.
It would be fun to fix up one corner of the Den
meeting place like the bridge of a riverboat, in-
cluding a ship's wheel made of wood or cardboard;
a cardboard or real compass, ship's log book, etc. If
the Pack meeting is to be built around an oldtime
showboat, then Dens can join in making decora-
tions such as cardboard life savers, lanterns, ship's
wheels and props for their own acts.
SKITS AND STUNTS
The sky's the limit. These may be built around
the discovery of the river, the customs of its early
settlers, songs about the river, or things which
happen along its course. If the Pack meeting is to
be built around the showboat idea, feature tricks,
songs, jokes, mouth organs, etc. Stunts can be kept
simple with a minimum of props and costumes.
ACHIEVEMENTS AND ELECTIVES
Boys and parents can do a lot toward completing
Reading, Scrapbooks, Toys, Music, Make Believe,
Things That Go, Model Boats, and other Handi-
crafts while working on this theme.
CUB SCOUT SECTION
DECEMBER, 1950
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