Twilight Camp

The week after school gets out the cub scouts have their

annual Twilight Camp.  It's five days of fun activities,

sports and crafts.  Parker always has a great time 

and learns to do a lot of interesting things.

Building a birdhouse.

Making a cool, braided bracelet.

Hanging out with the guys.

Playing water games.

Playing ultimate frisbee and soccer.

Parker actually made the only soccer goal (his 

first) for his team and the win. He was so

excited about it.

 

The boys get to make paper rockets and

then shoot them in the air with the rocket

launchers.  They really go pretty high.

A wildlife center brought some animals for

the boys to see, including an African python,

a monkey, an alligator and some birds.

The boys really enjoyed getting to see

these awesome animals.

They got to work on part of their

Outdoorsman badge by learning some 

outdoor cooking, including using a dutch oven.

 Making pizza.

Monkey bread cooking in the dutch oven.

Making outdoor fudge.  They put all the

ingredients in a ziploc bag and squeezed

it until all mixed.  It was suprisingly good.

The finished monkey bread was delicious.

Shooting the bb guns.  Parker gets better

each year and really loves it.

Parker's friend and our Cubmaster's son, Jack,

advanced to the boy scouts this year so he 

was helping out at camp.

Our last night there was an African tribal dance

group who came to perform.  They were really

good and when they asked for volunteers

to come help, Jack was quick to raise his

hand.  He got to play the drums and some 

other instruments and had fun doing it.

They got all the kids to get up and join the dance.

Every group was named after jungle animals.  

Our  webelos den were the Coatimundis.

Learning some geology for their Geologist badge.

Parker loves the archery and is getting

pretty good at it too.

Our webelos got to perform the flag lowering

ceremony on the last night.

The last night they had a flag retirement ceremony.

It was a very solemn, moving event. Jack, as a boy scout,

helped perform it for his first time.  He did a great job.