How To Win A Prize

Tonight the boys earned their Whittling Chip Cards. With parental permission, each Scout may now carry a pocketknife to Den and Pack meetings as well as Cub Scout hikes and campouts. It would be great if parents would re-emphasize the pocketknife safety rules, the knives are not toys guidelines, and the pocket knife pledge (on pp. 147, 150-51 in the Bear Handbook).

I forgot to mention this to the Scouts, BUT I will give a prize to every Scout who brings me a soap carving at the May 3 Den Meeting. That gives each Scout a month to complete their carving (see pp. 149-50 in Bear Handbook). Some Scouts have already completed this requirement. They can just bring in their original carving to get the prize or they can do another one. Parents, I know this goes without saying, but please supervise your Scout closely while they are working on their carving!!

It would be great to go through the safety rules (like the safety circle) as they sit down to do their carving and to work on closing their knives properly and safely when they take a break from whittling.

In their Bear books, we completed Requirements 19a, 19b, and 19d tonight. If any of these are new to your Scout, you may sign off on these requirements and count them as electives toward an arrow point (see p. 180-181 in the Bear Handbook for more information about arrow points).