The Sixer Annual

Something I had in what was a "second time around" Christmas this year was this annual.

Published by Purnell and Sons a big publisher of annuals in 1973, the annual bills itself as being "For all cub scouts" so while the title plays on the role of the Sixer in scouting, it's not just for them.

What we have are stories of adventure based around fiction cub scouts but routed in the rules and Law that illuminate how in certain situations a cub scout would be expected to act and showing potential consequences if he were not to.

There are a number of articles connected with the badges that back then you could be awarded and what would be required as the evidence of your knowledge so part of the requirements for the Scientist badge are explained and the six projects of which you must chose four to demonstrate to the examiner for Part A and goes on to show you how to make a Morse Signaller that you can send Morse Code with.

There are a number of construction projects connected around making a Weather Station for either the Handyman or Gold Arrow Badges together with an article on nature covering identifying birds, mammals, trees and flowers.

Because as I explained earlier on in this blog it wasn't just training, there are suggestions for cub scout games to play as part of your pack or inter-pack competitions.

This to me gives a good flavour of the things I can attempt myself to learn this time around as that cub scout in spirit which in its own way to a cub scout at the time it would of served who then would of been in a pack having things signed off for your formal awarding.