"Makes" in Cubs

It's 2023 so the first point of order on this blog is to wish everyone a Happy New Year and all the best in their endeavours this year, whatever your goals may be.

Unfortunately I'm quite ill at the moment with a mixture of flu and covid like symptoms so I won't be mixing in public or going beyond the garden but as it happens this kind of ties into the post as we are looking at arts and crafts in Scouts.

The average boy at least in my experience finds modes of transport fascinating, often researching them and that does go the point of making kits such as these aeroplanes either totally from scratch with supervision or using on of the many supplied kits with instructions, decals to apply and paint.

The balsa wood ones I made had the bonus we could gather together and do test flights which was always fun.

Working on arts can be more of a small personal thing such as doing painting by numbers with supplied acyrics or mug painting but sometimes it can lead to bigger things for the whole pack such as a colour banner such as this halloween one a cub is carefully working on.

Given the risk - only too familiar from the past - of getting paint on you, wearing short trousers makes sense as legs can always be easily cleaned as you rest upon it although perhaps an overall might not go amiss to avoid spots on your jersey too.