"Every section starts with a gathering activity. This allows latecomers to integrate in easily. This period usually lasts about 10-15 minutes, until we get a critical mass of scouts in the room. Sometimes its a formal thing, sometimes its informal,…"
"I have really struggled with the gulf between what parents tell me, and what I actually experience when scouting with their child. That's not to say there cannot be things which require significant adaptation and creativity to work around, but…"
"I ordered otter and Timberwolf shirts for my kids and found the sizes to be fairly large. My daughter otter shirt of extra small is like a tent on her :). The fabric seems reasonable and I hope it holds out long enough for her to grow into it.…"
"That sounds very sensible Jillian. Our scouts have been so riled up coming into the meeting with excitement it's hard to get them in line. Starting the meeting as they do their school day would set them into the mental mode of 'focus…"
"We are a new Raft and have not outgrown the shirts yet. We did have a "sewing patch day" to encourage patches to get attached and learned some things since.
We learned that using only a machine takes suprisingly longer than it…"
"Our Otter agenda usually looks like this:
6:15 - 6:30pm: Opening activity while Otters gather - usually a craft or coloring project
6:30 - 6:40: Promise, Law, Motto, Good Turn check in (Ahmeek picks a few kids to tell about a Good Turn they did that…"