Pack Night

Ammon participated in his first pack night for Cub Scouts tonight. And he earned his Bobcat.

The tradition in our pack on a cub scout's first pack meeting, is to "brand" them a member of troop 1526. The cub master puts a tarp on the ground, puts on gloves and goggles. The whole time telling the scout how much it hurts. (The boys had already told Ammon how much this "hurts"!) Ammon was looking scared the whole time. He really had no idea what was going to happen. The cub master "branded" Ammon!

Ammon's brand, 1526 in chalk!

The theme of tonight pack meeting was safari. Ammon's den did a fun skit. Did I mention I am the leader of his den? Well, I am and I love it!  I have a great group of boys! For the skit the boys all made paper bag masks! Ammon is the monkey in the back!

After everything they had a man from an animal rescue place bring real animals! Real, unusual animals! The kids all loved it and I thought is was pretty cool. He told us lots about the animals and then let the kids touch them! He brought a tortoise!

A badger type animal. This things teeth were big!! He loved eating the peanuts Ammon fed him.

He also had an albino hedgehog and a breaded dragon lizard!

It was quite amazing! I wish I had taken all the kids!