Halloween cuties!!!

We love traditions. For the past five years, these Little Rascals have been spending Halloween together Trick or Treating. This year we went over to Mrs. R's new house and walked around their neighborhood. This neighborhood had some really great decorations. I loved the blow up houses. The kids had to walk through them to get to the front door.
 

A Mad Class Party

Friday, The Cisco Kids Class had a Mad Scientist Party. The teacher had four different kinds of experiments. She had Dry Ice and explained the Composition between solid and gas. She had what she called bleeding paper. The kids took a piece of wax and wrote what they wanted on the paper. She then came around and sprayed Windex on the paper and the paper bled revealing their text. The Cisco Kid's paper said "Stay Out Haunted House". She then had a trick where they cut a card in a special way to make a bracelet. Her last experiment was where each child made their own batch of silly putty. After all the experiments were over they saw a 1950's Halloween cartoon. Last but not least Pizza was served with a very large variety of fun deserts.

The Second camping trip with our Pack

Our cub Scout Camp Master is a true camper. We are lucky to have him. The boys will have the memories of their live. This past weekend we had our annual Spook "O Ree. The Boy Scouts put on this event for all the Cub Scouts. Everything was planed out from 9:00 a.m. through 9:30 p.m. that evening. It is a full day of moving from one sport to another with many crafts and the most important in BB gun shooting and Archery. At the end of the evening there was a haunted trail through the woods that everyone walks through. We got done with it all around 9:30 p.m. but the boys were still looking forward to the Smores by our camp fire.

All packed and ready to go!

We had a Den theme and we all decorated our tents with some festive Halloween decorations.   

The boys played a joke on one of the moms and put hundreds of tiny spiders all over her tent. When she opened her tent she let out a very big scream and the boys laughed so hard.  It was a perfect joke.    

The Crafts were Binoculars, Wallet and a spider web. 

Sports were Kickball, Flag football, Volleyball & Sling shot.

The Favorite sports are BB gun and Archery. 

My Den

Archery!

We had a flag retiring ceremony. We cut out the stripes and the stares. Each piece of the Flag was given to a Scout. They handed their piece of the flag to our Cub Master. He placed each piece in the fire. The Assistant Cub Master spoke some words as the flag burned.

The Cisco Kid had the honor of handing the Cub Master the Stars of the Flag.

  

We had 105 people go to this event. 

They will receive so many belt loops and pins for going to Spook "O" Ree.  The Cisco Kid has most of these belt loops so he will receive the pins. 

  

Finishing up the Cub Scout Conservation Badge

I took my Cub Scout den to a "Go See It" yesterday. We went to the Fountain of Youth. There are several different sections of the Fountain of Youth to see. There is "THE SPRING HOUSE" where the fountain is located, "TIMUCUA INDIAN EXHIBIT" showed how the Indians lived, "THE PLANETARIUM" showed how they lined up the stairs for the coordinates to get here, The "SPANISH CANNONS" They talked about how they defended themselves back in 1565, "THE DISCOVERY GLOBE". The Fountain of Youth was a wealth of information.

After seeing all the exhibits, we went to the water’s edge and talked about the different kinds of soil and plant materials that sustain all kinds of life. We also reflected on the fountain and how the use of water is reducing the aquifer.

The boys are listening to the Fountain informant. They learned how it began with a drink from the Legendary Spring that has flowed under this site for as long as anyone can remember. Learned the history of Ponce de Leon's search and his Spanish claim for Florida in 1513. They heard the story of Dr. Luella Day Mcconnell's purchase of the property at the turn of the 20th century and discovery of artifacts in 1904 such as the landmark cross and silver salt cellar. Experience the nostalgia of this Old Florida Attraction with diaramas installed in 1957 depicting the Spanish and Timucua Indians "First Encounter" on this site. 500 years of history in one place!

Firing of the Cannon, BOOM! The Spanish arrived in 1565 and established the first and oldest settlement. See how they defended their position with an historic cannon firing demonstration. Viva! 

There is alsways time to climb a tree. 

Natives inhabited this site for almost 3000 years. Gather in the Village of Seloy to experience how Timucuas lived, hunted, ate and thrived for so long. Hear the stories of long ago and connect past to present. 

Right before we were ready to leave I brought some bread for all the children to feed the birds.