We've got our first camp location picked out--Dinosaur National Monument in Utah! We've been before, and we loved it, so it's exciting to get to see it again. Since we'll be hitting the fossil trails, I thought we'd go ahead and squeeze in the Wolf adventure, Digging in the Past. I had not originally planned on this one, but it makes sense. We spent only two days on the adventure, but each day was longer than a regular den meeting would be normally. My kids are dino-crazy, so they had a lot of fun with it. I set my two oldest up with the Den Chief training, because I want them to have experience working with younger kids, helping an adult with activities, and practicing the skills of encouragement and generosity. G is being Den Chief for J, so he worked with me to get all the activities and projects together. He worked so well with J, encouraging him and showing him what to do. Beauty in motion, beauty.in.motion.
The picture doesn't quite convey it, but there were two VERY different techniques being utilized. Care and caution vs. reckless excavating. I leave it to you to guess which was used by which kid.
We all like to participate in any fun activity, so we actually had two dino digs going on. K and NB have decided to be a den, since they're both Webelos age, so they worked together on a dino dig. It was really exciting to see the imprint from the plastic dinosaurs we used on the plaster. Everyone agreed, however, that though it was a fun project, we were never doing it again. They had to clean up after it. If I were the one who cleaned, they would ask to do it several more times. Lesson learned. Thank you, BSA. Oh, and if other scouts are reading this, my kids ALL hated the layered snack. It was too sweet and they really didn't like the way the animal cracker got mushy in the jello (we didn't let it sit long enough in the pudding for it to really get mushy there).
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