Neckerchief Slides

You can never have too many neckerchief slides! Anything can be a neckerchief slide in an emergancy: a metal washer, a wire twist tie, a rubber band, a large metal nut. However, it's fun to have fun neckerchief slides. A leader can give them out to only those who are on time, a door prize, to introduce a theme, an activity for the boys to do, a gift for a job well done or birthday, or as an award for earning 20 beads on the den doodle. Woggle World and The Slide Show are two very helpful sites about neckerchief slides in general. Woggle World has many pictures. The Slide Show has many ideas and tips, and even tells how to keep even heavy slides from falling off. imsuperbored tells how to shrink snack chip bags, but instead of making it into a keychain, attach a piece of flexible tubing to the back for a neckerchief slide.

Den Doodles

I have been asked to provide the guide to the colored beads on Pack 1122's Bear Den Flag and Doodle. You can provide your own color scheme according to what beads you may already have on hand. The trick is to be consistent.

Blue--The boy wears his uniform to the meeting
Yellow--He brings his book
White--This is the over achiever bead. The Cub Scout has done something at home that needs to be signed off.
Red--This corresponds with the Instant Recognition Bead for Progress towards Rank. He should have 4 of these. If this is for a Wolf Den, you could swap red and yellow to keep it with the Wolf beads.
Clear--There is only one of these on the string. The boy receives it when he gets his rank advancement.
Orange--For participating in the meeting.
Green--Good behavior.
Pink--The cub brought his parents to Pack Meeting.
Purple--The cub came to Pack Meeting.

Den Discipline

The BRAVO board

This idea came from my son's 4th grade teacher that uses it in her class so I adapted it to use for my children for good behavior. Then got thinking this would be great for den discipline. It's easy.. just create a grid with letters on the top and numbers on the bottom. Then laminate the board and use dry erasers. Then when you observe good behavior from a scout you let them put their name on the BRAVO board. Then when all the squares are filled (this could take a few weeks or so depending on how big your BRAVO board is) the you have a Bingo drawing where you but the square number on a piece of paper (such as B4 and so forth). Then just pick out a determined amount of squares (at my house we draw out 5) and then they get to pick out of the reward box, which is filled with items the scout would like (neckerchief slides, first aid kit, candy, etc). This has really worked personally in my household to change behavior and helps me focus on good behavior instead of the negative.