I honestly didn't think they would have so much fun, but crushing cans grabbed their attention, maybe it was the whole destruction of the soda cans that sparked such enthusiasm!
This past Saturday we all joined in the task of crushing soda cans for Brendan's Cub Scout Pack. The Pack encourages the scouts to collect the cans, sell the crushed cans, and then the money is used to help purchase badges and awards. So I came up with a fun way to encourage the collection of cans, with a bit of healthy competition thrown in for good measure!
The Pack will be having it's first ever Golden Can Award next month. Each Den would have had just over a month to collect cans, which I have the fun task of collecting, crushing and weighing. The Den with the most cans crushed in weight will receive the coveted Golden Can award and a Pizza party. The boys have been getting all competitive, and this past Saturday, Brendan's Wolf Den had already got a jump on their cans so we set too crushing and weighing them.
This was the end result
1 comment:
Gillian, you are the best! Thank you for all the nice comments on my blog! How someone as sweet as you doesn't like peanut butter I will never know!
As far as can crushing, we had our fair share at our scout fair even this past weekend. One den has 5 different ways to crush cans all set up. My kids lingered for 20min. crushing them in the contraptions.
Now why aren't they the least bit interested at home?
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