Cub Camp 2011 - Day 3

Final day of Camp, all actors were pulled from bed at 6:30am, and at 7am put through a rigorous PT session again.

Traditionally Day 3 is a lot quieter and we do tend to slow things down a bit. So once parade was over, all actors had to pack up thier 'Dressing Rooms' and sweep them out. I would say that this was the first time that all were ready before breakfast. It did end up cuasing a hole in our plan, but never fear there is always something to do!

Breakfast was full on, Pancakes, toast, Bacon and eggs, cereal and juice.

Once done, The actors headed off for reflection time and a Scouts own, then a craft session where they were to produce a DVD cover for thier movies. They had to create a title, and the best was 'Rocker Slayer'. A rock start hat used a ukelea and song to slay the evil vampire bandit and minions.

We were fortunate this year to have a birthday on Camp, and we celebrated this with those who had brithdays recently with a huge cake at morning tea. All birthday actors and producers were then showered in party popper streamers. A birthday they wont forget!

So it was at this point where we head a gap in our program. It was decided to take them on a ramble. The ramble was long and we meet ohter scouts, sang loudly, learnt about trail signs and made the slow pokes fromthe day beofre, march in front to set the pace. It was fun, but by the end they were all spent!

As like all good partiew, things have to end. The program then went into quieter time where we held an awards ceremony and handed out to each actor a gold star with their make up photo on it. The producers the night before had sat down and picked 6 actors to be the most outstanding for the weekend. We had Most Creative, Best Stunt, Best Make up, plus 3 other categories. The awards were fantastic and we have to thank Ably for that effort. The final award, the Donkey award, went to Rikki from the actors.

To wrap up we had a traditional camp photo, which now hangs on the wall, and final parade. It was here that we sent off two of our Cubs to Scouts, as they had completed linking activities and were ready for Scouts. It sad when they leave, but you know when it is their time, they have outgrown us. I have to thank Haathi, Nathan and Brent for coming out to take our cubs off.

It also meant that we had to shuffle our pack again, promote 2 to sixers, 2 to seconds and change the balance. I belive some cubs have already been in all colours! We never say you shoudl get too comfortable in your six as we like to mix it up.

So the camp was officially over, the only thing left is to have a Premiere movie event - that's Tuesday!

Cub Camp 2011 - Day 2 - The Evening

So what do you do with 24 actors and 11 producers on set when it goes dark. You go to dinner in your best outfits. Yes we had an awards dinner. The majority of our actors and producers got dressed up for the occasion, Some were just stunning in their 'designer' gowns and attire!

Each actor had to escort or be escorted with a partner into the dining hall and then seated. Once seated they all preceded to dine on:

• Homers Lasagne


• Tacos


• Walt Disney Danish


• Fruit


• Ice cream bars

Once done, they were then sent back to the 'Dressing Rooms' to change out for campfire.

This was the first Campfire without Rann, and i think Dingo and myself did an ok job for the first solo run. All actors were given a skit to perform and all did them very well. The producers also had to do a gross skit!

By the end, our actors wre done, and we sent them to bed for the day. The 'Revenge of the Producers' had taken it's toll from the late night and hard day. Day 3 would be a lot quieter!

Cub Camp 2011 - Day 2 - Part 2

Once after the first round of academy training, the actors were sent to 2 more academies prior to lunch, and then swapped after lunch.

Academy 3 was centered around an obstacle course and army training, and Academy 4 was on stunt work.

Academy 3 took the actors on a small ramble to the Badger Trail, where an obstacle course was available to use. The actors had to run through tires, climb a wall, walk on a unstable plank and then a stable plank. All crossed succesfully and without injury. It was then decided they would go on a ramble through the scrub. This was a fun activity, and we have a fantstic spill from one of our actors as he lost footing in the slippery conditions. It was good fun and they all did extremely well.

Academy 4 was put togehter to teach the actors how to fall, have play fights, get shot etc when making a movie. we have a couple of mattresses that they used to fall onto. These actors are mad buggers as they all liked to fall and were very good at it. Once the basics were taught, they then had a chance to think how to use them in their movie.

Lunch was served during the bases and the menu was hamburgers and fruit.

Once the actors had completed the basic training, they were then sent away to begin filmingthe scenes for the movies. Each casting agency was provided a 'Clapper Baord' to help edit the film - not that they were used correctly, but we did get some cool outtakes!

I was sure by the end of the movie making session we were going to have Vampires 1,2, 3 & 4. But luckily they were all different and once came up with a very neat title the next day.

They were certainly inventive our actors.

Once this was over, it was time for play. This was where headed off for the Flying Fox. We had a ramble for 15 minutes to the site and then, due to time and having to put on harnesses, we got our actors through one flying fox ride. Even some of our Producers got brave and headed across the dam.

Once all was done we headed back to 'Set' and got prepared for the evening.

Cub Camp 2011 - Day 2 - Morning Session

So after an intersting night, what did the Producers have in store for our misbehaving actors!

Well every actor must look their best in the morning, so revellery was at 6:30am, with a 30 minute wake up time. At 7am the Producers put the actors through Physical Training. This was a 15 minute minute session of knees up, running, strecthing and ball throwing.

The actors were then sent to parade, here they were assigned to 'casting agencies' - the Donald Duck, Daffy Duck, Shrek and Yoda agencies. This was their actor grpup for the weekend. Once parade was over, the agencies were assigned to become Secret Agents and to earn breakfast they had to locate around set, several code pieces and decipher it with a Morse Code template.

All actors got fed that morning!

Once breakfast was completed, the actors were all sent off to one of 2 academies to furhter develop their skills for movie making. At the academy 1 was Brainstorming - what kind of movie would we make, and academy 2 was Make Up.

Academy 1, saw the actors have to think tank the type of movie they would love to do. Inthe end they all ended up having some kind of vampire theme to the movies. Some actors were very well organised and could relate what they wanted, while others sat back and let it happen.

At Acamedy 2, the actors were taught how to apply make up and wehy make up is used in movies. In the end all had a great time at applying the make up and coming up with some cool looks.

The agencies changed over after morning tea to complete the first round of training.

Each agency was provided a video camera to capture their deeds for the day. Our producer/editor Rama, was very busy with all the footage and started to create a movie during the course of the day.

Cub Camp 2011 - Arrival

Well the 2011 May weekend is over, and so to was this years Cub Camp. The theme this year was around Movies. The cubs were assigned the challenge of creating their own movies in groups of 6.

So how did the Camp start, on Friday upon arrival at 'Set', the cubs were assigned 'Trailers/Dressing rooms', which were each marked with an actors name. A challenge had been set for our 'Actors' prior to coming to camp to investigate the names, see the Camp Ahead post. Once settled into the 'Trailer/Dressing Rooms' the actors then headed inside for a tale and old movie night. Traditionally we would go for a night ramble, but we were rained out and had to head in doors. This ended up being working against us later that night.

Once inside, the actors were asked to present information fromthe Camp Ahead challenge and most had done the work. Some even tried to walk John Wayne, and yourself truly showed them how Charlie Chaplin walked!

After a story, we sat them down for the Charlie Chaplin - 'The Tramp' silent movie. Thanks to YouTube we could get it online, even thought he 3G connection dropped a couple of times. The actors were fascinatated with the movie and even laughed at the slapstick comedy. We explained to them the the music would set the tone and that as there were no words, the actions had to do most ofthe work - Movie Lesson 1 - even though they did not know it.

After this we attempted to put on a Lou Abbott and Bud Costello Movie, but the actors were not interested. It was at this point that things did not go to plan and it ended with the actors heading to the 'Dressing rooms' earlier than expected. Problem was they were not tired and they were up most of the night. It always gets me how the toilets become an excuse to get out of the 'Dressing Rooms'.

All I can say is the Other 'Producers' were looking forward to a very busy Day 2 on 'Set'

Cub Sleepover – Mar 19

Finally it was here, the Sleepover that we had to have to prepare us for Cub Camp in May. What a fantastic afternoon and night it was too. In all we had 24 cubs sleepover and 6 Leaders/Helpers.

The object of the weekend was to have the cubs learn to think ‘outside the square’, think creatively and put this in situations that would help develop their character and personality. All I can say is that after the weekend I am now seeing some of our quieter Cubs in a totally different light. No more will they suck us in to think they are ‘meek and mild’ – Ha!

After fearing the we would be in trouble due to wet conditions. We were able to come up with games that were indoors. There is nothing like a game of indoor bean bag hockey to get the cubs fired up and working together. The timing worked well, as Jason from the QLD Theatre Company arrived just before 1, and he stayed after seeing our charges going nuts!

Jason was great fun, he worked our Cubs hard. He was able to build our Cubs up from a series of basic games to some really hard activities that stretched some of the Cubs. Initially the first activity was to walk around the den and stop when told. After a while he started to add a Clap and a Jump. The Cubs had to do the actions spoken and freeze when told. This was fairly easy for most of our cubs, but that was just the start of some hard work ahead.

Next Jason made the Cubs do the opposite to what he was asking. So he took the first game and turned it around. Whenever he said Clap, they had to jump. When he said Stop they had to continue walking. It was fun to watch and in the end he was able to eliminate all Cubs to 1.

From here we went into a game of ‘Get to know you’. Jason had all cubs and a leader – me – sit on the ground in teams. In the centre he put up a sheet, he then got a team member from each side of the sheet to stand and when revealed say the name of the cubs on the other side. Great game and it will be something we will do again to help the other Cubs learn each others names.

The next activity was to have a conversation, but the twist was to continually talk over the top of the other, and not to laugh. It was amazing to see how many cubs could talk – some underwater. The ones that I thought would be great failed, while our quieter Cubs succeeded. I did well here too as did our every talkative secretary – Yvette.

After this we had a game where the cubs were being interviewed, and the only response was ‘sausage’. The object was to make the Cub being questioned laugh. Some were surprisingly good, but the best was when Raksha got caught out tricking her son LMc, and then realising she had to get up and be interviewed.

 

Continuing on the Cubs then were giving another interview task to explain an imaginary item. Jason was interviewing and asking questions one Cub – KP – certainly went the extra distances. Purple elephants in a huge box, that ended up having tigers, with a stove to cook Jason. He had us laughing. Others took the mickey out of Bagheera.

It certainly was a great session. The cubs and us leaders got a heap out of it. We will do it again in the future. The best bit was being able to give our cubs a task after Jason had left to come up with their own skits. They were tasked with getting a piece of clothing and a prop, and in teams of four create a skit. See the results in the videos below.

After this we settled into Pizza for dinner, made popcorn, set for bed and watched ‘The Sorcerer’s Apprentice’, ‘Jimmy Neutron’ and ‘Up’. By 11:30 all Leaders were crashing, but the Cubs wanted more, as always. However, it was getting late and we had to be up early for the big Sleepover Breakfast, pack up and go home.

Sleepovers are fun, and we will be doing another in the 2^nd half of the year. What theme will we come up with next?

A Game we played.

Coming Events and Costs

Hi Everyone,

Just wanted to update you all on the coming events and the acutal costs for each event.

• Clean Up Australia Day -


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  • No Cost, but a pair of gloves and rubbish bag required
  
  
  
  


• Sixer and Seconds Pack Council McDonalds,


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  • $6 for a meal
  
  
  
  


• OfficeWorks Craft night


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  • bring a Rock to make a Pet rock
  
  
  
  


• Bunnings Night Apr 5,


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  • still working with Bunnings on this - will update inthe coming week
  
  
  
  


• Sleepover - Mar 19


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  • Cost $40,
  
  
  • QLD Theatre Company coming to 'role play' with the Cubs.
  
  
  • Prepare them for Movie Camp
  
  
  
  


• Pack Council Eagleby - Sixer and Seconds only.


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• ANZAC Day - Monday Apr 26.


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  • No cost
  
  
  • Permission form out next week
  
  
  • No Camel Packs to be worn during march. Water provided at start and end. March only waiting around 40 minutes before completing march.
  
  
  
  


• Cub Camp, Apr 29 to May 1,


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  • cost of Camp will be $80 this year.
  
  
  • At Karingal, Mt Cotton.
  
  
  • Parent help needed.
  
  
  • Permission form out next week
  
  
  
  


• Cane Festival - May 29


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  • No Cost
  
  
  • Permission form out next week
  
  
  
  


• Leadership Camp - June 3 to 6


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  • Regional event for Sixer and Seconds who have not completed previously and for those nominated by a Leader to attend.
  
  
  • Cost unknown as still awaiting information.
  
  
  
  


• Aborignal Culture Stradbroke Island Day - June 19


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  • Bus will take us to the Ferry and then across to Stradbroke Island
  
  
  • Activites planned, Boomerang throwing, Aborignial Museum, Native Food trek
  
  
  • Cost still to be counted, but current esitmate is $50 p/p
  
  
  • This trip is not limited to Cubs, Families welcome to attend as well. Would be good to make it a family picnic day. More details to come.
  
  
  
  

Everything we are doing works towards their Boomerang Award scheme. We are trying to take the cubs to new and exciting places this year. The idea is to expand thier mind and give them a chance to see and do things that they would not normally do.

Keep watching, the next few weeks I will be releasing the Term 2 Calendar for your fridge and all the required paperwork for the Term 2 events.

Bagheera