Mother's Day Night

Last Tuesday saw the second Mother’s Day night for our Cubs. This is our night to celebrate Mum and this year the theme was about pampering her and providing a chance to say what is so special about her.

The night started off with a game that saw The Queen of Hearts make some tarts (Tennis Balls in a bucket) and the knaves of Hearts steal them all away. Trying to come up with games that are fast and fun for Mum and cubs is one of those challenges. This was a take on ‘Raid the Nest’. The Queen of Hearts were given 5 seconds to start emptying the bucket of ‘tarts’ and then had to protect them once the ‘Knaves’ went to steal them.

Unfortunately we had one group of Mum’s who were not playing nice and were using height advantage and thinking outside the square to protect the ‘tarts’ They used a flaw in the rules to their advantage. The poor cubs were getting upset at the ‘cheating’ going on! However, in the end everyone had a great deal of fun and many Mums’ loved the fact they had to steal them back from the ‘Knaves’. One of those games where you are not sure if it will come off, but by the end they were all smiling!

Heading inside, the cubs then had all of the Mum’s sit in a circle, on chairs, and the cubs in the front of them on the floor. The idea was to give Mum a foot massage and rub down with Peppermint Foot salts. One half did this and the other half were challenged with a back and neck massage. There were attempts by the male leaders to infiltrate the night with a ‘Mud pack’ and make up session but they were vetoed!!!!!!

By the end the Mum’s looked relaxed and enjoying themselves.

The last thing that the Cubs did for Mum’s was to each stand up and say one thing that makes Mum special.

We got;

• Helps with Homework


• Takes me to school


• Cooks dinner


• Because of her loving smile


• Because she does things with us.
  

We had one Mum get emotional; fortunately we have a basket full of towels on hand just for the occasion. There were buckets too just in case it got too overly emotional , but it didn’t get to that stage.

Finally all cubs made Mum supper and they got to be the first to see the Cub Camp DVD. They were very impressed, and Rama did a fantastic job on this.

I would like to thank Kanga - our Regional Cub Scout Leader for coming along and enjoying the night.
Till Father’s Day with the traditional Father’s Day activity and we will also be holding a Grandparents night or afternoon in November to celebrate Grandparent Month.