A Wacky New World: May Special Edition of Scouts in Saskatchewan!

Thank you!

We want to start off by thanking each and every one of you! Thanks to our Group Commissioners, Group Support Scouters, Scouters, parents and youth. You have all contributed to making this year great, and have continued to make it a fun year even with it becoming a little unusual over the last few months! Keep up the great work! Please keep your eyes open as we go forward about registration for the fall and more information on how things will be proceeding in the coming months!

Your Invited!

You are invited to be part of the very first Scouts Canada Virtual Campfire on May 23 at 7 pm EST.  bit.ly/SCVirtualCampfire This LIVE streamed event will bring the campfire to everyone across Canada. We'll bring the good vibes, you bring the snacks!

Moose Jaw Kinsmen Scout Group.

At Christmas time, Santa always brings our first year Cubs a compass. Map and compass skills were something that we had been working on with our Cubs but we didn't get a chance to practice these skills in the outdoors. For the Easter weekend, my son, a first year cub, and I created a compass Easter Egg hunt for our group to complete individually. He painted six rocks like Easter eggs and hid them in a park near our house, carefully taking the bearings between each "Easter Egg" and counting his paces between them. I then created a table with the bearings and paces to share with the group. To allow our Beavers who don't have experience with a compass to participate, a map was created to make it more of a treasure hunt. While the weather wasn't ideal over the Easter weekend, some of our group did get out and complete the hunt and had fun doing it. -Curtis Hallborg

Regina 79th

I had purchased 2inch jiffy pots from the dollar store. I had planted three flower seeds in each one (so at least one seed should grow!). The flower seeds were sweet peas. Each cub received two flower pots. I delivered the flower pots to all the cubs. We will be following up with the Cubs on our virtual meetings as to the progress of the flowers. How many seeds sprouted, how big the plants are etc. We will ask them to show us their flowers as they grow. We used the jiffy pots because once the flowers are ready to put in a flower bed or flower pot there is not transplanting - they just put the jiffy pot in the hole that is dug. The flower pots was our way of celebrating earth day. One of the March activities was to plant the seeds on a meeting night with the Cubs. This was our way of continuing with that project. -Penelope

Kub Kar Show and Shine

Although we weren't able to hold an in-person Kub Kar Rally, that didn't stop our team of Scouters from wanting to recognize all the hard work the youth put into their cars! 26 youth submitted pictures of their cars, and a panel of judges picked one as the winner.The 2020 Kub Kar design winners are: Best overall Chole's Crayon Entry 13 - Chloe Swift Cartoon characters- Batman Entry 17 - James Grodecki Video game -Tetris Entry 10 - Aric Upson Most Realistic vehicle- VW Beetle Entry 11 - Dacian Walsh Best Original design - Violin Entry #6 - Noah Woroniuk Congratulations Chloe, James, Aric, Dacian and Noah! A website has been set up so you can see each of the youth's cars. Visit http://kubkar.wascappelle.ca/ to see all of this years amazing designs!

Regina 86th

The Regina 86th has been doing lots to stay active including encouraging a one camp out at home, and virtual campfires! The group was interviewed by CJME at the start of May to talk about what they have been doing since COVID hit. Check out the full article at https://www.cjme.com/2020/05/04/virtual-scouts-youth-organization-moves-meetings-online/

Earth Day

Tanner, a cub for the Regina 86th spent some time on Earth Day planting a tree!

"Zeke is a cub scout in Assiniboia. He and his sister Belle love the environment and go on "garbage walks" regularly! This was today's Earth Day haul!"

Want to share what your group is up to? Send [email protected] an email. Information is due by the first of the month.