Cub Scouts is all about incentive!

To encourage our Scouts to come to den meetings in uniform, and bring their books, and follow the Den rules, etc, etc, etc, we play a game called "You Take the Cake". I stole the idea from my mom. The kids earn stickers for doing all the things I mentioned and others. Whoever earns the most stickers gets to choose a cake from the Family Fun Website for us to make for their families. Go to www.familyfun.go.com and click on recipes to get an idea of the choices. We like this idea because it reinforces the idea that Cub Scouts is for families so the whole family gets the reward. Last month we had to make the volcano cake, complete with spewing lava. This month it was the sandcastle cake. I think it turned out pretty cute. The 10 year old scout thought it was "awesome"!