Cub Scouts

Materials: Two each of ten (10) feet, ½ inch electrical conduit. Leather lace to hang the pipes. Pipe cutter or hack
saw. Measuring tape and drill press. 3 1/2” x 1/4" bolts to tap on chimes to make them ring.

Directions:
1. Cut conduit to appropriate lengths as listed below.
2. Ream ends to remove sharp edges.
3. Drill 1/4" hole about one inch from end of pipe for leather lace.
4. Using a permanent marker label each pipe with pipe number and note.

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Boomwackers can be made from golf club protector tubes.  The ones we used were 34" long and 1.5" diameter.  The tubes are available at sporting goods stores for about $1 each.  To make 1 set of 8 boomwackers you will need 5 of the tubes.  If you'd like 2 sets you only need 9.  The tubes are a soft enough plastic that you could probably cut them with a good pair of scissors, but I went with the power tools and used a scroll saw.  A band saw would also work well but Santa has not brought me one of those yet.

Cut the tubes as follows (some tubes are cut twice to make two boom-whackers)

Tube #1     C     24 13/16 inches

Tube #2     D     22 inches

Tube #3     E     19 1/2 inches

Tube #4     F      18 1/2 inches

Tube #5     G     16 inches

Tube #4     A     14 3/4 inches

Tube #3     B     12 3/4 inches

Tube #2     C     11 15/16 inches

If you're making a second set then use the leftover part of tube #5 to make another one the same length and cut tubes 6-9 just like 1-4.

To identify the pitch of each pipe, wrap one end with making tape and write the note... or better yet, use colored electrical tape or duct tape. (use a different color for each tube)

Look here for songs... http://www.kibesd.org/CPage/instr/boom2.htm

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At least 11 people, including nine Cub Scouts, were injured Monday evening after being hit by a truck as they prepared for Overton's Christmas parade, officials said.

They were injured after an elderly driver ran through the barricades and into a crowd lined up for the parade, City Manager B.J. Potts said. 

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Cub Scout Day Camp is done and I must say, I'm exhausted. We had about 140 boys this year for the Holland Day Camp which is quite an increase over last year's 86. We had a great staff (including a few Boy Scouts) who were able to work well with these large groups. We made a few changes this year that I think were well received. Probably among the most welcome additions was the porta-potty out by the BB Gun & Archery ranges. :-)

We also added some new items to the programming. On day 2 the boys got to go fishing in the pond. Using bamboo cane poles they caught several blue gills and even some pretty good sized small-mouth bass. The boys really had a great time with this but as the day went on the fish got less hungry so they weren't biting as aggressively as they were at the beginning of the day.

Out at the BB Gun range on days 2 & 3, the boys had the opportunity to earn a patch for their marksmanship. The National Shooting Sports Foundation runs a program called the Junior USA Shooting Team. To become part of the team and earn a patch, the boys needed to score 35 points in 5 shots. We had several boys qualify. I haven't counted yet but I think it was between 60 & 70 boys that qualified. We had a couple score 49 points out of a possible 50 and even had one score a perfect 50! Read more »