Heaps of resources have been shared by Qld branch for Cubs at home. An idea per page.

Source: Qld Branch for cubs activities site

Currently includes

• 30 Lego Chaallenge
• Adventures and Sports SIA
• Arts and Literature SIA
• Creating a better World SIA
• Eight shells and a frog
• Enviroment SIA
• Hobo Stove
• Ice Cream
• Lava Lamps
• Map my Scouting at Home World
• My mini catapult
• My own home scout den
• Queensland Ideas
• Reading SIA
• rube Goldberg Machine
• SDG1 - No Poverty
• SDG2 - No Hunger
• SDG3 - Good health and wellbeing
• SDG4 - Quality education
• SGD5 - Gender equality
• SDG6 - Clean Water & Sanitation
• SIA Planning Tool Cooking Cubs
• SIA Planning Tool Cooking Cubs
• SIA Planning Tool Cooking Cubs
• Singals
• St George's Day
• STEM
• There's a scout in there
• Understanding baraille
• Video Home Damper
• Video Mini Campsite
• Video Mini catapults
• Vidoe Promise and Law
• Video secret codes
• Virtual Scouting SIA - Adventure & Sports
• Virtual Scouting SIA - Arts & Literature
• Virtual Scouting SIA - Creating a Better
• Virtual Scouting SIA - Enviroment
• Virtual Scouting SIA - Growth & Development
• Virtual Scouting SIA -Stem & Innovation
• World emblem activity 

 

• Use a paper cup to make a game
• Make a mask using a paper plate
• Practice your knots
• Do a science experiment with a cork
• Make a path or trach for your marbles ti=o run down
• Build a shelter in your backyard or bedroom
• What do you think the virus looks like? Does it have eyes? Draw it for us
• Lego challenge - put your thinking cap on and come up with a great lego creation
• Paper planes - there are different ways to fold paper planes, have a competition at home to see how far they go
• Fitness challenge
  • Monday - 20 sit-ups + 20 push-ups
  • Tuesday - 20 star jumps (note from Brian - not sure these are recommended anymore) + 20 lunges
  • Wednesday - walk around the block / or the perimeter of the house
  • Thursday - run on the sot for 5 minutes
  • Friday - play some music and have a dance
• Drawing competition - have each family member draw a picture of themselves
• Dress ups - have a dress-up night with your family. Each member of your family can dress up in whatever they wish. You can then have a party and dance the night away.
• "What is that?"Photo Challenge: Take pictures of everyday items from weird angles and challenge others to identify the item
• Recycling fun: collect recyclable materials and build a miniature scout campsite

 

Source:  file:///C:/Users/brian/Documents/JSCS-Boredom-busters.pdf

 

Being Prepared

As a team of Leaders in your Section, there are a few things to do NOW:

1. Choose your platform for online meetings.
2. Practise it. A meeting with fellow Section Leaders? A Section Council?
3. Read up on any security issues that you need to be aware of.
4. Check you have current contact details for all your youth members, eg preferred family email, mobile numbers.
5. What are you doing as a holiday activity to keep your Section connected?

 

A week before your meeting:

1. Confirm your program with your Section Council and Leaders.
2. Prepare the information you need to send to your members.

 

Three days before your meeting:

1. Send your invite to members and parents
2. Include a list of equipment they might need and their activity sheet

 

On the day of your meeting:

1. Open the platform 15 minutes early, maybe have a prepared question they can answer
2. Allocate a Leader who will assist with technical support for the meeting
3. Have a great, fun meeting
4. Share your ideas with scoutingathome@scoutsvictoria.com.au and send your images to socialmedia@scoutsvictoria.com.au

 

Be Prepared for new members

When your youth members say they have a friend who wants to join in the online meetings, please make them welcome.

There is no charge at this time.

Registration will be sorted later.

If your Section now has 24 members, why not 30 when you return to the hall and the outdoors?

 

Source: Scouting at Home - Manual 

Activity Sheets

A week before each meeting, Scouts Victoria plans to email Section activity sheets to Leaders.

It’s your task to share it with your youth members at least a few days before your online meeting.

This email reminder to your youth members could include:

• The date and time of the next online meeting.
• A reminder on how to join your meeting.
• Anything they will need to have (an orange, pen and paper, a meerkat).
• The latest activity sheet.

 

The activity sheet is:

• Identified by Section name and week number (but not necessarily the word ‘week’).
• 4- 6 activities.
• Brief text (about 50-120 words each).
• Most would have a small illustration.
• Plus program icons as appropriate (new or old or both).
• Plus a panel each week: Help Other People.
• Plus a panel where they collect signatures that they’ve done the 4-6 activities for that week.
• So these activity sheets could be 1-2 pages.
• They will be visually strong.
• Age appropriate (eg Joey pages might be softer, native bush, random animals; Cubs might be more oriented toward action like bikes, surfing, skating etc etc; Scouts might be like a video game; Venturer sheets might be inspired by, but not promote, graffiti).

 

Help Other People Examples

Help Other People 1: at home

• Scouts of all ages help other people.
• This week, let’s do something extra at home.
• Cook dinner or make a cake, vacuum the living room, help someone with schoolwork.
• Just one extra thing that you don’t usually do.

 

Help Other People 2:

• nearby Scouts of all ages help other people.
• This week we think of people outside our own family.
• A relative or a friend or a neighbour.
• You could make them something, or run an errand or mow their lawn, or just say hello (from a safe distance).

 

Help Other People 3: further away

• Scouts of all ages help other people.
• People need company.
• But some people are not seeing many people at the moment.
• Who can you phone or Skype or Zoom to have a chat? Grandparents … cousins … a friend who has gone away?

 

Help Other People 4: health workers

• Scouts of all ages help other people.
• This is a busy time for hospitals, doctors and nurses.
• Let’s say thanks to those who looking after sick people.
• Make a card and send it to the team at your local hospital, or your family doctor, or a family friend who is helping look after other people.

 

Source: Scouting at Home - Manual

Regular Program

This is what a weekly Scouting at Home program might look like in Term 2.

First, let’s dress for success.

Uniform? At least a scarf? This is program as usual!

Program Name or Theme

Opening

Welcome

• flagbreak?
• roll call
• any news or highlights to share (like birthdays)

 

Plan>Do>Review> *

• recapping last week
• acknowledging those who completed the last activity sheet
• coming up today …

 

Game *

• We have a set of games to share

 

Activity work

• The activity sheet should have been emailed earlier to all
• Choose a few activities on the sheet
• Some can be done together in the meeting
• Some can be demonstrated - for youth to try later *

 

Social time

Each meeting a different connection activity. Advance warning to youth, eg:

• Knock-knock jokes
• Show us your pet/favourite toy
• Baby photos in advance to the Leaders – who’s who?

 

A new skill *

A challenge or a fun thing to practise in the week ahead, eg:

• The perfect Scroggin
• How to make a coin disappear
• Finding north by the Southern Cross

 

Close

• Ask the youth for their highlights of the meeting
• Badges presented virtually then mailed with a note
• Investitures (repeated later for real)
• Closing reflection by duty PL
• Flagdown?

 

* Many parts of the program could be led by youth members.

These programs assume you might use the Scouts Victoria activity sheets as the basis for your online program, followed by a few days of Scouting activity for your youth members.

 

Source: Scouting at Home - Manual

If you want to do something better for weekly program, go for it!

Museums from around the world are accessible with just a push of a button.

Museums Victoria

• Melbourne Museum at Home
• Scienceworks at Home
• Immigration Museum at Home
• Royal Exhibition Building

 

Monash University Museum of Art 

National Gallery of Victoria Virtual Tours

Melbourne Zoo Live streaming of animals

 

Explore the treasures of the Louvre, wonders of the British Museum and many more!

Museum Collections from around the world

Including the Guggenheim Bilbao, The Metropolitan Museum or Art New York, and Museum of Natural History London

The British Museum

The Vatican Museum

The Louvre

Plan

What museum or gallery are you going to explore?

How will you engage your pack with the museum (eg. a quiz or a build your own collection challenge)?

Do

Explore the museum or gallery.

Share your activity about the museum or gallery with your pack.

Review

How did you pack go with the activity? What worked really well?

What did you find that surprised you?

What did you discover about museums that you didn't know before?

Original Source http://heartofnewenglandbsa.org/2020/03/ideas-for-virtual-cub-scouting/ - edited for Australia

March 19, 2020  10:33 am

Continue Your Weekly Meetings – There are “virtually” dozens of ways Cub Leaders can have their weekly Pack Meetings. Consider using an app on your phone like Zoom, FaceTime, Skype or other virtual programs that allow you to meet. Ask parents to download the app or connect with you and allow the cubs the chance to be part of the pack meeting. Remember Two Deep Leadership!

Do A Virtual Pack Meeting – Cubmasters can still award achievement badges and other awards and offer a program as well. Record a video of yourself virtually awarding the Scouts their hard-earned boomerangs, achievement badges, special interest badges and Grey Wolf. Mention each cub by name and tell everyone what they earned. Maybe throw in a song or skit and then post it on your Pack’s website, social media outlets or email it to your families! Make it extra special and “snail mail” the awards to the cubs!

Home Adventures – Maybe you are not comfortable in a virtual meeting setting, contact your parents with a list of suggested activities the cubs can do at home with their parents. Besides, what cub doesn’t want to earn an achievement badge?

Take a Virtual Tour of a Museum – There are museums that are offering virtual tours of their facilities. This would be great for any cub who needs to “visit” an art gallery or museum. See if you can set it up so that your whole pack “visits” at the same time.

Start a Ripple Effect – Stay connected with friends, families, and neighbors. Scouts with a parent/guardian can reach out via voice or text; Or put on your uniform and Facetime your contacts or upload a video of your cub to the local Facebook group. Remember that social distancing is for the health and safety of everyone. Minimize your direct contact while still getting the word out that you’re available to help. Offer to get groceries, deliver a meal, or walk their dog. Remember to be smart and safe; if you or anyone feels ill, do not visit!

Get Outdoors – Suggest that cub get outside with their family to play a game, hike a familiar trail or learn something new like Geocaching. The outside is the best place to practice social distancing, and put the OUTING back in SCOUTING.

REMEMBER

Scouting is a great program to do things even if your daily life has changed for a few weeks. Don’t let things stand in the way of your Scouting Adventure, but make sure you stay safe as well! If anyone in your household feels ill, STAY HOME! Wash your hands properly (saying the Scout Promise and Law together at a normal pace is 20-30 seconds). Avoid hand contact, instead of the Cub Scout handshake, do the Cub Scout salute. Always drink plenty of fluids, eat healthy and get a good night’s sleep.

Share your Ideas for Virtual Cub Scouting, we will post them on social media where other Units can benefit from great ideas! Email them to cubscouts@heartofnewenglandbsa.org