Popcorn Sales - and Celebration

Each Year, our Scouts sell Popcorn to help fund our Pack Activities. This is an easy fundraiser - especially for those boys who have learned to use their "Puppy Dog Eyes" to increase sales.  It also teaches the boys a great lesson about paying their own way.  After we sell popcorn, we celebrate at a Pack Meeting with a party where the boys get to launch whipped cream pies at the leaders.  It's a highlight of the year!

2012 Cubmobile Races

Here's some video from Pack 857's 2012 Cubmobile Race. We've held this great event in the fall for the last 2 years. Each Den builds a soapbox derby car -- a "Cubmobile" and we have loads of fun racing down a hill in our local Forest Preserve

Gung Hay Fat Choy! Chinese New Year-themed Pack Meeting

Thanks for a Great Pack Meeting on Monday! We learned about a few of our Scouts favorite things (ice cream, kites and the game of rock-paper-scissors)... all invented in China. We tried our hand at "Dragon Dancing" (to the tunes of "We Will Rock You!".... Yes, I DID hear some of the Scouts singing the Rock & Roll Teapot song), and recognized our Scouts for their achievements during the month.
Thank you Mrs. Kmiec for providing goodie bags for our Scouts and Siblings. We so appreciate this Chinese New Years tradition you've upheld for the last several years for our Pack.
Based on Mother Nature not cooperating, we're setting a (No-)Snow Date for our Sled Derby of Feb. 11. If we don't get snow before this Sunday, we'll push the Sled Derby out 2 weeks.

Snow Dance Successful - Sled Derby Jan. 29!

Pack 857's 2nd Annual Cardboard Sled Derby will be held on Sunday, January 29 from 1:00 - 3:00 at Lion's Park (in Cary on Silver Lake Rd.).

Sled Derby Rules...
1) Sled must be constructed of Cardboard and Duct Tape
2) Sled racers must wear helmets
3) Must have at least 2 Scouts in Sled for Den Race
4) "Greasing" the bottom of your sled is allowed - just be environmentally friendly
5) Single-Sleds and Family Sleds welcome for "Open Division" Race

See you There!