Home Depot

  Exciting News:

       Our local Home Depot, 4640 Roosevelt Blvd, is hosting a free Kid’s Workshop on April 7th from 9am-12pm.  It is for children ages 5-12 and this week they are making a bird feeder. This would be a great event to take your scout to. They get the experience of working with tools and get to bring home a bird feeder they made themselves.

Requirements Covered

For Tigers it would cover:

• Elective 2: Making Decorations
• Elective 32: Feed the Birds

For the Wolves it would cover:

• Achievement 5e: Make a birdhouse, a set of bookends or something else useful.
• Elective 3a: Make something useful for your home or school.
• It would assist with Elective 13 (which is part of the World Conservation Award)
• 13a: Make a list of all the birds you saw in a week and tell where you saw them.
• 13b: Put out nesting material (short pieces of yarn and string)
• 13e: Feed wild birds and tell which birds you fed
• 13f: Put out a birdhouse and tell which birds use it (substituting feeder for house)

For the Bears it would cover:

• Achievements 5b:  Build or make a bird feeder or birdhouse and hang it in a place where birds can visit safely
•  Your new feeder can be used to help complete 5a
• If your family members assist, it could be used to complete achievement 10b: making something useful for the home
• Depending on how involved it is, we may be able to use it as a substitute for achievement 20b: Build your own toolbox

For Webelos it would cover:

• Craftsman Requirement #2
• It would assist with;
• Naturalist Requirements #5, #6, #8, #9, and #10

  Hope to see everyone there.