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Bear – 3rd Grade
Fellowship
Family & Reverence
Required
Requirement 1

Clay Celebration

Bear – 3rd Grade
Fellowship
Family & Reverence
Required
Requirement 1

Clay Celebration

Snapshot of Activity

Create a clay sculpture that can be used as part of your favorite family faith tradition, holiday, or celebration. 

Indoor
3
3
3
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  • Air drying clay, recommend 1lb of clay for each Cub Scout  
  • Plastic knife, fork, and spoon, a set for each Cub Scout  
  • Toothpicks,  enough to share 
  •  ½ gallon of water in a large bowl 

Before the meeting: 

  1. Inform the parents and legal guardians in the den that at this den meeting Cub Scouts will work on making a craft with clay that represents one of their favorite family faith traditions.  Ask parents and legal guardians to help their Cub Scout think of what they may want to make.  It may be a decoration, a symbol of faith, or a useful object that is used as part of a family faith tradition.  
  2. Prepare the meeting space for Cub Scout to work with clay. 
  3. Secure a safe location for projects to air dry until the next meeting.  

During the meeting: 

  1. Ask Cub Scouts to describe their favorite family holidays and celebrations. 
  2. Inform Cub Scouts that they are going to make something that represents a family faith tradition.   This can be a decoration, a symbol of faith, or a useful object that is used as part of a family faith tradition celebration. 
  3. Give each Cub Scout a ball of clay and let them know that they can use the fork, knife, spoon, and toothpicks as tools to make their project  Let them know that if their project starts getting hard, they can add some water to their clay to make it easier to work with. 
  4. When projects are done, each Cub Scout describes their craft. 
  5. Place projects in a safe place so they can air dry until the next meeting. 

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Bray Barnes

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Bray Barnes is a recipient of the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award, Silver
Beaver, Silver Antelope, Silver Buffalo, and Learning for Life Distinguished
Service Award. He received the Messengers of Peace Hero award from
the royal family of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and he’s a life member of
the 101st Airborne Association and Vietnam Veterans Association. Barnes
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Councils, a nonpartisan network of corporate CEOs, university presidents, and
national laboratory directors. He has also served as a senior executive for the
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