Cubs Who Care Den Activities

The Cubs Who Care activity is one that has your cub scouts learning about physical and invisible disabilities.

Some of the activities included in the requirments for this activity include tying your shoes, using a fork, and playing a video game all while wearing gloves or mittens. Another requirement involves using blindfolds to paint a picture.

There are many activities out there that can assist you with helping your cub scouts understand some disabilities that people have on a daily basis.

Here are a few other activities:

Walk In My Shoes Race

Materials: Really, really, really big boots

Directions: Divide the scouts into two teams. Have them take off their shoes and stand in two lines. Place the huge boots at the starting line and have them put on the boots race down to turn-around point and return to give the next in line.

Muffled Sounds

Materials: Ear plugs or heavy-duty headphones

Directions: Divide the den into two teams and give each player two earplugs to put into their ears. When all ears are covered, one leader steps outside the room where he/she cannot be seen and produces a series of sounds (tinkling bell, sentence spoken in normal conversational tones, pan being scraped, barking dog, hammering on board, etc.) When the leader returns, each team huddles and writes a list of the sounds it heard. The sounds may be tape-recorded in advance.

Fumble Fingers

Directions: Divide the den into two teams. Tell players to untie their shoelaces. Then tell them to put one hand behind their back (or tie one hand to their belt). On signal, each team tries to tie their shoelaces with with each player using only one hand.