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Description

Activities based around American Independence Day theme

Resources

Marbles

Pringles tube / toilet roll, coloured card (red, white and blue), Red and white crepe paper, glue, string, scissors, hole punch, white stars (stickers)

Baseball bat / rounders bat, tennis ball, 6 cones

Instructions

What is Independence Day
- Read out the American Independence for Children resource and explain that in the USA, Independence Day is a public holiday which means that everyone gets the day off work to celebrate. Many families and friends get together for BBQs.

Game: Barefoot marble game (Native American game)
- Divide in to sixes. Each Cub has to hold a marble between their toes and walk it from one cone to another (indoors or outdoors) - relay style
- If a Cub drops the marble, they have to go back to the start again.

Activity: American Windsock
- Cut the bottom off a Pringles tube or kitchen roll tube.
- Cover the box with blue card and then glue/stick on white construction paper stars.
- Cut some red and white crepe paper streamers and glue or staple them to one end of the wind sock.
- Punch four holes along the top of the wind sock.
- Cut two pieces of string about a foot long. Tie the strings to the wind sock (tie the opposite ends of a string to holes on opposite sides of the cylinder).
- Tie a longer piece of string to the smaller pieces - you'll hang the wind sock from this piece of string.

Pack Activity: Baseball
- Explain that a popular game in the USA is Baseball, which is very similar to rounders.
- Setup a baseball pitch (using the Pitch Layout resource and scoring as attached and play a match involving all Cub Scouts.

Tags

• america
• american history
• american independence
• countries
• independence Day

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