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Description

Completing the cub athletics badge a home!

Synopsis for Parents:
We plan to get the Cubs to complete their athletics badge this week. Cubs will work through a number of bases/stations to complete a range of physical activities which will enable them to achieve the badge. This is a participation badge, so please do not overly stress about getting the precise measurements.

Resources

Equipment list for leaders;
- A notebook/OSM to keep a note of scores/times

Equipment list for parents;
- A 10m track: As stated before this does not need to be accurate (or straight!). If you do not have a tape measure, 10m is roughly 4 paces (1 pace = 2 adult strides), it would be helpful if this was near the Zoom webcam.
- Post-it notes: or any way of marking a wall following a jump! E.g. blu-tack or tape
- A tape measure/ruler: to measure the jump.
- 3 Bean-bags: you can make these from rice wrapped in 2-3 sandwich bags
- 3 Pots/buckets: for the bean-bags to be thrown into
- 1 spoon: for an egg and spoon race
- 1 plastic egg: or any round item that can be put onto the spoon for the race (e.g. ping pong ball).
- Necker: for a blind assisted relay race.
- Stopwatch: for timing races

Notices for Parents
1) Please ensure that the 10m track is clear of obstacles and is wide enough to two people to run/move along.
2) Please ensure cubs are wearing appropriate clothing for athletics activities.
3) As with all virtual scouting please ensure this activity is safe for your child, this is a physical badge and therefore will require parents to be vigilant when performing the bases.

Instructions

1) Group to perform warm-up exercises.

2) Group talk through what is appropriate clothing and get cubs to changed if they have inappropriate clothing.

3) Cubs to rotate through the following bases:

a) Bean Bag Toss: Place 4 buckets at 3, 4 and 5 cub paces away from a throw line. Then get the cubs to throw their bean bags into the buckets. buckets are worth 1, 2 & 3 points respectively and cubs should keep their own score.

b) Sargent Jump: Cubs stand by a wall and place a post it note as high as they can without jumping. Then they take another post-it note and place it as high as they can with jumping. A parent should then help measure the distance between the two post-it notes.

c) Shuttle Run: See how long it takes to run the 10m track a total of 6 times without stopping. (Check with cubs first that nothing is blocking the track and do a practice jog to make sure it is safe.)

d) 20m Egg and Spoon Race: Run the 10m course twice keeping the "egg" on the spoon. If the egg comes off, you must get the egg and continue from the point it fell off.

e) Blindfold relay: in groups of 3-4 run 4 x 20m relay blindfolded with parents helping them keep on track and avoid obstetrical. Each group should establish an order to run and the virtual baton will be the name of the next cub running with the final person saying "finished".

4) Close meeting with a gentle warm-down and talk about the importance of keeping active in lock-down and share ways they are keeping active.

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Badge Links

• Athletics - Clothing
• Athletics - Egg and spoon
• Athletics - Jumping
• Athletics - Relay
• Athletics - Shuttle
• Athletics - Throwing
• Athletics - Warm up