SCOUT AND CUB DEN IDEAS

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 43, 6 March 1937, Page 19

SCOUT AND CUB DEN IDEAS

This piece is taken from the AustraJiau Scout Diaiy. for th|s year aad, as it is of iutgrest to all Cub packs J am pntting it- in these Ecout uotes. There are dozeus of ways of making tho-Cub .deu a real juagle dea, aud , he& is vkt opportiaity. for. th© mecha- ' *ically-minded Cuba fiud Scouts to do a job of-work, Painting scenes . always-, provide people with the first diffieulty, but here is a method of 'dbihg 'this iu a eimple yet efficie'fit style^ A frieudl* visit to some of the filru exchanges wiU probably xesult iu a clipping from a "Taraan" film or juugle sceue which can be projected on to the wall or prepared canvas by means of a small portable lantera. » To overcome the objeetiou when nsing rented halls, these scenes can be mounted on - roller-blind flttings, or on S toII of wood, and these may be screwed on to the wall near the ceiling so *s to be unobtrusive. When not in use i tney can be roUed up, or unhooked and Lput away. \ ■" To get perspective the bliud-holding ibraekets would need .to be set one bo■htnd the other so as to let one scene fcome down bphind the other — that is, ■y-ee scenes would come down in front ^■distant views. BPrhis would look very weB for Scout ■ffehs as well as Cab ones. Far too Holten our Scout meeting places are just fearo rooms in which the best of Scouts Hand Seout Troops cannot get the real jSeouty feeling. We, all of us, put up Hthe excuse that as the hall is not ours Hrre can do nothing about it. Well, the labove idea is one that we all cau fix Hup and will make any hall more Seouty, land will ielp to make our" meetings jmore ' interesting and happy than ever Ibefore. I Small portable lairs can be easily Ipiade .to. hold a Cub six. Get a wood fbase and theu construct a cane frame land cover it with hessian, paint f.his. ftrith oil paiht to represent a rpcx. Some nnore hessian wound about a eore of iuire aud suitably painted makes a fcood palm trunk, while green baize cut ! in fronds, and mounted on heavier wire Imake, ideal palm trees. ' The whole Isecret of these things is that they are Bight and can be easily put away beIfcween meeting or when not wanted. l Theu a couneil rock can be made by foaddiug the top of a box oi suitable feize and eovering the whole with hesfeian, and painting to resemble a rock. I A moon can be made by getting a Kbox about a foot squure and fittiug it ■with an eleetric lamp, and adaptor to BLt the light socket. Make a front tc Rsover it, and in this front cut out tho fchape of the moon. You can make Iseveral ironts with the moon in differfcnt povWions to suit the season aud to Tnake a variation.