Bear Elective adventure 3rd grade

Bear Picnic Basket requirements (Bear)

Bear Picnic Basket is a Bear elective adventure with 5 requirements. Below is what each one asks in plain language, and a sixty minute den meeting plan that works through them: a gathering activity, the opening, the activity blocks, and what to say in the closing.

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Bear Picnic Basket requirements

Paraphrased for planning. Read the current wording in the handbook or Scoutbook Plus before you sign anything off.

Handbook requirement 1

Create your own Bear cookbook using at least five recipes you might cook or prepare either on your own or with some adult help. Include at least one recipe each for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and a nutritious snack.
Handbook requirement 2

With a family member or den leader, prepare for cooking by explaining the importance of planning, tool selection, sanitation, and cooking safety.
Handbook requirement 3

Select and prepare two nutritious snacks for yourself, your family, or your den.
Handbook requirement 4

With the help of an adult, select a recipe to prepare in a kitchen for your den or your family. Help to select the needed ingredients, perhaps from a garden, grocery store, or farmers' market. Cook and serve your planned meal. Clean up after the preparation and cooking.
Handbook requirement 5

With the help of an adult, select a recipe to prepare in the outdoors for your family or den. Help to select the needed ingredients, perhaps from a garden, grocery store, or farmers' market. Cook and serve your planned meal. Clean up after the preparation and cooking.

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A 60 minute den meeting for Bear Picnic Basket

Five kinds of block in the order that works: something to do on arrival, the opening, den business, the adventure work split into chunks a Cub Scout can hold attention through, and a closing that names what got finished.

0:00 · 10 min

Gathering: pack the bag

Give the Scouts who arrive first something to do, so the meeting starts the moment they walk in.

Spread the Cub Scout Six Essentials and four things that do not belong on a table by the door.
The card on the table says: pick the six you would carry, and be ready to say why.
As Scouts arrive they join in, so the ones who came early are never left sitting.

0:10 · 5 min

Opening

Flag ceremony, Scout Oath and Scout Law. The same five minutes every week, run by the Scouts.

The denner calls the den to order and leads the flag ceremony.
Say the Scout Oath and the Scout Law together. New Scouts read from a card and nobody makes anything of it.
One sentence on tonight's adventure, Bear Picnic Basket, and the one thing everybody will get done.

0:15 · 5 min

Talk time

Den business while everyone is still sitting down, and a look at what is coming.

The two dates parents need: the next den meeting and the next pack event.
Ask who already did part of Bear Picnic Basket at home, and write the names down so it gets recorded.
Take one question from the den. Answer it or say when you will.

0:20 · 12 min

Activity 1: Create your own Bear cookbook using

Close requirements 1 and 2 of Bear Picnic Basket.

Show a finished example first so every Scout can picture "Create your own Bear cookbook using at least five recipes you might cook or…" before they start.
Set materials out at two or three tables so nobody stands waiting for the scissors.
Move table to table while they work and ask each Scout to tell you what they are making and why.
Give a five minute warning, then have every Scout hold up what they made and say one thing about it.
Then requirement 2: set the materials out on a second table and let them build "With a family member or den leader, prepare for cooking by explaining the importance of planning, tool selection, sanitation, and cooking safety" while you move between the two.

Requirement 1 Requirement 2

0:32 · 12 min

Activity 2: Select and prepare two nutritious snacks for yourself

Close requirements 3 and 4 of Bear Picnic Basket.

Show a finished example first so every Scout can picture "Select and prepare two nutritious snacks for yourself, your family, or your den" before they start.
Set materials out at two or three tables so nobody stands waiting for the scissors.
Move table to table while they work and ask each Scout to tell you what they are making and why.
Give a five minute warning, then have every Scout hold up what they made and say one thing about it.
Then requirement 4: give every Scout a job inside the work so "With the help of an adult, select a recipe to prepare in a kitchen for your den or your family" is something they did rather than watched.

Requirement 3 Requirement 4

0:44 · 11 min

Activity 3: With the help of an adult

Close requirement 5 of Bear Picnic Basket: With the help of an adult, select a recipe to prepare in the outdoors for your family or den. Help to select the needed ingredients, perhaps from a garden, grocery store, or farmers' market. Cook and serve your planned meal. Clean up after the preparation and cooking.

Walk the route before the meeting and pick the two places you will stop to cover "With the help of an adult, select a recipe to prepare in the outdoors for your family or den".
Line the den up in pairs, check that every Scout has the Six Essentials, and set the turnaround time.
Stop at both spots so every Scout gets a turn, not just the three who are always in front.
Back at the door, ask each Scout for one thing they noticed, then mark the requirement off.

Requirement 5

0:55 · 5 min

Closing

End on time, and make sure every Scout leaves knowing what they finished.

Cubmaster's minute: one short thought tied to what the den just did. Sixty seconds, no lecture.
Read back what got finished tonight, requirement by requirement, so the Scouts hear their own progress.
Send the den off with the den yell, and catch the parents who need to hear something at pickup.

What to bring

Tonight's requirement list, printed, with a box to tick per Scout
A clipboard and pen for sign-offs as they happen
The hand tools named in the requirement, plus safety glasses
The Cub Scout Six Essentials for every Scout, and a full water bottle
Snack ingredients, napkins and hand sanitizer
Seeds, cups and potting soil, plus a tray to carry them home on

Worked out from the requirement text. Swap anything you already have in the den box.

Plan this meeting for your own den

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Questions about Bear Picnic Basket

How many requirements does Bear Picnic Basket have?

5. Each one is a single thing the Scout does. Check the current wording in the handbook or Scoutbook Plus before you sign anything off.

Is Bear Picnic Basket required for Bear?

No. Bear Picnic Basket is a Bear elective. A Scout needs the six required Bear adventures plus at least two electives, and this one can be part of those two.

How long does Bear Picnic Basket take?

The plan on this page runs 60 minutes and covers 5 of the 5 requirements. Most dens spend two meetings on an adventure, because somebody is always absent for the first one.

Can a Scout finish part of Bear Picnic Basket at home?

Any of it can be. Nothing in Bear Picnic Basket is marked as family-only work, so a Scout who misses the meeting can finish with a parent and you record it when the family tells you.