Race Time (Tiger) requirements (Tiger)

0:00 · 10 min

Gathering: keep it up

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

• Put a beach ball or a balloon in the middle of the room and start a den count.
• The den's job is to keep it off the floor and beat the count from last week.
• Stop it the moment the opening is ready, mid-count, so it stays fun and short.

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, Race Time (Tiger), 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 Race Time (Tiger) 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 · 18 min

Activity 1: With your Tiger adult partner

Close requirements 1 and 2 of Race Time (Tiger).

• Show a finished example first so every Scout can picture "With your Tiger adult partner, assemble and decorate either a Pinewood Derby® car or a Raingutter Regatta™ boat" 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: run it as a game, one practice round and one for real, to cover "Learn the rules of the race for the vehicle chosen in requirement 1".

Requirement 1 Requirement 2

0:38 · 17 min

Activity 2: Before the race, discuss with your Tiger

Close requirements 3 and 4 of Race Time (Tiger).

• Mark the play area and walk the rules through once, slowly, before anyone runs.
• Play one practice round and one for real so "Before the race, discuss with your Tiger adult partner how you will demonstrate good sportsmanship during the race" gets a fair try.
• Rotate teams between rounds so the same Scout is not last twice.
• Close with the sportsmanship question: what did somebody else do well tonight?
• Then requirement 4: read "With your Tiger adult partner, participate in a Pinewood Derby® or a Raingutter Regatta™" out loud, work it in pairs, and mark it off as each Scout finishes.

Requirement 3 Requirement 4

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.