This activity will take two meetings. One will be for Cub Scouts to decorate boxes and posters for the clothing drive. The other will be collecting and donating clothes.
Before the meeting:
- Identify a local homeless or transitional shelter that takes clothing donations. Meet with them to discuss conducting a clothing drive and identify details and dates.
- Share details of the drive with all parents, legal guardians, and adult partners in the den.
During the meeting:
- Inform Cub Scouts of the organization that will benefit from conducting the clothing drive. Include who they serve and the need for clothes.
- Explain that today the den will decorate donation boxes and make promotional posters.
- Explain that the posters and collection boxes should include the date when the clothes will be collected, the pack number and den, what type of clothes are needed, and the name of the organization who will receive the clothing.
After the meeting:
- Deliver the donation boxes to the agreed-upon collection locations.
- After one week collect the boxes and deliver them to the organization you collected them for.
- At the next pack meeting ask Cubmaster to recognize the den for their project.
