This activity will take two meetings. One will be for Cub Scouts to decorate boxes and posters for the sock drive. The other will be collecting and donating the socks.
Before the meeting:
- Identify a local homeless or transitional shelter that takes clothing donations. Meet with them to discuss conducting a sock drive. 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 that they will be conducting a sock drive and the name receiving organization. Include who the organization serves and the need for socks.
- 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 socks will be collected, the pack number and den, and the organization that will receive the socks.
After the meeting:
- Deliver the donation boxes to the agreed-upon collection locations.
- After one week collect the boxes and deliver them to the recipient organization.
- At the next pack meeting ask Cubmaster to recognize the den for their project.
