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Webelos – 4th Grade
My Family
Family & Reverence
Required
Requirement 1

Wood Crafting

Webelos – 4th Grade
My Family
Family & Reverence
Required
Requirement 1

Wood Crafting

Snapshot of Activity

Make a gingerbread house from craft sticks that can be used as part of your favorite family faith tradition, holiday, or celebration.  

Indoor
3
3
3
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  • Covering for workspace for each Cub Scout 
  • Seventeen popsicle sticks for each Cub Scout 
  • Various colors of acrylic paint 
  • Paintbrush for each Cub Scout 
  • Container of water to wash paintbrushes 
  • Craft glue 
  • Scissors

Before the meeting:

  1. Set up the meeting location to allow enough space for crafts.
  2. Review the craft instructions, here is a recommended video.  Gingerbread House Craft. 

During the meeting: 

  1. Ask Cub Scouts to share their holidays or celebrations that are part of their family’s faith traditions.  Share with the Cub Scouts that they are going to make a gingerbread house to celebrate the holidays.  
  2. Have Cub Scouts paint the popsicle sticks with acrylic paint. 
  3. Once popsicle sticks are dry (will only take a couple of minutes), have Cub Scouts line up the popsicle sticks in a row, face down. Use 10 regular-sized sticks to build the house. 
  4. Tell Cub Scouts to use 3 popsicle sticks to hold the wall together. Glue one at the top, another one in the middle, and the third at the bottom. 
  5. Tell Cub Scouts to take two popsicle sticks and cut ⅓ of one stick and ½ of the other and arrange the sticks from small to big.  
  6. Have Cub Scouts use the ⅓ piece on top, followed by the ½, then the ⅔, and finally two full-sized sticks. To hold them together, glue the remaining ½ piece to the back and let it dry. 
  7. Have Cub Scouts carefully flip over the roof and the wall and place them next to each other. 
  8. Tell Cub Scouts to glue two sticks at the sides of the roof to attach it to the wall. 
  9. Tell Cub Scouts to glue their faith decorations with regular white glue and the help of a paintbrush to distribute the glue evenly.
  10. Once the house is completed have Cub Scout decorate it by painting it in a way that reflects their holiday or faith tradition. 

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Multimedia Collage

Indoor
3
3
3

Create a multi-media collage celebrating your family’s faith traditions.

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