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Updated: July 18, 2007

Another Letter From Camp

Steps To Building A Campfire

Jokes/Riddles

ANOTHER LETTER FROM CAMP

Circle the items in parentheses that apply...

Dear (Mom, Dad, Grandma/Grandpa, dog, cat, other):

I am here at (Camp Cedars, The Rain Forest, Hot Dog Heaven, other) and I am sending you this letter because (you told me to write, my tent mate dared me to, it was this or eat another hot dog, I need more money, the scoutmaster said I had to, other).

The weather here is (don't ask, they want me to say great, pretty wet - we start building the ark tomorrow, so hot you can start a fire on the scoutmaster's head, so bad that we have to have tornado drills twice a day and even the wild turkeys head for the ditches, other).

Today we (played in poison ivy, learned first aid after taking wood carving, learned that a latrine is deep and you don't go after a dropped flashlight, other). We also (made a staff member jump in the pool in his Class A uniform, ate too many Pixie Stix, saw a deer, learned a new camp song - has anyone seen the camp ranger's dog lately?, other).

You ought to see my tent. Did you know that (bugs can see in the dark, a mouse is funny - in someone else's tent, raccoons really do like Lifesavers, other)? My tent mate and I share our tent with (457 spiders, 5 snakes, 1,849 mosquitoes, 984 flies, 76 moths, something dead, other).

I really do miss (my cat/dog/other family pet, brother/sister, mowing the lawn, air conditioning, real food, other). But the staff here is (wonderful, outstanding, fantastic, awesome, standing right behind me). I'm going to enter a camp contest to (find the most ways to use hot dogs, have the most skin area covered with mosquito bites, go the most days in the same pair of underwear, add the most verses to the 'Announcements' song, other).

This week we have been taking merit badge classes. My favorite merit badge is (mud skiing down Blackfoot, lunch, Trading Post 101, other). Parents night is Wednesday. The staff says we'll be having a special meal. We're supposed to have (not sure, something dead, I don't know - but the cook was singing "I wish I were an Oscar Meyer wiener" song, other). When you come out, please bring (more money, dry clothes, a case of Twinkies, change for the pop machines, other).

Well, I have to go now. We are getting ready to (go on a hike, find the lost scoutmaster, untie a staff member, see the girls at the Trading Post, other).

Your scout

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STEPS TO BUILDING A CAMPFIRE

Split dead limb into fragments and shave one fragment into slivers.

Bandage left thumb.

Chop other fragments into smaller fragments.

Bandage left foot.

Make a structure of slivers (including those embedded in the hand).

Light match.

Light match.

Repeat 'A Scout is cheerful' and light match.

Apply match to slivers, add wood fragments, and blow gently into base of flames.

Apply burn ointment to nose.

When fire is burning, collect more wood.

When fire is burning well, add all remaining firewood.

After thunderstorm has passed, repeat the above steps.

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JOKES / RIDDLES

Q: When is a cub scout like a cabinet?
A: When he is a cub-bored (cupboard).

Q: What do you call a cub scout holding a Frisbee?
A: A cub and saucer!

Q: What do you call a cub scout who carries another cub scout on his shoulders?
A: A taxi cub!

Q: How does a taxi cub move?
A: Low-cub motion!

Q: How did the cub scout look when he forgot to take his jacket on the mountain hike?
A: Blue and cold! (blue and gold)

Q: What did the cub scout bake for den treats?
A: Cub-cakes!

Q: What do cub scouts get during winter camp?
A: Cub-in fever!

Q: What's a messy cub scout's favorite food?
A: Corn on the Cub!

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Three Cub Scouts were bragging about how tough they were.
"I wear out a pair of hiking boots in a month," the first scout said.
"I wear out a pair of Scout pants in a week," the second scout said.
"That's nothing," the last scout said, "I wear out a leader in 20 minutes."

After the Pack Meeting, a Cub Scout walked up to the Cubmaster and said to him "When I grow up, I want to be a Cub Master just like you, so could you please do a better job".

Scout: I hate these one week camp outs. You comb your hair, you brush your teeth, you put a clean set of clothes on, and at the end of the week you have to do it all over again.

Scout: My den leader thinks I am very responsible. Every time something goes wrong at a Pack Meeting, he says I am responsible.

Webelos Scout: "My den leader sure does like me. I heard him tell another leader that it would be the happiest day of his life when I crossed over into the Boy Scouts."

A Boy Scout took his little cousin with him when he went fishing. When he got back to the campsite, the scout was extremely fed up.
"I'm never taking him with me again," The Boy Scout complained.
"Did he scare away the fish," the Scoutmaster wondered.
"No," muttered the scout. "He sat on the bank all day eating my earthworms."

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