Beginning Backpacking Packing List for Cold Weather
Taking your family or a group of scouts on a beginning backpacking trip doesn’t have to break the bank if you use …
Beginner Backpacking Menu
If you are going on your first backpacking trip, one of your main concerns will be food, particularly if you are going …
Brittany Hull: Miracle League Sports
Brittany Hull attends high school in a self-contained classroom. She enjoys dancing, music and baseball. The Miracle League opened the door to sports …
Scouting and Special Needs Children: Camping-Packing #3
In the last article, I gave you some ideas for teaching how to get irregular shaped objects into a fixed regular shape. …
Special Needs Children Garden: Planting Strawberries
It’s springtime in Texas and the baby squirrels are playing “red light, green light” in the streets already. We need to …
Scouting and Special Needs Children: Hiking–Crossing Streams
Hiking is a common activity for scouts to do when camping. Sometimes, special needs children are left out of this scouting activity …
Scouting and Special Needs Children: Camping–Packing #2
In the last article, I started breaking down all the skills involved in packing and showed some ways to teach following a …
Scouting and Special Needs Children: Camping–Packing #1
In the introduction to Scouting and Special Needs Children, I noted how many different skills are actually involved in a simple overnight …
Scouting and Special Needs Children: Camping, An Introduction
Going camping is a traditional part of growing up here in America. I guess it all goes back to the pioneer days …