Showing posts with label Pinewood derby. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pinewood derby. Show all posts

Friday, March 20, 2009

My Boys and the Pinewood Derby

Last week (in march this is a little old, but such is my life) we had a really fun ward activity. It was a pinewood derby/chili cookoff. We had quite a few people show up (I'd say about 70, which is a lot for our little ward) and 28 cars register. Totally fun, but to back up a bit, a few months ago I was talking to Sam about getting the cub scouts excited about being cub scouts, he remimded me of a fun activity we'd had in our last area, a Pinewood derby for the whole ward. I thought it would be so much fun and we decided to combine it with an already scheduled Elders Quoram activity. Then came the realization that we did not have a track. I asked Sam if it was at all possible for him to make one, he said he'd look into it. A few weeks later we decided to just make one mostly because we have 9 years of cub scouts ahead of us. Can you believe that! 9 pinewood derby's with our boys in a row starting 2011! YIKES! From all that Sam read it seemed pretty easy so he went and got all the supplies... which cost a little more than we thought, but it all worked out and it was great!


Here are some great pictures.