Mulching with Friends of Pledger Wetlands

Today, the Cubs and Akela joined Friends of Pledger Wetlands to do some Mulching in the lead up to the planting season. It was also to help ensure that the plants that have recently been planted have a good chance of ensuring the rain that will occur in the coming months will have the cover to keep the water where it is needed.

The Cubs really enjoyed the activity and even the brother and father who joined us for the activity got involved and help ensure the piles of mulch went down quickly.

Overall, a good day and we are looking forward to working with Friends of Pledger Wetlands again soon.

People's Choice Community Raffle

Mawson Lakes Scout Group is selling tickets (on line) to help raise money for the group. I would appreciate it if people could swing by (if you are so inclined) and buy a ticket or two. Every cent comes back direct to the Scout Group – meaning we get 100% of the money that you spend on the tickets.

So we encourage you to go over to and buy some tickets and support a worthwhile group.  https://www.peopleschoicecu.com.au/mawson-lakes-scout-group

Article for SA Scout- Mawson Lakes Zulu Pack’s Art Day Out

Today, Mawson Lakes Cub Pack went into the SA Art Gallery to work on their Art and Design badges. This was done to take in the month’s activities through the Art Gallery’s START program.

Some of you may be asking what the START program is.

On the first Sunday of the month, the Art Gallery of South Australia runs free activities for children aged 5 to 10 years of age. It is called the START program and offers an introduction to visual art for children (and their families).

The START program is free and includes art activities, tours, live performance and entertainment. Each month, the theme changes to suit current exhibitions within the Art Gallery. START is recommended for children aged 5-10 years and adult supervision is required.

What this means for Mawson Lakes Cubs, is it becomes a relatively inexpensive day out. Simply for the cost of the train fare into town, and the Cubs bringing their own packed lunches, we have a great day out and get some badge work done.

The theme of the START program for May was "Every Picture Tells a Story" and some of the activities that we did included:

Children’s Tours: Where we took a guided tour of the Trent Parke: The Black Rose exhibition and learnt how he created a forest from his dreams.

Cloud Creations: Where the Cubs had a chance to traced the pictures they saw  in the clouds in a layered drawing and finish in a frame.

Every Picture Tells a Story: The Cubs explored the possibilities of making your own visual story by recording a memory or dream playing with a variety of images

GooRoo Animation Screening: Saw the awesome animation films created by school holiday workshop participants at the Art Gallery.

Mr Oopy Children’s show: We also enjoyed the energy interactive performance by the children’s entertainer extraordinaire Mr Oopy.

The theme of this particular START program saw at least 2 of the cubs get enthused about photography as both an art form and as a hobby. Trent Parke’s work is certainly very interesting and was definitely a great way for the cubs to view how something that can be viewed as an everyday activity can be both an art form and a method of storytelling. That we were able to get the trip to count towards different parts of the Art and Design badge at the same time was also a bonus.

Attending a START day at the Art gallery has become a un planned bi-annual event for Mawson Lakes Cub Pack. The themes for the days are generally listed 3 months in advance on the Art Gallery website (although they are ALWAYS on the 1^st Sunday of the month). But they are certainly a great way to get Cubs (and Joeys) out and about, doing something they may not necessarily do.

CSL – Zulu Pack

Mawson Lakes Scout Group