Big Ideas 9 - 11
Activity Suggestions for Families:
1. Make a map of your neighborhood.
2. Take a bike trip and note key landmarks along the way.
3. Learn how to read a road map.
4. Compare road maps to other kinds of maps (weather maps,
topographical maps, etc.)
5. Visit an airport and note all the cities from which planes arrive.
6. Help plan a family vacation and discuss the things you would like to see along the way.
7. Ride a horse.
8. Take a taxi.
9. Ride a bus or subway to take a trip around your town or city.
10. Make up your own in-car games for trips.
11. Discuss how people with disabilities travel.
Activity Suggestions for Your Tiger Cub Den:
1. Visit a police station, bus, garage, or transportation department.
2. Have a policeman visit your group to explain use of the radar gun.
3. Try to arrange some rides in a tractor-trailer truck cab.
4. Plan a group trip somewhere by bus or train.
5. Don't forget, you might want to come up with some of your own ideas.
Activity Suggestions for Families:
After you and your den have chosen this big idea, take time to come up with some activities for families.
Activity Suggestions for Your Tiger Cub Den:
Let the den decide together what you want to do.
Activity Suggestions for Families:
1. Get out your old family photo album, Bible, antiques, or souvenirs,
or just discuss some family memories with your Tiger Cub.
2. Start your own family scrapbook or photo album.
3. Develop plans for a family vacation next year.
4. Develop a family secret code for emergencies or just for fun (See the
big idea "Prepare for Emergencies" for explanation of a family code.)
5. Develop a family coat of arms using symbols in it that have special significance to your
family.
6. Put together a family calendar noting family events in the coming months.
7. Have a family reunion.
8. Make one day or evening a week a family day.
9. Find out what your name means or signifies.
10. Take some family snapshots or make some tape recordings of your family on a
birthday or some other special day.
11. Establish a family message board.
12. Come up with your own family song, cheer, or flag.
13. Don't forget to consider some of your own activity ideas.
Activity Suggestions for Your Tiger Cub Den:
1. Hold an ice-cream social; make your own ice cream.
2. Plan a potluck picnic.
3. Hold a den sunrise picnic.
4. Design family coats of arms at the den meeting.
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