Collin: Scout Sleepover - Flight Museum Style

Sunday, January 14, 2018

Scout Sleepover - Flight Museum Style

Annually, the Cub scouts spend the evening at a museum of some kind. It’s something The boys look forward to in the parents know that they are not going to get any sleep. I actually was looking forward to this event because the museum is one of a kind. Also, this was the first time this particular museum posted an event like this so we were the first ones to experience it.

We arrived at 6 PM to start the evening which was full of planned activities. After a presentation about being a leader and the qualities of being a leader, the boys learned about the phonetic alphabet for pilots. They did a really fun game which included using th Alphabet to spell their name and word search. Collin is:

Charlie
Oscar
Lima
Lima
India
November

Next, we had pizza which was welcome because we were all very hungry at that time. Then, we split into smaller groups. The first activity for our group was to make an airplane out of a Styrofoam plate. The boys cut it out and then practice for a period of time before they went to the second floor and got to throw the paper airplane from there to one of the large plane hangers in the museum.

Next, boys experience the interactive part of the museum where they got to simulate hand gliding, airflow around plane wings, gravity, and other interactive examples.

Then, we went to one of the hangers and learned about the planes they had. Some had flown in WWII even. The pilot was very informative and the boys paid more attention than I expected.

The last activity was flight simulation. The Adult got to go first while the kids watch a movie, Planes, in the other room. The simulation was much harder than I thought! Every time he removed all the instruments made a huge difference.