Each month, our cub scout pack does a Pack Meeting, of various exciting activities. All of the meetings were planned well in advance, back at the end of last year, to give plenty of time for arranging them. This month,the plan was to hold a Medieval Faire for the scouts and their families. Unfortunately, Rebecca wasn’t feeling well, and the kids were being really disobedient, so I took Ethan and everyone else stayed home.
Brother Hacking is one of the Wolf leaders, and he really shined this time. He single-handedly constructed all of the activities for the faire. We had a crossbow shoot, jousting, catapult battle, mace battle, plinko game, bean bag toss, and a castle wall attack. Of course, the different activities were safe for the younger audience, like the crossbows were only rubberband guns shooting dull wooden bolts. I was personally impressed with the plinko board, which Bro Hacking put over 600 nails in for the paths down.
Each of the scout leaders was in charge of a different event, so I was placed over the mace battle. This was a competition between two boys (or girls, as scouts’ sisters came as well), standing on a circular platform with a rounded bottom. Each competitor stands on the platform, with a ball-and-chain made from a long wooden handle with a leather strap attached to it, with a leather-wrapped ball at the end. Harmless when hit, but still could knock the hat off you. Literally: there were large cardboard hats each person would wear, and the object was to knock it off. So, I got to monitor the kids of all ages attacking each other. It was a blast watching the different boys compete, and only somewhat unexpected to see some of the kids get more into it.
As I was on the Mace Battle the whole time, I didn’t get a chance to see the other booths and what happened with them, but assume they went well. I wish I could have seen the others in action, especially that Plinko board. I can’t imagine having spent so long doing it.