Children dressed in their Halloween costumes Saturday, Oct. 31, for the annual Haunted Cub Prowl at Parker Scout camp, sponsored by the BSA Central Minnesota Council.
More than 175 people took part in the day camp event and were broken into smaller groups to do a round robin rotation. The stations included archery, BB guns, crafts, games and a haunted house in the basement of the castle.
“For several years now we have turned the basement of the Miller Castle into a haunted house run by our Scouts BSA members from troop 43,” Scoutmaster DJ Collins stated in a news release. “We have a few leaders who are really into Halloween and own some really great decorations and we go all out to make it really spooky and exciting for the Cub Scouts. We have decorations like a 7-foot-tall butler, some werewolves, witches stirring a cauldron and several ghosts. We top it all off with human interaction and Scouts scaring the people as they walk through in total darkness with fog machines filling the air.”
Candy corn bowling, feed the ghost, ring the witches feet, jack-o-lantern frisbee and steal the bacon were the games the Scouts got to play.
“The kids seemed to have the most fun with steal the bacon,” 14-year-old Kylissa O’Connor of Troop 43 for girls stated. “You could hear them interacting and laughing, even from inside the craft lodge.”
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“The games were a hit as well, at least with one of my kids,” Lucas Borgstrom, Cub Master
Pack 45, Brainerd, stated. “Trying to get the parents involved and playing games as well was pretty neat. I always appreciate getting to be a big kid every now and then.”
A staple activity for every Scout when they go to camp is to shoot both BB guns and archery.
“You can see the excitement in their faces as they ask, ‘Can I shoot again, can I shoot again?’”
Mike Anderson, the BB gun range master explained.
“This is a really fun event and for many of our participants this is their first event as a new Cub Scouts,” stated Kenneth Toole, district executive. “It is great for a new Cub Scout to get to camp and this day camp gives them a taste of what Cub Scouting has to offer them in a fun filled Halloween themed event.”
To learn about the Scouting program, go to beascout.scouting.org .
