BSA Art Badge: Requirement 4

Yesterday, my mom and dad took me to the Detroit Art Museum (the DIA). We walked around for a very long time and saw LOTS of different art. I liked seeing the Japanese art and the Egyptian mummies. It was cool, because I could see statues of lots of the Egyptian gods that I'm reading about in the Kane Chronicles right now- they had Bes and Bast and Sekmet and Horus statues. I also liked seeing the armor that the Knights wore and the tomahawks that the Native Americans used to use. We got to use an iPad to learn more about the big, BIG mural that is my Dad's favorite part of the DIA. I liked the guys in gas masks. My mom liked the seed baby part. We walked around for a very long time and after we left, I threw up. But before we left, we went to the gift shop and I got things from my favorite parts of the museum: a little red Bast statue, two wooden camels, a wooden alligator and a lucky cat from Japan.

I really liked the art museum, but I did not like throwing up.

BSA Art Badge: Requirement 3

The first badge I wanted to do is the Art badge, because I really like doing art projects. For this one, I had to make pictures of the same thing, but use different types of art stuff to make it. I decided to make art about Pikachu, because he is my favorite Pokemon. The art I used to make Pikachu were:

Colored Pencils

Watercolors

Computer Painting

Acrylic Paint

Here is my art:

This picture is of my painting my Pikachu. But you can also see the drawing I made with colored pencils in it too.

The next thing I did was use acrylic paint, which is darker colored than watercolors are. My mom showed me how to carve a picture of Pikachu a block of soft stuff that was like styrofoam. Then, I painted black paint all over it and used that to make a Pikachu printing.

The last Pikachu art I made was with Microsoft Paint. I thought that this was the easiest type of art to do, but I liked doing the regular painting best.

Bridging to the Big Boys

It's summertime, which means I get to start writing in my blog again and guess what! I'm not a Cub Scout anymore! Three weeks ago, I bridged up to the Boy Scouts...and I got my Arrow of Light and my Aleph Medal along the way. It's quite exciting, but a little scary- mostly because I'm at a whole new level and they expect even more from me. I'm excited about finally being able to do some of the more fun and complicated things like rock climbing and more camping trips. I'll get to see even more wildlife on those trips and earn new badges! The first badges I'm working on are Art, Citizen in the Community, and Communication. So come back every week to check in on what I'm doing!

It's pretty cool to think that I'm one step closer to Eagle Scout.

Me someday:

Pet Care Pin #1: Visit an animal shelter. Explain the reasons why pets are in the animal shelter to your den or family.

My mom and dad and I went to the Macomb County Humane Society. The lady working there told me that they have animals that come there for all kinds of reasons. Sometimes, people's dogs or cats have too many babies. Or pets sometimes get sick and their owners can't take care of them; or they got in a fire or some other disaster and they need to be taken care of. Sometimes they are stray animals or homeless pets and they need someone to help them find them a new home. When I was there, I saw dogs and cats and bunnies and even a guinea pig! They were all hoping for a new home. I can't wait until I have my kidney transplant so that I can get a puppy. I'm going to rescue a puppy and give it a good home.

Pet Care Belt Loop #1: 1. Care for your pet for two weeks. Make a list of the tasks that you did to take care of your pet.

I have three cats and a goldfish. I fed them and gave them water and gave them lots of love and play with them. My cat Harriet had to have emergency surgery because she swallowed a bell. My mom and I made a video showing how I take care of Harriet and how I take care of my fish. But it looks funny because I'm moving WAY too fast in the videos. Here they are:

Pet Care Pin #3: Tell three ways that animals can help people.

Dogs and horses can be used to help blind people get around. They are called seeing eye dogs and seeing eye horses. If you don't believe me about seeing eye horses, here's a picture:




Fish help restaurants look cool by floating around in fish tanks (especially salt water kinds) and bringing in business because kids want their parents to bring them there to eat so they can see the fish.


Spiders help keep flies and other insects from taking over the world. If we didn't have spiders, there would be so many flies that we would NOT want to live on this planet anymore. Same thing with birds. Birds help keep the flies and other insects from taking over the world too.

Pet Care Belt Loop #2: Visit a pet store. Make a list of the different animals in the store and the kinds of foods they eat

Ferrets eat ferret pellets.

Cats eat cat food.

Dogs eat dog food.

Fish eat fish food.

Parrots eat bird food.

Snakes eat mice.

Mice eat anything!

Tarantula's which eat flies, crickets and other insects. Same for female tarantulas. But if it's a bird eating spider, it eats mice.

Lizards eat bugs.

Turtles eat small fish.

Frogs eat crickets.