General Ideas

Cub Family Bouquet

Cut out 2” - 3” cub rank shapes (tiger, wolf, bear). Glue these to pipe cleaners or straws. Write a family member’s name on each shape. Insert in foam in a basket or in a painted soup can filled with confetti string.

Logs

Cut a hole in the side of a larger (juice can) sized can. Cover the cut edges with heavy tape (duct or masking).  Cover can with plaster of paris. Use different sized forks to “carve” bark grains into the still soft plaster of paris. Paint when dry. Insert theme related items into the cut out hole.

Blue & Gold Bouquet

Make flowers by placing cub rank stickers back to back at the top of a pipe cleaners. Add metallic gold and blue cork-screwed (wrap around pencil) pipe cleaners. Insert all in Styrofoam in a flower basket. Put metallic confetti string over Styrofoam.

Mini Piñatas

Cover regular sized balloons (6”-8” diameter) with 2-3 layers or newspaper strips dipped in papier mache paste, letting each layer dry before starting the next layer. Leave the balloon knot open to insert the pinata on a sturdy drinking straw later. When dry, decorate it to fit your theme: animal, ball, bright abstract. Use crepe paper, markers, construction paper, etc. If you like, cut a small flap and fill the balloon with light-weight candy and popcorn. To mount it, place it in either a vase, a decorated soup can or some modeling clay (depends on how heavy the balloon part is).

Pop Bottle Spray

Using an exacto knife, cut off the top (spout part) of a 2-liter bottle just where the curve ends. Be care to make this a straight cut. Now you want to cut (and keep) the tube part of the bottle. Throw away the curvy base. On the tube part: make a straight cut down one long side so the whole piece can be laid open. Now continue making vertical cuts parallel to the cut you just made. The cuts should be just a little longer than l/2 the length of the piece. Essentially, you are fringing the large square of plastic. The fringe will naturally start to curl. Roll this up so the fringe curls outward - looking like a water fountain spray or a fireworks spray. Insert this into the spout (top part of bottle). You can also insert a 12” candle in this spout too.

Baloo & Gold

Make cutouts of Baloo (find pictures in the Cub handbooks, on the internet, etc.). They can be just his head or his whole body - the more shapes the better. just make solid cutouts from blue construction paper. Double the construction paper so you can glue each pair of cutouts to opposite sides of  2” skewers (or long straws).  Insert these into a gold painted soup can stuffed with gold Mylar confetti strips or into a piece or (painted)
Styrofoam.