Cub Scout Pine Car Derby

Another cool Cub Scout activity - the Pine Car Derby, an annual event for all Scouts. Boys get a kit containing one wood block, two axels, four plastic wheels and are asked to make a race car. Of course you know some parents take this over, but I was really happy to be part of a group that instructed the little kids to just make a bus. That involved only a little sanding and as much or as little painting as you wanted. It's too bad we didn't get the memo.
Missed instructions aside, Noel did have fun working with Robbie to make a sporty, high-gloss red roadster based on a pattern found online. (It's in the back row of the picture, about three or four from the far end.) If Robbie continues to enjoy scouting and stays in, I'll look forward to this event every winter. I wonder how many years in a row Robbie will produce a red car? :)