First Derby!

Qwade's First Cub Scout Derby was a hit! He had so much fun sanding, shaping, painting, gluing, cutting, and putting this rocket together! He took great pains in making it as perfect as he could... I was quite proud of him.. The only thing that chad and I helped him with was the fins and fixing the propeller so it would spin right. (qwade has a problem with following directions... he thinks he already knows how everything works...lol)

Yesterday evening was the Derby at the church and this is Qwade giddy with excitement before we left.. He hopes he wins...

First we needed to twist the rubber bands they used a drill. After it was twisted he went for a trial run but it didn't go to far so we decided to twist the rubber bands by hand we did 150 turns.. Qwade did the first 80 until it got to hard for him to turn it anymore so I did the rest.

Ready get Set GO!


Qwades is the one in the back but even though it looks like he lost if you look closely his propeller is still going and it went all the way to the END! He was so happy he was jumping up and down pounding the air with his fist... Way to go Qwade high five Dude!


Qwade won 2nd place out of ten boys and when the bishop judged the rockets Qwade won most creative... (he was the only boy who did the rocket himself all the others you could so tell that their fathers or mothers painted it for them...lol)

Qwade also won wings and was on cloud 9 by the end of the night... I haven't seen him that happy in a long time... Way to go Qwade your Awesome...