Raisin Racers - Would Be a Great Treat for the Pinewood Derby

We lost our site where we stored our files, so we asked AkelasCouncil.blogspot.com to store our file for us.  To print this file, please CLICK HERE to go to their blog to print out the PDF.

Something that would be a lot of fun to use as a treat for the Pinewood Derby would be Raisin Racers.
 

Turn a small raisin box into a racer! Step one print this PDF.  Step two is to eat all the raisins from a 1 1/2 oz raisin carton.  Next, or while you're doing that, color in the racer and cut along the outside dotted line.  Then fold where indicated and glue to the raisin box as shown in the picture.  Raisins have lots of iron in them.  This is an iron-powered race car!
 

 Click here for a PDF you can print and have the kids color.

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Pinewood Derby - Traffic Sign Treasure Hunt

Shelley writes, "For our recent pinewood derby we had a few fun games for siblings and boys to play while waiting for the weigh in to finish. The Traffic Sign Treasure Hunt was a hit!  The road signs were hidden around the gym and each child had to find them all and then turn in the paper for a candy.  Cute Decorations also, and fun for the little kids!

Here is a sample...

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Pinewood Derby Award Tags

Here are some cute Pinewood Derby Award Tags.  Cute and easy - all you have to do is print!  There are 16 awards all together.  Below is a sample of what you will see.

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Pinewood Derby Racing Charts

At Roundtable, Annie told you about some charts that she had and was willing to share with you.  Here is the link to download them.  You can download an Excel file for any amount of tracks or cars.  Click on the link and choose the one that is just right for you.  See the sample below for 4 lanes with 20 cars racing.  Good luck with your racing!  If you need to get in touch with Annie, click here.

 

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More Neckerchief Slide Ideas for the Pinewood Derby

Here are some more cute ideas for neckerchief slides I found online, but didn't use at our Roundtable.  Look for the other post that shows those.

 Car made out of clothespins.

Cars that can be made out of moulding

More ideas of cars that can be made out of moulding
 

 

The cars we made out of moulding at Roundtable.  Click here for more info
 

The flag slides we made at Roundtable.  Click here for more info.

 More angles of the neckerchief slide made out of derby wheels.

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Derby Award Ideas

Here are some fun ideas for Derby Awards:

Best Paint Job
Shiniest Paint Job
Best Use Of Color
Most Colorful
Fastest Car In The Pack
Fastest Car In The Den (Wolf, Bear, Webelos)
Most Original Design
Sportiest Looking
Best Workmanship
Best Use of Imagination
Most Aerodynamic Car
Best Detail
Most Unusual Car
Most Humorous Car
Fastest Looking Car
Most Decals
Most Realistic Looking Car
Smoothest Finish
Strangest Shape
Most Futuristic
Most Patriotic
Funniest
Best Wedge Shape
Best Driver In the Car
Best Vehicle Not A Car
Best Racer
Best Design
Most Unique
Judge's Favorite
Best of Show
Most Creative
Most Artistic
Most Creative Use of Material
Best use of the color blue
most box-like
best scout theme
cubbiest car
coolest car
original design
sleekest car
best Webelos
best Bear...ect
funniest car
fastest-looking
most Aerodynamic
Most Amazing
Most Astonishing
Most Attractive
Most Awesome
Most Cheerful
Most Cosmic
Best Craftsmanship
Most Creative Design
Best Design
Best Detail
Most Distinct
Most Distinguished
Most Elaborate
Most Extraordinary
Most Extreme
Fanciest Car
Most Fascinating
Most Funky
Most Glossy
Most Grandiose
Most Imaginative
Most Impressive
Most Incredible
Most Ingenious
Most Innovative
Most Interesting
Most Intricate
Most Inventive
Most Magnificent
Most Majestic
Best of show
Most Outstanding
Most Phenomenal
Most Radical
Most Remarkable
Most Resourceful
Most Spirited
Most Stellar
Most Unique
Best Workmanship
Scariest
Best Detail
Zaniest
Most Original
Most Animal Looking

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Treat Ideas for the Pinewood Derby

There are some amazingly cute ideas for treats for the pinewood derby online.  These were made with small Milky Way bars, M&M's, and Teddy Grahams.  We made them after Roundtable last night, and they were a hit!  Here is one more picture below with steering wheels added, and then a bunch more pictures of more treat ideas!  

One site I found talked about having the biggest prize of all for the boy who came in dead last - a flat tire cake.  Everyone wanted to win this prize.  Cute Idea!

 
Cute Car!  We tried to make these last night at Roundtable, and used frosting.  I don't know how it dried, but it looked like they were hard to make.  Then I found the blog of the lady who made them, and another picture.  She said she used hot glue to make them.

 

Healthy Cars

Traffic light cupcakes...

Twinkie & Oreo derby cars.  Use frosting to "glue" the wheels on.

And, I found these on Strong Armor.  Just cut them apart and attach them to an "Amazing" candy bar.  Each boy got a certificate and an "Amazing" candy bar treat just for participating.

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Pinewood Derby Certificates

Last night at Roundtable, Don asked where he could get some pinewood derby certificates.  I found them at Idea Door.  You can go there and save or print off any of these 3 certificates.  Good luck with your derbies!

Other ideas I found online, but don't have a digital copy you can print...

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Pinewood Derby Cars - March 2012 - Cub Scout Neckerchief Slide

This month for Roundtable, we are talking about all kinds of derbies.  Space Derbies, Pinewood Derbies, Raingutter Regatta's, Paper Rockets, Soap Derbies, Cubannapolis, 2 Liter Bottle launchers, Film Canister rockets... 

This month at Roundtable, we will be making two different kinds of cub scout neckerchief slides.  These are pinewood derby cars made out of moulding.  I went to Home Depot, and bought a 7 foot long piece of moulding for about $4.  I cut it into sections (I got about 75 cars out of the 7 foot long section), and spray painted the sections.

At Walmart, I bought two different sizes of thumbtacks (one in the office section, and one in the fabric section), but they were silver, so I spray painted them black.

I looked online, and found some logos I thought would be fun and printed them up on 1/2 inch x 1 3/4 inch white labels (80 per page).  It ended up making LOTS, but that is good because there will be plenty of labels to choose from as they make their cars tonight at Roundtable.  I was able to put 2 - 3 logos per label - that made them super small, and then I decorated the cars with the labels, and put the thumbtack wheels on, put on a PVC pipe slider back with a glue gun, and added a little glitter glue for headlights and tail lights.  This turned out to be a really cheap way to make lots of neckerchief slides.

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Pinewood Derby Flags - March 2012 - Cub Scout Neckerchief Slide

This month at Roundtable, we are talking about all kinds of derbies.  Space Derbies, Pinewood Derbies, Raingutter Regatta's, Paper Rockets, Soap Derbies, Cubannapolis, 2 Liter Bottle launchers, Film Canister rockets... 

This month at Roundtable we will be making two different kinds of cub scout neckerchief slides.  This neckerchief slide would work good for all the different derbies if you changed out the little pinewood derby tag.  I found this idea online at Exciting Scout Craft.  There is a PDF you can print to make up the flags.  I used...

• PDF for the flags.
• Party Toothpicks from Walmart
• Pinewood Derby Logo from the Idea Door
• PVC pipe Slider
• Glue Gun

After I made up the neckerchief slide like they did on the above link, I was sad that my PVC pipe slider was showing, so I added in a Pinewood Derby logo I found online.  You could change it for a different derby, or go without. 

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