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Get free printable Pinewood Derby certificates to celebrate your Cub Scouts' hard work on their car! Many designs to choose from.
How to make your own photo board for the Pinewood Derby. This project gives your troop a place to display their cars and take photos!
Cub Scouting's Pinewood Derby is an exciting event! But sometimes, it can be a bit long for the younger siblings. Have the kids make Raisin Racers, a fun craft combined with a snack!
You could use this easy-to-print license plate game for your family, a classroom game, or for your Cub Scout Pinewood Derby!
Check out these Pinewood Derby cars! Our photo gallery of creative cars is incredible. Take a look and then send us a photo of your 2021 Pinewood Derby car.
I was in charge of our Cub Scout Pinewood Derby... see my blog to see the event, here are some projects I created for it. http://www.ccmcafeeperspective.com/201…
Last fall we had all 8 of the 2nd grade Cub Scouts from Anthony’s troop over to our house for a “build night”. The purpose of the night wa...
Cub Scouting's Pinewood Derby is an exciting event! But sometimes, it can be a bit long for the younger siblings. Have the kids make Raisin Racers, a fun craft combined with a snack!
Get free printable Pinewood Derby certificates to celebrate your Cub Scouts' hard work on their car! Many designs to choose from.
Never been to a Cub Scout Pinewood Derby? You'll want to read this post! Learn what to expect and be ready for an exciting Cub Scout event!
Printable Pinewood Derby Certificates - Cub Scout - Pinewood Derby - Award - Pack Meeting - Instant Download - PDF This listing includes 9 different award certificates & 1 PreRace Weigh-In Sign, perfect for your pinewood derby event. Each certificate measures 8.5 x 11". Certificates Included: 1st Place 2nd Place 3rd Place PreRace Weight-In Sign Best Design Best Scout Theme Best Workmanship Most Patriotic Most Creative Cubmaster's Pick -------------------------------DELIVERY & PRINTING------------------------------- After purchasing this item, you will have access to 5 high resolution PDF files. Each pdf file contains 2 images, for a total of 10 certificates. Print as many as you need! This product is a High Resolution Digital PDF file. You can print them at home or have them printed professionally. Overall sheet size is 8.5 x 11" and can be printed on any paper but printing on a thick card stock creates a beautiful thick certificate. *Please Note - No physical Print will be mailed to you. COLORS MAY VARY SLIGHTLY DEPENDING ON YOUR MONITOR OR SCREEN ------------------------------------TERMS OF USE------------------------------------ Printables are intended for personal use only.
24 Cub Scout Pinewood Car Ideas
7.25" Overall Pinewood Car on Genuine Marble Base & Engraved Plate
Grab your FREE Pinewood Derby printable activities! These are perfect for keeping Cub Scouts (and siblings) entertained during your race.
Ready! Set! Race!At this year's Pinewood Derby Race, make your scouts official by having them design their own license. This PDF includes both colored versions of the licenses and black & white ones to encourage more creativity from the scouts.You can print and cut your own pictures to attach to...
My boys LOVE being Cub Scouts. And hands down their FAVORITE Cub Scout activity is our annual Pinewood Derby event. We have so much fun designing and making the cars with the boys every year. But, after the event is over, all their cars just end up in a bag in the closet. We are torn between wanting to leave them out so the boys can enjoy them and wanting to keep them hidden away so they don't get ruined and the boys can keep them throughout their lives. (Superman still has all of his old Pinewood Derby cars from when he was a kid.) So my solution: make a display rack. (Click on any of the pictures to see them larger.) This blog post gives you a step-by-step explanation of how I turned this: Into this: What you'll need: (Note, the pictures show supplies for two display racks.) 1 in. x 10 in. x 4 ft. board (I used pine) 1 in. x 4 in. x 4 ft. board 1/2 in. 2 in. x 3 ft. 10 #6 x 1 1/2 in. wood screws wood glue electric drill with bits electric saw (we used a circular saw) pencil and ruler paint tape, paint, and stain sawtooth picture hanger Step 1: Cut the 1 in. x 10 in. x 4 ft. into half, forming two 1 in. x 10 in. x 24 in. boards. You'll use one of these boards as the backboard for the display rack. Sand until smooth. Step 2: Cut the 1 in. x 4 in. x 4 ft. board into the five shelves. I used the backboard itself to measure the appropriate width for each shelf. Sand until smooth. (I measured, cut, measured, cut, etc. because I was afraid if I did all the measurements before cutting that the tiny bit lost from each side of the cut would affect the overall width of each cut.) Step 3: Create a *template* for even measurements on each shelf by covering the back edge of your shelf with the painter's tape and measuring 1.5 in from each edge. Then drilling a small screw hole in the middle at each end. Repeat this using the template on each shelf. Note: To make sure I didn't drill too deeply, I marked the drill bit with a piece of painter's tape to show me where to stop drilling. Step 4: Using the painter's tape template, measure and mark the drill holes on the backboard. I started with the template at the very bottom of the board, drilling holes all the way through where the two existing holes were. Then moving the template 4 inches up and drilling those holes. Repeat until you have holes drilled for five shelves 4 inches apart. Step 5: Drill all of the screws through the backboard until they were just barely peaking through. Step 6: Put a line of wood glue on the inside of the shelf. Step 7: Align the holes on the shelf with the screws in the backboard and then screw each shelf on tight. Wipe off any wood glue that squeezes out. The display rack could probably be used once the shelves are added, but because we are dealing with cars on wheels, we have to do something to make sure they don't roll off. My solution was to add a tiny raised platform in the center of the shelf for the car to rest on, with its wheels resting just off the shelf. Step 8: Take the 1/2 in. 2 in. x 3 ft. and cut it into five 6 inch strips. Sand until smooth. Step 9: First measure and mark the center for each shelf. Then put some glue on the bottom of each strip and place on the pre-marked area. Step 10: Clamped the strips and let them dry for about 5 minutes. Step 11: Measure the center of the back, about 1-2 inches down from the top and add the sawtooth hanger. Step 12: Finish as desired. I painted each shelf the color of the different dens and finished the backboard with a clear stain. Finally, I finished it all off with 3 coats of high gloss polyurethane to prevent the paint from chipping. Close up of Thing 1's Close up of Thing 2's Overall, it took about $25 and 5 hours (including all the painting) to finish both display racks. I hope you enjoyed the tutorial and will have fun making an easy Pinewood Derby display rack for your own Cub Scout!
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Last fall we had all 8 of the 2nd grade Cub Scouts from Anthony’s troop over to our house for a “build night”. The purpose of the night wa...
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Grab your FREE Pinewood Derby printable activities! These are perfect for keeping Cub Scouts (and siblings) entertained during your race.
Looking for the "official" BSA Pinewood Derby rules for Cub Scouts? Find out all about the rules and inspections with printable examples.
These fun and easy Pinewood Derby treats for Cub Scouts use pre-made snacks to create cars. Make them ahead of time or have the Scouts put them together.
Add some excitement to the big race with these 4 healthy Pinewood Derby snacks. Cub Scouts and parents both will love them!
Get free printable Pinewood Derby certificates to celebrate your Cub Scouts' hard work on their car! Many designs to choose from.
For over 60 years, boys have been building Pinewood Derby cars. Read how it all got started.
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I mentioned yesterday that we had our Pinewood Derby on Saturday, and I wanted to shared the trophies I made. We combined our pack with the packs from three other LDS wards in the area, so we had a nice size group that divided the responsibilities. Totally the way to go, since no one had to do it all. Our pack handled the awards and the computer program that managed the heats (more on that tomorrow). Our pack did the awards last year also, but someone else made them and her son bridged over last year, so I said I'd do them this year. Just the type of creative outlet I like. I did some googling and checked out pinterest back in November or December when I first said I'd do them. Then I didn't do anything more until a couple weeks ago when I sorted through our massive scrap pile in the shed to find wood for the trophies. I thought I'd seen some like these when I looked the first time, but when I went back to look at them again, I couldn't find the exact style. In any case, it's not an original idea and there's lots of similar ideas out there. the pieces and materials used I cut 2x4s in three heights for the posts, angling the tops. The 8" high posts were cut from 3" on one side to 5" on the other side. The 10" high posts were cut from 4" to 6". The 12" high posts were cut from 5"to 7". Setting the mitre saw at 31.5* gave just the right cuts for those measurements. I cut 1x4s for the bases, making each one 5" long. I lightly sanded the edges to knock down the rough bits, then glued matchbox cars on with gorilla glue. I used painters tape to keep the cars in place while I waited for the glue to expand and dry. I had to keep changing the positions of the posts to keep the glue from dripping. I still missed a few and had to carefully scrape them up. Once the glue dried, I drilled pilot holes and screwed the bases to the stands. I made 1st-3rd trophies with cars on top for each age group (Wolf, Bear, Webelos, and Sibling), and a fastest of the fastest trophy with a platform for the winning pinewood derby car to sit on. That's thirteen trophies total. unpainted fastest of the fastest trophy with other unpainted trophies in the background The fastest trophy was a little taller than the first place trophies and I changed the angle to about 22* (the marking that's closest to that on our saw- can't remember right off). The top is about 7 or 8" long with screen trim for the lip. I should have used a taller piece of wood for the lip since it didn't come up high enough to keep the nose of the car in place. When I tried Sunshine's car on it, it rolled forward to the wheels. But I didn't try her car till after I'd painted it already. Oops. Live and learn. I forgot to take a good picture before I started painting, so the picture above is the best I've got. Below is a shot after I primed the trophies and just before I sprayed them with silver metallic paint (these were the second place trophies). I used gold metallic spray paint for the first place and fastest trophies and hammered copper spray paint for the third place trophies. The hammered copper didn't leave quite the finish I wanted, but it was half the cost of the bronze metallic spray paint, so I didn't worry about it too much. After the paint dried, I used my Silhouette to cut white vinyl for the age group labels and places. Like most things I do, they're not perfect (I should have sanded them a lot more), but I'm pleased with how they turned out and everyone thought they looked nice, so I'm not going to obsess over their imperfections :) I ordered a PDF file from this etsy shop and printed out certificates for each of the boys (there's other items you can print as well). I didn't like the generic ones I found online, and most of the nicer ones had categories already printed on them (most sporty, best whatever), and that was not what I was looking for. I don't agree with making up awards just so everyone can get one (don't get me started on those stupid soccer trophies Sunsine gets at the end of every season), and I wanted to just give participation certificates. These certificates have a unique look to them that got us several compliments. And there are options included in the file if you do want to give the boys "category awards". We printed out 50 so we would have enough for siblings who participated and mess-ups while writing. you can personalize the title above as well as the pack info and date I added the watermark because I'd feel really bad if someone managed to steal the image I shared- it's only $9, so go buy a copy and check out the coordinating items she has available I had planned on just doing the certificates for each of the boys, but at our den meetings on Thursday our boys were excitedly talking about the candy cars they got last year. When I mentioned we weren't doing them this year, they were very disappointed. So I rethought that decision and Friday I put together 60 candy cars so the boys and their siblings could each have one. They were very happy :) I found several designs online and ended up combining ideas from several to get these. I actually forgot to take pictures before the race, and these are all that made it home with us. I used several varieties of snack size candy bars for the bodies of the cars with Hershey miniatures glued on as spoilers (the wrappers on the cars below are a little battered from being pushed around in the container). I used low-temp hot glue that allowed everything to stay stuck and only slightly melted the chocolate. I used Lifesavers and round candies for the wheels. The round candies were walmart brand, which have allergy contamination notices on the packages, so I made several cars with Lifesavers (and no Krackle bars) to make sure they were gluten free. I used dabs of glue to stick the ends of the candy wrappers to one side before adding more glue and sticking them to the sides of the candy bars. Probably overkill, but I liked how it looked. I tried to buy enough of each candy that I wouldn't have a lot of any one kind left over. I had planned on making 50, but had enough for 60 with just a couple random candies left over. I will admit that these awards aren't the quickest to make, but they are pretty cost-effective if you're on a budget. I had the wood, glue, screws, and primer, and purchased the cars ($12 for 12 cars) and spray paint (about $12 for 3 cans, with some left over). That's less than $2/trophy for 13 trophies. The certificate file was $9 (one of the moms printed the certificates for me since we only have a black and white printer, an additional cost would be $3-4 for card stock). That's about $0.26/certificate for 50 certificates, and the file can be used for future pinewood derbies. I had the hot glue already, and had to purchase the candy (4 bags of round candies, 1 bag of Lifesavers, 4 bags of snack size candy bars, and 1 bag of Hershey's miniatures came to around $25). That's about $0.42/car for 60 cars. The trophies and candy cars could also be adapted to be used for a car or racing themed birthday party.
I have a love-hate relationship with the Cub Scouts: I love what it teaches my boys, and I hate to sit through their Pinewood Derby - so I don't. But for a moment this weekend, that made me feel very guilty. And then I got over it. Really.
I’m a scout mom. My son is a Life Scout, working on his now an Eagle Scout and an Army soldier (yes, I’m proud of him!) My husband and I volunteer as leaders. Both our son and two daugh…
Pinewood Derby Certificates to print out and give to the Scouts who have the best (or worst) cars! Free printables and template for easy customizing!
This printable turns a normal candy bar into something special for each participant.
Even if you have never competed in the Pinewood Derby, you’ve surely heard of it. One of the most important competitions of the year; the Pinewood Derby is a great opportunity to get your ward together for some friendly competition. Every year thousands of children (and their dads) come together to build the best car they can.
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Does your Cub Scout want to have the fastest Pinewood Derby? Or maybe the coolest car? Find out how to make both with these Pinewood Derby resources.
Looking for the "official" BSA Pinewood Derby rules for Cub Scouts? Find out all about the rules and inspections with printable examples.
