"Too Many Shingles"
(Den Meeting idea for requirement 9d and 9e)

My boys had a lot of fun with this one!

Preparation:
1. Print as many copies as you need of the "Too Many Shingles" story.
2. Print the following pictures on heavy paper (card stock):


3. Cut out the shapes and place in envelopes as follows (fold as needed):

Label six long envelopes as follows:
Include these graffics inside:

Lumber Man

 Lumber, one of the house roofs
Door salesman Door, one of the house roofs
Window installer Windows, one of the house roofs
Mason Chimney, one of the house roofs
Garage Door installer Garage Doors, one of the house roofs
Roof man One of the house roofs

4. Print as many Food Pyramid guides as you need (click here to print the Food Pyramid for 9 year olds)

5.Print this chart (Food Guide for 9 year olds) .

5. Get some stuff for the to make a trail mix (this will complete requirement 9e). Be creative! You can combine anything from nuts, cereal, dried fruits, M&M's, mini pretzels or crackers, yogurt pieces, etc. etc.!

6. If you are on an LDS pack, also bring a Doctrine and Covenants book.

 

Meeting:

1. Assign the boys a part on the "Too many Shingles" story. You be the narrator.

2. Have the boys stick their grafics on a black board (or poster board) with tacky stuff, tape or whatever works best.

3. Give each of the boys a Food Pyramid (you could laminate them and put a magnet on the back). Talk a littl ebit about the food requirements for their age. You can compare their bodies to the house in the story. The house needed different materials just like their bodies need a variety of nutrients to grow healthy. The many shingles (or roofs) can be compared to the extra food or calories we eat. Our bodies can't use them, so all it can do is store them away. This can make us unhealthy.

4. Ask for a volunteer who remember everything he ate that day. As he says what he ate for breakfast, lunch and dinner, make a check mark on the corresponding food group (For example, a ham and cheese sandwich would get 2 carbohydrates (the two slices of bread), one dairy (the cheese), one meet (the ham), one vegetables (if it had lettuce and tomato), etc. At the end of the excersice, ask the boys to tell you what food groups the boy needs to eat more of, and what food groups he ate too many of.

5. Have the boys help to make a hea;thy trai mix. If you add something sweet, like M&M's, try to make it the smallet amount, too follow the Food Pyramid guide.

6. Finish by reading D&C 89: 18-21