Pebble Pups Club: Our youngest members
Page Last Updated: 3/6/2020
Pebble Pups is a club within a club. There is no need to find a babysitter to attend meetings. Bring your youngster along. We have fun activities to keep the Pups engaged and hopefully foster an interest in rocks, minerals and fossils. Pebble Pups are welcome to join us on most of our field trips and activities and are only excluded when there is an age requirement. We hope that the Pups are the next generation of rock hounds and geologists.
The club explores the wonders of rock, mineral, and fossil collecting. Our program participates with the Future Rock Hounds of America under the American Federation of Mineralogical Societies. Our purpose is to train youth members to become skilled rock hounds. Each meeting offers an opportunity for earning credit towards merit badge. There are 20 merit badges that can be earned. The merit badge programs of guided activities are listed below.
For further information on the Pebble Pups Club please contact; Christine Hempley. Christine's contact information is on the Contacts page.
1. Rocks and Minerals 
2. Earth Resources 
3. Fossils 
4. Lapidary Arts 
5. Collecting 
6. Showmanship 
7. Communication 
8. Field Trips 
9. Leadership 
10. Earth Process 
11. Earth in Space 
12. Gold Panning and Prospecting 
13. Gemstone Lore & Legend 
14. Stone Age Tools & Art 
15. Rocking on the Computer (Electronic Cataloging, WWW Rock Sites) 
16. The World of Miniature (Pssammophile, Micro/Thumbnail Fossils) 
17. Special Effects (Mineral Magic, 'TV' Stone, Triboluminescence) 
18. Flourescent Minerals (Flourescent Wavelenghts, Flouresent Mineral Localities) 
19. Reaching Across Generations (6 Hour Senior Member Mentorship) 
20. Maps (GPS, Geological Maps, Geo-Caching) 
Monthly Programs
2020
Jan - Panning for gold
Feb - 
Mar - 
Apr - 
May - 
Jun - 
Jul -
Aug - 
Sep - Picnic
Oct - 
Nov - 
​Dec - Club Christmas Party - Pups News/Awards
2019
Jan - Plate Tectonics
Feb - Miniatures
Mar - cancelled
Apr - Micro mineral drawing/photo
May - Sand
Jun - Fossilization
Jul - No Meeting
Aug - Lifeforms
Sep - Picnic/ Cab practice
Oct - State Fossil
Nov - ​Lapidary Art
​Dec - Club Christmas Party - Pups News/Awards

2018
Jan - Cancelled Due to Blizzard
Feb - ​Fossils, States and Such
​Mar - Gold - Gold as a mineral, its uses, history and found in Virginia
Apr - Club Auctions
May - Club Picnic
Jun - Gold history, Properties, Uses and more!
​Jul - Mineral ID and Micro Minerals
Aug - No Meeting this month - room not available
​Sep - Picnic only so doing Geocaching or Lapidary Art/Jewelry Craft
Oct - Sand, Sand Everywhere
Nov - Rocks, Miniatures & Sands
​Dec - Club Christmas Party - Pups News/Awards


2017
Jan 2017 -
Feb 2017 - Powerful, Mystical, Magical Stones & Minerals
​Mar 2017 - Stone Tools & More​
Apr 2017 - Club Annual Auction
May 13 2017 - Club Picnic & Volcano & Rock Cycles​
Jun 2017 - Crystal shapes - cubic, hexagonal, orthorhombic, monoclinic, triclinic, tetragonal, and trigonal. Crafted these shapes out of paper and reviewed some minerals that made these crystal shapes.
Jul 2017 - Earth's resources and minerals relation to the elements.
Aug 2017 - Lapidary art
​Sep 2017 -
​Oct 2017 - No meeting scheduled conflict with Tote Shows
​Nov 2017
​Dec 2017 - Club Christmas Party

2016
​Nov 2016 - Fossil & Dino's
​Dec 2016 - Club Christmas Party
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January 2015 Club Meeting
Christine Hempley presented Pebble Pups awards.
The Pebble Pups Club activity focus for 2015 will be on miniature specimens and fluorescent minerals.
2014 Pebble Pups Awards and Classes
The pictures below are Pebble Pup classes and activities, as well as awards that were giving in 2014.