June Cub Scout RT AMERICAN ABC's

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June Cub Scout RT AMERICAN ABC's

Tiger Cub (Graduation)
Webelos Aquanaut & GeologistVolume 7 Issue 11

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oing good turns is one of the many benefits that our Cub Scouts learn while being in the program. They realize the joy of working and giving to their community when they are together. One good turn I like to suggest is having a Cub Garden, planted with vegetables, and even flowers. Once the crops are grown, washing the veggies and taking them to a local shelter will teach the Cubs an important lesson in helping those less fortunate than they. Fresh flowers can be cut and taken to local Residents/Nursing homes.

July can be a fun time for Cub Scouting. The weather is warm and America is full of history and celebration. Use this month and theme to help the boys see what a great country we live in and how greatly blessed they are to live where they do.

You can take the boys to places in your area that are historic to our country or state. Talk why these places are important to your city and ultimately to America.

This is a good month to fulfill the requirements in their book that pertain to the flag or community. Teach them proper respect for the flag and why we should show that respect. Teach them the proper way to fold the flag and the proper way to conduct a flag ceremony. These things can be found in the boys’ books and also in the leader guide. (Trapper Trails Council)

I have never worked in a paying job with Scouters’. Therefore no one I work with knows or uses the Bugle. Which is alright I guess. But now I would like to show my co-workers what Scouters’ can do in friendship for another Scouter  me. I am again asking for your help. As you know I work for the Thrifty Nickel in Huntsville. AL. PLEASE visit our home page at That’s right, all I asking is for you to go in and look at our home page in Huntsville. That’s all. Just a simple click from above, no buying just a click a visit in other words. Pretty please.

I am still looking for some “personal” type help. I do National Sales, placing both classified and display advertising in over 120 papers and I have had SUCCESS—I have or will as of June 1st be placing an ad for Linda, (Hey Linda M., Viking Council) my Wood Badge antelope buddy. (ANTELOPES RULE!) If you or anyone you know has a home based business, works for an ad agency, or a corporation that has advertising needs have them call me, Chris at Thrifty Nickel at 1-866-533-4285.

PRAYERS & POEMS FOR SCOUTERS

The most powerful agent of growth and transformation is something more basic than any technique:

a change of heart.

--John Welwood

The 7 UP’s
Circle 10 Council

Wake Up - Decide to have a good day.

Dress up - The best way to dress up is to put on a smile. A smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks

Shut up - Say nice things & learn to listen. We have been given two ears and one mouth so we can do twice as much listening as talking.

Stand up - For what you believe in. Stand for something or you will fall for anything.

Look Up - To our higher power who gives us strength to do everything through Him who gives me strength

Reach Up - For something higher. As Jiminy Cricket sings "High Hopes" always try to better yourself.

Lift Up - Your Prayers. Do not worry about anything; instead pray about everything.

Have a great day and remember the 7-Ups of life.

The ABC’s Of Being An Effective Leader
Circle 10 Council

A – Attitude: accent the positive, attitudes determine effectiveness

B – Boys: remember the program is for them

C – Communications: help keep the lines open

D – Diplomacy: be a diplomat, always put your best foot forward

E – Effort: you’ll get out as much as you put in

F – Flexibility: to be able to change and adapt

G – Guide: guide, but don’t force

H – Harmony: you can help maintain this in your pack

I – Interest: keep interest high by KISMIF (Keep It Simple, Make It Fun)

J – Joy: spread it, pass it on

K – Knowledge: Cub Scouts depend on you for this – stay informed

L – Listen: with understanding

M – Morale: keep your spirits high

N – Nobody: is a nobody in Cub Scouting

O – Organized: set goals and reach them

P – Problems: there are none…just look at them as unresolved opportunities

Q – Quandary: keep yourself out of this state

R – Resourceful: know where to get materials and ideas

S – Scout: our goal is for every Bobcat to become an Eagle Scout

T – Training: be sure to keep yourself up-to-date

U – Uniform: promote the uniform and set a good example by wearing it

V – Volunteers: that’s most of us in the Cub Scout program, try to recruit others

W – Wisdom: this includes perseverance, tolerance and tact.

X – Xtra Special: each Cub Scout is definitely that

Y – Year: Cub Scouting is year-round and plan your program that way

Z – Zest: perform your job with it

TRAINING TIP

Annual Pack Program
Planning Conference

What is it: An annual meeting of all pack leaders designed to establish the year’s program based on twelve monthly themes and Webelos activity badges, along with special activities, all tailored to the pack’s needs.

Why is it held? A program planned twelve months in advance allows leaders to look ahead. Advance preparation ensures a well-rounded program of fun, variety, action, and purpose.

Who attends? The pack committee chairman and Cubmaster are jointly responsible for seeing that this meeting occurs. The meeting is conducted by the pack committee chairman. All den and pack leaders, den chiefs, Tiger Cub coaches, and interested parents attend. The unit commissioner also should be invited.

When is it help? Each year, in July or August.

More information on this conference is in the Cub Scout Leader Book pages 7-5, 7-6.

TIGER CUBS

Tiger Cub Graduation
Circle 10 Council

Cubmaster: Tonight, we honor our Tiger Cubs. Will ______, our Tiger Cub Group Coach please come and introduce them. (Tigers and adults come to the front.)

Group Coach lights the candles saying:

White is for the Purity of Living.
Black is for the unknown, the fear and doubt.
Orange is for knowledge, joy and confidence.

These are the colors of the Tigers. You have completed the tenure of the Tiger Cub program. Adults here is the patch for your Tigers. Please place it on his right pocket. Tigers here is the pin for your adult partner who worked with you through your deeds as Tigers. Place their pin on their collar. Here, too, is the certificate for all to see. As your Group Coach, I bid you farewell and show you the path of a new challenge. The challenge of Cub Scouts. Each step you take tells you what you must learn, so you can earn your next rank. Walk the bridge of Cub Scouts and meet you new leaders.

Across the bridge stands the Cubmaster, Den Leader and Den Chief

Cubmaster: Welcome to Pack _____. This is your Den Leader and den chief of den _____. Your meetings are at ______, at ____ p.m., at location_____.

The Den Leader puts the Cub Scout (Wolf-yellow) neckerchief on the Tigers. (Optional, each pack or leader decides.)

Den Chief hands each boy the Wolf book and says, “These are your next challenges. Read and do each requirement of the Bobcat. When you are done, you will earn the Bobcat rank patch. The Cubmaster asks each boy and adult team to sit with the pack.

Ceremony ends with a “Round of Applause”.

Tiger/Webelos Ceremony
Circle 10 Council

Personnel: Cubmaster, Webelos, Tiger Cubs, Parents, Akela and Den Leader

Props: Table with candles for each boy with their names in front of candles

Cubmaster: Tonight we have the pleasure of welcoming new Cub Scouts into the pack. Parents and graduating Tiger Cubs, would you please be escorted forward by our Webelos.

Assistant CM: The Webelos Scout provided a path for you to follow into the pack and now he relinquishes his place in the pack to you.

(Webelos Scouts hand lighted candles to boys and return to their seats.)

Den Leader: You and your parents both were asked to come forward. This symbolizes that the family is a necessary base for Cub Scouting and that Cub Scouting supports a strong family unit. The candles you received represent the promise of every Cub Scout to “Do Your Best.”

Do you promise to Do Your Best?

Tiger Cubs: We Do.

(Den Leader instructs Tigers to blow out the candles and return them to the table.)

(As the right of the group Akela appears in costume.)

Akela: (To Cubmaster) My Brother, have these new cubs prepared to join our Pack?

Cubmaster: They have by completing the Tiger Cub program. As we call your name, please step forward to receive your graduation patch and certificate.

(Call out names and distribute graduation materials.

After all have been distributed Cubmaster turns to Akela and Pack)

Cubmaster: Akela, Members of the Pack, please welcome our new Cub Scouts.

PRE-OPENING ACTIVITY

American ABC’s
Can You Name Them?
York Adams Council

Give everyone a blank sheet of paper and see how many American people, places, and things they can list from A to Z.

State Facts
Simon Kenton Council

Copy the map of the United States so that you have one for each Cub Scout or one for each person at the pack meeting. People should write the name of each state and it’s capital in the space for the state (or as close as possible to small states, with an arrow pointing to the appropriate state). After the meeting opens, reveal a large U.S. map for everyone to check answers. Give a prize to all who correctly identified the states and capitals. Optional: Suggest that they write in any additional information they know, such as the state bird, flower, tree, song, or nickname. People write their names on the papers and turn them in. A leader or other adult uses a list, an encyclopedia, or other reference book about the United States to check the papers. Give a prize to the one with most correct answers.

Spell It Out
Sam Houston Area Council

Equipment: Pencil and Paper

Directions:

1.Give the Cubs a phrase made up of two or three words.

2.From that phrase, the Cubs must come up with as many words as possible. Challenge them by making them think of words only with “B”, or “S”, or “D,” or limit them to just three letter words or four letter words.

3.Use a phrase that is common to your pack or den. Or perhaps one like:

INDEPENDENCE DAY

(Pen, den, nine, dine, pay, day, nice, dice, pace, yen)

Take a hike with your Cubs through your neighborhood, yard, or local park and ask them to try to find something that begins with a letter of the alphabet--A, B, C. This can played as teams as a scavenger hunt too. Remind your Cubs that working together as a team provides the best outcome.

Flag Pieces
Circle 10 Council

Draw/locate a sufficient number of pictures of different flags and cut them into 2 or 3 pieces to accommodate the number of people you have attending a den or pack meeting. Mix and distribute flag pieces as members arrive at the meeting. Ask people to find those people holding the other pieces of their flag and introduce themselves to each other.

OPENING CEREMONY

The Meaning of the Pledge of Allegiance
Trapper Trails Council

When you pledge allegiance to your flag, you promise loyalty and devotion to your nation. Each word has a deep meaning:

I pledge allegiance: I promise to be true
to the flag: to the sign of our country
of the United States of America: a country made up of 50 states, each with certain rights of it’s own
and to the Republic: a country where the people elect others to make laws for them
for which it stands: the flag means the country
one Nation under God: a single country whose people believe in a supreme being
indivisible: the country cannot be split into parts
with liberty and justice: with freedom and fairness
for all. For each person in the country – you and me.

“America Is Special To Me”
Simon Kenton Council

Arrangement: Eight Cub Scouts in uniforms stand in a straight line. Seven boys hold poster boards, each with one letter of AMERICA on one side.

The other side shows a colorful drawing by the Cub Scout that corresponds to the description or of what America means to him. Begin with all drawings facing the audience. The Cub Scouts turn over their letters one at a time as they speak.

A: Abounding wildlife running free

M: Majestic mountains from sea to sea

E: Eagles soaring through evergreen forests

R: Raging rivers and nature's own chorus

I: Immeasurable love God has for us

C: Courageous people who love this land

A: Adventures in Scouting, lessons firsthand

Cub Scout #8 (dressed as Uncle Sam and holding an American Flag): "Will you please join us in the Pledge of Allegiance?

"My Choice"
Simon Kenton Council

You need 8 boys holding cards with the letters MY CHOICE printed on each card. Each boy in turn steps up raises his card and reads his line.

M:
If I could choose what I could be,
I'd choose to be just me,
To live where I am free to talk,
To choose my friends and where to walk.

Y
To choose the job I want to do,
And live where I've a notion to.

C
To spend my money as I please,
And never have to bend my knees.

H
To any dictator or government boss,
Who profits from the peoples' loss.

O
To choose the church in which I will pray,
And worship God in my own way.

I
To vote for men who'll do their best,
To see our nation meets the test.

C
And conquer evils that would destroy
The freedoms that I enjoy.

E:
To be my boss and live the way,
According to how I choose each day.
Yes if I could choose what could be,
I'd be an American. Just Like Me.

Flag Folding Ceremony
Simon Kenton Council

The flag folding ceremony described by the Uniformed Services is a dramatic and uplifting way to honor the flag on special days, like Memorial Day or Veterans Day, and is sometimes used at retirement ceremonies.

Here is a typical sequence of the reading:

(Begin reading as Honor Guard or Flag Detail is coming forward.)

The flag folding ceremony represents the same principles on which our country was originally founded. The portion of the flag denoted honors the canton of blue containing the stars representing the states our veterans served in uniform. The canton field of blue dresses from left to right and is inverted when draped as a pall on a casket of a veteran who has served our country in uniform.

In the Armed Forces of the United States, at the ceremony of retreat the flag is lowered, folded in a triangle fold, and kept under watch throughout the night as a tribute to our nation's honored dead. The next morning it is brought out and, at the ceremony of reveille, run aloft as a symbol of our belief in the resurrection of the body.

(Wait for the Honor Guard or Flag Detail to unravel and fold the flag into a quarter fold - resume reading when Honor Guard is standing ready.)

The first fold of our flag is a symbol of life.

The second fold is a symbol of our belief in the eternal life.

The third fold is made in honor and remembrance of the veteran departing our ranks who gave a portion of life for the defense of our country to attain a peace throughout the world.

The fourth fold represents our weaker nature, for as American citizens trusting in God, it is to Him we turn in times of peace as well as in times of war for His divine guidance.

The fifth fold is a tribute to our country, for in the words of Stephen Decatur, "Our country. In dealing with other countries, may she always be right; but it is still our country, right or wrong."

The sixth fold is for where our hearts lie. It is with our heart that we pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

The seventh fold is a tribute to our Armed Forces, for it is through the Armed Forces that we protect our country and our flag against all her enemies, whether they be found within or without the boundaries of our republic.

The eighth fold is a tribute to the one who entered in to the valley of the shadow of death, that we might see the light of day, and to honor mother, for whom it flies on Mother's Day.