The Philmont Cub Scout Roundtable Supplements February 2020

Theme: Vaudeville Night

***Introducing the New Leader Breakout! This breakout is for brand new leaders that are attending Roundtable for the first time. This Breakout will be run by the Assistant Roundtable Commissioner - New Member Coordinator. ***

What is Vaudeville? Vaudeville was a popular early 20th century form of entertainment. Think of it as a variety show on a stage. Have the Dens perform songs, skits, run ons, magic acts, jokes, or some funny talent. Your Cubmaster should be the Master of Ceremonies (MC) and have fun showing off all of the amazing talent that the youth in the Pack has!

◆ Gathering Have a stroll around the midway. Give all Scouters an opportunity to get information and sign up for events and training.

◆ Midway Award of the Month: Service Stars All youth or adult leaders who have reached one year of tenure with Scouts BSA are eligible to begin wearing service stars. The stars are an underused outward symbol of how long an adult leader has been involved in Scouting and a quick way for new Scouts, parents and leaders to see who has Scouting experience. The pins and color background are available at the Scout Shop. (scoutstuff.org) Find out your registration date with your unit. At the anniversary of that date, you are eligible to wear a 1-year service star. Adults can combine their time spent as a youth in Scouting or represent them separately. The plastic backing comes in colors: gold for Cub Scouting; green for Scouts BSA; red for Venturing; blue for adult leader service. Pocket certificates are available. The pins are worn ⅜ inch above the left pocket (Bryan on Scouting April 2,

2014) If a medal or embroidered knot is worn, service stars are worn ⅜ inch above the medal or knot. (meritbadge.org)

◆ Opening Ceremony The flag ceremony is led by preassigned Scouters. They will present the colors and lead the pack in the Pledge of Allegiance. Preassigned Scouters perform the opening skit.

Opening Ceremony - FAMILIES (retiredscouter.com)

F: Folks, we are here to welcome you. A: Advantages, we have so many. M: Mom and Dad, we’re glad you are here. I: Imagine how much fun we’re going to have L: Laughing and playing together as a family. I: I think it’s great to be a Cub Scout. E: Everyone, let’s all please stand, S: Saluting together as we Pledge Allegiance to our flag so dear.

◆ Opening Prayer (GSLC Pow Wow Book, 1994) We praise You, Heavenly Father, For making the people of the world so different and yet so alike. We thank you that each of us is a special person, wonderfully made and loved by You. Thank you for giving us so much to share with each other. Please help us to remember that whatever language we speak, Whatever country we come from, Whatever color our skin is, We are all important to You. Please keep us from being unloving to each other. Amen.

Opening Prayer Nipping winds that whistle low, Patterned flakes of falling snow, Skating on a glossy lake, Snowmen, so much fun to make. Snowy hills for sleds and sleighs, We thank You, G-d, for winter days. Amen.

◆ Welcome and Introductions The Roundtable Commissioner or Assistant Roundtable Commissioner - New Member Coordinator welcomes new Scouters, visitors, and special guests by introducing them to the district. If you aren’t sure what a New Member Coordinator is, check out: http://scoutingwire.org/marketing-and-membership-hub/new-unit-development/commissioners/

◆ Big Rock Topic See the Scout BSA Roundtable Commissioner Planning Guide for a list of Big Rock Topics that both the Cub Scout and Scout BSA Roundtable Commissioners choose to do jointly to help serve the units in your district.

◆ Applauses and Cheers! (retiredscouter.com) Handkerchief Throw a handkerchief or neckerchief into the air with instructions for the applause to last until you catch it or it falls to the floor. Vary the length of the applause. Long throw, short throw, or no throw at all. Italian Cheer "Bravo! Bravo Bravissimo!" (create cheers in other languages) Hat Cheer Cubmaster throws his/her hat into the air. All yell until the hat touches the ground. Then all yelling stops. VIP How do you do, How do you do, ________, We welcome you!! Great job! Group stands and cheers, "Great job! Great JOB! GREAT JOB!" Getting louder each time. Heel Click Stand with your feet apart. Jump into the air, click your heels (twice if possible). Land with your feet apart. Hello Behind You At the count of 3, everyone turns around and meets the person behind you. On “3” everyone should be turned backwards. (Surprise! Everyone is facing to the back.) Hyena Everyone throws their heads back and laughs crazily like a hyena.

Run-Ons (retiredscouter.com)

Have the parents do a Run-on with their Scout as part of the family activity.

Everyone Keeps Ignoring Me Cub 1. Doctor! Doctor! Everyone keeps ignoring me. Doc: Next!

Paint The Ocean Cub Scout No. 1: What is the best way to paint the ocean? Cub Scout No. 2: With watercolors.

People Make You Can't See Cub No. 1: What do people make that you can't see? Cub No. 2: Noise.

Person Wear That Is Never Out Of Style Cub 1. What can a person wear that is never out of style? Cub 2. A smile.

Potatoes Good Detectives CUB No. 1: Why are potatoes such good detectives? CUB No. 2: I can't imagine, why? CUB No. 1: Because they keep their eyes peeled.

Keep A Bull From Charging Cub 1. How do you keep a bull from charging? Cub 2. Take away his credit card.

King Go To The Dentist Cub 1. Why did the king go to the dentist? Cub 2. To get his teeth crowned!

Earth Is Round Cub No. 1: If the Earth is round, why don't we fall off? Cub No. 2: It's because of the Law of Gravity. Cub No. 1: Yeah, that's right! Cub No. 2: But what happened before the law of gravity was passed?

Phone Never Rings Cub 1. What kind of phone never rings? Cub 2. A saxophone

SONGS: Singing is fun! Leading and teaching songs (BSA- Cub Scout Songbook, 1969)

1. Smile at your group. Relax. Radiate confidence and enthusiasm, even if you don’t feel particularly confident or enthusiastic.

2. Tell them the name of the song. Always start with a rousing, well-known “warm up” number, so everybody, including you, can sing out with confidence.

3. Be sure to give the pitch. Sing a few bars yourself or have a couple of bars played, if an instrument is available.

4. Start the signing with a slight upward arm motion, then a decisive downward motion (a downbeat) and begin singing yourself. Don’t worry if some don’t start with the first note--they’ll join in quickly.

5. Beat time with a simple up-and-down motion of the arm-- but make it definite and brisk. You are in command.

6. Control volume by raising your hands for loudness, lowering them for softness. 7. Move around a little, inject a little pep and personality. Keep smiling. 8. Spark enthusiasm by dividing the crowd for a song or two. Groups sing separately, or

when you point to them, then all together. Vary straight singing with occasional humming, whispering, or rhythm clapping.

9. Stop before you’re stopped. Leave them wanting more; not glad that you left.

Teaching a Song 1. Always warm up the crowd with well-known songs before trying out a new one. 2. Provide copies of the words. 3. Sing the new song all the way through, alone or with a small group who already know it. 4. Let the crowd try a verse at a time, slowly at first. When they master it, pick up speed. 5. Musical accompaniment helps-- piano, accordion, guitar, harmonica are all good for

providing harmony. 6. Sing the new song one or two times.

Song: If You’re Happy and You Know It, Clap Your Hands (BSA- Cub Scout Songbook)

If you’re happy and you know it, clap your hands. (clap, clap) If you’re happy and you know it, clap your hands (clap, clap) If you’re happy and you know it, Then you really ought to show it,

If you’re happy and you know it, clap your hands. (clap, clap)

2nd verse: If you’re happy and you know it, stamp your feet. (stamp-stamp) 3rd verse: If’ you’re happy and you know it, shout “Hooray!” (“Hooray”) 4th verse: If you’re happy and you know it, do all three. (clap-clap) (stamp-stamp)

(“Hooray”)

Song: We’re Glad to See You Here (BSA-Cub Scout Songbook) Tune: Farmer in the Dell

We’re glad to see you here, It gives us joy and cheer. Sure, it’s true, we say to you, ‘ We’re glad to see you here.

Song: Showbiz Ambition (GLSC Pow Wow Book, 2009) Tune: If you’re Happy and You Know It

Oh, I wish I were an actor in a show, Oh, I wish I were a rock star of a group. Oh, I wish I were an actor in a show. Oh, I wish I were a rock star of a group. I would make you feel real tense, I would sing and I would shout, I would hold you in suspense, I would really knock you out, Oh, if I could be an actor in a show! Oh, if I could be a rock star in a group!

Oh, I wish I were a musician in a band, Oh, I wish I were a comedian in a show, Oh, I wish I were a musician in a band. Oh, I wish I were a comedian in a show. I would play tunes on my guitar, I would tell funny jokes, And I would beat on the drums, And make everybody laugh, Oh, if I could be a musician in a band! Oh, if I could be a comedian in a show!

Vaudeville Night Bow Tie Neckerchief Slide

Supplies: 4.5” piece paper towel roll flattened and cut widthwise, hot glue, milk jug handles, black paint

Flatten the piece of paper towel roll and cut in half widthwise. Fold in the ends of each side making sure to fold it more on one side to create the point of the front of the bowtie. Hot glue the ends together. Cut milk jug handles for rings and hot glue them to the flater back side. Paint the bow ties black. Designed by Raine Rollins

◆ Cub Scout Interest Topic Adult and Parent Recognition Everyone needs a pat on the back or a “thank you” to feel appreciated. Awards for adult volunteers, Den Chiefs, family members, and parents can be fun and simple. Use your own ideas or find them on the internet. Have fun making them! The following are some samples, and check out the January 2020 Philmont Roundtable Supplement for more ideas.

• Monu-MINT-al Award: attach a mint in a note or certificate stating that the person has made a monu-mental contribution to Scouting.

• Chalk It Up to another Great Job: Glue pieces of chalk to wood or foam board that state “Great Job!”

• Burst-ing with appreciation for your Star-studded effort! - Starburst candy.

• Smooth Sailing Award: Award a small toy sailboat. • Good Sport Award: Write “Good Sport” on a ball. • You Are Tops: Award a toy top. • “You’re a cut above the rest! Thanks for making this year the

best!” - scissors • You’re a Cracker Jack leader! - package of Cracker Jacks. • You’re an AWesome Scout Leader. Thanks for all you do.-

attached to an A& W can of soda so the A&W in the word “ AWesome” match. • Thanks for being an M & M “Marvelous and Magnificent” Leader- M & M’s • What a “Life Saver” you are to our pack! - package of Life Savers • You are Worth a Million: award play money or gold-covered candy. • Thank you for being so sweet! - attached to a prepackaged treat. • I am bursting with gratitude for you.- attached to a popcorn package. • Together we help “quench” the “thirst” for knowledge! We appreciate you! -

water bottle given to a leader. • Your service is a treasure.- attached to a small bag of chocolate coins. • Thanks for helping us on the trail to success. - Trail Mix bag. • Thank you for going the EXTRA mile. - attached to Wrigley’s EXTRA gum. • Somebunny thinks you are a GREAT LEADER! Thanks for Hopping to it and

getting the job done. - attached to a small, stuffed bunny. • Thanks for coming to Cub Scouts- We know you will do a “Zoo”-pendous job! -

animal crackers • For the Person Who Can’t Be Licked: award a lollipop • Thanks For Leading Us in the Right Direction: a compass. • Thanks For Sticking to It: tape or glue • Thanks for lighting up our meeting: a light bulb or flashlight. • Thanks for tying up loose Ends: string licorice, or a rope.

◆ Audience Participation Traveling Treats (BSA, Trapper Trails Council)

Pass out a few small treats to the audience (such as individually wrapped Starburst or Life Savers). Each time the audience hears one of the key words - Right, Left, In Front, Behind - they move the treat to the person closest to them in that direction. A few of the treats could be bigger or wrapped to appear special.

The Cub Scout year is filled with such fun. Right at the end of the summer the pack has a grand round-up to invite new cubs into the pack. After the Webelos have Left to join the troop, there is more room for all the new Tiger Cubs and Bobcats. In the fall all the Cubs LEFT bags on the doorsteps for the neighbors to fill. After the service projects, caroling, and holiday crafts there were not many days LEFT in December. The Scouts from the troop invited the Webelos to their camp at the Klondike Derby. Looking to the RIGHT and the LEFT they found the troop's sled RIGHT IN FRONT. At the derbies the excited Cubs stood IN FRONT to see the racing. Did you see the one that LEFT the others behind in his dust? IN FRONT of the Pack at the Blue and Gold Banquet the Cubmaster was careful to give the Scouts their RIGHT awards. The fun continued with scout shows with displays and activities jam packed RIGHT in a row. What Cub in his RIGHT mind could forget the fantastic time at summer camp? Den meetings, field trips, Pack meetings, outings galore! You had better WRITE (right) it all down because you would certainly feel sad, if you were LEFT behind. ◆ STEM Minute Floating Ping Pong Balls Air pressure Moving air and pressure makes a ping pong ball float in midair. SteveSpanglerScience.com Materials: Ping pong balls Hair dryer balloons or other small objects

Procedure: 1. Set the hair dryer to cool, switch it on, and point it at the ceiling.

2. Carefully put the ping-pong ball in the stream of air. Hold the hair dryer very steady and watch as the ping-pong ball floats in the stream of air.

3. Carefully move the hair dryer from left to right and watch how the ball moves as well, staying in the stream of air.

4. Try floating other lightweight objects in the air stream at the same time. With the hair dryer on, place an inflated balloon over your levitating ping-pong ball. You might want to place a penny in the balloon before you blow it up to give it some added weight.

More: Try to float two or more balls in the same air stream. How many can you float at once? How do they behave when there is more than one? Want to make flying toilet paper? Just hold a roll of toilet paper in the stream of air and watch the paper take off! Be sure to hold the toilet paper roll on a long stick (piece of dowel) in order for it to spin fast and unroll the paper.

And for the finale . . . balance a ping-pong ball in the air stream. Then place your now empty toilet paper tube above it in the air. Watch it float above the ball. Then watch the ball get sucked up inside the toilet paper tube. ! Always conclude this demo with thanks to Bernoulli (see below if you don’t get it). STEM Your ping pong ball floats because of Bernoulli’s Principle. Airplanes can fly because of Bernoulli’s Principle. Air rushing over the top of airplane wings exerts less pressure than air from under the wings. So the relatively greater air pressure beneath the wings supplies the upward force, or lift, that enables airplanes to fly.

Game: Fruit Basket

Equipment: chairs, wide area. For the entire family.

The Scouts and their family members and leaders sit in a large circle. Remove one chair. The participants are assigned a fruit in equal numbers. If possible, give each person a sticker with the name or drawing of a fruit so the fruits are equally distributed. (lemons, apples, strawberries, bananas, grapes, oranges, etc.) players are divided into equal-sized groups, with each group having the name of a fruit.

The player without a chair stands in the center of the circle. That player calls the name of a fruit. All players with that fruit name stand up and move to another seat in the circle. The player in the center must attempt to take one of the free seats while the other players are moving.

A new player will then be left in the center, and the game is repeated. If any player failed to move even though their group's fruit name was called, they are required to move into the center and the player previously in the center sits in their seat. The player in the center may choose to call the names of two fruits. The player in the center may call “Fruit Basket,” then everyone must move to a different seat. It is a good idea to have a rule that the player must move to a seat not adjacent to their own.

Activity 1. Using the chairs in a circle from Fruit Basket, place the chairs in pairs of two, placed back-to-back about a shoulder width apart. Have adults sit on the chairs so they do not move while this exercise is going on. With a Cub or sibling standing between the chairs, they place one hand on each chair and lift their legs off the floor. Attempt peddling like a bicycle. Time the Scouts to see who pedals the longest. (GSLC Pow Wow Book, 1996)

Activity 2. Using the same position as noted above, lift the legs off the floor and slowly lower the body down between the chairs and pushing back up to the start position. This is called a dip. See who can do the most dips.

If You Use the 60-minute Roundtable Please Skip to the Commissioner’s Minute and Closing Ceremonies

◆ Cub Scout Leader Breakouts

◆ New Leader Breakout ***This is good through the whole year*** • This Breakout session needs to be run when a leader either new to Roundtable

or a brand new leader/ new to the area attends. This breakout never changes as a leader should only be taking it once. They will go into their respective leader breakouts after this Roundtable

• Welcome and Introductions o Name, Unit, Position

• Discuss the following o What is Roundtable o How does it help you as a leader o Breakdown of the District Leadership (if in attendance, introduce these

members to the new leaders) o Introduction to the Training Chair and list of all upcoming leader trainings. o Walk through the Midway to show off all of the upcoming events in the

District and Council o Introduction to the Breakout Leaders

▪ Go to the different breakout sessions and introduce the leader to the breakout they will attend next time.

▪ Have them observe the rest of the breakout if there is time.

◆ Lion Breakout • Lion Requirement

o Pick My Path-Elective o Gathering

▪ Hot/Cold: an object is hidden prior to the meeting, and the Lions must look for it.

▪ Conduct a simple opening and say the pledge of allegiance and scout oath

▪ Select a Lion to light the Good Conduct Candle with help from their adult partner

▪ Ask the Lions open ended questions (or similar): • What is a friend • Are your friends the same age • What do your friends do • Have you ever been mad at your friends

Explain to the Lions that requirement 2 is to do one kind thing for a member of their family or a friend. They can do this act between the den meeting and the next outing.

Activity 1: Emotion Charades Lion adult partners will demonstrate an emotion through non-

verbal cues. The Lions are to choose the emotion they think are seeing. The emotion and the action can be written or drawn on a card for the adult partner to refer to.

Activity 2: Pick My Path This activity is designed to give the Lions freedom in making their

own choices. At the end of the activity, ask each Lion to share how they felt when they discovered the outcome of their choice.

The Lions will need a grid and the Lion paws as game pieces (located in the Lion Adventure Book).

Have Lions choose two crayons to color their games pieces. The Lions should color four pieces in one color and four in another. Then have Lions cut out the pieces. One set will be used during the meeting and the other set can be used at home.

Pair up the Lions. Have them try to get three in a row (tic-tac-toe) Allow them to play a couple of times. When finished, ask the Scouts if their choice of where to place their Lion

paws helped them win or lose the game. Have them share how our decisions can affect what happens to us.

Activity Wrap-up Have the Lions complete the task on the Pick My Path page of the

Lion Adventure Book

Closing Recite the Scout Law

◆ Tiger Breakout • Tiger Requirement - Tiger Theatre or Curiosity, Intrigue, and Magical Mysteries

o The Vaudeville Night has lots of options for the Tiger Den Leaders. Discuss which Elective Adventure they would like to look at the most.

▪ Tiger Theatre • Discuss the following types of theatre

o Puppet Shows o Reader’s Theatre o Pantomime

• Make a simple sock or paper bag puppet with the leaders to demonstrate the ease of creating a puppet. Remind them that hot glue guns need to be used by adults to reduce burns (use low temperature hot glue guns).

• Play a game of one-word charades (see the Resources at the end of the Philmont Supplements for a printable).

▪ Curiosity, Intrigue, and Magical Mysteries • Learning how to spell your name using sign language

o https://www.signlanguageforum.com/asl/fingerspelling/alphabet/

• Learning how to spell your name using braille o https://brailleworks.com/braille-resources/braille-

alphabet/ • Creating a secret code, this is where some fun happens.

Have your youth pretend to be spies! Show them different ways to create a code. From invisible messages to cipher codes here are some ideas to be sneaky.

o Invisible messages https://boyslife.org/hobbies-projects/funstuff/162663/how-to-make-invisible-ink-for-writing-top-secret-messages/?fbclid=IwAR1nPzDLOpHiNGjyAzal3poUfTMohXD5Qt2XSgeGjYAE_ExcN9C0WqG_yPY

o Cryptography and cipers https://www.exploratorium.edu/ronh/secret/secret.html

o Caeser Cipher https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/crack-the-code-make-a-caesar-cipher/

• Magic Tricks! o Everyone loves a magic trick. Here are a few

videos to help you teach a trick to your Tigers. I would teach them the 5 and up tricks. https://www.care.com/c/stories/4051/easy-magic-tricks-for-kids/

o https://www.thesprucecrafts.com/magic-tricks-for-beginners-and-kids-2267083

◆ Wolf Breakout • Remind Den Leaders to work with new Cub Scouts on their Bobcat Rank • Wolf Requirement - Howling at the Moon

o 1. Show you can communicate in at least two different ways. ▪ Discuss the four ways to communicate: Visual, written, verbal and

non-verbal. ▪ Make a list of ways scouts can communicate with each other:

codes, sign language, foreign language, signals, body language, etc.

o 2. Work with your den or family to create an original skit. ▪ When working on the skit keep the Scout Law in mind. Only use

language and actions that reflect the beliefs of Scouting and leave everyone - actors and audience - with smiles on their faces. Make sure to involve each scout in the den.

o 3. Work together with your den or family to plan, prepare, and rehearse a campfire program to present at a den meeting or pack program. Requirement 4. Is to perform the role for a den meeting or pack program.

▪ A campfire should follow a plan: • Opening (Song, Cheer, Flag Ceremony, Oath, Law, and/or

prayer) • Songs - Sing fun songs to get everyone up and

moving. Before you begin a song start with a smile and announce the name of the song and the tune or starting pitch. If it’s not familiar, sing it part way through to help your audience learn it.

• Cheers, Stunts and Run-Ons • Skits • Story - Use the story of the Lone Wolf in the Wolf

Handbook or create your own.

• Closing - As the flames of the fire die down, it’s time to close the campfire. Choose a way to close your campfire program.

Sample “Cubstruction” Campfire Program

Opening Flag Ceremony Scout Oath and Law

Song Pound the Nail (Tune: Row, Row, Row your Boat Pound, Pound, Pound the nail, Pound it right on through! If you miss and pound your thumb, Then it will turn blue!

Cheers, Stunts, Run-Ons What do termites eat for breakfast?

• Oak Meal What are sleeping trees called?

• Slumber What do you call a fine looking tree?

• Fine Pine

Skit Cubstruction Skit Cub #1 Look up there! It’s a plane! It looks like an F-16 fighter. You know, that plane is made by General Dynamics. Cub #2 Oh yes, the Falcon. It looks like it’s up there about 17,000 feet and flying about 670 miles per hour. You know its engine, the F-110 is made by General Electric and produces 27,519 pounds of reheated thrust and has a climb rate of over 50,000 feet per minute. Cub #3 Yes, its official top speed is well over 1320 miles per hour, but its actual speed is classified. The F16 can fly as high as 50,000 feet and then some! Cub #1 All that is because it has a wingspan of 32 feet, 9 inches and weighs only 18,335 pounds. Cub #2 (Points off Stage) Look, an adult is coming! Quick, start playing in the sand. (Adult walks by and stops for a moment) Adult: Those are mighty fine sand castles. (The adult turns and walks off stage) Cub #3 I just can’t wait until I’m a teenager and its okay for me to know it all!

Story Building a Better World Have each scout hold up the letter as the line is read.

1. Take B for Brotherhood boosting for each other’s good.

2. Take an E for Every land to share in earth’s riches everywhere. 3. Take a T for Trustworthiness, trusting more, and fearing less. 4. Take a T for Teamwork, joining hands to put things through. 5. Take an E for Equal chance, for each nation to advance. 6. Take an R for real Respect, in spite of race, creed or sect. 7. Take a W for Will to work for peace with faith and skill. 8. Take an O for Opportunity to keep our speech and actions free. 9. Take an R for Reverence for a guiding Providence. 10. Take an L for Love to spread around when need and bitterness are found. 11. Take a D for Dignity of man, devoted to a bigger plan. 12. There you have it - that’s how to BUILD A BETTER WORLD, right now.

Closing - Cubmaster Minute Cubstruction is a construction theme emphasizing building things. Scouts build race cars, tool boxes and friendships. Race car driving is a very dangerous sport. During the races cars can go for many miles and may take hours to complete a race. Sometimes the cars run out of gas, the tires wear out and have to be changed, but every second counts as the cars circle the track. There are paramedics and fire engines nearby but in years past there were not those things. During one race, one of the leading racers came upon a crash, the car had burst into flames. This driver carried a fire extinguisher in his car. The wreck was not blocking his path, he could have steered around it safely but his thought was for the other driver and his burning car. He screeched to a stop and ran over with his fire extinguisher to help save the other driver. He lost the race but won the acclaim of everyone. Scouts, remember when in any competition to remember the real goal.

◆ Bear Breakout • Bear Elective - Roaring Laughter (complete four of six)

o 1. Think about what makes you laugh. Write down three things that make you laugh.

o 2. Practice reading tongue twisters. Use the ones in the Bear Handbook, or find your own. Have fun with them!

▪ Which wristwatches are Swiss wristwatches? ▪ A good cook could cook as much cookies as a good cook who

could cook cookies ▪ A big bug bit the little beetle but the little beetle bit the big bug

back. ▪ Friendly Fleas and Fire Flies

o 3. Create your own short story. Remove some nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs from the story, leaving blanks. Without telling the story, have a friend insert his or her own nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs in the story you created.

o 4. With a partner, play a game that makes you laugh. Brainstorm ideas for games that make you laugh. Try the game in the Bear book - Pair up with another scout and sit face to face. Try to make each other laugh by telling jokes, making silly faces or sounds.

o 5. Share at least two jokes with members of your den to make them laugh. Boys’ Life has a jokes page on their website that is an excellent resource for Cub Scout Jokes, including a “Joke of the Day”. https://jokes.boyslife.org/ Once Bears have practiced their jokes they can complete requirement 6, and share at least two jokes with members of your den to make them laugh.

◆ Webelos Breakout • Webelos Requirement - Moviemaking. In this adventure Webelos have the

opportunity to direct their own movie. Webelos will go through the story making process, write a story outline, create a pictured storyboard, create an animated or live-action movie about yourself. The movie should depict how you live by the Scout Oath and Law.

• Share ideas about the plot and characters for your movie. • Practice your movie a couple of times. Remember to face the camera/cell phone,

when possible. • Scouts can use a camera or a cell phone to record the movie and to play it back

for their family, den and/or pack.

Story Outline Describing a real or imaginary scouting adventure.

1. Think of an idea. 2. Write your idea into a story.

3. Decide how long your story should be. 4. Write your story into three parts.

a. Set up for story

b. Main part of story c. Story reaches its resolution/conclusion

5. Start writing the scenes.

6. Write the dialogue/lines. 7. Create the storyboard.

The Storyboard

Create an animated or live-action movie about yourself. Check out the following movie by Elijah: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qB5iWF6KVio

Share your movie with your family, den, or pack at pack meeting.

◆ Arrow of Light Breakout • AOL elective - Project Family. This elective is designed to be done with the

family. Send instructions home to the family during a school break, such as winter or spring break, or do this adventure in the summer. Scouts can work out of their handbook, or use the booklet below. This booklet is meant to be printed double sided and put together so that the pages face each other.

◆ Cubmasters Breakout • Cubmasters can help organize the Webelos den and encourage them to advance into

Scouts BSA. Cubmasters can also maintain good relationships with a Scouts BSA troop. Invite them to participate in Pack Meetings, outdoor events and as Den Chief’s.

February 2020 Pack Meeting Theme - Vaudeville Night

Discuss ways to implement the pack meeting plans in this Roundtable Supplement as well as additional ideas while roundtabling during the breakout session. Refer back to the steps to creating a pack plan in the August supplement if needed.

Vaude·ville /ˈvôd(ə)ˌvil/ Noun a type of entertainment popular chiefly in the US in the early 20th century, featuring a mixture of specialty acts such as comedy, song and dance.

Cub Scouts, Den Leaders, Committee Members and families can participate in Vaudeville night. Dens can prepare and rehearse skits and run ons. Individuals can perform talents. Families can perform together. Cubmasters should send out information in advance to give families plenty of time to practice and rehearse. Dens should also be given time to plan and rehearse their “numbers” for vaudeville night. Cubmasters should prepare a program of all the performers, or assign it to another member of the committee or pack. The Cubmaster could dress in top hat and tails as the emcee of the vaudeville night. The pack meeting could also be circus themed, or camping themed.

◆ Committee Chair Breakout • Refer to the information in the August Roundtable guide for information on the

Committee Chair. • Discuss camping and day camps which will be held in the summer. Many day camps fill

up quickly when registration opens. Be aware of which camps your dens would like to attend in the summer and when the registration dates are so that the pack can register in a timely manner to get the camps and sessions they desire.

• Recognize the need for more Dens if necessary and see that they are formed as needed.

• Recruit new youth into the pack and discuss ideas to retain youth scouts in the program.

◆ Commissioner’s Minute:

• From songs and skits, to jokes and tricks, we have seen it all tonight. Our Scouts will be brave when they set foot on the stage and we need to applaud that. When we invite Grandparents and former scouters to watch our youth when they perform, our guests re-live their past scouting experiences. Some may have even sung the same songs when they were younger, they may have even performed the “Invisible Bench” skit. Our Vaudeville Night gives us the direct link from past scouts to our present scouts…and hopefully to our future scouts, that are waiting to be part of the fun. Keep the fun alive! Thank you.

◆ Closing Honoring the Flag (macscouter.com) The preassigned Scouters perform the closing ceremony. PERSONNEL: Cubmaster, two Cub Scouts who know the proper way to fold the U.S. flag. EQUIPMENT: U.S. flag. CUBMASTER: Today, and at most of our pack meetings, we post the U.S. flag when we begin and leave it standing until the meeting is over. Why do we do that? I think there are two main reasons. First, we honor the flag by including it as part of our meeting. And second, we show that we are under the protection of that flag and all it represents, our Constitution and our laws. We honor the flag by saluting it and by pledging allegiance. We can also honor it by displaying it properly and by taking it down and storing it the right way. Now these Scouts are going to show us how to retire the flag and fold it properly. As they do that, join me in singing "G-d Bless America." (Lead song as Scouts retire colors.)

◆ Retire the Flags

◆ References Midway Award of the Month - Service Stars scoutstuff.org Wearing a Service Star - Bryan on Scouting April 2, 2014 and meritbadge.org Family Opening Ceremony retiredscouter.com Opening Prayer GSLC Pow Wow Book, 1994 Applause, Cheers and Run Ons retiredscouter.com Songs BSA- Cub Scout Songbook, 1969 and GLSC Pow Wow Book, 2009 Bow Tie Neckerchief Slide designed by Raine Rollins Traveling Treats BSA, Trapper Trails Council Project Family Booklet created by Mati Mayfield, Utah National Parks Council Honoring the Flag macscouter.com One-word Charade suggestions: book, car, rabbit, ball, hat, sleep, eat, run, dog, cat, write, cook...ect.