BALOO'S BUGLE Volume 18, Number 6 "No man is so tall as when he stoops to help a child..." Abraham Lincoln --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- J January 2012 Cub Scout Roundtable February 2012 Core Value & Pack Meeting Ideas RESOURCEFULNESS Tiger Cub, Wolf, Webelos, & Arrow of Light Meetings 11 and 12, Bear (Mtgs A and B), CORE VALUES Baden Powell Cub Scout Roundtable Leaders’ Guide The core value highlighted this month is: The Founder of Scouting Resourcefulness: Using human resources and other and a great example of Resourcefulness resources to their fullest. Through participating in the I figured Lord Baden-Powell, the Founder of Scouting, was pack recycling projects, boys will gain an understanding the best example of resourcefulness I could put here. Here of the ways to utilize available resources to accomplish is part of his story in his own words. ENJOY! CD tasks. They will learn that one of the ways to be resourceful is using their imaginations. COMMISSIONER’S CORNER Scouting is a Game with a purpose. Lord Baden-Powell Find all 12 of the Theme Based pack Meeting Themes right here!! Had an interesting E-mail exchange with a gentleman from another Pack 480!!! Hopefully, I will get a NCAC Pow Wow Book!! My first assignment was with the 13th Hussars, one of the Be sure to check out the Whittling Chip stuff, most famous regiments in the British army. In the autumn of There is a lot of it!! 1876,l sailed to India to join the regiment. My time in India was a great adventure for so young a man. I learned much I think all the Council ACC's for Roundtables need about human nature and about how to lead men and inspire a Facebook Page. Don't you?? Could a more web / them to do their best. I practiced map-making and surveying, Facebook savvy ACC - Roundtables step up to start skills I would use a few years later when I was sent to the one for us, please!!! Balkans in eastern Europe. I needed to be resourceful in the Balkans as my orders It is amazing this is out - On December 17 I was instructed me to gather information on the movements and ahead and knew it would be done before fortifications of Austrian troops in the region. It was a CHRISTmas. Then later that day I reformatted my dangerous mission, but I had a plan. I carried a butterfly net hard drive to cure a problem. I had the files saved and a sketch pad and pretended to be a somewhat confused but no programs. Took me a week to get everything Englishman studying butterflies. When I caught a butterfly, I would carefully sketch it in my notebook. I was often seen by back that I needed (or thought I did). Then I was police and soldiers, but they only shook their heads and behind on getting ready for CHRISTmas for my laughed over this crazy man chasing butterflies. The thing family. Well, the machine is fine now. Hope your they didn't know was that I only hunted butterflies in places New Year's was more exciting than my - writing where I could study the Austrian forts. I drew maps of the Baloo and fixing my machine. forts, including details of gun placements and other information of military importance, but disguised them by making the maps resemble sketches of butterflies. BALOO'S BUGLE - (February 2012 Ideas) Page 2 Another example of my Scouting resourcefulness happened while I was assigned to South Africa. In 1899 1 was sent to TABLE OF CONTENTS South Africa where the British army was in conflict with the In many of the sections you will find subdivisions for the Boers, settlers of Dutch descent in the South African various topics covered in the den meetings Republic. I found myself in charge of defending the town of CORE VALUES................................................................... 1 Mafeking. I had some twelve hundred men under my COMMISSIONER’S CORNER ........................................... 1 command, but many thousands of Boer soldiers surrounded Baden Powell ....................................................................... 1 Mafeking and laid siege to the town. They demanded that we TABLE OF CONTENTS ..................................................... 2 surrender. THOUGHTFUL ITEMS FOR SCOUTERS ........................ 3 We were not about to give in. Instead, we did all we could to Roundtable Prayer ............................................................... 3 convince the Boers that they were up against a much stronger Resourcefulness in Crisis .................................................... 3 force. Knowing that Boer lookouts could see us, I had my men Quotations ........................................................................... 4 bury boxes of sand all around the perimeter of the town. They TRAINING TOPICS ............................................................ 5 put dynamite in one of the boxes and blew it up in hopes that Philmont Training Center .................................................... 5 the Boers would assume all of the boxes were packed with ROUNDTABLES ................................................................. 8 dynamite and could be detonated as land mines. Half Time Check Up ............................................................ 8 We had no barbed wire, but my men drove fence posts into the Update Supplemental Pack Meeting Plans ........................... 9 ground anyway. They pretended to string rolls of barbed wire Cubcast .............................................................................. 10 on the posts, and they pretended to climb back and forth over DEN MEETING TOPICS .................................................. 10 the wire whenever they moved about the edges of Mafeking. PACK ADMIN HELPS – ................................................... 11 The Boers were far enough away that they couldn't have seen Unit Leadership Enhancements ......................................... 11 the wire even if there had been any. And so we defended Cubcast ............................... Error! Bookmark not defined. Mafeking with tricks like these, even though the Boers could The ABC’s Of Being An Effective Leader ......................... 12 easily have captured the town if they had simply attacked with CUBMASTER'S CORNER ............................................... 12 all their forces. Graduation & February Ideas ............................................ 12 Scout Sunday ..................................................................... 12 The siege of Mafeking lasted 218 days before elements of the Being Resourceful ............................................................. 13 British army arrived and broke the grip of the Boers. When I Boss or Leader? .................. Error! Bookmark not defined. returned to England I was startled to discover that I was being SPECIAL OPPORTUNITIES ............................................ 13 regarded as the hero of Mafeking. I was also surprised to see Computers Loop and Pin ................................................... 13 many boys cheering for me and holding up copies of my book, Marbles Loop and Pin ....................................................... 14 "Aids to Scouting." I'd had no idea my book would have such National Den Award .......................................................... 14 a profound effect on young boys. They seemed hungry for the Boys’ Life Reading Contest for 2012 ................................ 15 kind of information I had written, and I wondered if this was a Knot of the Month ............................................................. 15 call to me to figure out a way to share more of the scouting Training Knots Update ...................................................... 15 life. GATHERING ACTIVITIES .............................................. 16 “A fisherman does not bait his hook with food he likes. He Resourcefulness Ideas ....................................................... 16 uses food the fish likes. So with boys.” Lord Baden-Powell OPENING CEREMONIES ................................................ 18 AUDIENCE PARTICIPATIONS & STORIES ................. 22 So to with you, Den Leader, Cubmaster, or other Akela - LEADER RECOGNITION & INSTALLATION .............. 24 Be RESOURCEFUL in planning your meetings to inspire the The Treasure Chest Cubmaster Recognition ..................... 24 boys. Don't just copy something out of a book. CD Awards From the Heart ..................................................... 24 With all his RESOURCEFULNESS it is no wonder ADVANCEMENT CEREMONIES ................................... 24 Baden-Powell was successful in starting Scouting. SONGS ............................................................................... 26 Resourcefulness Songs ...................................................... 27 And that Scouting is most successful where those Fun Songs .......................................................................... 27 leading it believe in it, love it, and use all their STUNTS AND APPLAUSES ............................................ 28 resources!! APPLAUSES & CHEERS ................................................ 28 RUN-ONS ......................................................................... 28 Please let me know about Pow Wow's JOKES & RIDDLES ......................................................... 29 and Pow Wow Books!! SKITS ................................................................................. 29 GAMES .............................................................................. 31 I cannot do this job without your help!!!