BALOO'S BUGLE Volume 17, Number 10P "Make no small plans. They have no magic to stir men's blood and probably will not themselves be realized." D. Burnham --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- May 2011 Cub Scout Roundtable June 2011Activities PERSEVERANCE June Ideas for Leaders, Pack Meetings, & Activities CORE VALUES TABLE OF CONTENTS Cub Scout Roundtable Leaders’ Guide In many of the sections you will find subdivisions for the The core value highlighted this month is: various topics covered in the den meetings CORE VALUES................................................................... 1 Perseverance: Sticking with something and not giving COMMISSIONER’S CORNER ........................................... 1 up, even if it is difficult. Through participating in TABLE OF CONTENTS ..................................................... 1 activities such as a bicycle rodeo, Cub Scouts learn the THOUGHTFUL ITEMS FOR SCOUTERS ........................ 2 importance of practice and perseverance to improve new Roundtable Prayer ............................................................... 2 skills. Perseverance ........................................................................ 2 Quotations ........................................................................... 2 COMMISSIONER’S CORNER TRAINING TOPICS ............................................................ 3 Will your pack attend Camp this summer?......................... 3 “"Thankfully, perseverance is a good Some Tips Before Leaving for Camp .................................. 5 substitute for talent" DEN MEETING TOPICS .................................................... 5 — Steve Martin ROUNDTABLES ................................................................. 6 PACK ADMIN HELPS – ..................................................... 6 Well, I knew this was going to be a busy month and there was Journey to Excellence and Good Turn for America ........... 6 no way to get from one end to the other without help. And so Hiking Get Ready! Set! Go! - .............................................. 7 I reached out to the regular Baloo contributors and they SPECIAL OPPORTUNITIES .............................................. 9 responded and produced an awesome issue of Baloo's Bugle. Skateboarding Loop and Pin ............................................... 9 I have spent only a few hours tweaking (as compared to my Family Travel Loop and Pin .............................................. 10 usual several days). I was planning on two Wood Badge Cub Scout Outdoor Activity Award .................................. 11 weekends, a night shift assignment at work (my first in 6 or so Boys’ Life Reading Contest for 2011 ................................ 12 years), increased visits to my Mom, an overfull house, and Knot of the Month ............................................................. 12 more. I was not ready for what happened, but I know God Cubmaster Award .............................................................. 12 knew and he helped me by having me ask for help before it PACK NIGHT IDEAS ........ Error! Bookmark not defined. happened. GATHERING ACTIVITIES .............................................. 12 OPENING CEREMONIES ................................................ 14 So, many, many thanks to Wendy, Alice, and Pat AUDIENCE PARTICIPATIONS & STORIES ................. 16 for assembling this issue. And Felicia, Joe, LEADER RECOGNITION & INSTALLATION .............. 18 and Beverly for helping them out. And Then Some ................................................................. 18 ADVANCEMENT CEREMONIES ................................... 18 And to Jay, a newcomer, SONGS ............................................................................... 21 who will is updating us on STUNTS AND APPLAUSES ............................................ 23 Journey to Excellence. APPLAUSES & CHEERS ................................................ 23 RUN-ONS ......................................................................... 24 JOKES & RIDDLES ......................................................... 24 Also, please read my closi ng thought about a SKITS ................................................................................. 24 persevering Mother and Den Mother who is responsible GAMES .............................................................................. 25 for me helping you today. CLOSING CEREMONIES ................................................ 27 CUBMASTER’S MINUTE............................................... 28 CORE VALUE RELATED STUFF .................................. 28 BALOO'S BUGLE - PACK EDITION - (May 2011 Ideas) Page 2 Connecting Perseverance with Outdoor Activities .......... 28 Asperger’s Syndrome, but was not diagnosed until he was June – A month to celebrate Perseverance ........................ 29 well into Junior High School. He is not a person with a PACK ACTIVITIES ........................................................... 31 disability; so much as he is a person with different abilities. MORE GAMES AND ACTIVITIES .................................. 35 Recently he turned sixteen, which in Utah is driving age. CUB GRUB ........................................................................ 35 Getting his learners license was study in perseverance. He WEB SITES ........................................................................ 35 had to take the written test six times, before he passed, but he ONE LAST THING ............................................................ 36 did pass. When he turned sixteen, he finally decided that it Abraham Lincoln Didn't Quit ........................................... 36 was time to give up his job as Webelos Den Chief which he An Example of Perseverance - had held for four years. I had been replaced as Cubmaster, but My Den Mother (and my Mother) .................................... 37 he was determined not to leave the new Cubmaster without a Den Chief for the Webelos Den until he was convinced the THOUGHTFUL ITEMS FOR new boy had been trained and was qualified to take over his SCOUTERS job. A replacement was finally found, and after he was convinced that the new leader was ready and trained, he then Thanks to Scouter Jim from Bountiful, Utah, who prepares tendered his resignation. After four years he is now no longer this section of Baloo for us each month. You can reach him Den Chief. Thanks to a great Webelos leader that showed at [email protected] or through the link to write him he had a unique ability to work with younger boys, where Baloo on www.usscouts.org. CD he thrived. Roundtable Prayer Quotations Scouter Jim, Bountiful UT Quotations contain the wisdom of the ages, and are a great Great Creator and Father of all, we thank Thee for the great source of inspiration for Cubmaster’s minutes, material for an gifts Thou have given us and the strength to persevere in our advancement ceremony or an insightful addition to a Pack quest for excellence. Please bless us as we lead these young Meeting program cover charges that we might remember in our hours of trouble and That which we persist in doing becomes easier, not that the discouragement that we must push forward to do our best and task itself has become easier, but that our ability to perform it teach these boys to do their best. We know that there is has improved. Ralph Waldo Emerson nothing impossible if we trust in Thy hand. Amen. The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one Perseverance comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't. Scouter Jim, Bountiful UT Henry Ward Beecher When the world says, "Give up," I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 Hope whispers, "Try it one more time." ways that won't work. Thomas A. Edison Author Unknown Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small I have started several times to begin this thought, but I jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much couldn’t think of where to go, but I kept working at it and it stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend came. There are many examples of perseverance. to take care of themselves. Dale Carnegie I thought of Harlan Sanders, whose life was full of Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that disappointments. He lost his father at the age of five and causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path and became the cook for his family as his mother was forced to you will find you have crossed the mountain. work outside their home to support the family. He lied about Author Unknown his age and joined the Army at sixteen. During his early When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang years, Sanders held many jobs, including: steamboat pilot, on. Franklin D. Roosevelt insurance salesman, railroad fireman and farmer. At the age of 40 he started serving chicken dishes for his service station Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the customers. Because he didn’t have anywhere else to feed ability to stick to one thing till it gets there. Josh Billings them, he served customers in his own living quarters attached The greatest oak was once a little nut who held its ground. to the service station. He succeeding in moving to a larger Author Unknown space, but Interstate 75 bypassed his restaurant. At the age of Fall seven times, stand up eight. Japanese Proverb 65, he took $105 of his first Social Security Check and began He conquers who endures.