BALOO's BUGLE Volume 17, Number 6P "Make No Small Plans
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BALOO'S BUGLE Volume 17, Number 6P "Make no small plans. They have no magic to stir men's blood and probably will not themselves be realized." D. Burnham --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- January 2011 Cub Scout Roundtable February 2011Activities RESOURCEFULNESS February 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 Resourcefulness: Using human resources and other COMMISSIONER’S CORNER ........................................... 1 resources to their fullest. Through participating in Cub THOUGHTFUL ITEMS FOR SCOUTERS ........................ 2 Scout activities, boys will learn different ways to solve Roundtable Prayer ............................................................ 2 problems using various methods and means. American Resourcefulness ............................................... 2 COMMISSIONER’S CORNER Quotations ......................................................................... 2 Pow Wow Books needed (REALLY NEEDED) Stories of Resourceful Americans .................................... 3 I need ideas for Baloo for the Core Values. This month is TRAINING TOPICS ............................................................ 6 mainly Pinewood Derby not Positive Attitude. Please help. Your Relationships are your Resources The District and Thanks to Jim, Pat and Bill, I have Great Salt Lake, Your Pack ......................................................................... 6 Baltimore and Cascade Pacific. ROUNDTABLES ................................................................. 8 I am looking for different ways to present achievements. PACK ADMIN HELPS - ..................................................... 8 So if you have come up with ideas for den meetings Den Chiefs What Are They And How Do I Use Them? .. 8 centered on the achievements & electives, please email Resourcefulness & the Blue & Gold Dinner .................. 10 them to [email protected] so we can LEADER RECOGNITION & INSTALLATION .............. 10 include them in Baloo. And if you have good ideas for SPECIAL OPPORTUNITIES ............................................ 12 Character Connections, please email those, too. Duty to God Promotion Patch ......................................... 12 Here I am late again in 2011. Sorry but a trip to Religious Emblems ......................................................... 13 Alamogordo, NM, to see our daughter had to occur. And FAQs about Religious Emblems..................................... 13 houseguests who moved in with two kids under 3, and projects at work all took a toll. Hope you enjoy. Knot of the Month .......................................................... 15 Adult Religious Recognitions ......................................... 15 GATHERING ACTIVITIES .............................................. 15 OPENING CEREMONIES ................................................ 22 AUDIENCE PARTICIPATIONS ...................................... 25 ADVANCEMENT CEREMONIES ................................... 26 SONGS ............................................................................... 32 STUNTS AND APPLAUSES ............................................ 37 APPLAUSES & CHEERS ............................................. 37 RUN-ONS ...................................................................... 38 JOKES & RIDDLES ...................................................... 38 SKITS ................................................................................. 39 GAMES .............................................................................. 44 CLOSING CEREMONIES ................................................ 47 Cubmaster’s Minutes ...................................................... 49 BALOO'S BUGLE - PACK EDITION Page 2 CORE VALUE RELATED STUFF .................................. 50 I firmly believe this; and I also believe that without His PACK ACTIVITIES ........................................................... 51 concurring aid we shall succeed, in this political MORE GAMES AND ACTIVITIES .................................. 52 building, no better than the builders of Babel. We shall CUB GRUB ........................................................................ 52 be divided by our little partial local interests; our POW WOW EXTRAVAGANZAS .................................... 52 projects will be confounded; and we ourselves shall WEB SITES ........................................................................ 52 become a reproach and by-word down to future ages. ONE LAST THING ............................................................ 53 And, what is worse, mankind may hereafter, from this unfortunate instance, despair of establishing THOUGHTFUL ITEMS FOR governments by human wisdom, and leave it to chance, SCOUTERS war, and conquest. Thanks to Scouter Jim from Bountiful, Utah, who prepares I therefore beg leave to move that, henceforth, prayers this section of Baloo for us each month. You can reach imploring the assistance of Heaven, and its blessings on him at [email protected] or through the link to write our deliberations, be held in this assembly every Baloo on www.usscouts.org. CD morning before we proceed to business, and that one or more of the clergy of this city be requested to officiate in that service. Roundtable Prayer During the months of February we celebrate the births of Scouter Jim, Bountiful UT two of our greatest American Presidents, George O Powerful Goodness! Bountiful Father! Merciful Guide! Washington and Abraham Lincoln. Both of these men lead Increase in me that Wisdom which discovers my truest our country through dire times. They both usec all the Interests; Strengthen my Resolutions to perform what that resources that were available to them. They were great and Wisdom dictates. Accept my kind Offices to thy other resourceful men. As we learn about Resourcefulness this Children as the only Return in my Power for thy continual month and remember our Presidents, It would be well to Favors to me. Amen Benjamin Franklin remember that our Duty to God and our Country are not aat American Resourcefulness odds. Sometimes while we serve our County, we are also brought closer to our God. What Greater Resource could Scouter Jim, Bountiful UT we want or need. Benjamin Franklin is known as a Inventor, Discovery, Statesman and Leader. Despite his great fame and I have been driven many times to my knees by the influence, he never sought or held public office beyond overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. being a delegate to Congress and the Constitutional Abraham Lincoln Convention and an Ambassador. He stood before and gave this address to the Constitutional Convention on 28 June Quotations 1787 during the debate of our new nation’s Constitution wit Quotations contain the wisdom of the ages, and are a great these words: source of inspiration for Cubmaster’s minutes, material for an advancement ceremony or an insightful addition to a In this situation of this assembly, groping, as it were, in Pack Meeting program cover the dark, to find political truth, and scarce able to distinguish it when presented to us, how has it Philippians 4:13 I can do all things through Christ which happened, sir, that we have not hitherto once thought of strengtheneth me. King James Bible humbly applying to the Father of lights to illuminate Never trouble another for what you can do yourself. our understandings. In the beginning of the contest Thomas Jefferson with Great Britain, when we were sensible of dangers, You can always find a capable helping hand at the end of we had daily prayer in this room for the divine your own sleeve. Zig Ziglar protection. Our prayers, sir, were heard, and they were There's nothing more dangerous than a resourceful idiot.” graciously answered. All of us who were engaged in Scott Adams quotes (American Cartoonist, b.1957) the struggle must have observed frequent instances of a superintending Providence in our favor. To that kind “Remember you will not always win. Some days, the most Providence we owe this happy opportunity of resourceful individual will taste defeat. But there is, in this consulting in peace on the means of establishing our case, always tomorrow - after you have done your best to future national felicity. And have we now forgotten that achieve success today. Maxwell Maltz powerful Friend? Or do we imagine that we no longer Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. need his assistance? They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our I have lived, sir, a long time, and, the longer I live, the country and our people, and neither do we. more convincing proofs I see of this truth--that God President George W. Bush governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying an empire can rise without his aid? We have been anyway. Mary Kay Ash assured, sir, in the sacred writings, that 'Except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it.' BALOO'S BUGLE - PACK EDITION Page 3 Bell invented a metal detector after President James Garfield Stories of