BALOO'S BUGLE Volume 17, Number 2 "Make no small plans. They have no magic to stir men's blood and probably will not themselves be realized." D. Burnham September 2010 Cub Scout Roundtable October 2010 Cub Scout Pack Meeting RESPONSIBILITY

Tiger Cub, Wolf, Bear, and Webelos Meetings 3 and 4 CORE VALUES Responsibility is always discussed in reference to something – Cub Scout Roundtable Leaders’ Guide to be responsible to or for something. For example, the boys The core value highlighted this month is: will learn to be more responsible with money and resources  Responsibility: Fulfilling our duty to God, country, (conservation) later in the year. Because the topic of other people, and ourselves. Cub Scouts will responsibility is so broad, there are many directions leaders understand that everyone is responsible for fire can go with it. prevention, and learn about the importance of keeping This month the boys are learning about responsibility through their promises. the achievements and activity pins they are working on. The Tigers are learning to take more responsibility for their health Catalina Council by making better food choices. The Wolves are also learning Responsibility: to take more responsibility for their health, and are tracking Responsibility is fulfilling our duty to take care of ourselves their progress on their health charts. The Bears are learning to and others. ride a bicycle responsibly, and to take care of their bicycles. Someone who is responsible will: The Webelos are gaining a deeper appreciation for nature,  Be dependable; do what you say you will do. which will hopefully translate into greater environmental  Finish your homework. responsibility. And Arrow of Light Webelos are exercising  Take care of chores at home. (health & fitness responsibility) when they work on their  Be helpful. Aquanaut.  Accept the consequences for your actions. Because responsibility is already built into this month’s  Take care of your personal possessions. activities, leaders can easily work in a quick discussion about responsibility as it relates to what they are doing in their dens. COMMISSIONER’S CORNER Wendy Sorry, this issue kind of got out of control. I was trying to show a little bit for every requirement mentioned in weeks 3 TABLE OF CONTENTS and 4 of the new Den and Pack Meeting Resource guide. In many of the sections you will find subdivisions for the Many, many thanks to my "staff" - Jim, Alice and Joe who various topics covered in the den meetings came through. And especially to our newest member, Wendy CORE VALUES ...... 1 from Seattle!!! Next week, Donna and I take off for Germany COMMISSIONER’S CORNER ...... 1 to see the Passion Play in Oberammergau, "Lutherland" and THOUGHTFUL ITEMS FOR SCOUTERS ...... 2 many other places (e.g the castle that inspired Disney). Quotations ...... 3 Wendy has volunteered to produce Baloo's Bugle while I am TRAINING TOPICS ...... 4 in Germany. Thank you. Character Connections Part 2 ...... 4 You can send Wendy a Thank You for the Table of Contents!! ROUNDTABLES ...... 5 On my copy, it is clickable to get to the designated page!!! PACK ADMIN HELPS - ...... 6 And be sure to read her Commissioners Thought. Youth Leadership In The Pack ...... 6 You'll see Good Manners as the Special Opp as boys can Cub Scout Den Chief ...... 7 certainly learn to be responsible for their behavior. And the SPECIAL OPPORTUNITIES ...... 9 Litterbug Audience Participation fits as we should be Good Manners ...... 9 responsible and not litter. Boys’ Life Reading Contest for 2010 ...... 10 I still don't see a place posted for Sam Houston's Akela Trails Knots of the Month ...... 10 (Pow Wow) Training Day. Hopefully soon. GATHERING ACTIVITIES ...... 11 Responsibility Activities ...... 11 Food Activities ...... 13 Fire Activities ...... 14 Sports Activities ...... 15 BALOO'S BUGLE Page 2 Bike Activities ...... 16 OPENING CEREMONIES ...... 17 THOUGHTFUL ITEMS FOR AUDIENCE PARTICIPATIONS ...... 17 SCOUTERS ADVANCEMENT CEREMONIES ...... 18 Thanks to Scouter Jim from Bountiful, Utah, who prepares SONGS ...... 19 this section of Baloo for us each month. You can reach Responsibility Songs ...... 19 him at [email protected] or through the link to write Food Songs ...... 19 Baloo on www.usscouts.org. CD Fire Songs ...... 20 Bike Song ...... 21 Roundtable Prayer STUNTS AND APPLAUSES...... 21 Scouter Jim APPLAUSES & CHEERS ...... 21 “Great Creator, lead us and let us lead others and we RUN-ONS ...... 21 shoulder our responsibilities to Thee, our country and our JOKES & RIDDLES ...... 22 fellow beings. We accept this responsibility to ‘Do Our SKITS ...... 22 Best’. Amen.” CLOSING CEREMONIES ...... 24 Cubmaster’s Minutes ...... 24 Few things help an individual more than to place CORE VALUE RELATED STUFF ...... 25 responsibility upon him, and to let him know that DEN MEETING REVUE ...... 27 you trust him. Booker T. Washington TIGERS...... 28 WOLVES ...... 28 Teaching Responsibility State Websites for Kids ...... 29 Scouter Jim, Bountiful UT BEARS ...... 30 There is a Scout Troop in our District, where the leaders sit PACK AND DEN ACTIVITIES ...... 31 calmly by at activities and watch youth leaders lead their Food Activities ...... 33 Troop. As a Boy Scout Leader, I would tease the leaders of Fire Activities ...... 33 this Troop saying, all you do at camp is sit in a chair, Sports Activities ...... 34 drinking coffee with a fishing rod. The boys do all the work. Flag Activities ...... 34 This doesn’t just happen, it takes work to teach. It has been First Aid Activities ...... 34 happening through many generations of Scouts. This troop Bike Activities ...... 35 is well organized and completely uniformed at all functions. MORE GAMES AND ACTIVITIES ...... 39 Bountiful Elk’s Troop 220 is a model for others to achieve. ADVANCEMENT IDEAS ...... 40 The following news story appear in Utah Newspapers this Tiger Achievements ...... 40 summer after a tragic automobile accident: Tiger Electives ...... 40 Wolf Achievements ...... 40 Boy credited with saving children Wolf Electives ...... 41 after southern Utah wreck Bear Achievements ...... 41 Deseret News, Wednesday, June 16, 2010 Bear Electives ...... 41 NEW HARMONY — A 12-year-old boy helped Webelos Activity Pins ...... 42 drag three younger children from a car accident GAMES ...... 42 that killed a New Harmony woman then walked a Food Games ...... 44 mile for help Monday. Fire Games ...... 45 The car's driver, Beth Donnelly, 24, died at the Sports Games ...... 46 scene when the vehicle went off the edge of a steep Bike Games ...... 49 embankment, said Washington County Sheriff's Law Enforcement Games ...... 50 Chief Deputy Robert Torsigni. CUB GRUB ...... 50 "Food" Food ...... 51 "I remember we fishtailed and went off the edge," "Fire" Food ...... 53 Cory Arnett told The Associated Press Tuesday. Sports Food ...... 53 Arnett helped pull Donnelly's 3-year-old daughter First Aid Food ...... 54 and two other children from the car, helped them Bike Food ...... 54 up the embankment, and then walked a mile before Law Enforcement Food ...... 55 flagging down a nurse. WEBELOS ...... 55 When Cory checked Donnelly, he said she was Forester/Naturalist ...... 57 bleeding and unresponsive. Traveler/Athlete ...... 58 "The medics said she died instantly — and I knew Outdoorsman - ...... 59 that. But it was my responsibility to get the kids out Sportsman - ...... 61 of there," Cory said. More Webelos Stuff ...... 61 POW WOW EXTRAVAGANZAS ...... 65 The crash occurred on a steep dirt road outside WEB SITES ...... 65 New Harmony, Torsigni said. ONE LAST THING ...... 65 BALOO'S BUGLE Page 3 The four children were treated for minor injuries at We need to restore the full meaning of that old word, duty. Valley View Medical Center in Cedar City and It is the other side of rights. Pearl Buck later released, Torsigni said. With every civil right there has to be a corresponding civil What would make a 12-year-old boy think it was his obligation. Edison Haines “responsibility to get the kids out” of the car. I don’t know I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every the principals in this story, but New Harmony is small town opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty. in a remote corner of Utah. Ten years ago the town of New John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Harmony only had 190 residents. This young man was most We have the Bill of Rights. What we need is a Bill of probably a Boy Scout, and may have even been the Den Responsibilities. Bill Maher Chief in the Cub Scout Pack. Maybe he was not a Den Chief as that position is not as widely used as it should be. Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame. Erica Jong My own son is the Den Chief in my Webelos Pack. He has been Den Chief for several years, even earning his Den When you blame others, you give up your power to change. Chief Service Award. Each Cub Scout Den needs a Author Unknown committed Den Chief. These young men lead and learn The ultimate folly is to think that something crucial to your responsibility by serving others, while Cub Scouts learn both welfare is being taken care of for you. Robert Brault Scout skills and the value of service at the hands of an older Even when we know what is right, too often we fail to act. mentor. More often we grab greedily for the day, letting tomorrow Not only does every Cub Scout Den deserve a Den Chief, bring what it will, putting off the unpleasant and unpopular. they deserve to be able to serve as Denner and Assistant Bernard M. Baruch Denner and have the responsibility of leadership. This I don't see the point of being a human being if you're not positions rotates often as required and allows all boys a going to be responsible to your fellow human beings. change to serve, lead, and learn responsibility. Selfishness thefts away the human and reduces you to just a The best way to teach boys responsibility is to give them being. Terri Guillemets responsibility. It is often difficult for leaders to let go of The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide some control and allow the boys to lead their own program. your problems are your own. You do not blame them on Young leaders don’t always know what to do. Flag your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that ceremonies can be taught to the Den, so that Denners can you control your own destiny. Albert Ellis lead them at Den and Pack meetings by the Den Chief. Den Chiefs are the prefect way to teach many of these basic Duty is what one expects from others. Oscar Wilde Scout skills. Let the older boys teach younger boys the For me the diamond dawns are set things they have learned in Scouting and the younger scouts In rings of beauty, will “pay it forward” in time teaching others. And all my ways are dewy wet Let boy have some responsibility in leading their own With pleasant duty. John Townsend Trowbridge program and they will take ownership and the whole program will benefit. A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed. William James See Den Chief Description under Training Topics Mistakes fail in their mission of helping the person who blames them on the other fellow. Henry S. Haskins Quotations You are not responsible for the programming you picked up Quotations contain the wisdom of the ages, and are a great in childhood. However, as an adult, you are one hundred source of inspiration for Cubmaster’s minutes, material for percent responsible for fixing it. Ken Keyes, Jr. an advancement ceremony or an insightful addition to a God has entrusted me with myself. Epictetus Pack Meeting program cover We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put adulthood until... we have stopped saying "It got lost," and some responsibility on their shoulders. Abigail Van Buren say "I lost it." Sidney J. Harris W