June R.T. theme H2Ohhhhhh

CORE VALUES
Cub Scout Roundtable Leaders’ Guide
Some of the purposes of Cub Scouting developed through this month’s theme are:
ü Personal Achievement, Cub Scouts will gain self-confidence and self-esteem as they develop their swimming skills and water safety knowledge.
ü Character Development, Cub Scouts will learn the importance of water conservation..
ü Preparation for Boy Scouts, By learning swimming safety Cub Scouts will be ready for bigger adventures in Boy Scouts.
The core value highlighted this month is:
ü Responsibility, Cub Scouts will gain a sense of responsibility through the Buddy System and other safety rules in and around water.
Can you think of others??? Hint – look in your Cub Scout Program Helps. It lists different ones!! All the items on both lists are applicable!! You could probably list all twelve if you thought about it!!
Boys’ Life Reading Contest for 2008
SAY ‘YES’ TO READING
Enter the 2008 Boys’ Life Reading Contest
Write a one-page report titled “The Best Book I Read This Year” and enter it in the Boys’ Life 2008 “Say Yes to Reading!” contest.
The book can be fiction or nonfiction. But the report has to be in your own words — 500 words tops. Enter in one of these three age categories:
­ 8 years old and younger
­ 9 and 10 years old
­ 11 years old and older
First-place winners in each age category will receive a $100 gift certificate good for any product in the Boy Scouts official retail catalog. Second-place winners will receive a $75 gift certificate, and third-place winners a $50 certificate.
Everyone who enters will get a free patch like the one shown above. (And, yes, the patch is a temporary insignia, so it can be worn on your Cub Scout or Boy Scout uniform shirt, on the right pocket. Proudly display it there or anywhere!) In coming years, you’ll have the opportunity to earn different patches.
The contest is open to all Boys’ Life readers. Be sure to include your name, address, age and grade in school on the entry.
Send your report, along with a business-size, self-addressed, stamped envelope, to:
Boys’ Life Reading Contest
S306
P.O. Box 152079
Irving, TX 75015-2079
Entries must be postmarked by Dec. 31, 2008 and must include entry information and a self-addressed, stamped envelope.
For more details go to www.boyslife.org
Knot of the Month
Cub Scouter Training Award
Kommisioner Karl
The Cub Scouter Award is available to all registered adult leaders in the Pack, including committee members. The requirements focus on building a better or more effective Pack program. You must complete two years a registered Scouter, fast start, basic and specific training for any position, and be current with Youth Protection Training. In addition, you must complete 5 of 10 options for providing leadership to the pack, via planning special events, training, promoting program basics or assisting program ideas for other leaders. For a downloadable progress record and to see these options, go to:
http://www.scouting.org/filestore/pdf/34169-54.pdf
Chances are, if you are working as a den leader in your Pack; you will complete these requirements over the two years that you are not earning your Den Leader and Webelos Leader awards. You may have Pack Committee members that have done this as well, so get them to training and get them their recognition!
For information on all Cub Scout Leader Awards go to:http://www.scouting.org/cubscouts/resources/CSLeaderRecAwards.aspx

WATER 101 OPENING
Santa Clara County Council
Arrangement: Cubmaster is dressed in a long laboratory coat and slacks that are easy to remove, holding a clipboard, and carrying a briefcase. (He is wearing beach clothes underneath the slacks)
Cubmaster: (Very seriously): Welcome to our Water 101 college pack meeting. I am Professor Cubmaster and I hope that you are all prepared to listen closely and take notes. We are here today to learn about a very important substance--H2O, otherwise known as water. Now the first thing we will study is the molecular structure...
Pack Committee Chair: (Runs in to interrupt Cubmaster) Excuse me, Professor, but today’s pack meeting is Fin Fun. We are supposed to have fun with water, not lecture in Water 101.
Cubmaster: Oh, but I’m sure my secretary told me about a Water 101 lecture I was to give today. (Consults pocket calendar.) How embarrassing. That’s next week. Luckily, every good Scouter comes prepared for nearly everything. Excuse me a moment. (Cubmaster goes away and comes back in beach-going clothes. He opens his briefcase, pulls out sandals, a beach towel, snorkel and fins. He also takes out a small water squirter and squirts the committee chair.) Today we are going to have water activities. It’s going to be fun! Who’s ready to join me??

Fishing Trip Advancement Ceremony
Baltimore Area Council
Setting: The Cubmaster, or whoever is going to lead the advancement ceremony, is starting down memory lane of a recent fishing trip that he made. He starts to relate it to Cub Scouting.
Props: Cubmaster will need clothing for fishing, a pole that is hooked up with a magnetic hook. Cub Lake (some type of tub container to be the fishing hole). Advancements on fish as described below.
Cubmaster: Well, before I tell you who is getting awards tonight, I want to tell you about my latest fishing trip. You all know that any good fisherman will get up before dawn to prepare himself to go fishing. That is when this day started for me. There are seven things I have to do to get ready for a fishing trip, and as I was doing these things, I remembered the seven requirements that my son had to do to get his Bobcat Badge. Just like I prepared to go fishing, my son had to prepare himself to be a Cub Scout.
Call up Cub Scouts and their parents who are getting their Bobcat Badges.
Scouts, here at Pack ____, we are really proud of your accomplishment of completing the 7 requirements for the Bobcat Badge. And just like I have to have a license to go fishing, you have to become a Bobcat to go on in Scouting. Scouts, tonight I'm presenting your parents with your Bobcat Badge. When they give it to you, I want you to always remember how you prepared yourself for Scouting.
Present badges on pretend fishing licenses to the parents
Well, let me continue on with my fishing trip. You won't believe the trouble that I had! Before I even got to the lake, I got lost, and had to look at a map. I then had to make a phone call because I forgot to leave a note to let my family know where I was going to be. Then, once I was at the lake, things didn't get any better. I dropped my bait bucket, I cut my finger. I got knots in my fishing line, I even had to go back to the car for the lunch that I had packed. But you know, some nice things did happen to me too. The day was beautiful, birds were out singing in the trees, and the trail to the lake was clean. I saw some really neat plants growing along side of the path, and I found a really great rock for my son's collection.
Oh, yes you are probably wondering what all of this has to do with Scouting. Well, as I was having all of these problems I remembered the that Tiger Cubs had to look at a map and go Outdoors.
And I thought of the 12 Achievements that Cubs have to do to get their Wolf and Bear badges. And you know, some of the things that they had to learn I needed that day. The first aid for my cut finger, the knots in my line, and the lunch I did remember to pack. In Cub Scouts, boys get a really good understanding of nature and how to take care of the land around them. That path was so clean I bet some fisherman who had been in Cub Scouting had come before me.
So I did go fishing, and caught (insert number of Tiger, Wolf and Bear advancements that you have) really nice fish. Here let me show you.
Cast your line into Cub Lake and catch fish for the Tiger Badge(s), Wolf badge(s), and the Bear Badge(s)
Call up the Cubs with their Parents. If a large number, You may wish to separate by rank. Be sure very boy receives individual recognition.
Scouts, you are receiving your Tiger Badge tonight, and, along with your parents, your Pack is really proud of you and the work you have done. Congratulations.
Scouts, you are receiving your Wolf Badge tonight, and, along with your parents, your Pack is really proud of you and the work you have done. Congratulations.
Scouts. you are receiving your Bear Badge tonight and you have shown us that you take your Cub Scouting seriously. Congratulations.
Well, my fishing trip continued on for a few more hours and I continued to think about Cub Scouting. I thought about how each of the Webelos Scouts earn the different Activity Badges, the badges give the Scout a taste of what Boy Scouting will be like. They just sort of cover what a Scout that is in 4th and 5th grade needs to know.
Will our Webelos leader please come up here tonight. I'm going to go fishing and see if I can find any Webelos Activity Badges down here. Yes there do appear to be a few.
Have Webelos Leader give out the badges to the boys
I want to thank each one of you tonight for coming along with me on this trip, Scouting and fishing sure do have a lot in common, don't you agree?

SONGS
Row, Row, Row Your Boat
Baltimore Area Council
Row, row, row your boatGently down the stream.Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily,Life is but a dream.
Blub blub blub your sub Gently ‘neath the stream Ha ha fooled you all I’m a submarine
Propel Propel Propel your craft Passively down the liquid solution Ecstatic ecstatic ecstatic ecstatic Existence is but an optical illusion

SuperCalifornianExpertSurferoftheOcean
Circle Ten Council
(Tune: Supercalifragilistic)
Chorus:
SuperCalifornianExpertSurferOfTheOcean,
Even though most of them don’t use a suntan lotion
When they hit the waves too hard
They sure do cause commotion.
SuperCalifornianExpertSurferOfTheOcean,
Hum, diddle, diddle, diddle
Hum, diddle, I (up half-tone)
Hum, diddle, diddle, diddle
Hum, diddle, I
Because I was afraid to surf
When I was just a lad
My father took my board away
And told me I was bad
But then one day I learned a word
That every surfer knows
The biggest word you ever heard
And this is how it goes: Chorus
Chorus:

STUNTS AND APPLAUSES
APPLAUSES & CHEERS
Baltimore Area Council
Buccaneer Applause: “Yo, ho, ho and a bottle of Coke”,
Deep Sea Diver Applause: “ Blubb, Blubb, Blubb”.
Water Cheer: “How, How, How, Water, Water, Water, Glug, Glug, Glug, Ah-hhh”
Clam Clap: Ask everyone to roll up his sleeves in preparation for this strenuous applause. Double up your fists with your left arm in front of your face and right arm over-head. Then silently open and close your right fist.
Motorboat Applause: Flutter tongue on roof of mouth.
Seal Applause: Extend your arm straight out in front of you and clap with stiff arms while saying, “‘Arf, arf, arf, arf
Beach Cheer: Divide your audience into 3 groups. When you point to group 1, they yell “Sand.” When you point to group 2, they yell “Surf” And when you point to group 3, they yell “Sun.”
Southern NJ Council
Water Sprinkler Applause Make fist with the right hand with thumb sticking out. Place end of thumb on end of nose. Rapidly open and close fist while saying "Choo, choo, choo, choo," etc. sounding like a water sprinkler and turning around as you go. After a complete turn spin back around the opposite direction, again like a water sprinkler, saying "Wheeee."
RUN-ONS
Longhorn Council
Cub 1: Why do fish have schools?Cub 2: So the buoys and gulls can get an education.Cub 1: Do they have Scouts too?Cub 2: Sure Buoy Scouts and Gull Scouts.
Cub 1: What do buoy scouts do?Cub 2: Make sure the coast is clear.
Cub #1: Why do you keep doing the backstroke?
Cub #2: I just had lunch and I don’t want to swim on a full stomach.
Cub 1: They say that swimming is one of the best exercises for keeping the body slim and trim.Cub 2: Yeah. Right!Cub 1: Why do you say that?Cub 2: Well, did you ever see a whale?
Cub 1: What is the first thing the fisherman caught after running to the river?Cub 2: His breath!
Cub 1: Do you know what sea monsters eat?Cub 2: Sure. Submarine sandwiches!
Cub 1: What ship is always managed by more than one person?
Cub 2: A partnership
Cub 1: What do you call a baby whale?Cub 2: A little squirt.
Santa Clara County Council
Cub 1: I’ve eaten beef all my life and now I’m as strong as an ox.
Cub 2: That’s funny. I’ve eaten fish all my life and I can’t swim a stroke.

CLOSING CEREMONIES
Beach Party
Voyageur Council
This can be done two ways –
ü First - Cubmaster carries a water squirter and a beach towel. Now he lays them down after wringing out some imaginary drops of water from the towel and proceeds to talk.
ü Second - Have Five cub Scouts dressed in beachwear and have each one say a part with appropriate pictures and actions.
Cubmaster - Well we've come to the end of another fun, fishy, delightful pack meeting. In planning a successful activity for Cub Scouts age boys, there are five essential ingredients to include:
Cub #1: First is ACTION. Boys find it impossible to sit and do nothing. Action makes everything much easier. Today we had ACTION!
Cub #2: Second is SOMETHING TO WATCH. Watching and helping celebrate another's accomplishments and hard work is one of the best ways to have fun watching
Cub #3: Third is having SOMETHING TO TALK ABOUT. It's fun for Scouts to hear adults telling stories and fun for them to do things that are worth talking about later. I think we accomplished that today.
Cub #4: Fourth is SOMETHING TO LAUGH AT. We all need to enjoy laughter, and sharing fun experiences is one of the best ways to do that. Did we succeed with laughter?
Cub #5: Fifth is SOMETHING TO HELP WITH. Parents, leaders and family members are involved in helping Cub Scouts move along on their trail toward Bobcat, Wolf, Bear, Webelos, and Arrow of Light. But just in case you missed out on helping this week, we have one more chance -- after the retiring of the colors, you can all HELP with the cleanup!
Cubmaster’s Minutes
Three Important Things
Capital Area Council, TX
To the sailor, three things were essential - a compass, a sextant, and a flag. The compass to tell them where they were heading during the day. The sextant to tell them where they were at night, And the flag to tell them which way the wind is blowing
To Cub Scouts, these three things are important - (show items) a badge, a handbook, and a candle. The badge tells who you are and where you are going' the handbook tells how to get where you are going, and the candle is a symbol of the light of Scouting. It is a light that must be kept burning in the heart of every Scout.
Octopus Tie Slide
Baltimore Area Council
Materials: English walnut shell carefully halved; small wiggle eyes; black chenille stems, black tamper evident ring from a soda bottle; hot glue; craft glue; black acrylic paint.
Instructions:
1. Paint the exterior of half a walnut shell black. Let dry.
2. Consider the pointed end of the shell as the top and use craft glue to attach the eyes approximately a fourth of the way up from the bottom. Let dry.
3. Cut 4 chenille stems in half. Bend each piece in half. Hang them on the soda ring. Put some hot glue into the shell. And carefully press the eight legs and ring into the glue, extending them from the rounded end.
4. When the glue is dry, fill the rest of the shell with hot glue.

CUB GRUB
Edible Aquarium
Baltimore Area Council
Make an edible aquarium in a cup. This is a great party treat you can make with your child.
You will need:
Blue Jell-O Gummy fish
Graham crackers clear plastic cups
ü Crush graham crackers into crumbs for the aquarium “gravel.”
ü Put about ½ inch of crumbs into the bottom of each clear plastic cup.
ü Make blue Jell-O according to the directions on the box.
ü Pour into clear plastic cups. Let them cool in the refrigerator until partially set - about an hour.
ü When they’re partially set, place a few gummy fish in each cup.
ü Put them in the refrigerator until they’re completely set. Eat and enjoy!
Variations include:
ü Frozen fish-Popsicles (just freeze the Jell-O in Popsicle molds - add the gummy fish when they are partially set - unmold very gently when entirely frozen). These are really messy to eat and are best eaten outside.
ü An entire punch bowl of fish Jell-O (made like the cup o’ fish)!