September RT Theme New Buddies

FOCUS
Cub Scout Roundtable Leaders’ Guide
What wonderful possibilities the school year brings!! This month a Cub Scout can invite a new buddy to join the fun and adventure of Cub Scouting! Along with their new and old friends, the boys will learn the value of friendship, cooperation, and respect through games and activities. The boys will practice the buddy system as they go on hikes, work on projects, and participate in sports.
Actually, any month a Cub Scout can invite a new buddy to join the fun and adventure of Cub Scouting. We just emphasize it more this month!! CD

New BuddiesScouter

Jim, Bountiful UTI have a Scout Leader friend, who has a fun way of recruiting new Cub Scouts to her Den. She lives in an inner-city area on the west side Salt Lake City, where there are many poor and immigrant families. While she is holding her Den activities, she literally grabs boys off the street that are walking by during her Den meetings that look like the appropriate age to be Cub Scouts, and she invites them to join the fun and games of her den. Instantly these sometimes “lost boys” have a place where they belong and have a new group of “Buddies.” This is a great way to “grow” the pack and give some young men, some of which are “at risk,” a safe, new outlet for their energy. How many Scout Leaders have boys who live in their neighborhoods of Cub Scout age that are not in the program anywhere? I am guessing the number is too great to count.September begins a new Scout year and a new chance to grow our Packs. We don’t want to grow our packs so we can improve our numbers and look good to our peers. Boy Scouts of America is a service organization. We want to grow our packs so we can reach more boys and save more lives.Recruiter Striphttp://www.usscouts.org/ Since all packs are involved in recruiting, I thought it would be appropriate for September to remind you about an incentive award for boys to get their friend to join Scouting. See Pack Admin Helps for ideas for Spring Recruiting. - CDCub Scouts and Boy Scouts may be awarded, and wear, below the right pocket on their uniforms, the Recruiter Strip shown aboveThere are NO formal requirements for these strips. Each Unit establishes the procedure for awarding the strip. Usually, a Recruiter Strip is awarded to a Cub Scout or Boy Scout the first time he is successful in getting a friend, relative, classmate, or other acquaintance to join his unit.Typically, only ONE strip is awarded to a boy while he is a Cub Scout, and another may be awarded while he is a Boy Scout. But there is no official limit.From time to time there are special Recruiter Patches issued. I have seen Football Helmets, Garfield, and others. Just remember – A boy has to be having fun in Cub Scouting before he will ask his friend to join.

OPENING CEREMONIES

Be sure to check out the opening audience stunt under Stunts and Applauses.

CD Do Your Best Opening Sam Houston Area Council

Materials: 10 cards with the letters to spell out “Do Your Best”. The part to be read can be written on the back of the cards in LARGE letters.

Narrator: Welcome to our night of making new friends, new buddies! Cub Scouts truly are wonderful because of their attitude, their determination, and their keeping the Cub Scout Motto.

Cub # 1: D – Doing for others in need

Cub # 2: O – One country, allegiance and creed

Cub # 3: Y – Yes, a response we give

Cub # 4: O– Oath that we pledge to live

Cub # 5: U – Under one flag we all stand

Cub # 6: R – Ready to defend our great land

Cub # 7: B – Beauty, we see it each day

Cub # 8: E – Eagerness we all should display

Cub # 9: S – Service, and love toward others

Cub # 10: T – Thankfulness for making us brothers.

Narrator Have a Color Guard present the flags and invite the audience to stand and join in the Pledge of Allegiance.

SKITS

CUBNAC

Circle 10 Council

Preparation: The following answers and questions can be used in a Cubnac presentation (based on the Johnny Carson "Carnac" routine.) A Cub Scout dresses in a turban and cape and his assistant (or use a different assistant for each question) carries in envelopes with questions inside. After Cubnac holds each envelope to his forehead in order to “telepathically” come up with the answer (it is written on the outside of each envelope), he states the answer out loud, opens the envelope and reads the question. The boys can ham this up as much as they want.

Answer Dances with Wolves

Question What would you call a den leader who square dances with her den?

Answer I Can Bear No More

Question What does a new Webelos Scout say?

Answer Bobcat

Question What would you call Robert Cat if you were a close friend?

Answer Bear, Aaron, and Wells Fargo

Question Name a rank, a Hank, and a bank.

Answer Rankled

Question What happens to patches on your uniform after washing?

Answer Arrow of Light

Question What would you call 20 candles in a straight line?

Answer Tiger Paws

Question What do you call a group of Tiger fathers?

CLOSING CEREMONIES

Three Pleasant Things Closing Sam Houston Area Council

Cub # 1: Even though it’s time to bring this meeting to an end, let us tell you three pleasant things.

Cub # 2: We are here.

Cub # 3: We are here together.

Cub # 4: We think well of one another.

Cub # 5: If we would take the time to remember these three pleasant things whenever we are together, every meeting would be a success.

Superstition District Flag Ceremony

***FORMAL FLAG CEREMONY -- OPENING COLORS

Color Guard, Attention! (**when commanding the color guard, say the word “attention” in an authoritative way… like, “Aaa-tennnn-TION!!!!” – this will also help the audience realize that the flag ceremony is starting**)
Color Guard, Forward March!
The audience should rise at the Flag becomes visable.
The audience at this point should not salute or cover their hearts. The flag will still be furrled
(>>wait for color guard to reach the front<<) Color Guard, Halt!
Color Guard, Present the Colors ( Color Guard will now un- furl the flag and hold it at a 40 degree angle, all in uniform will salute and those not it uniform cover their hearts.)
At this point the announcer will begin the Pledge of Allegiance and the Audience will follow suit.
I pledge allegiance - to the Flag - of the United States of America - And to the Republic - for which it stands - One Nation Under God – Indivisible - and with Liberty and Justice for All.
(**Color Guard does not salute or say the Pledge of Allegiance**)
TWO! (**Everyone drops salute**)
Color Guard Post the Flag of the United States of America!
Color Guard, Post the Flag of the Great State of [your state name]!
Color Guard, Post the Flag of [your town name]’s Pack ###!
Color Guard, Honor your Colors! (**Flag bearers salute the US flag**)
TWO! (Color Guard dops salute)
Color Guard, return to ranks. (>>wait for flag bearers return to formation<<) Color Guard, Halt! Color Guard, At Ease! Audience, Please be seated.

**FORMAL FLAG CEREMONY CLOSING COLORS
Color Guard, Attention!
Audience, Please Rise!
Color Guard, Forward March! (>>wait for color guard to reach the front<<) Color Guard, Halt! Scout Salute! TWO!
Color Guard, Retrieve the Colors! (>>wait for flag bearers to pick up their flags<<) Color Guard, Return to Ranks! (>>wait for flag bearers to return to formation<<) Audience, Thank you for joining us. Color Guard, Dismissed!


Just a couple of rules to remember:
1. You never salute a furled flag ( ie a flag that is being held against the pole)
2. The United States flag should never be crossed behind another flag. The U.S. flag will always be in front.
3. The United States flag should never be lower than another flag. So hold it up higher
4. The U.S. flag should be posted to the right of a speaker or on the audiences left.
5. The Color Guard should not salute or say the Pledge of Allegiance. Their job is to guard the flag at that
moment.
6. The announcer does not have to invite the audience to say the Pledge, he can just start and the audience
will follow.
7. In the Pledge, there is no pause between One Nation Under God.
8. The word TWO at the end of the Pledge just means second position. First position is the salute, and TWO, or second position is to break salute.
9. It is o.k. to direct the audience of what they are supposed to do before beginning the Flag ceremony. To
remind them to stand when the flag becomes visible in their peripheral vision and to place their hands
over their heart once the flag as been presented.


The Color Guard can be, but is not limited to 3 persons in Uniform
(another reason boys need uniforms)
There should be at least a flag bearer and 2 guards for each flag. So 3 color guards for the U.S. Flag and 3 guards for the State Flag and a bearer for a Pack flag. (Pack flag does not need guards)


This ceremony has been adopted by the Superstition District as the Proper Flag Ceremony for the Boys Scouts of America.
There are several different versions that are available, but this will be the one taught and hopefully done properly at Round Table.