Cub Scout Den Chief - US Scouting Service Project

CORE VALUES Cub Scout Roundtable Leaders' Guide
The core value highlighted this month is:
V Responsibility: Fulfilling our duty to God, country, other people, and
ourselves. Cub Scouts will understand that everyone is responsible for
fire prevention, and learn about the importance of keeping their
promises. Catalina Council
Responsibility:
Responsibility is fulfilling our duty to take care of ourselves and others.
Someone who is responsible will:
< Be dependable; do what you say you will do.
< Finish your homework.
< Take care of chores at home.
< Be helpful.
< Accept the consequences for your actions.
< Take care of your personal possessions. COMMISSIONER'S CORNER Sorry, this issue kind of got out of control. I was trying to show a
little bit for every requirement mentioned in weeks 3 and 4 of the new Den
and Pack Meeting Resource guide. Many, many thanks to my "staff" - Jim,
Alice and Joe who came through. And especially to our newest member, Wendy
from Seattle!!! Next week, Donna and I take off for Germany to see the
Passion Play in Oberammergau, "Lutherland" and many other places (e.g the
castle that inspired Disney). Wendy has volunteered to produce Baloo's
Bugle while I am in Germany. Thank you.
You can send Wendy a Thank You for the Table of Contents!! On my copy, it
is clickable to get to the designated page!!! And be sure to read her
Commissioners Thought.
You'll see Good Manners as the Special Opp as boys can certainly learn to
be responsible for their behavior. And the Litterbug Audience
Participation fits as we should be responsible and not litter.
I still don't see a place posted for Sam Houston's Akela Trails (Pow Wow)
Training Day. Hopefully soon.
Responsibility is always discussed in reference to something - to be
responsible to or for something. For example, the boys will learn to be
more responsible with money and resources (conservation) later in the year.
Because the topic of responsibility is so broad, there are many directions
leaders can go with it.
This month the boys are learning about responsibility through the
achievements and activity pins they are working on. The Tigers are
learning to take more responsibility for their health by making better food
choices. The Wolves are also learning to take more responsibility for
their health, and are tracking their progress on their health charts. The
Bears are learning to ride a bicycle responsibly, and to take care of their
bicycles. The Webelos are gaining a deeper appreciation for nature, which
will hopefully translate into greater environmental responsibility. And
Arrow of Light Webelos are exercising (health & fitness responsibility)
when they work on their Aquanaut.
Because responsibility is already built into this month's activities,
leaders can easily work in a quick discussion about responsibility as it
relates to what they are doing in their dens.
Wendy
TABLE OF CONTENTS
In many of the sections you will find subdivisions for the various topics
covered in the den meetings
CORE VALUES 1
COMMISSIONER'S CORNER 1
THOUGHTFUL ITEMS FOR SCOUTERS 2
Quotations 3
TRAINING TOPICS 4
Character Connections Part 2 4
ROUNDTABLES 5
PACK ADMIN HELPS - 6
Youth Leadership In The Pack 6
Cub Scout Den Chief 7
SPECIAL OPPORTUNITIES 9
Good Manners 9
Boys' Life Reading Contest for 2010 10
Knots of the Month 10
GATHERING ACTIVITIES 11
Responsibility Activities 11
Food Activities 13
Fire Activities 14
Sports Activities 15
Bike Activities 16
OPENING CEREMONIES 17
AUDIENCE PARTICIPATIONS 17
ADVANCEMENT CEREMONIES 18
SONGS 19
Responsibility Songs 19
Food Songs 19
Fire Songs 20
Bike Song 21
STUNTS AND APPLAUSES 21
APPLAUSES & CHEERS 21
RUN-ONS 21
JOKES & RIDDLES 22
SKITS 22
CLOSING CEREMONIES 24
Cubmaster's Minutes 24
CORE VALUE RELATED STUFF 25
DEN MEETING REVUE 27
TIGERS 28
WOLVES 28
State Websites for Kids 29
BEARS 30
PACK AND DEN ACTIVITIES 31
Food Activities 33
Fire Activities 33
Sports Activities 34
Flag Activities 34
First Aid Activities 34
Bike Activities 35
MORE GAMES AND ACTIVITIES 39
ADVANCEMENT IDEAS 40
Tiger Achievements 40
Tiger Electives 40
Wolf Achievements 40
Wolf Electives 41
Bear Achievements 41
Bear Electives 41
Webelos Activity Pins 42
GAMES 42
Food Games 44
Fire Games 45
Sports Games 46
Bike Games 49
Law Enforcement Games 50
CUB GRUB 50
"Food" Food 51
"Fire" Food 53
Sports Food 53
First Aid Food 54
Bike Food 54
Law Enforcement Food 55
WEBELOS 55
Forester/Naturalist 57
Traveler/Athlete 58
Outdoorsman - 59
Sportsman - 61
More Webelos Stuff 61
POW WOW EXTRAVAGANZAS 65
WEB SITES 65
ONE LAST THING 65 THOUGHTFUL ITEMS FOR SCOUTERS Thanks to Scouter Jim from Bountiful, Utah, who prepares this section of
Baloo for us each month. You can reach him at bobwhitejonz@juno.com or
through the link to write Baloo on www.usscouts.org. CD
Roundtable Prayer
Scouter Jim
"Great Creator, lead us and let us lead others and we shoulder our
responsibilities to Thee, our country and our fellow beings. We accept
this responsibility to 'Do Our Best'. Amen." Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him,
and to let him know that you trust him. Booker T. Washington
Teaching Responsibility
Scouter Jim, Bountiful UT
There is a Scout Troop in our District, where the leaders sit calmly by at
activities and watch youth leaders lead their Troop. As a Boy Scout
Leader, I would tease the leaders of this Troop saying, all you do at camp
is sit in a chair, drinking coffee with a fishing rod. The boys do all the
work. This doesn't just happen, it takes work to teach. It has been
happening through many generations of Scouts. This troop is well
organized and completely uniformed at all functions. Bountiful Elk's
Troop 220 is a model for others to achieve.
The following news story appear in Utah Newspapers this summer after a
tragic automobile accident:
Boy credited with saving children
after southern Utah wreck
Deseret News, Wednesday, June 16, 2010 NEW HARMONY - A 12-year-old boy helped drag three younger children from a
car accident that killed a New Harmony woman then walked a mile for help
Monday.
The car's driver, Beth Donnelly, 24, died at the scene when the vehicle
went off the edge of a steep embankment, said Washington County Sheriff's
Chief Deputy Robert Torsigni.
"I remember we fishtailed and went off the edge," Cory Arnett told The
Associated Press Tuesday.
Arnett helped pull Donnelly's 3-year-old daughter and two other children
from the car, helped them up the embankment, and then walked a mile
before flagging down a nurse.
When Cory checked Donnelly, he said she was bleeding and unresponsive.
"The medics said she died instantly - and I knew that. But it was my
responsibility to get the kids out of there," Cory said.
The crash occurred on a steep dirt road outside New Harmony, Torsigni
said.
The four children were treated for minor injuries at Valley View Medical
Center in Cedar City and later released, Torsigni said.
What would make a 12-year-old boy think it was his "responsibility to get
the kids out" of the car. I don't know the principals in this story, but
New Harmony is small town in a remote corner of Utah. Ten years ago the
town of New Harmony only had 190 residents. This young man was most
probably a Boy Scout, and may have even been the Den 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.
My own son is the Den Chief in my Webelos Pack. He has been Den Chief for
several years, even earning his Den Chief Service Award. Each Cub Scout
Den needs a committed Den Chief. These young men lead and learn
responsibility by serving others, while Cub Scouts learn both Scout skills
and the value of service at the hands of an older mentor.
Not only does every Cub Scout Den deserve a Den Chief, they deserve to be
able to serve as Denner and Assistant Denner and have the responsibility of
leadership. This positions rotates often as required and allows all boys
a change to serve, lead, and learn responsibility.
The best way to teach boys responsibility is to give them responsibility.
It is often difficult for leaders to let go of some control and allow the
boys to lead their own program. Young leaders don't always know what to
do. Flag ceremonies can be taught to the Den, so that Denners can lead
them at Den and Pack meetings by the Den Chief. Den Chiefs are the
prefect way to teach many of these basic Scout skills. Let the older boys
teach younger boys the things they have learned in Scouting and the younger
scouts will "pay it forward" in time teaching others.
Let boy have some responsibility in leading their own program and they will
take ownership and the whole program will benefit.
See Den Chief Description under Training Topics Quotations Quotations contain the wisdom of the ages, and are a great source of
inspiration for Cubmaster's minutes, material for an advancement ceremony
or an insightful addition to a Pack Meeting program cover
If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some
responsibility on their shoulders. Abigail Van Buren
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