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June Cub Scout Roundtable Issue
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Volume 7, Issue 11
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American ABCs
Webelos Aquanaut & Geologist
Tiger Graduation
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PRE-OPENING
ACTIVITY
American
ABC’s
Can You Name Them?
York Adams Council
Give everyone a blank sheet of
paper and see how many American people, places, and things they can list from A
to Z.
State
Facts
Simon Kenton Council
Copy
the map of the United States so that you have one for each Cub Scout or one for
each person at the pack meeting. People
should write the name of each state and it’s capital in the space for the
state (or as close as possible to small states, with an arrow pointing to the
appropriate state). After the
meeting opens, reveal a large U.S. map for everyone to check answers.
Give a prize to all who correctly identified the states and capitals.
Optional:
Suggest that they write in any additional information they know, such
as the state bird, flower, tree, song, or nickname.
People write their names on the papers and turn them in.
A leader or other adult uses a list, an encyclopedia, or other reference
book about the United States to check the papers.
Give a prize to the one with most correct answers.
Spell
It Out
Sam Houston Area Council
Equipment:
Pencil and Paper
Directions:
1.
Give the Cubs a phrase made up of two or three words.
2.
From that phrase, the Cubs must come up with as many words as possible.
Challenge them by making them think of words only with “B”, or
“S”, or “D,” or limit them to just three letter words or four letter
words.
3.
Use a phrase that is common to your pack or den.
Or perhaps one like:
INDEPENDENCE
DAY
(Pen,
den, nine, dine, pay, day, nice, dice, pace, yen)
Take
a hike with your Cubs through your neighborhood, yard, or local park and ask
them to try to find something that begins with a letter of the alphabet--A, B,
C. This can played as teams
as a scavenger hunt too. Remind
your Cubs that working together as a team provides the best outcome.
Flag
Pieces
Circle 10 Council
Draw/locate a
sufficient number of pictures of different flags and cut them into 2 or 3 pieces
to accommodate the number of people you have attending a den or pack meeting.
Mix and distribute flag pieces as members arrive at the meeting.
Ask people to find those people holding the other pieces of their flag
and introduce themselves to each other.
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