OPENING CEREMONIES
Balloon Pop Promise
Longhorn Council
PERSONNEL:
7 Cub Scouts.
EQUIPMENT:
7 balloons to be popped, part of the Cub
Scout Promise on a note inside each.
Cub # 1:
Let’s start this meeting
off with a “BANG”
Cub # 2:
Pop balloon, read: I (name) PROMISE
Cub # 3:
Pop balloon, read: To do my Best
Cub # 4:
Pop balloon, read: To do my Duty to God
Cub # 5:
Pop balloon, read: And My Country
Cub # 6:
Pop balloon, read: To help other People and
Cub # 7:
Pop balloon, read: To Obey the Law of the Pack
Cub # 8:
The Cub Scout Promise
reminds us to be the Best that we can be, to be Proud to be an American.
Cub # 9:
Now let us remind
ourselves of our duty to our country by reciting the Pledge of Allegiance”
SHOW TIME
Circle Ten Council
TV ANNOUNCER: (with microphone) Welcome ladies and gentlemen, boys,
and girls, to one or the greatest family entertainment nights of the year.
This is Show Biz Pack meeting night!
SIGN HOLDER: Cub holding card saying "applause" walks past the front
row of seats showing his can. He can be wearing ear phones as if he is
getting orders from a control booth.
TV ANNOUNCER: We have for you a preview of tonight's attractions.
Tonight for your pleasure we will have songs!
SINGERS: Small group of wildly dressed Cubs with instruments can
come in singing words of a pop song.
SIGN HOLDER: He follows close behind with a sign that says 'yea'.
TV ANNOUNCER: We have for you games!
ATHLETES: A small group of Cubs come in dressed in team uniforms
with balls and giving each other pep talks, sign holder; He follows close
behind with a Sign saying "HOORAY."
TV ANNOUNCER: Of course we will have a little business to discuss.
SIGN HOLDER: Comes close to announcer with a sign that says "BOO".
TV ANNOUNCER: And we will have a lot of fun!
SIGN HOLDER: Comes close to announcer with a sign, that says "OH
BOY".
TV ANNOUNCER: But before we get on with the show, lets all rise and
say the Pledge of allegiance to the Flag.
Lead the Pledge of Allegiance
TV ANNOUNCER: (Like introducing Johnny Carson- swing a pretend golf
club) Now hee--aarrs the Cubmaster.
SIGN HOLDER: Shows the "applause"
sign again.
GREETINGS
Utah
National Parks Council
This is a classic that can be used for
many themes. CD
This ceremony is
introduced by the den chief who explains that the audience is to respond by
doing as the boys say. The boys hold up cards which spell out the word
"greetings". Each boy exposes his card as he speaks his line.
G Glad to see you here tonight.
R Reach out your hand to a friend
on the left or the right.
E Everyone smile and shake his
hand,
E Everyone smile and nod at
another friend.
T Together now, stand up on your
feet.
I I'd like for you all to take
your seat.
N Now that we're all friends,
we'll start the show,
G Good will is a feeling we all
like to know.
S So now we say greetings to
everyone. We've tried to spread good will, and that we've done. So,
Cubmaster, our program's begun! (This boy motions for Cubmaster to come on
stage.)
CUB OPENING OR CLOSING
CEREMONIES
Utah
National Parks Council
These ceremonies are
suitable for openings or closings. You can use them all, or just the parts
you'd like. These letters can be written on posterboard and held by the boys
as they read their parts off the back.
C is for comradeship. We learn to
get along.
U is for
unity. Together we are strong.
B is for
boy. Wild and woolly, but nice.
S is for
socials. You don't need to ask twice.
C is for
courtesy. Of which we all know.
O is for
outings. We are rarin' to go.
U is for
universal. Scouts are known in every land.
T is for
teamwork. We'll all lend you a hand.
W Wow, this is great!
O Oh boy, I
like den meetings!
L Lots of
great crafts and games.
F Fun is
number one!
B Boy, I made it again
E Easy as
pie if you try.
A Always
something new to do
R Ready to
go to Webelos.
W stands for work well done
E stands
for energy and effort.
B stands for
boys who are full of adventure
E stands
for everyone who helped us advance.
L
stands for love of country.
O stands for
opportunities that lie ahead
S stands
for the Scout trail that we follow.
Circus Flag Ceremony Opening
Longhorn Council
The Pack Meeting is set up and run like a
world class circus. The Cubmaster is attired as Ringmaster, all Cub Scouts
are in costumes
Ringmaster: Ladies and Gentlemen, boys and
girls, welcome to our show "Under the Big Top!" Let's greet our circus
performers as they make their grand entry by standing and singing the Star
Spangled Banner.
Play snappy recording of the National Anthem
as flags and color guard lead the parade. All Cub Scouts are in their
den-made costumes as clowns, side show members, aerial artists, trained and
wild animals. Use brilliant colors, fantastic costumes and masks with a lot
of imagination. Have trilling circus music, capricious clowns (den leaders)
fill in slack time between the den circus acts of your show.
Circus Theme
Longhorn Council
The circus is our theme for this month; we
think it is a dilly;
Both circuses and little boys can sometimes be quite silly.
Den leaders find it a natural to do this
kind of show.
They run a three-ring circus every single week, you know.
At a circus there is shouting, roaring,
stamping, whistles tooting;
Tumbling, pushing, falling, wrestling, and a rolling and a-rooting.
At den meetings things keep moving, constant
motion, constant noise.
There are lots of things in common between circuses and boys.
We’ve put all the dens together; it’s not
Ringling Brothers, you know.
But we think you will enjoy it, so let’s get on with the show.
