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Baloo's Bugle

 

August 2004 Cub Scout Roundtable Issue

Volume 11, Issue 1
September 2004 Theme

Theme: Time in a Capsule
Webelos: Citizen and Communicator
  Tiger Cub:
Program & Activities

 

 

GATHERING ACTIVITIES

Photo Gallery

Baloo, February 2000

Have a committee member collect photos of your current leaders when they were say age 3 to 7.  Post them unlabelled and have the Cubs have a contest in seeing how many they can correctly identify.

Photos of the leaders as Cub Scouts or Brownies will be particularly fun.  Even pictures of the leaders as older Scouts are fun, although they might be easier to identify.

Odd Bean

Santa Clara County Council

Supplies:       12 beans for every player plus some extra beans, small plastic bags

Before the meeting, put 12 beans in each plastic bag.  Hand out a set of beans to each player as they arrive.  Opening his bag of 12 beans, one player – say Greg – puts a few beans in one fist, reaches out to another player and asks, “Odds or evens?”  If the other player – Jane guesses correctly that Greg’s closed fist has an odd number of beans in it, she collects those beans.  If she guesses wrong, she has to turn over that many beans to Greg.  The object of the game is to collect all the beans.  When you want to stop playing, the winner is the player with the most beans.

SPACE MAZE

Sam Houston Area Council

 Find the path from the Earth to the Moon.


Historical Objects 

Simon Kenton Council

Distribute copies to all guests and see how many persons they can identify by the following clues

1 A rainbow

a. George Washington

2. A kite

b. Little Red Riding Hood

3. A glass slipper

c. Noah

4. An apple

d. Samson

5. A slingshot

e. William Tell

6. A coat of many colors

f. Ben Franklin

7. A wolf

g. Cinderella

8. Long Hair

h. Joseph

9. A hatchet

i. David

10. A footprint

j. Abe Lincoln

11. A cloak

k. Florence Nightingale

12. A steamboat

l. Robin Hood.

13. A rail fence

m. Paul Bunyan

14. Three ships

n. Little Jack Horner

15. A plum

o. Robert Fulton

16. A blue ox

p. Sir Walter Raleigh

17. Steals from the rich

q. Columbus

18. A famous nurse

r. Robinson Crusoe

 

1-C, 2-F, 3-G, 4-E, 5-I, 6-H, 7-B, 8-D, 9-A, 10-R, 11-P, 12-O, 13-J, 14-Q, 15-N, 16-M, 17-L, 18-K

Fractured Proverbs

Santa Clara County Council

Before the meeting, prepare a card for each player with half a proverb written on it. This game can also be played as a pre-opening mixer.  As each player arrives, hand out the proverb cards to the players.  They will find their partners by putting the two parts of the proverb together.

To play this as a game, chop up each proverb into four pieces of paper instead of two, mix them up and put four disjointed parts into an envelope.  When the guests arrive, hand them each an envelope, or hand players a piece from the envelope.  The winners are the players who put together a proverb first.

You can use the following list of proverbs, or find some other well-known proverbs:

A friend in need is a friend indeed.

A penny saved is a penny earned.

A rolling stone gathers no moss.

A stitch in time saves nine.

A watched pot never boils.

A word to the wise is sufficient.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

Actions speak louder than words.

All that glitters is not gold.

An apple a day keeps the doctor away.

April showers bring May flowers.

Beggars can’t be choosers.

Birds of a feather flock together.

Blood is thicker than water.

Don’t count your chickens before they’re hatched.

Every cloud has a silver lining.

He who laughs last laughs best.

Heaven helps those who help themselves.

Necessity is the mother of invention.

One man’s meat is another man’s poison.

Out of the frying pan, into the fire.

The early bird catches the worm.

The pen is mightier than the sword.

SPACE TRIVIA

Circle Ten Council

 1. What is the name of our galaxy?

a) M100  b) The universe  c) The Milky Way  d) Europa

 2. By weight, the Sun is approximately 70 percent _____?

a) oxygen  b) helium  c) nitrogen  d) hydrogen

 3. Saturn is our solar system's ________?

a) brightest planet  b) second largest planet 

c) smallest planet  d) hottest planet

 4. Lunar exploration formally began in what year?

a) 1959  b) 1964  c) 1969  d) 1972

 5. Is the American flag still on the Moon?

Yes                       No

 6. Who was the first American in space?

a) Alan Shepard  b) Mickey Mantle  c) Jim Lovell 

d) Neil Armstrong

 7. ___ is the second planet from the Sun?

a) Mars  b) Mercury  c) Venus  d) Earth

 8. What was the first Earth orbiting satellite?

a) Viking I  b) Sputnik  c) Lunar Orbiter  d) Explorer I

 9. What does ISS stand for?

a)       Institute of Silly Songs 

b)       International Space Society 

c)       International Space Station 

d)       International Saturn Society

10. ___is the third planet from the Sun?

a) Earth  b) Venus  c) Jupiter  d) Neptune

ANSWERS: 1-c, 2-d, 3-b, 4-a, 5-Yes, 6-a, 7-c, 8-d, 9-c, 10-

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Find These Words -

Astronaut                            Crater                                      Data

Energy                                 Gravity                           Light Year

Megabyte                             Nova                                    Server

Star                                        Tang                                       Dust

Compute                          Cyberspace                                Mars

Galaxy                                 Landing                                Shuttle

Moonbeam                          Rocket                                  Virtual

                                                 Suit

Can you solve the hidden message in the remaining letters?

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