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
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1 A rainbow |
a. George
Washington |
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2. A kite |
b. Little Red
Riding Hood |
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3. A glass
slipper |
c. Noah |
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4. An apple |
d. Samson |
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5. A slingshot |
e. William Tell |
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6. A coat of
many colors |
f. Ben Franklin |
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7. A wolf |
g. Cinderella |
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8. Long Hair |
h. Joseph |
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9. A hatchet |
i. David |
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10. A footprint |
j. Abe Lincoln |
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11. A cloak |
k. Florence
Nightingale |
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12. A steamboat |
l. Robin Hood. |
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13. A rail fence |
m. Paul Bunyan |
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14. Three ships |
n. Little Jack
Horner |
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15. A plum |
o. Robert Fulton |
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16. A blue ox |
p. Sir Walter
Raleigh |
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17. Steals from
the rich |
q. Columbus |
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18. A famous
nurse |
r. Robinson
Crusoe |
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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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Crater Data
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