OPENING
CEREMONIES
C-I-R-C-U-S
Circle Ten Council
PERSONNEL: Six Cubs dressed as clowns carrying balloons, each with a letter
in CIRCUS on it.
Cub # 1:
C - Come and watch what we have in store.
Cub # 2:
I - Including fantastic acts never seen before.
Cub # 3:
R - Roaring lions may fill you with fright.
Cub # 4:
C - Clowns will be making you laugh all night.
Cub # 5:
U - Using the Pledge of Allegiance for our show
to begin.
Cub # 6:
S - Stand now together as our flag is brought
in.
Circus of Stars
Heart of America
Council
Personnel – 10 Cub Scouts in
circus costumes. (Or if you are short on boys, use 5 and double the parts)
Cards with circus pictures facing the audience. Their parts are on back in
LARGE print. (Or just have Cubmaster read the poem)
Cub # 1:
It’s a Circus of Stars is our theme for this
month; we think it is a dilly;
Cub # 2:
Both circuses and little boys can sometimes be
quite silly.
Cub # 3:
Den leaders find it a natural to do this kind of
show.
Cub # 4:
They run a three-ring circus every single week,
you know.
Cub # 5:
At a circus there is shouting, roaring,
stamping, whistles tooting;
Cub # 6:
Tumbling, pushing, falling, wrestling, and a
rolling and a-rooting.
Cub # 7:
At den meetings things keep moving, constant
motion, constant noise.
Cub # 8:
There are lots of things in common between
circuses and boys.
Cub # 9:
We’ve put all the dens together; it’s not
Ringling Brothers, you know.
Cub # 10:
But we think you will enjoy it, so let’s get on
with the show.
C-L-O-W-N
Circle Ten Council
PERSONNEL: Five Cub Scouts enter, dressed as clowns, holding posters with
large letters and sayings on back.
Cub # 1:
C - C is for Cub Scouts - Cub Scouts like to
laugh and to have fun.
Cub # 2:
L - L is for Leaders - Leaders are there to
show, teach and to help.
Cub # 3:
O - O is for Opportunity - An opportunity to
have boys laugh with you rather than at you.
Cub # 4:
W - W is for Webelos - Webelos are older Cub
Scouts that also like to laugh and have fun.
Cub # 5:
N - N is for nothing - Nothing in the world has
more learning and laughter and fun than Cub Scouting.
Circus Opening (and Pack Show ideas)
Longhorn Council
The Pack Meeting is set up and run
like a world class circus. The Cubmaster is attired as a ringmaster. Cub
Scouts are in costumes.
Ringmaster: Ladies and gentlemen,
boys and girls, welcome to “The Circus of Stars!” Let’s greet our performers as
they make their grand entrance by standing and singing the Star Spangled Banner
(or another patriotic marching song)
Play a snappy recording of the chosen
song 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 lots of
imagination. Have thrilling circus music and capricious clowns (Den Leaders
would be good for this part) fill in slack time between the circus acts in the
show.
Smiling
Heart of America
Council
Personnel: 6 Cub Scouts
Cub # 1:
If your
life is to be as happy As a circus, bright and gay,
Cub # 2:
There
is something you can do, As you hurry through each day.
Cub # 3:
Be
happy and cheerful, And remember not to frown.
Cub # 4:
But
give freely of your smiles, And you can be happy as a clown
Cub # 5:
For a
smile costs a little, But to others means so much.
Cub # 6:
So if
everyone keeps smiling, Our lives will have that happy touch.
