STUNTS
AND APPLAUSES
CHEERS
Baltimore Area
Council
Typewriter Applause -
Move fingers as if typing, yell ‘DING”, and
act as if you are returning the carriage.
Newsboy Cheer:
Extra! Extra! Read all about it!
News Editor
Cheer: Stop the presses! I want to get off!
Reporter Cheer:
What a scoop!
Clark Kent
Cheer: Looks like a job for Superscout!
Sam Houston Area Council
Eggbeater Cheer – Bend knees
and swing them in and out like beaters while putting hand on top of the head to
held handle and use other hand to turn beater crank.
Den How Cheer - “Strawberry
shortcake, Eskimo pop, Den __, Den __ Always on top!”
RIDDLES
Viking Council
This is an easy way to get your Den
Chief or Denner involved with the boys as they arrive. Everyone likes jokes and
riddles. For more ideas, look in the current issue of Boys Life Magazine.
A Pilgrim had nine ears of corn in
his barn. Each day a squirrel came to the barn and went away with three ears.
It took nine days to remove all the corn. Why?
The squirrel went away with three ears,
but only one was corn. The other two were his own!
An Indian had 2 1/2 piles of corn
in one field. He had
1 1/2 piles of corn in another
field. Then he put them together. How many piles did he have?
One
Circle 10 Council
Why did the email go to the doctor?
It had a virus.
What has
1000 ears but can’t hear?
A cornfield.
A Sad State of
Riddles
Baltimore Area
Council
The answer to these riddles are found in the abbreviated names of states. how
many do you know?
What state is always sick? ILL
(Illinois)
What state ‘is the father state? PA (Pennsylvania)
What state wears skirts? MISS ‘(Mississippi)
What state is always surprised? OH (Ohio)
What state is very religious? MASS (Massachusetts)
What state prescribes medicine: MD (Maryland)
What state can count above nine? TENN (Tennessee)
What state cuts the grass? MO (Missouri)
What state does laundry: WASH (Washington)
Baltimore Area
Council
Why should watermelon
be a good name for a newspaper?
Because we’re sure it is red on the inside.
What is the tallest
building in town?
The library. It has the most stories.
RUN ONS
Circle Ten Council
Set-up Have News announcers alternate reading in at various times during
the Pack meeting with these (or similar) news stories. Or set this up as a
skit.
A
truckload of artificial hair has just overturned on the interstate. The police
are combing the area for the truck driver.
A hundred
dollar bill has just been found at Camp Roosevelt. Will the owner please form
an orderly line outside the dining hall to claim it?
Doctors
have just discovered that people with hairs starting to grow on the palms of
their hands are going mad. [Pause] They also tell us that people looking for
hairs on the palms of their hands are already mad.
Today
thieves broke into the local police station and stole fifty pairs of trousers.
The police are looking pretty silly.
Yesterday
a chicken swallowed a Yo-Yo. It laid the same egg seventy-five times.
Here is a
late railway announcement. The train now arriving at platforms 5, 6, 7 and 8 is
coming in sideways.
Will the
man who has just left the train stand on platform 5 please come and collect it.
We have enough of our own, thank you.
There was
a power outage at a department store yesterday. Twenty people were trapped on
the escalators for 3 hours.
A rabbit
was spotted in the woods yesterday, standing in front of a candle making shadows
of people on a tree.
Today a
Scout slipped on the ice and hurt his ankle. A little old lady had to help him
across the street.
[Cubmaster’s name] announced his new invention today. It’s a solar-powered
flashlight.
The crew
of the next space shuttle will be monitoring about 25 milk cows up in space to
see how they react to no gravity. It will be “The first herd shot round the
world.”
Lost Dog
Baltimore Area
Council
DAVE: Boo hoo hoo!
BOB: Hey Dave, why are you crying?
DAVE: (still sniffling) I lost my dog
BOB: Maybe he’ll come home.
DAVE: No, he won’t come home. He’s lost.
BOB: Why don’t you put an ad in the lost and
found column of the newspaper?
DAVE No. It wouldn’t do any good.
BOB: Well, why not?
DAVE: Because my dog can’t read!
Librarian:
Please be quiet, little boy. The people near you can’t even read.
Little Boy: Then what are they doing in a library.
Gulf Coast Council
Scout 1: I have been seeing
spots in front of my eyes.
Scout 2: Have you seen the
doctor?
Scout
1: No, just spots.
Scout FortuneTeller: That will be $20. for two
questions.
Customer: Isn't that a lot of money for two
questions?
Scout FortuneTeller: Yes, it is. Now what is your
second question?
Scout 1: Why didn't you wait to see the second
act of the play?
Scout 2: Didn't have time. The program said it
took place a year later.
Feel the Pane
Gulf Coast Council
The Leader has a 'volunteer' who is
going around the room, touching the wall.
Leader: "Do you feel it?" the Leader asks.
Volunteer "No" replied the volunteer.
Repeatedly, the leaders asks and get the same
answer.
Volunteer The volunteer comes to the window.
Leader: "Do you feel it now?"
Volunteer "Yes, " says the volunteer (Perhaps
he howls suddenly to make this more dramatic.)
Leader: "What do you feel?"
Volunteer "I feel the pane."
Circle 10 Council
Knock Knock
Who's there !
Cash !
Cash who ?
Cash me
if you can !
Knock Knock
Who's there !
Cash !
Cash who ?
I knew you were nuts !
STUNTS
Rhyme Time
Baltimore Area
Council
These are pairs of rhyming definitions. Give the boys a few examples and see if
they can think of their own.
A skinny horse (bony
pony)
A seafood platter
(fish dish)
Comic little rabbit (funny
bunny)
A foul in a prize fight (low
blow)
Flowers asleep in the field (lazy
daisy)
A bee’s home
(live hive)
Happy father
(glad dad)
