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Cub Scout Roundtable Leaders’ Guide

It’s June and that means celebration time!! Time to celebrate everything great!! Cub Scouts get to pick a reason to celebrate – maybe Happy Sunshine Day or My Best Pal Day or even Hurray for Ice Cream Day!! June includes Hug Your Cat Day, World Juggling Day, and Happy Birthday to You Day. Take your calendar and fill in the blanks – make every day a holiday. Whatever the reason or season, it’s fun to share the joy.

CORE VALUES

Cub Scout Roundtable Leaders’ Guide

Some of the purposes of Cub Scouting developed through this month’s theme are:

Personal Achievement, Your Cub Scouts will feel the joy as their invitations turn into fun for the whole den.
Friendly Service, Invite everyone to be part of your everyday celebrations.
Fun and Adventure, What’s more fun than a celebration? Cub Scouts will develop new observances and have fun while learning.

The core value highlighted this month is:

Respect, Cub Scouts will realize that everyday has worth and value.

Can you think of others??? Hint – look in your Cub Scout Program Helps. It lists different ones!! All the items on both lists are applicable!! You could probably list all twelve if you thought about it!!

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It was another interesting theme to be pouring through Pow Wow Books for ideas. Almost everyone had a calendar of special days in June but the material varied widely. One book was all standard summer stuff no holiday mentions. A very good approach in one council’s book was a note relating each (well almost all) item to one of the June holidays. And others were somewhere in between. It might be great to emphasize Flag day, June 14, but be careful, July has a patriotic theme, “Red, White and Baloo,” for Fourth of July. Or maybe because this is summer, you want to make one theme go for two months – tie Flag Day in with Fourth of July and keep everything patriotic and FUN!! Some of Baloo is oriented to various days in June, some is just good stuff I found and thought you would enjoy. The best bet – look at your Program helps and Resource Page (from Roundtable). Pick a few special days and bring them to life for fun or seriousness for your Cubs.

What's a holiday? Festival? Celebration?

Baltimore Area Council

hol-i-day (noun)

A consecrated day; religious anniversary; a day set apart in honor of some person, or in commemoration of some event.
A day of exemption from labor; a day of amusement and gayety; a festival day.
(Law) A day fixed by law for suspension of business; a legal holiday.
A vacation (chiefly British).

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

fes·ti·val (noun)

An occasion for feasting or celebration, especially a day or time of religious significance that recurs at regular intervals.
An often regularly recurring program of cultural performances, exhibitions, or competitions: a film festival.
Revelry; conviviality.
(adjective) Of, relating to, or suitable for a feast or festival; festive

Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

cel'e·bra'tion (noun)

an occasion for special festivities to mark some happy event
any festival or other celebration
the public performance of a sacrament or solemn ceremony with all appropriate ritual

National makes a patch for every Cub Scout Monthly theme. This is the one for this theme. Check them out at www.scoutstuff.org go to patches and look for 2006 Cub Scout Monthly Theme Emblems. The 2005 Theme patches are still available at about one-third off!!!

Check your calendar

Greater St. Louis Area Council

Check your calendar for a variety of holidays we don't normally celebrate. Did you know that every day in June is a holiday? June 15th is Smile Power Day, the 29th is Camera Day, the 10th is National Yo-Yo Day, and the 20th is Ice Cream Soda Day. Not only is June 14th Flag Day, but it is also Pop Goes the Weasel Day. You can celebrate a June holiday or create your own. Invent a new sandwich for Sandwich Day. June is National Accordion Awareness Month as well as Zoo and Aquarium Month. If you can't find a holiday for your den, you can invent your own and celebrate it at the pack meeting.

Official Celebration Days in June

Month Long Celebrations

Accordion Awareness Month, National
Adopt-A-Shelter-Cat Month
Aphasia Awareness Month, National
Cancer from the Sun Month
Candy Month, National
Child Vision Awareness Month
Children's Awareness Month
Dairy Alternatives Month
Effective Communications Month
Entrepreneurs "Do It Yourself" Marketing Month
Fight the Filthy Fly Month

Fireworks Safety Months
Fresh Fruit and Vegetables Month

GLBT Book Month, National
Iced Tea Month, National
June Dairy Month
June Is Perennial Gardening Month
June Is Turkey Lovers' Month
Men's Month, Intl
Pharmacists Declare War on Alcoholism
Potty Training Awareness Month
Professional Wellness Month
Rebuild Your Life Month
Rivers Month, National
Rose Month, National
Safety Month, National
Scleroderma Awareness Month

Soul Food Month, National
Sports America Kids Month
Steakhouse Month, National
Student Safety Month
Vision Research Month

Zoo & Aquarium Month

Week Long Observances:

Week 1: National Aphasia Awareness, National Fishing, And National Headache Awareness, Step Parents Week

Week 2: National Bathroom Reading, National Clay,

E-Mail, National Hug, National Men’s Health, National Little League Baseball Week, National Hermit Week, National Flag Week

Week 3: Take Your Pet To Work Week, U.S. Equestrian Team National Horse Week, Carpenter Ant Awareness Week

Week 4: National Camping, Eye Safety Awareness, Helen Keller Deaf-Blind Awareness, and National Sobriety Checkpoint., Amateur Radio Week

Special days

June 1	Dare Day Donut Day Flip a Coin Day Navy Day (official Mexican holiday) Stand For Children Day Oscar the Grouch’s Birthday
June 2	National Rocky Road Ice Cream Day Radio Was Patented In 1896. Mother Earth's Day St. Elmo's Day patron of sailors, childbirth; against seasickness, stomachaches) Eel Festival (Denmark)
June 3	National Trails Day Repeat Day Repeat Day Egg Day First U.S. Spacewalk by Ed White in 1965.
June 4	Donut Day Old Maid's Day Aesop's Birthday Cheese Day First Ford Made Henry Ford made his first operational car in 1896.
June 5	National Children’s Day Festival of Popular Delusions Day World Environment Day First Hot Air Balloon Flight by the Montgolfier brothers in 1783. National Gingerbread Day
June 6	Teacher's Day National Family Day National Applesauce Cake Day National Gardening Exercise Day National Yo-Yo Day
June 7	National Chocolate Ice Cream Day Fleur-de-Lis Day Daniel Boone Day (Kentucky)
June 8	Name Your Poison Day Best Friends Day Frank Lloyd Wright's Birthday in 1867.
June 9	Donald Duck’s Birthday Nursing Assistants Day Pink Tomato Festival National Strawberry Rhubarb Pie Day
June 10	National Yo-Yo Day Iced Tea Day Herb Day National Black Cow Day Race Unity Day Red Rose Festival
June 11	National Hug Holiday King Kamehameha Day Movie “E.T.” premiered in 1982.
June 12	Machine Day Anne Frank born in 1929 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. The baseball was invented in 1839. Magic Day
June 13	National Juggling Day Kitchen Klutzes of America Day Pioneer 10 became first man-made object to leave our solar system, 1983
June 14	Flag Day Pop Goes The Weasel Day Sand Paper Invented by I. Fischer Jr. in 1834.
June 15	Smile Power Day Fly A Kite Day (Ben Franklin's Kite Experiment in 1752.)
June 16	National Hollerin' Contest Day National Fudge Day
June 17	Watergate Day Eat Your Vegetables Day Disneyland Opened In 1955. Lotus Moon day (Chinese)
June 18	Father’s Day International Picnic Day Go Fishing Day National Splurge Day Tears of Isis day (Copts) Midsummer Day (Swedish) Skira (Greek)
June 19	Juneteenth World Sauntering Day Garfield debuted on this his birthday in 1978. Tasmanian Devil debuted on this his birthday in 1954. Saints Gervase and Protase (Italian)
June 20	Ice Cream Soda Day Bald Eagle Day
June 21	Cuckoo Warning Day (It will be a wet summer if the cuckoo is heard today!) Summer Solstice (longest day of the year)
June 22	National Chocolate Éclair Day U.S. Department of Justice Established Pledge of Allegiance recognized by Congress, 1942
June 23	Let it Go day National Pink Day Typewriter Patented in 1868.
June 24	Museum Comes To Life Day Mid Summer Day Swim a Lap Day U.F.O. Day (First documented UFO sighting on this day.)
June 25	Log Cabin Day LEON Day (LEON is NOEL spelled backwards. It means six months until Christmas.)
June 26	National Chocolate Pudding Day Beautician’s Day Bicycle Patented in 1819. Toothbrush Invented in 1498.
June 27	Paul Bunyan day Melody for Happy Birthday Song written in 1859.
June 28	Handshake day Insurance Awareness Day
June 29	Camera Day Waffle Iron Day
June 30	Meteor Day Superman's Birthday Sky Day

List compiled from –

Alapaha Area Council Pow Wow Book

Greater St. Louis Area Council Pow Wow Book

Longhorn Council Pow Wow Book

Sam Houston Area Council Pow Wow Book

http://www.web-holidays.com/calendar/june/ - This web site has many, many more holidays that I did not list. So if you want a few more, go there!

http://www.schooloftheseasons.com/junedays2.html

http://www.holidayinsights.com/moreholidays/june.htm

http://library.thinkquest.org/2886/jun.htm#GOTO21

It turns out the authority in this area is “Chase’s Calendar of Events.” This is a book and CD published by McGraw-Hill to which I did not have access.

I have been told the UPS calendar is fantastic with national and international holidays.

Months with similar themes to

Invent a Reason to Celebrate

Dave D in Illinois

Dave’s spreadsheet classifies this theme as Festivals. These are the other months with themes listed as Festivals. None seem as diverse as this month’s vignette’s ideas forInvent a Reason to Celebrate.

September	1942	Pack Fair
January	1963	Freedom Festival
March	1964	Mardi Gras
August	1964	Neighborhood Carnival
September	1964	Come to the Fair
February	1968	Freedom Festival
September	1969	Come to the Fair
February	1974	Mardi Gras
August	1976	Festival U.S.A.
August	1978	Cub Scout Fair
August	1980	Fiesta
August	1982	Cub Scout Fair
February	1990	Mardi Gras
August	1995	Fiesta
February	2004	Fiesta