Theme Description
The new Scouting year starts us thinking about the future and what it will hold. Dens can build a time capsule to be opened in the future showing what Scouting is like today. Be sure to include your den and pack photos, newsletters, pack roster, and perhaps videotape of your pack meeting. Present these at the pack meeting as you build a pack time capsule of your pack's history and hopes for the future. Awards could be taken from a time capsule as they are presented to Cub Scouts. The dens could explore space and new frontiers. How about holding a space derby?
Ceremonies
Astronaut Opening
Cub Scouts are standing in the front of the room, some with pictures of airplanes of different eras, some with pictures of rocket ships and small with small American Flags.
Cub #1: Air Transportation has come a long way over the years. From the flight of the Wright Brothers to Man landing on the moon.
Cub #2: American Astronauts have taken part at different times in the implanting of the American Flag on the surface of the moon.
Cub #3: Of the 57 living astronauts, 44 were scouts.
Cub #4: Of the hundreds and hundreds of f lag In the world, the American Flag was the first on the moon.
Cub #5: Let us stand and say the Pledge of Allegiance in honor of all those who have made great strides in air transportation.
Time Capsule Advancement
Sam Houston Area Council
Arrangement: Have a shoebox for each boy receiving an award. Label with boy's name and the date. Cubmaster is dressed as "a wise old family member. "
Cubmaster: Back when I was a young man, I remember a tradition we used to have when a new building was being built. They would take a strong box and fill it with things to remind us about what things were like in the days when the building was built. They put in newspaper clippings, money, pictures, awards, and little things like that. Many years later, sometimes as long as 100 years, when the building is being replaced, they always looked for this box in the cornerstone of the building. Some people call it a time capsule. It tells us what was important to the people who put it there.
Tonight, we are giving you each your own box. It is a Cub Scout time capsule. It symbolizes all of your Cub Scouting years. It holds the awards you earned this month. Keep this box and add to it. Treasure your years as a Cub Scout and save this box to show your kids what was important to you. The best way to save your family heritage is to start today with you. (Bring each boy forward and present a box and his awards)
Cheers
Flintstone Cheer
Shake hands over the head and say, "Yabba-dabba-doo".
Skits and Run-On's
Is It Time Yet?
Greater Cleveland Council Pow Wow 1993
CAST: As many Cubs as you have.
SETTING: The Cubs are lying on the ground, on their left side, using their left arm as a pillow, the right stretched over the next person’s shoulder.
(Both questions and answers are repeated singly by each person up and down the line.)
1ST CUB: "Is it time yet Paw? (Question is repeated up the line, one Cub at a time.)
LAST CUB: Not yet son. (Answer is repeated down the line, one Cub at a time.)
1ST CUB: Is it time yet Paw? (Question is repeated up the line, one Cub at a time.)
LAST CUB: Not yet son. (Answer is repeated down the line, one Cub at a time.)
1ST CUB: I really think it’s time now Paw. (Question is repeated up the line, one Cub at a time.)
LAST CUB: Not quite yet son. (Answer is repeated down the line, one Cub at a time.)
(Finally it’s time. Paw passes the message
LAST CUB: It’s time, is everybody ready?
1ST CUB: Yes Paw! (Answer is repeated up the line, one Cub at a time.)
(Then in unison, they all turn to face to lay on their right sides, each using his right arm as a pillow and placing their left arm across the next person’s shoulders.)
Astronaut And Chewing Gum
Did you hear about the astronaut who stepped on chewing gum? He got stuck in orbit!
Scout in a Capsule
CAST: As many Cubs as you have.
SETTING: Boys are sitting on stage next to a big box.
1ST CUB: Let's make a time capsule!
2ND CUB: Great idea - everyone go home and get something to put in it!
(Boys leave stage, get their item and return.)
All boys put their item in the box: Here's my marbles (patches, pictures, letter to myself, etc)
LAST CUB: I couldn't find anything
(Jumps into the box and lies down.)
(Boys close and pretend to bury the box.)
LEADER: walks across the stage with sign "40 years later".
(Boys walk back on dressed as "old men"- with gray hair, canes, beards, etc.)
1ST CUB: My marbles! I remember these!
2ND CUB: My pictures! I remember these!
(all continue until done)
LAST CUB: jumps up out of the box "preserved"
ALL CUBS: Timmy! We remember you!
LAST CUB: Guys! What took you so long! (runs off the stage appearing to have to use the bathroom.)
The "old men" chase after him.
Songs
The Daring Spaceman
(Tune: When Johnny Come Marching Home)
I'm a daring astronaut, Hurrah, hurrah. I'm getting ready to blast off, Hurrah, hurrah. The rocket takes me high in space. My capsule is a most comfortable place, To a space adventure, I am on my way.
I'm orbiting now around the moon, Hurrah, hurrah. I think I'll land there very soon, Hurrah, hurrah. I pitch and yaw and roll through space. I've not seen these sights any other place, I'm a daring spaceman, won't you come with me?
Let's fly to other planets now, Hurrah, hurrah. Come fly with me, I'll show you how, Hurrah, hurrah. We'll stop at Mercury, Venus, Mars, At Neptune we'll take a good look at the stars. What a lovely sight...the wonderful world of space.
Crafts
Rockets From Recyclables
Gather recyclable items such as wrapping paper tubes, foil pans, aluminum foil, empty pop cans, rubber bands, paperclips, clean tin cans of any size, boxes of any size, etc. You can have the Cubs work individually or in groups to create their own version of space vehicle, real or imagined. Be sure to supply them with tape, scissors, paper and markers as well.
Have two balls of different colors for "spacecraft". The boys form a circle and are numbered 1,2,1,2, etc. around the circle. The two spacecraft start from opposite sides of the circle - one held by the Ones and one held by the Twos. At "blast off" the space craft orbit around the circle, ones to ones and twos to twos. The object is for one spacecraft to overtake and pass the other.
Games
Fractured Proverb
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 bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
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.
Spare the rod and spoil the child.