Cooperation Stick Game
Game 1: Each person has a broom
stick and holds it in front of them and standing on the ground. One
person is the caller. They call "left" or "right", which time everybody
lets go of their broomstick, which will fall to the side. If the
caller called "left", you must catch the stick to your left, no matter
which way it falls. If the stick falls to the ground, you're out of the
game. If they call "right", you catch the stick to your right.
Game
2: One stick, several people around it. The person holding the stick
calls out someone's name who is standing in the circle and lets go of
the stick. The person whose name was called must grab the stick before
it falls to the ground. If successful, he then calls someone else's
name, then lets go. However, if the stick falls to the ground before he
can catch it, he's out of the game.
Cooperation Craft: Milk Carton Totem Pole
A totem is an object representing an animal or object that serves as an emblem of a group of people. A "totem" is one section of a totem pole. Have
each den create their own totem for a pack totem pole, or each boy create his own for a
den totem pole. The milk carton bottoms have a just-larger-than-half-inch hole cut so
that the cartons may fit over a half-inch PVC pipe, which goes
through the center of all the totems to keep them together.
Water Changing Ceremony
Put some blue food coloring on
a jar lid. When dry, fill the jar 2/3 with water. Be careful not to
let the water touch the lid until the ceremony. Have the person who is
being recognized come up. Announce that you have a truth test about
their Cub Scout spirit. Tell them that if they shake that jar of water
and have enough cub scout spirit, the water will turn blue. Have them
shake it, and of course it turns blue.
You can click here to see a video of this ceremony.
Banana-Bandana Skit
Required: a bandana and two bananas
Note: The whole skit has a premise of mistaking 'banana' for 'bandana'.
magician:
Hello, everyone! Welcome to the Great Mystero's Amazing Magical
Bonanza! I need a volunteer to help me with my first trick (looking around, he choose a planted 'volunteer'
that has a banana inside his shirt or pocket. The volunteer walks up onstage. )
magician: Thank you for helping me. For this trick, you can not watch me so let's stand back to back.
magician:
I will show you that I can transport this bandana from my pocket to
his. Watch (places the bandana in his pocket). Okay, reach in your
pocket and get out the bandana. Do you have it?
volunteer:
(reaching in his shirt and pulling out a banana and holding it high for
the audience to see) Yes, I have it right here.
magician: OK, in order to transport it back to me, you need to do exactly what I say. first of all, fold your bandana in half.
volunteer: (peels banana) OK, got it.
magician: OK, now, fold it in half again.
volunteer: (folds banana in half) OK.
magician: Now, fold it one more time. Tell me when you have it folded, just as I've told you.
volunteer: Again?
magician: Yes, again!
volunteer: (folds banana again) OK.
magician: Now, place it back into your pocket and push it really hard.
volunteer: (does as told) OK.
magician:
Okay, it should be right here in my pocket. (reaches into his pocket,
but pulls out a smashed banana) Ewwww. Banana? I said bandana!
Now
the magician can look disgusted at the banana or as a better ending,
sticking to the saying 'The Show Must Go On', he can shove the banana
mush into his mouth, show his empty hand that it is gone, and take a
deep bow!
We chose "Circus of Stars" for our Cooperation Theme for Roundtable.
Scott is a circus clown by trade. He taught us a great gag - how to properly throw a pie in someone's face. Tip 1: Never use actual whipped cream, because if it stays on the clothes for a while, it will stain and ruin the clothes. Therefore, always use soap, like shaving cream.
Tip 2: Protect the victim's clothes with a towel. Also, be sure they know to close their eyes and their mouth.
Tip 3: The person never throws the pie at the face, but instead just places the pie on the face. Practice with a clean pie plate.
Tip 4: Never actually put a pie in some unsuspecting person's face. Sure, they'll be expecting it and so will the audience, but they will also be anxious, especially the boys. Surprise everyone by secretly setting up ahead of time to "unexpectedly" getting the pie in your own face. It takes cooperation to pull this off, and it will get squeals and giggles of surprise from everyone! Can be used as a skit or a ceremony.
Click HERE for Chris's slides from June's Cub Scout Roundtable Committee Class, in preparation of your own Pack Yearly Planning Meeting.
When you have decided on your pack activities, print it on a poster-sized pack calendar to be displayed at pack meeting, place it on your pack blog, and give a hard copy to each family. The Boy Scouts have a Pack Calendar that I really like. Click Here to be brought to the BSA page where you can scroll down and then view the 2010-2011 Pack Calendar Template (Excel). If you like it, check back in August - hopefully it will be updated with the 2011-2012 calendars. I like this template because it works for both people who learn visually (color the calendar day) and who learn by reading (the activity and date).
They must pay $3 for each game. When they give their $5, they will need $2 change, but instead they will be given 3 $1 bills back. They may feel lucky and keep the extra dollar, or they may try to give the extra dollar back, which case the boothmaster who just gave them the change tells them, "You must go to Customer Service for that."
This gives the cub another chance to keep the dollar or take the time to give the dollar back at the Customer Service desk. If they continue on and return the extra dollar, Customer Service gives them a paper Honesty Award in exchange.
Click Honesty Award for the template you see at the right with 8 badges on a page (from enchantedlearning.com) that you can print and write "Honesty" in. At the end of the game fair, talk to the group about how this was really an Honesty Fair, and each boy (if they were honest) should have 2 Honesty Awards. This is a great time for the participants to quietly look inside and take inventory of himself.
You might like to know that blowing the bottom of the sail (fashion the sails like the original kit's and have the bottom edge of the sail touching the boat) will make the boat more stable. Ultimate Racer will show what the original kit and sail dimentions look like. (Don't worry about putting holes in the sails ahead of time. Just have the boys poke the skewers through the paper they decorate.)
