The Blue & Gold Banquet is a Cub Scout pack's birthday celebration for the BSA.
It is also a time for receiving ranks and other awards.
Traditionally the Blue & Gold Banquet is held in February.
The Core Value for February is ALWAYS Resourcefulness.
The optional theme for 2012's Blue & Gold Banquet is "Turn Back the Clock"
Your Blue & Gold might be a Banquet or might be a party, depending on your ... RESOURCES.
Communities and families are all about combining our talents,
resources, and effort. We've lived in an unusually booming economy for 30 years. We've gotten so far away from that, on one side
we don't want to bother anybody, and on the other side we feel a useless resource. Before the 1980's it was normal, expected, and
appreciated to use leftovers and ask for help. Our economy is no longer
booming, and it's time to harness and practice the skill of
Resourcefulness. Talk about
Turning Back The Clock!
Not wanting to “require” people to donate anything, last year for our Blue & Gold we bought
several pounds of rice and divided them among those who offered to make
it. Turns out all of them had plenty of rice they would have gladly
donated. We ended up wasting our budget resource and went over budget
simply because we didn't ask or give opportunity.
For one Bear Den meeting we
bought birdseed and had a ton left over. Turns out one of the other
dens (Wolf or Webelos) had just bought seed for their den the month
before and would have loved to give away their extra birdseed. This is
one of the purposes of Monthly Pack Planning Meeting: to tell what we
are doing in our dens for the next month to take advantage of our
resources, be it material for building, be it local expertise that would
love to teach the boys, or whatever.
USE YOUR RESOURCES so that you don't waste committee budget
resources. Find leftovers, talent, knowledge, experience, whatever. You
don't know what all of your resources are until you ask. The boys will be blessed for it.
Everyone will be blessed for it. People will start to regain their
self-worth again.Turn Back the Clock - 2012 Blue & Gold Banquet - Theme Ideas
Snoopy (dog houses, Peanut’s characters, stuffed dogs, dog biscuits/bowls)
Monopoly (chance cards, jail, play money, house/hotels, properties, pawns)
Baseball (Positions, ball/bats, bases, diamond, stadium, scoreboard, pennants)
Olympics (Medals, trophies, theme music, 3x5’ flags, award stands, torch, events, countries)
Indian Lore (Teepees, bows/arrows, artifacts, buffaloes, dream catchers, animal hides, drums, totem poles, horses, camp fires)
Trains (Station, models, luggage, tickets, conductor, sound effects, tracks)
Patriotic (Flags, eagles, bunting, campaigns, town crier, 1776, scroll)
Presidents (silhouettes, flags, buttons, slogans, band music, donkeys, elephants, quill pens)
Country Store (dry goods, candy jars, sacks, counter, prices, crates, lanterns)
Medieval (banners, armor, knights, castles, jousting, dragons)
Pirates (ships, treasure chests, skull/crossbones, eye patch, gold, maps, parrots, cannons)
School (Chalkboards, report cards, apples, rulers, alphabet, globes, houses, playground, bell)
Western (cattle, brands, irons, campfires, chuck wagons, rail, fence, hay bales, wood wheel)
Farms (barns, tractors, implements, hay bales, silos, fences, animals, pies)
Boys Club (club houses, “boys only” signs,make baking contest)
Noah’s Ark (Ark, animals, rainbow, dove, water, raindrops)
Library (books, stands, shelves, carts, titles, magazines, card catalog, Dewey Decimals)
It's About Time (Clocks, Minute to Win It, Families, Skit in a Minute)
Roots of Scouting (There are at least 3 actors who portrait Lord Baden-Powell. I only have contact info for one in our area:) David Nielsen 801-756-9265(h), 801-787-6583(c), dbnielsen1@gmail.com
New Testament, Book of Mormon, or Mormon Pioneers
Choose any time or event in History (Gold Rush, Wright Bros., Renaissance, Cavemen & Dinosaurs, The Great Depression,1950s)
Back to the Future / Enchantment Under the Sea
The Time Machine / Steam Punk
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