Turn Back the Clock Blue & Gold 2012

 

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

Pow Wow

 Saturday August 25th

Utah National Parks Council

Annual Pow Wow

It was another successful Pow Wow.

Cubscout Leadership Training

 Your district's Roundtable Staff put on the best Blue and Gold Banquet ever.

And if your a member of the Pony Express District you know what we mean.

 It's a Jungle out there.  The Theme for Pow Wow.

Look at the amazing decorations

The amazing staff.

with Special appearance from the Wonder Twins

Power Point Games

These classroom games were created in PowerPoint and LOOK very attractive and user-friendly.  

Download the templates and modify the games to fit your curriculum needs here.

Lots of whole class participation games similar to Jeopardy,Wheel of Fortune, Pyramid, Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader?, Password, Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?, and more.

Feb 2012: I just found another site with 52 more power point game templates.  Click here.

Cub Scout Certificates

Here are 93 Scouting and Cub Scouting certificates - some horizontal and some vertical - (13 that are only for Cub Scouts, but many others that work for Cub Scout Awards, as well) that you personalize and print from your computer.  Check them out!

Race Car Blue and Gold

I came across this party idea that can be adapted to a Blue and Gold Race Car theme/Pinewood derby theme:

Invitations

casa della tires - leaning tower of tyres use mini chocolate dipped doughnuts to see who can stack the most tyres without it falling.

Ramone's Body Shop Face Painting or temporary tattoos. Piston Cup Bean Bag Toss

This is cute, use an child's race car track as your display for the cupcakes Cool Decoration Ideas: I love the black plastic race track and the white masking tape is an amazing touch. you can buy the pint sized cones from the local sports store they use them for football training.

go to your local car accessories shop and they will glad give you there empty packaging.

Credit to: http://yvonnebyattsfamilyfun.blogspot.com/2011/05/disney-cars-birthday-party.html

Space-Themed Blue & Gold Banquet Ideas

I found a bunch of neat ideas and links regarding Space.  This is the collection of what I found.

If you live in Utah County or Salt Lake County, Dr. Aaron Orullian is a NASA affiliate representative and presents fantastic presentations!  He loves to talk to groups of any age, school-age to adult, and he doesn't charge!  What he teaches is classified as public information, but the public doesn't generally have access to his information.  Email Dr. Orullian and schedule him as your guest speaker.  You'll be delighted you did! "AARON ORULLIAN" <orupsyd2000@msn.com>,

Short film on keeping clean in space (watch this before clicking on TowTabs)
In place of napkins: TowTabs (Dehydrated towels in tab form) 120 individually wrapped for $24

Centerpieces:
Paper mache' balloons painted as planets

Saturn table decoration (pictured to the left)

Space napkin rings (pictured to the right)

Attire:  Wear black and tape stars cut out of aluminum foil on your shirt


  
Activities & Games:
Space station team running game
Make Gingerbread Robots
Paint donut holes into little planets with food coloring
Color and cut to make a mosaic robot puzzle
Star Finder by the month, a constellation-themed cootie catcher
Film Canister Rocket Must be done outside.  Quick assembly and exciting!

Food:
TANG, the powdered drink invented for the NASA Space program
Use Pop Rocks in/on something
Moon Balls (little cheese balls)
Crater Taters (potato bar)
Flying Saucer pizza
Little Dipper chicken nuggets
Blast-off Gelatine
Asteroid chips
Asteroid Potatoes  (Asteroids you can eat, made from mashed potatoes)
Ham Sandwich Rocket (second from the bottom on the page I'm linking you to)
Colored Star Cookies that can teach that stars have colors and what they mean



Song: Planets Go Spinning (tune: When Johnny Comes Marching Home)

Star Ceremonies: Opening (flag) Ceremony, Advancement Ceremony, and Cubmaster Minute

More ideas: from NASA for Cub Scouts, specifically for passing off rank achievements

Luau Blue & Gold Banquet

This year the Banquet responsibilities were assigned according to what could pass off rank requirements or electives:

WOLF:
A12f  Make a poster for a Cub Scout project or a pack meeting
E9a    Help with a party: Planning the party, scenery, decorate/setup the room, serve the food, and clean up.

BEAR: (details below)
9a,b,c Make cookies, snack, and a dinner side dish
15b,c  Play two organized games with your den and select a game that your den has never played. Explain the rules. Tell them how to play it, and then play it with them.
18d  Write an invitation to someone
24d   Tell two people they have done a good job (make a thank you note)

WEBELOS:
Craftsman - to make 4 useful things (non-wood) each out of different material: Centerpieces for the tables (*volcano centerpiece, *tiki hut centerpiece, *big feather palm tree centerpiece, *paper palm tree centerpiece, *totems by decorating cereal and oatmeal boxes with faces, *coconut boats by halving coconuts and make a sail by gluing a construction paper triangle to a bamboo skewer, *turn a pineapple into a candle holder, palm tree, or flower vase)  and to make paper leis that they can place around the necks as people arrive with an "aloha"... in other words our greeters.

As a SKIT: All cubs will perform the Haka. (Can be found under the "Songs" tag.)


BEARS, Continuted from above:

I was looking for an invitation for Polynesia that looked masculine for the boys to make.  What I came up with was a Tiki Totem (made with an empty toilet paper roll).

1. I drew out the size rectangle on a piece of paper that would be needed to wrap around an empty t.p. roll, 5 1/2 inches by about 4 1/4 inches.  Two fit on one 8 1/2 x 11 paper. Then I searched Tiki Totem patterns.  Once I found a pattern I liked, I clicked on the picture to make it big on my screen, then I traced it onto typing paper inside the designated rectangle and filled in the pattern to the ends of the rectangle.

2. I traced over my lines with a black sharpie to make the lines crisp and easily seen.  Then I photocopied onto tan paper, since the totems were made out of wood.  When the boys cut out the rectangles, they left a 1/2 inch to the side so that they could overlap the paper when they wrapped it around the t.p. roll to glue it.

3.  I made a 1 1/2 inch slit in the mouths for the tongue.  I typed all the invitation information onto paper to fit within the 1 1/2 inch wide tongue, and printed it on pink paper.  The boys glued the tongue into the mouth before wrapping the rectangle around the t.p. roll.

For the activities:

Surfing: a surf board with a dad on each end to hold while boys attempt "surfing" with dads moving the surf board around... mattress underneath of course.

Tititorea: Click Maori stick game and Tititoria (the game starts at 0:37) to watch - a rhythm game challenge with a partner from New Zealand. To keep the sticks light-ish, we will use lenths of PVC pipe.

'Ulumaika: Similar to bowling, this game (pictured above) used to be played with slices of green breadfruit called ulu or round disc rocks rolled between wooden stakes outdoors in the grass, but it can be played indoors by rolling a tennis ball between two 2-liter soda bottles full of water.

Limbo: We just happen to have 6-ft bamboo sticks at our house, so I'll use them, but you could use a length of wide ribbon or a broomstick or PVC pipe.

Your Hawaiian Name:  The Hawaiian alphabet has 13 letters: five vowels (long and short: A, E, I, O, U) and eight consonants: H, K, L, M, N, P, W, and one being a glottal stop shown as ' (called 'okina in Hawaiian).  All Hawaiian word end with a vowel.  Write your first name as close as you can with only these letters and ending with a vowel, then wear it on your name tag.

Cookies:  Polynesian Cookies  (one recipe suggested the nuts are optional)
 OR         Crispy Coconut-Oatmeal Cookies
Snacks:  Polynesian Snack Mix
 OR        Tiki Snack Mix
Side Dishes:  Hawaiian Baked Beans
 OR        Pineapple Fried Rice with Ham

CUBMASTER:   I will give each boy receiving any award a lei with the awards attached and say "Ho'omaika'i", which is "Congratulations" in Hawaiian. I'll have the mother's pin on a lei also, and have the boys put the lei on their mom.  Click Polynesian Cub Scout Rank Advancement Ceremonies for the ceremonies I actually plan on carrying out. Here are some more Hawaiian words if you'd like to find ways in your ceremonies or evening to use them.  This is My Aloha Ceremonies that I am actually going to use tonight at our Blue & Gold, if you want a peak and it can help you in some way.
     For ceremonial decorations:  I will use cardboard tubes from the middle of new carpet rolls (from Home Depot, Lowes, and Ogden Carpet or any carpet company) to make the posts for a hut, and I'll make big palm or banana leaves out of green butcher paper (or maybe I'll get light tan and cut it in strips for a grass hut) for the lean-to-type one-slant roof. [I ended up renting two green grass table skirts from Royal R Rentals in Lehi for $1 each, folded them, and laid them and taped them across the roofing, which was a cardboard frame and plastic covering.] Of course, the leaves or grass will need to have plastic or a frame structure for it to be tacked to. It's still a thought in process. I have a plastic bamboo-print table cloth.  I will put this on the ground, covering a folded blanket used for padding, and have the cub scouts kneel on it.
   
    

Cake Contest Awards

Many packs have a tradition of a Cub w/Mom or Cub w/ Dad cake contest for the Blue & Gold Banquet in February, with the cakes being displayed, voted, judged, awarded, and then eaten for dessert.  It's hard, sometimes, to come up with awards for each cake.  Click HERE for a PDF with 32 prize ribbons to print and award. (Thank you burlapanddenim.com!)

Looking for more Blue and Gold Ideas?

Are you looking for more Blue and Gold Ideas? Well I found a few more ideas that I wanted to share with you.

Click here to get details on a Magic show

An Angry Bird Blue and Gold

Click here

Decorations

Just another cute idea for Blue and Gold Decorations. Just decorate some empty boxes .

Eagle can

Okay, many people have been asking questions about the Eagle Can. So here is the idea.

Take a #10, which can be purchased at the LDS Lindon Cannery for about 90cents and then

10 cents for the lid. Then you can rent the sealer from the cannery, Free rental.

Decorate the can and put the CubScout Name on the lid. Inside the can, well at least inside this can, is a letter from the CubScout's parent, bishop, den leader, and cub master. There is a poem and a small token/trinket.

The idea is that the Cub Scout receives this can but can not open it. There are only two conditions where the boy can open it; 1. if the Boy receives his Eagle or 2. if the Boy graduates from High school.

On the top of the can it says: " I CAN! I CAN! I CAN get my Eagle and when I do I CAN open my CAN."

Then at your Blue and Gold EVERY boy receives his can.

And that way you recognize EVERY boy.

Blue and Gold Table Decor. Ideas

This is something very simple to make and you don't need to be a expert cake decorator to make this. Made out of cupcakes (regular or mini). This can be made and used for Blue & Gold Banquet or when a young man earns his Arrow of Light.

Here are some Blue and Gold Table Decoration Ideas

Pocket Knife Invitations click here

To make the lantern click here for instructions. To make the fire centerpiece click here for instructions.

Here is one version to make a space shuttle

Click here for instructions

click here for instructions