DECEMBER 2011 ROUNDTABLE HANDOUT FOR: DEN LEADER SECTION JANUARY 2012 CORE VALUE:

POSITIVE ATTITUDE Being cheeful...

BEN & BRENDA OLIPHANT E-mail: [email protected] 435-882-2020 (HM)

CORY MURRAY E-mail: [email protected] 435-882-8555 (HM)

Some important websites: http://www.deseretpeakcubscouting.com This is for our district (we are district 11) – find current events & Roundtable handouts that you may have missed on this website. http://www.gslc-bsa.org This is for our Council (we are the Great Salt Lake Council) – find local and current events. Find info on activity & trail patches by finding programs on the left, then cub scouts, then activity and trail patches. http://www.scouting.org This is the National website. You will find the new program, forms, Academic & Sports info, etc. This is the BSA official website. http://www.myscouting.org This is also a National website, however, this is where you go to do your online training, ex: Youth Protection & Fast Start. Come join us at Roundtable to get your E.D.G.E. Training! This month's E.D.G.E. Training is “Scouting Anniversary Activities & build a birdhouse that works for our area.” Roundtable is the 1st Thursday of the month. From September – May it is held at the Tooele Jr. High School @ 7:30 p.m. - See you there!

Positive Attitude: Be cheerful and setting our minds to look for and find the best in all situations. ►Be positive in your thoughts and words. Be cheerful. Look for the bright From the Cub Scout Leader Book, defining & applying

side of all situations. ►Keep a good sense of humor. ►Be optimistic. ►Think good thoughts. ►Believe in yourself. ►Trust your friends, family, and teammates.

PRE-OPENERS(for Den Meetings) Note: Best if led by Den Chief or Assistant

Cut or choose materials for a craft activity Sing a song.

Start coloring maps Have Den Chief lead stretching exercises.

Have kids draw a picture of one person (real or fiction) that had a Positive Attitude- later have the cubs share & explain their choice with the den. Match tools with names of tools/ and/or use of tools.

OPENING/FLAG (for Pack theme) Positive Attitude (Cub Scout Roundtable Planning Guide 2011 Printing-pg. 35) Materials: 3 cards with one word written on each, “DO,”“YOUR,” “BEST.” Script on back of each card. Personnel: Cubmaster, 3 Cub Scouts, color guard. Cubmaster: Remember to be cheerful and set your minds to look for and find the best in all situations. Cub Scout 1: Do. Remember to do good for others with a cheerful heart. Cub Scout 2: Your. Remember it’s your positive attitude that will make a difference in the lives of others. Cub Scout 3: Best. Remember to find the best in all situations. Cubmaster: Always do your best to have a positive attitude and share it with those around you. Please join us for the presentation of the colors.

RUN-ONS/ JOKES/ RIDDLES(for Pack theme) Baloo’s Bugle Vol17, #5P Positive Attitude Dec. 2010 for Jan 2011, pg. 23)

Cub #1: Mark Twain sure knew how to have a Positive Attitude. Cub #2: Really – what did he do when people didn’t like his stories or jokes? Cub #1: He said “keep away from people who belittle your ambitions….really great people make you feel that you, too, can become great.” Cub #1: How can a doctor tell your blood type? Cub #2: That’s easy – an optimist is always O-Positive and a pessimist is always B-Negative! Cub #1: Knock Knock

Cub #2: Who's there?

Cub #1: Wa

Cub #1: Boy you are really excited to see me!!

SONGS (Den & Pack meetings) If You’re Happy

I’ve Got That Cub Scout Spirit

Cub Scout Songbook pg. 26

Cub Scout Songbook pg. 41

Cub #2: Wa who?

Train Song

Cub Scout Marching

(Tune: "Yankee Doodle')'

(Tune: "This Old Man 'I)

I met an engine on a hill,

This Cub Scout, number one,

All hot and broken hearted,

He sure likes to get things done.

And this is what he said to me,

Chorus

As up the hill he started.

With a knick-knack paddy-wack

Chorus

Give Cub Scouts a chore.

I think I can, I think I can,

This they'll do and ask for more.

At any rate, I'll try.

This Cub Scout, number two,

I think I can, I think I can,

He will do odd jobs for you.

At any rate, I'll try.

(See Cub Scout Songbook for the rest of this song pg.43)

(See Wolf Handbook for the rest of this song, pg.165)

Gathering Activities/Games Treasure Box or Positive Attitude Emergency Kit. Have each cub write a positive thing about each cub, including themselves, on small pieces of paper or craft sticks to put in their kits/boxes. They can write about a time that they felt successful. They can list things to do when they feel down (serve someone else, call a friend, play a game, draw a picture, shoot hoops, etc.) Make some positive quotes/scriptures they can add. Photos from scouting activities, things they’ve drawn or made that help them feel good can be added. Hand Knots http://familyfun.go.com/playtime/hand-knots-706626/ Name That Knot Have knots already tied. Have the boys name the knot by looking at the examples. For a harder version, put them in a bag and see if they can guess them by only feeling the knot. (Any game or relay, especially cooperative, would require a Positive Attitude.)

CHEERS(for Pack theme) Applaud & Cheer: When you raise your right hand: all applaud, when you raise your left hand: all cheer. When you raise both hands, they applaud and cheer at the same time! Sing & Dance Cheer: When the leader’s hand is raised, everyone twists and shouts (or sings in full voice); when the hand is lowered, all is silent (and perhaps frozen in dance position?) Standing Ovation: Make an oval with your arms over your head and say “OOOOOOOHHHHH!“ Bravo Applause: Everyone shouts, "Bravo, Bravo, Bravo!" gradually getting louder. End with huge clapping.

Crafts

(for Den Meetings)

Backyard Bird Feeder http://familyfun.go.com/crafts/backyard-bird-feeder-672532/ Total Time Needed:1 Hour Materials * Clean 1-liter soda bottle * Craft knife * 2 wooden spoons * small eye screw * Length of twine for hanging Instructions 1. Backyard Bird Feeder - Step 1 Start by drawing a 1/2-inch asterisk on the side of a clean 1-liter soda bottle, about 4 inches from the bottom. Rotate the bottle 90 degrees and draw another asterisk 2 inches from the bottom. Draw a 1-inch-wide circle opposite each asterisk, as shown. 2. Use a craft knife to slit the asterisk lines and cut out the circles (a parent's job). Insert a wooden spoon handle first through each hole and then through the opposite asterisk, as shown. 3. Remove the bottle cap and twist a small eye screw into the top of it for hanging. 4. Finally, fill your feeder with birdseed, recap it, and use a length of twine to hang it from a tree. Tray Bird Feeder http://familyfun.go.com/crafts/tray-bird-feeder-674071/ Total Time Needed:Afternoon Or Evening Materials * 1- by 3-inch (actual measurement is 3/4 by 2 1/2 inches) pine board, 4 feet long * Drill with 5/64- and 1/4-inch bits * Hammer * 5d galvanized box nails * 10-inch square of aluminum screening (sold in most hardware stores) * Copper upholstery tacks * Pair of rawhide laces, each 36 inches long Instructions 1. Tray Bird Feeder - Step 1 Cut the pine board into two 10 1/2-inch lengths and two 9-inch lengths. 2. Bird Feeder: Step 2 Stand the shorter pieces on end and set one of the longer pieces on top of them (like a table), so that the ends are flush, as shown. 3. Use the 5/64-inch bit to predrill holes, then nail the pieces together. 4. Flip over the assembly and nail the other long piece in place (again predrilling the holes) to form a square frame. 5. Bird Feeder: Step 5 Tack the screen to the bottom edges of the frame, as shown, Finally, use the 1/4-inch bit to drill a pair of holes in 2 opposite sides. 6.Thread a lace through the holes in each side, knot the ends, and the feeder is ready to hang.

Skits U Are Important (Baloo’s Bugle-pg. 15- Feb 2004-Walk in My Shoes) Circle Ten Council Set Up – Six Scouts with signs lettered as indicated We cannot spell: C_B SCO_TS without U We cannot spell: YO_TH without U We cannot spell: AD_LT without U We cannot spell: S_CCESS without U We cannot spell: F_N without U We cannot spell: O_TDOORS without U All: Clearly, Scouting needs U! Cub Grub Munch A Bunch of Bird’s Nests (Baloo’s Bugle-pg. 25-2006-Our Feathered Friends)

Ingredients: 1 - 12-oz bag butterscotch bits

1 5-oz. can chow mein noodles

1 Cup chopped salted peanuts (Allergy Alert!!)

1 bag small jelly beans

Directions: 1. Melt the butterscotch bits in a pan over low heat. 2. Add noodles and peanuts to the melted bits and stir, 3. Drop large spoonfuls of mixture onto 2 cookie sheets lined with wax paper. each nest with your fingers. 5. Put 4 or 5 jelly bean "eggs" into each nest.

6. Chill in the refrigerator. You should be able to make about 15 nests.

Shape

Meeting plans & ActiVITIES Follow these plans if using the Cub Scout Den & Pack Mtg. Resource Guide: *HA = Home/family assignment

Tiger Cubs Den Mtg. Plan #9

Den Mtg. Plan #10

Plans How Do You Celebrate? & Making Decorations

Do: Elective 1 & Elective 2 *HA: None

Go See It: Making Do: Elective 13 & Elective 50 Change and Banking *HA: None

Wolf Den Den Mtg. Plan #9

Achievements / Electives

Plans Tools For Fixing and Building

Achievements / Electives Do: Achievements 5a-e *HA: Achievements 10 & 11; Elective 13c

Den Mtg. Plan #10

Birds

Do: Elective 13a-e & Achievement 10a-g *HA: Elective 13f Verify: Achievements 10 & 11; Elective 13c

Bear Den Den Mtg. Plan #9

Den Mtg. Plan #10

Plans Building Muscles and Games, Games, Games!

Achievements / Electives Do: Achievements 15b, 16a-c *HA: Achievement 13a-g (any four) Verify: Achievement 11e

Saving Well, Do: Achievements 15a-c Spending Well and Games, Games, *HA: Achievement 6a Games! Verify: Achievement 13a-g (any four)

ActivITIES – den & Pack Resource guide *Money, Money, Money Game: See below for idea – uses chutes and ladders ideas. *Twenty Questions: Have cub think of something that makes them happy. Play 20 twenty questions to guess what makes them happy.

*Stick Up:

(SCCC PowWow-Dolllars & Sense- 2002-pg 23)

Select one player to be Sticky Fingers. Start the game by saying, “This is a Stick Up!” as players scatter around the playing area. When Sticky Fingers tags a player, the one tagged must place a hand on the place touched while still continuing to run. As more and more players become “stuck” on themselves, Sticky Fingers has a better chance to totally immobilize one player. Usually, when both hands are a player are stuck, the third touch sticks him with being the next Sticky Fingers.

*Tub Toss: (SCCC PowWow-Dolllars & Sense- 2002-pg 23) Partially fill a large plastic container with water. Float a variety of light saucers in the water and have the boys take turns throwing pennies into them. Or, float a metal/aluminum pie plate in the tub and have the players guess how many pennies it will take to sink the “ship.” The, have the players – one by one – toss a penny into the pie plate until it drops to the depths. The winner is the player who guessed the closest.

*Three Coins in a Fountain: (SCCC PowWow-Dolllars & Sense- 2002-pg 23) Divide the group into 4 even teams. Give each person on the team a number, starting with “1” and continuing in sequence for each team. Position four chairs in a square roughly 15 feet apart for the teams to wait behind. Place some coins in the middle of the square. When you call a number, that player from each team must try to get three coins onto the center of his team’s chair. They may only carry one coin at a time, and must place it on their chair to be easily visible. Once all the coins have disappeared from the center, they may steal coins from other teams.

Follow these plans if using the Core Values or Lead both Wolf & Bears: Home assignments are given at beginning of month and verified at the end of month. Key: A=Achievement E=Electives Tigers Achievements / Electives

With Family

A2F- Map of Community E16- Show/tell Collection or hobby E13 – Making Change E50 – Visit a Bank Key:

HA=Home Assignments

A=Achievements

E=Electives

Wolf

Bear

Do: A6. Collection a-c E17. Tie it Right a-g E22. Say it Right d

Do: A13. Saving Well, Spending Well g A22. Tying it All Up a-f E12. Nature Crafts c, e-g E18. Magic d E23. Maps a-e HA: A13. Saving Well, Spending Well a-f E22. Collecting a-c

HA: None

activities - core values – POSITIVE ATTITUDE Theme Ideas: *Collecting *Knots *Maps *Money *Abracadabra *Core Value Den Leader Minute Read the core value definition for this month. Have the boys answer the following:

Know-- Talk with boys about how we don't always get what we want, or how we are not always the cener of attention. We need to find the good in these situations and focus on that and not what didn't go our way. I personally thnk Positive Attitude and Gratitude go hand in hand. You can't be truly grateful if you have a negative attitude and you can't be grateful and be depressed at the same time either. They just don't go together. You may want to point this out to the boys as well. Practice—Act out situations where the above would apply, such as not getting the main role in a skit or wanting to be the pitcher on a baseball team and getting center field. Make sure they include a Positive Attitude. This will help the boys gain a better understanding of what a positive attitude is. Commit— Have the boys pay special attention this month to things that did NOT go the way THEY wanted. Tell them you want them to share how they felt and thoughts about the situation. Did they have a positve attitude right off or did they have to work at having a positive attitude? (this one is hard for me sometimes!) Review this with them at the end of the month.

*Learn a Rope Trick: (Santa Clara County Council – 2008 Pow Wow) Holding a piece of rope, the magician places the ends of the rope into his hands and closes his fingers around the ends. The magician shakes the rope slightly, says a magic word, blows on his hands and drops one end of the rope. Magic! The end has a knot in it! Supplies: One long piece rope

Secret: The rope already has a knot in one end... Tie a knot in one end of the rope. Hide this end with the knot in your hand and bring the other end of the rope up next to it. Shake your hand as if you're trying to knot it. Drop the end with the knot and it looks like you have tied a knot in the rope using one hand.

*Money, Money, Money Game: This game is just like chutes and ladders. When you spin and move to a ladder, you have just earned some money with allowance, chores or maybe even some birthday money. When you hit a chute you had to buy something or pay for something like a broken window from your baseball. Your game pieces could be the latest trends. Make your game pieces and game board out ot cereal boxes or just a box!

*Homemade Trading Card: http://familyfun.go.com/crafts/artist-trading-cards-1022750/) (This looks like a fun idea and you could use as a preopener every month and then the boys could trade. It the art world, Artist Trading Cards are really popular.)

*Resources: http://www.animatedknots.com/indexscouting.php

(knots: control speed, view-rotate, mirror, inverted)

http://boyslife.org/video-audio/644/learn-to-tie-knots/ (knots: control speed, pause, previous, next) http://nationalatlas.gov/printable/images/pdf/reference/timezones4.pdf (printable US Time Zone Map) http://24timezones.com/ (Current World Times for major cities – online fun) http://www.eduplace.com/ss/maps/pdf/westus.pdf (states around UT- labeled) http://www.eduplace.com/ss/maps/pdf/westus_nl.pdf (states around UT- no labels) http://www.google.com/mapmaker (get directions from place to place) http://www.printablemaps.net/

(free printable maps)

PATCHS & BELT LOOPS Activity & Trail Patches *I Discovered Boy's Life Patch

Academic & Sports Belt Loops & Pins *Collecting *Map & Compass *Geography

*FUN FOR THE FAMILY PROGRAM {1} Shaping Your Family Identity

{2} Developing Personal Skills

1K House Upon the Rock 2J Mealtime Manners 2L Music Melodies

{3} Building a Family Team

3M Job Chart

{4} Connecting With Your Community

{5} Facing Family Challenges

4M Help My Neighbor 5C Family Journal 5I Moving On

*fun for the family – Coordinates with the monthly core value & a great way to get it into the home. Character can be defined as the collection of core values possessed by an individual that leads to moral commitment and action. (Cub Scout Leader Book) Strengthening families is one of the purposes of Cub Scouting. Families are the basis of our society. Children learn about love, values, and social interaction in their family. The family is vital to the future of our communities and our country. The Fun For The Family program can be a positive resource to help families build lasting relationships and develop good character.