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FEBRUARY THEME
MARDI GRAS
HERE'S A JUST-FOR-FUN THEME for your pack (Call
it a "Krewe" this month) leading up to a big show at
your annual Blue and Gold banquet. Pattern the activities
after the Mardi Gras parades in New Orleans and other
cities of the south during the two weeks preceding
Shrove Tuesday, which falls this year on Feb. 26.
Give your Cub Scouts free rein to concoct fanciful
costumes, noisemakers and den floats. The floats may
be miniatures if the parade will have to be indoors be-
cause of the weather. If your climate permits, however,
you may want to precede your Blue and Gold dinner
with a real parade of wagon-sized floats through the
neighborhood.
Mardi Gras is a European custom; a spirit of fun, a
time of wholesome revelry, music noise, feasting and a
carnival atmosphere. Your den and Krewe events should
reflect this. The Blue and Gold dinner (the Mardi Gras
ball) is a family affair. Invite the parents and brothers
and sisters of the Cub Scouts to come in costume, too.
Rex, king of carnival, would be the Cubmaster and he
reigns in regal costume over all the Krewe activities this
month.
Select a theme for your "Krewe" at the December or
January pack planning meeting. The theme may be his-
torical, poetical, mythological, or based on a current
event, a fantasy or purely imaginative. Costuming and
artwork would follow the theme (the age of myths,
princes, pirates, Spaniards, three musketeers, toy sol-
diers, Roman soldiers, pilgrims, famous Americans, Han-
sel and Gretel, men from Mars, and so on).
Announce your Krewe parade to the Mardi Gras ball
(Blue and Gold dinner) so your community can see what
your boys have done. Find someone who has been to a
Mardi Gras for more ideas to make it real in your town.
Planning the Krewe Meeting Preparations for the Blue
and Gold dinner should be started at least two months
early. Most Krewes must find a different meeting place
for this event. It must have adequate room for seating,
with suitable tables and chairs, and space for Cub and
Webelos displays. Parking space, rest rooms, and coat
rooms must be considered. For a large crowd, a public
address system is desirable.
A dinner committee should determine whether the
meal should be catered or potluck. In recent years, most
Krewes have used the potluck plan, in which each den
brings its own food. One of the mothers coordinates
planning so that there is variety. No ticket sales is neces-
sary; in addition, it is much less expensive than a catered
meal.
In some Krewes, beverages and dessert are bought
through the pack treasury, while the rest of the food is
brought by mothers. The dinner committee should make
decisions on these matters at least a month before the
dinner date to give families time to plan.
Two other committees of parents should be appointed:
Program—to plan the program and invite such special
guests as your institutional representative, chief execu-
tive of your sponsor, unit commissioner, and perhaps the
Scoutmasters of nearby troops.
Decorations and Arrangements—to provide and set up
colorful decorations in the banquet hall. These should
be in keeping with the Mardi Gras theme. This commit-
tee should also arrange for recorded music. Dixieland
is most appropriate for the theme, but any marching
music will do. Also, the committee should set up display
areas for Cub Scout and Webelos Scout projects.
Anniversary Celebration February is the anniversary
celebration month of the Boy Scouts of America, which
marks its 64th birthday on February 8. To remind your
Cub Scouts of the scope of Scouting and to bring the
Scout movement into the public eye, plan one or more
activities. These might be:
• Have live demonstrations of Cub Scouting on a Satur-
day in a shopping center parking lot. Show craftwork,
perform short skits, re-run your Space or Pinewood
Derby, have a turtle race (see Den Chief's Denbook),
or show some Cub-made games like those in Crafts
for Cub Scouts. Webelos dens can demonstrate proj-
ects for activity badges.
• Set up a window display on your Krewe's activities in
a store window, or in school or church.
• Have a flag-raising ceremony each day for a week at
the school your boys attend.
• Undertake a goodwill project for your sponsor, church,
or school. The program emphasis of the Boy Scouts
of America for 1974 is: "To help other people." Plan
it so it happens in your Krewe.
• Encourage Cub Scouts to wear their uniforms each
day during Scout Week, Feb. 7-13.
CUB 1 FEB
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