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PACK MEETING
Krewe Ball THE DECORATIONS AND ARRANGEMENTS
COMMITTEE should arrive early to set up tables, chairs,
signs pointing to rest rooms and so on. Use brightly col-
ored streamers, banners and balloons for a Mardi Gras
atmosphere.
yf the Mardi Gras parade is being held Indoors with
miniature floats, set up a stage area. If there is no regular
stage in the hall, use long tables raised high enough so
that the audience can see the floats parade.
Check the public address system, and prepare records
for playing. Use lively music, preferably Dixieland jazz
or marches. At the head table, have a throne for the
Cubmaster, who will be the Mardi Gras' King Rex. Check
seating arrangements for your special guests.
If a tape recorder is available, tape part of the fun
sounds at this meeting for replay at next pack meeting,
meeting.
Preopening As Cub Scouts and their families arrive, ask
them to place their centerpieces, place cards and other
table decorations on their den's table. Webelos Scouts
should have a special area for exhibit of their work on
activity badges. Start playing records.
Den leaders check boys' costumes for the parade.
Mardi Gras Parade All Cub Scouts will have made cos-
tumes for the big parade—or they may wish to use last
year's Halloween costume.
In a typical pack Mardi Gras parade, you might see
knights and kings, clowns, pirates, birds, frogs, gorillas
and other wildlife, bananas, trees, hot dogs, watermelon
slices, Zulu warriors, Indians, toreadors (and the bull),
stars, court jesters, Robin Hood and his merry men, a
jazz band, cartoon characters, fairy tale folk, Napoleon,
perhaps a few pilgrims, Abraham Lincoln and George
Washington, Smokey the Bear, a playing card and a
bale of cotton.
Your dens may wish to have a theme for themselves
and all dress as football players, for instance, or astro-
nauts going to the moon, or Walt Disney characters.
Some ideas for costumes will be found on these pages,
but don't let your imagination be bounded by them. Dress
as you please, for Mardi Gras is a time of the imagina-
tion run rampant.
£ach den will want to have a float mounted on a
wagon. King Rex (your Cubmaster) has an honored place
in the parade in a sedan chair carried by six or eight
Cubs (as shown) or a throne mounted on a large wagon.
If your parade is indoors, the Cubs march in and
around the room, frolicking as they go. Whether indoors
or out, provide lively recorded music. Give noisemakers
to the Cubs to add to the hubbub.
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Opening At the end of the parade, denners form a guard
of honor to escort King Rex to his throne at the head
table. Rex then calls upon the oldest Webelos Scout in
the pack to lead the Pledge of Allegiance. This is fol-
lowed by the invocation. Rex then raises his scepter as a
signal for the dinner to begin.
Following the dinner, the remainder of the program is:
Songs Your song leader leads two or three fun songs
from the Cub Scout Songbook, such as "We're Here for
Fun," "The Crocodile Song," and "Be Kind to Your Web-
Footed Friends." (Words should be on large poster at
front of room.)
Introduction of special guests.
Brief greeting from head of partner organization.
Bobcat investiture (With Rex inducting new members
into his Mardi Gras Krewe).
Den stunts and skits.
Webelos dens' demonstrations.
Advancement awards, transfer of 10-year-olds to We-
belos dens.
Presentation of Webelos activity badges, Arrows of Light.
Graduations to Scout troop.
Recognition of leaders (Den Leader and den chief ap-
preciation certificates).
Closing Rex says, "Cub Scouts, Mardi Gras is over.
We've had lots of fun this month—and we'll have lots
more in the months ahead. But now we're no longer lions
and knights and astronauts and bananas—and all the
wonderful critters I see with us—we're Cub Scouts
again. Please join me now in asking a blessing on all
of us with the Scout benediction: 'And now may the great
Master of all Scouts be with us till we meet again.' Thank
you, and good-night."
FEBRUARY PACK LEADERS' MEETING
The adult pack leaders should meet about a week
before the Blue and Gold dinner to check on final plans
for it and to sketch outlines for next month's den and
pack activities.
Mardi Gras Masks
CUB 4 FEB
King Rex Sceptre
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