Scouting, Volume 60, Number 1, January-February 1972 Page: 50
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DEN MEETING
OUTLINE
REVIEW THEME PAGtS BEFORE PLANNING DEN MEETINGS.
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CIRCUS WORLD
FIRST WEEK
SECOND WEEK
THIRD WEEK
FOURTH WEEK
Den Leader, Den Chief, and Denner Review Plans Before Each Den Meeting and Check Equipment Needed.
BEFORE THE
MEETING
STARTS
Have a pop bottle and
straw for Lift a Bottle
Trick (Den Chief's
Denbook); peanuts for
Peanut Race, materials for
animal form, Cub Scout
Songbook.
Have U.S. flag, materials
for costumes and props
balloons for Balloon-
Batting Relay (Games
for Cub Scouts).
Have Cub Scout Songbook.
Have paper hats and
rolled newspapers for
Swat the Clown game,
page 55; U.S. flag,
flashlight, ropes for Circle
Knot Race (Den Chief's
Denbook).
Den Leader Collects Dues, Reviews Boys' Advancement, and Posts on Advancement Chart.
WHILE
CUB SCOUTS
GATHER
Have den chief teach
Lift a Bottle Trick and
It Can't Be Done (Den
Chief's Denbook).
Play Circus Menagerie,
page 55.
Practice skills for the
den's circus acts.
Play Swat the Clown.
OPENING
Sing "The Circus Comes
to Town" (Cub Scout
Songbook).
Denner leads pledge of
allegiance. Each boy tells
his favorite circus act.
Sing "The Animal Fair"
(Cub Scout Songbook).
Denner leads Law of the
Pack.
Form a hollow square.
Have denner post colors
and lead pledge of
allegiance.
BUSINESS
ITEMS
Discuss theme and plans
for pack circus. Decide on
animal to make for
menagerie and plan its
costume. Discuss act
or acts den will perform;
leave dicision for next
week.
Decide on den act or acts;
write script if one is
needed.
Check progress in the
den's circus preparation
Work out introductions
ACTIVITY
Play Peanut Race.
Begin making animal
form for circus
menagerie.
Play Balloon-Batting Relay.
Complete animal form.
Begin making costumes
and props for den's acts.
Hold first rehearsal.
Go outside and play
Commando (Bear Cub
Scouts Book, page 24).
Rehearse acts. Try on
costumes and practice
using props.
CLOSING
Announcements —
Ask boys to bring
materials for circus
costumes to next
meeting. Denner leads the
Cub Scout Promise. Boys
salute den chief on
way out.
Announcements —
Have Cubs take costumes
home for mothers to
work on. Denner retires
the colors while others
sing or hum "Taps."
Announcements —
Ask Cubs to invite
friends to the pack
circus. Form living
circle and repeat the
Scout benediction;
"May the Great Master
of all Scouts be with yo
till we meet again."
AFTER
THE
MEETING
Denner Supervises Putting Equipment Away. Den Leader and Den Cltfef Review the Meeting and Chec
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Boy Scouts of America. Scouting, Volume 60, Number 1, January-February 1972, periodical, January 1972; New Brunswick, New Jersey. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth353658/m1/50/: accessed May 1, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Boy Scouts of America National Scouting Museum.