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DEN PROJECTS
PLANNING AND PREPARING for your den's perfor-
mance at the pack's circus will give a full and busy
month of activities. Don't have the boys spend all their
time hammering, sawing, and practicing. Allow time for
games and other fun, and, if a real circus is in your area,
take time out to visit it.
Call on parents for any help needed in building and
sewing props and costumes. Decide early what the den
will do to give the den parents plenty of time to complete
any work you may ask them to do.
Some ideas for costumes, props, and acts are suggested
on these pages. You'll find others in books at your public
library. Look in the library's card catalog number under
"Circus," "Costumes," and "Drama."
Ideas for Acts
A circus act may be anything from a simple skit involv-
ing clowns or "animals" to a real circus skill such as rope-
spinning, acrobatics, or juggling, if any of your boys have
these talents. For other ideas, see pages 103-110, Den
Chiefs Denbook; these electives in the Wolf Cub Scout
Book—Dramatics, Footpower, Indians, Pets; in the Bear
Cub Scout Book, these electives—Things That Go, Bicycl-
ing, Cub Scout Band, and Masks.
If you have access to a theatrical makeup kit, you will
find it useful in making up clowns and other performers. If
not, use cosmetics such as lipsticks, face powder, rouge,
and eyeshadow.
SWORD
SWALLOWER
CLOWN SKULL CAP
GIRAFFE—Frame of laths or other thin wooden strips is
about 5 feet long, 2V2 feet wide at front, 20 inches wide at
back. Head may be cut out of wood, or a Halloween false
face may be used. Wood for neck should be about 10 feet
long. It is held by the lead Cub Scout. Cover the animal
with yellow cloth. Paint brown spots on the cloth. Make
similar covering for the boy's legs. You can use the same
idea of a frame and cloth covering to make other animals.
SWORD SWALLOWER—Equip your den's sword swal-
lower with a long black cloth tube attached at his collar like
a necktie. As he raises his wooden sword, he blocks the tube
with hand and arm and guides the tip into the tube. With
practice, he should make it appear as if he's really swallow-
ing the sword.
CIRCUS MENAGERIE—As the boys arrive, have them
take turns imitating circus animals—pacing to and fro,
scratching, growling, climbing, roaring, etc. The first one
to guess the animal being imitated wins an animal cracker.
For variation, let each boy imitate a circus performer-
clown, tightrope walker, trapeze artist, juggler, etc.
SWAT THE CLOWN—Two boys play at a time. Each
wears a paper hat and is given a rolled-up newspaper.
Winner is the first to knock off the other's hat.
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