Ceremonies

Opening and Closing Combination Ceremony

Equipment: Candlestick with one large candle

Personnel: Cubmaster.

For the opening:

CUBMASTER (lighting the candle): We often use candles in our pack meeting ceremonies. When we use only one, what does that candle represent? That's right - the spirit of Cub Scouting.

The spirit of Cub Scouting is summed up in our Cub Scout Promise and Law of the Pack. Will all Cub Scouts please join me in the Promise and Law?(Leads Them)

We will let this candle burn throughout our meeting as a reminder that we will try to live by the Cub Scout spirit.

For the closing:

CUBMASTER: Now our meeting is ending and we must blow out our candle. But that does not mean that we have extinguished the spirit of Cub Scouting in our hearts. Let's all try to keep that spirit alive until we meet again. Good night, Cub Scouts and parents.

The Bobcat Campfire Induction

Equipment: Artificial campfire as shown here, a stick for each Cub Scout who will receive the Bobcat badge; Bobcat badges and straight pins.

Personnel: Cubmaster, new Bobcats and their parents.

The Cubmaster calls forward the Bobcats and asks them to form a semicircle behind the fire; parents are behind their sons.

CUBMASTER: Cub Scouts, you have learned the things a boy must know to join our pack. Will you join me in repeating the things you learned-The Cub Scout Promise. (Leads the Promise)

Parents, we welcome you into our pack, too. You know that you have a role in Cub Scouting as a guide to your son's advancement and as a participant and helper in den and pack activities. If you accept this responsibility, please say, "We will." (Parent's give assent.)

This campfire is a symbol of the warmth and friendship you will find in our pack. Will you Bobcats please show that you wish to join the pack by adding your stick to the fire, showing that you want to do your best and be a friend to the other boys in the pack. (Boys place sticks.)

(Cubmaster gives the parents a Bobcat badge and asks them to pin it on son's shirt.)

The Cub Scout Computer Ceremony

Make a computer from a cardboard box. Have a slot in the screen so that cardboard sheets with Cub Scout rank stickers pasted on can be displayed on the screen.

Equipment: Cardboard computer with changeable rank cards for screen.

CUBMASTER: (typing data into the computer, then putting Wolf insignia decal on screen.) I see that the computer lists several Cub Scouts who have earned their Wolf Badges. They are (reads names). Would they please come to the computer station with their parents.

Speaks briefly about their accomplishments in earning the Wolf badge, then gives the parents badges to pin on the boys' shirts.)

Follow similar procedures to award Wolf points, Bear badges and arrow points, and Webelos activity badges. Change rank decals on screen for each rank.

Weather or Not Advancement Ceremony

• Equipment: Badges to be awarded.
• Personnel: Cubmaster, Webelos den leaders, boys earning badges and their parents.

Call forward boys who have earned badges and their parents.

• Cub Scouting we will go
• To a den where we can play;
• Sunshine, rain or snow,
• Happy on our way.
• As buddies we will greet
• Faces gleaming bright;
• What fun it is when we can meet
• And do the things we like

That little song tells us that Cub Scouting is for all seasons and all weather-sunshine, rain, or snow. It is fun anytime.

But to enjoy Cub Scouting to the fullest, you have to advance in rank by doing certain projects and learning new things. Tonight we have some Cub Scouts and Webelos Scouts who have done that. Webelos Den Leader_________ and I will recognize their work by presenting their new badges.

Gives badges to parents to pin on son's shirt.)

Bobcat Induction-Boys' Life Puzzle

Equipment: For each Bobcat family to be inducted, have a full-size cartoon page form Boys' Life, an 8-by-10-inch pice of cardboard, scissors, tape, and Bobcat badge.

Personnel: Cubmaster, new Bobcats and their families, including parents, brothers and sisters, grandparents.

The Cubmaster calls the new Bobcats and their families forward. He hands each family a cartoon page cut into 15 or 20 pieces and asks the family to work together to assemble the puzzle by taping the pieces to their cardboard. Allow plenty of time.

CUBMASTER (after all have finished): As we have seen, these Bobcats and their families can work together well. They know how to help each other accomplish a goal.

Cub Scouting needs that kind of teamwork. The whole family needs to help if the Cub Scout is going to get the most from our program.

Now I would like to welcome the new Bobcats and their families into our pack. Will the parents please pin the Bobcat badge on their son's shirt. (gives badges to parents.)

Jungle Opening Ceremony

• Equipment: Moon - as shown
• Personnel: Akela (Cubmaster), Bagheera (an adult leader), all boys in the pack.
• Arrangement: Each den is in a corner of the room. Akela stands at the front. Bagheera is in the center of the room. Dim the room lights and light the "moon."

AKELA: Look well, O wolves, look well!
BAGHEERA: 'Tis moonlight in the jungle,
And time for the pack to meet.
Come, wolves of every den,
Gather at the Council seat.
ALL BOYS: (In turn, the dens call out:)
We, the Den ___ wolves, come, Bagheera.
(They walk to the center and form a circle around Bagheera.)
BAGHEERA: Akela, from the North, from the South,
From the East and from the West,
The pack has gathered at your request.
(Akela joins Bagheera in the circle. The Cub Scouts perform the Grand Howl in their honor.)

Jungle Closing Ceremony

• Equipment: None necessary
• Personnel: Akela (Cubmaster)

AKELA: Now our Cub Scout safari is ending. Let's say goodnight with a verse from Rudyard Kipling, who wrote The Jungle Book and gave me my name of Akela:

• "Wood and water, wind and tree,
• Wisdom, strength, and courtesy,
• Jungle favor go with thee!
• Goodnight, pack."

Shere Khan Advancement Ceremony

• Equipment: Large name cards identifying the character; badges to be awarded.
• Personnel: Akela (Cubmaster),Father Wolf, Mother Wolf, man-cubs (boys receiving awards) and their parents.

Akela: Our scene is the cave of Father Wolf and Mother Wolf. They have just settled down for the night with their man-cubs. Shere Khan, the tiger, lurks outside. Suddenly the moonlight is blocked by the great head and shoulders of Shere Khan at the cave entrance.

Father Wolf: What does Shere Khan want?

Shere Khan: The man-cubs. Give them to me!

Mother Wolf: The man-cubs our ours. They shall not be harmed. They shall live happily, to run and hunt with the pack.

Shere Khan: We will see what the pack will say about this.

Father Wolf: Shere Khan might be right to wonder. What will the pack say?

Akela: The scene now shifts to the pack meeting.

Shere Khan: Akela, the man-cubs are mine. Give them to me!

Akela: No! The pack has decided. These man-cubs have shown themselves to be worthy of the Wolf, Bear, and Webelos ranks in our pack. They obey the Law of the Pack and the laws of our country. They worship God in their own way. The members of the pack want them to have the mark of their new rank.

Akela calls for the parents of the advancing boys to join their sons, and gives them to badges to present to their sons. Akela then leads the whole pack in the Law of the Pack.)

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