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Ceremonies - Blue & Gold


Blue & Gold Opening Ceremony

Equipment:  4 candles (penlight flashlights for fire safety), (2 blue and 2 gold), candleholders, U.S. Flag, 5 Webelos or den chiefs, 4 cards each bearing one letter of the word CUBS, place candles in candleholders on the table with a lettered card behind each one.

At the proper time, the Webelos Scout lights his candle and reads his part.

1st Scout: Friends, we welcome you to our Blue and Gold banquet.  Behind the candles are the letters C-U-B-S.  This represents a great event in scouting, the start of the Cub Scouting program in 1930.

2nd Scout: C stands for courtesy.  A Cub Scout is courteous to his elders, his friends, his teachers, and especially his parents.  He is courteous in all that he says a