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DECEMBER THEME
CUB SCOUT SPIRIT
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What is Cub Scout spirit? Well, it
may be many things, but none more
important than the idea summed up in
the line of the Cub Scout Promise, "to
help other people."
Cub Scouting will be focusing on that
spirit of helping, giving, and sharing
during this month of Christmas and
Hanukkah holidays. Dens will be mak-
ing gifts for their families and decora-
tions for their homes.
Both dens and the pack will also
perform services for some person or
group less fortunate than themselves.
And a month of fun and service will end
with a holiday party.
This theme is designed to achieve
Cub Scouting's purposes of:
• Influencing the development of the
boys' character and spiritual growth.
• Developing habits and attitudes of
good citizenship.
• Improving understanding with the
family.
• Showing how to be helpful and do
one's best.
PLANNING PACK ACTIVITIES. Two
pack activities are recommended this
month: a service project and a holiday
party.
Some ideas for possible service
projects are given below. The pack
committee should choose one and make
necessary arrangements.
A suggested agenda for the holiday
party is on page CUB 4 DEC 82. Adapt it
to your needs. Appoint committees to
set up tfrt? meeting room and decorate it,
to plan and run the program, and to
secure refreshments.
PACK AND DEN SERVICE PROJ-
ECTS. In Cub Scouting, a service
project, or Good Turn, should have
some effect on the Cub Scouts, as w-ell
as benefitting someone else. The prdject
should be planned so that the boys
understand why they are doing it, and
how their work will be meaningful. If a
project seems to be nothing more than
busywork, the boys will get nothing
from it.
Here are some project ideas:
For the pack
• Collect nonperishable foods or used
clothing for distribution to needy
families by churches or charitable
organizations.
• Perform a service for your chartered
organization. You might paint a room,
clean the basement, shovel snow, or
provide ushers for a holiday meeting.
• Stage a holiday party for the chil-
dren's ward of a hospital or children's
home.
• If you plan to have a Christmas tree
for your holiday party, use a living tree
and donate it to your chartered organ-
ization afterwards.
For the den
• "Adopt" a grandparent. This need
not be the real grandparent of a den
member: he or she might be any elderly
person or couple in your neighborhood.
Schedule daily or weekly service to
your "grandparent"—running errands,
cleaning yard, shoveling snow. Invite
him or her to some of your den activ-
ities.
• Donate or make toys for distribution
to needy children by a church or chari-
table organization.
• Make Christmas tree Ornaments or
mantel decorations for the aged in your
neighborhood.
• Go caroling in the neighborhood.
IDEAS FOR HANUKKAH. If your pack
includes Jewish boys, you can get a free
copy of a booklet containing games,
songs, skits, and ceremonies relating to
Hanukkah. The booklet is called Han-
ukkah Program Suggestions for Cub
Scout Leaders. Write to: Jewish Rela-
tionships Service, Boy Scouts of Amer-
ica, 1325 Walnut Hill Ln., Irving, Tex.
75062-1296.
DEN PROJECTS
No formal den meeting is outlined for
the fourth week this month because it
falls during the school vacation. Instead
of a regular meeting, we suggest that
you perform your den service project or
have an afternoon outing that w^ek.
Some ideas for family gifts and
holiday decorations the boys can make
are on these pages. For others, see the
following: in the Wolf Cub Scout Book,
the Handicraft and Parties and Gifts
electives; in the Bear Cub Scout Book,
the Woodworking and Whittling
achievements and the Things That Go
and Nature Craft electives; and in
Crafts for Cub Scouts, pages 29, 33, and
51. See also various issues of Boys' Life
and juvenile craft books in the public
library.
DEN GAMES. FREE-FOR-ALL HAT
BOXING. Give each boy a paper bag to
wear on his head and a rolled news-
paper to use as a swatter. On signal, all
players try to swat off others' hats while
protecting their own. When a boy's hat
is knocked off, he is eliminated until the
next round.
HUNGRY SANT^A. Draw a Santa Claus
head on a paper plate and cut a large
hole for the mouth. Suspend Santa in a
doorway and give each Cub Scout a
supply of "snowballs" (table tennis
CUB 1 DEC 82
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