September 2007 Cub Scout Roundtable Issue |
Volume 14, Issue
2
October 2007 Theme |
Theme:
Down on the Farm
Webelos:
Citizen & Showman
Tiger Cub
Requirement 1 |
SKITS
Pumpkin Patch Patter
Heart of
America Council
Personnel:
12 Cubs dressed as pumpkins,
Mother and children
Other boys maybe dressed up a
pumpkins sitting on stage at the sides. If you don’t have this many Cubs,
double up on the speaking parts.
Equipment:
Have Cubs either make pumpkin
costumes or make large paper pumpkins to pin them on their clothing. Consider
puppets – boys stay behind real pumpkins and say lines while out of sight.
One sign saying “PUMPKIN PATCH”
12 signs saying “THE END”
Setting:
Pumpkin Patch sign is placed on
stage.
The 12 pumpkins sit on floor in
single file.
Mother and children enter and
remain on stage pretending to look at the pumpkins.
Pumpkin 1:
(Angrily) Well, here we are once again. I hate being a pumpkin.
Pumpkin 2:
I know what you mean. Pretty soon they’ll all be over here poking and
squeezing, and trying to decide how to dress us up.
Pumpkin 3:
(Loudly) I’m tired of being Carved! It Hurts!
Pumpkin 4:
(Smiling) I wish they’d give me a pretty smile and not tooth decay.
Pumpkin 5:
(Wiping his brow) And that candle so hot. Boy, were they glad I used DIAL!
Pumpkin 6:
Well, it’s better than crayon all over your face. They really get carried
away. I even had a beard and moustache.
Pumpkin 7:
Be thankful for a beard and moustache. How would you like to be wearing a
girl’s wig! I was humiliated!
Pumpkin 8:
At least a wig is soft. The family I was with stuck gourds all over my
head. Two ears, two eyes and a big nose!
Pumpkin 9:
I keep getting a spot on the window sill. I need more room than that. You
can’t imagine the bruises I have from falling. (Rubs his back)
Pumpkin 10:
(Very indignantly) Well, I resent when they decide to build a pyramid with
two or three of us. They call it a pumpkin man. I call it sore shoulders.
Pumpkin 11:
(Disgustedly) I‘ve been listening to you all complain for the last 10
minutes, and not one of you mentioned being put outside. Every year, for one
solid week, I get the place of honor on the front porch.
Pumpkin 12:
(Shaking his head in agreement) Me, too. The least they could is take us in when
it rains, or give us a raincoat.
Pumpkin 1:
(Pointing to the family coming over) Be quiet; here they come. Maybe we’ll
be too small or the wrong shape.
Children:
(Excitedly) Mommy, over here! Look at all the pumpkins!
Mother:
Why, these pumpkins are too small and are all twisted out of shape.
Pumpkin:
(In unison) Thank goodness!
Mother:
(Very slowly says as she is eyeing each pumpkin) But … they’ll make perfect
pumpkin pies.
Pumpkin:
(Groan in unison) Oh! NO!
Six O’clock in the Morning
Heart of
America Council
Personnel: Cubs in animal costumes.
Setting: Various animals inside barn.
Rooster:
(loudly) Cock ‘a’ doodle do. It’s now time to wake up.
Cow:
Well, I guess that means it’s time to get going.
Dog:
(Stretching) You’d think that for one morning Rooster would forget.
Horse:
Come on you lazy creatures. Farmer Brown expects us to be raring to go when he
comes in.
Rooster:
It’s six o’clock and it’s time for everyone to get moving. (Everyone moves
around, groaning.)
Cat:
There’s activity going on in the house. I’m going to go scratch on the door for
some milk. (Cat Exits)
Farmer
Brown: (Enters) Good morning animals, you are all up early. It looks
like a beautiful day out there. (Animals just stand around.) Let’s get all of
you some breakfast and start this day off right. (Starts feeding animals.
Farmer Brown just rambles on and on to the animals.) Gee, it would be nice to
know what you re all thinking when I’m talking to you. (Animals turn
and stare) But of course everyone knows animals can’t talk. (Walks off) (As
Farmer Brown walks off all animals wink at audience.)
Farmer Brown and His Friends
Heart of
America Council
Personnel: 6 Cubs
Equipment:
Large piece of cardboard made to
look like a barn with enough windows for each boy.
Farmer Brown needs to look like a
farmer.
Setting: This skit is running jokes. All should
have a copy of it and is funniest if done very quickly. Farmer Brown is in
front of the barn, keeping things going.
Farmer Brown: Welcome to
Den ___’s version of Hee Haw.
Cub 1: Hey Farmer Brown.
What do you get when you cross an onion with a potato?
Farmer Brown: I don’t know.
Cub 1: A spud with
watery eyes.
Cub 2: Hey (4) Why did
the rooster crow early?
Cub 4: Because his cluck was fast.
Cub 3: Why does a cow
wear a bell?
Farmer Brown: Why?
Cub 3: Because her horns don’t work.
Cub 5: Hey (1) what
three states have the most cows?
Cub 1 : Cow lorado, Moo ssouri and Cow lifornia.
Cub 2: What do you call
it when you pawn a pig?
Farmer Brown: A ham hock.
Cub 5: Hey (3), Do you
like raisin bread?
Cub 3: Can’t say, never tried raisin’ it.
Cub 4: (6) What do you
call a carrot that insults a farmer?
Cub 6: I don’t know, what?
Cub 4: A fresh vegetable.
Cub 6: What do you get
when you cross a dog and a chicken?
Farmer Brown: A pooched egg.
Cub 5: Hey, (2), How
many kinds of milk are there?
Cub 2: Well...there’s whole milk, skimmed milk, condensed milk, and, say
why do you want to know?
Cub 5: I’m drawing a picture of a cow and I want to know how many faucets
to put on it.
Cub 1: Farmer Brown,
what did the pig say when the farmer picked it up by the tail?
Farmer Brown: I don’t know. What?.
Cub 1: This is the end of me.
Farmer Brown: (Turns
around with ‘‘THE END’’ on the seat of his pants.)
Hamming It Up
Baltimore Area
Council
Personnel: 8 Cub Scouts
Equipment: Pig masks and tails (There are many ideas
on mask making in the Cub Scout Leader How-To Book)
Piggy #1: I sure had a high fever last night.
Piggy #2: How high?
Piggy #1: Two bales.
Piggy #3: Two bales? That’s no way to take a temperature.
Piggy #1: Of course it is. I have hay fever!
Piggy #4: Hey, why did the pig cross the road
Piggy #5: I give up. Why?
Piggy #4: It was the chicken’s day off.
Piggy #6: What do you think my Uncle Porky pig sang when he joined the
Navy?
Piggy #7: I don’t know. What?
Piggy #6: (singing) “Oinkers away, my boys, oinkers away.”
Piggy #8: What do you call a pig who crosses the road twice but refuses to
take a bath?
Piggy #5: What?
Piggy #8: A dirty double-crosser.
Piggy #3: (Holding up a blank piece of poster board) Here is my
famous paining of five hogs eating in a field of corn.
Piggy #2: I don’t see a field of corn.
Piggy #3: The hogs ate it all.
Piggy #7: I don’t see the five hogs either.
Piggy #3: Of course not. Why should the hogs stay around when the corn is
gone?
All: And that, ladies and gentlemen, is the end of our tail!
(All pigs turn around and show off curly tails.)
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