July 2008 Cub Scout Roundtable Issue |
Volume
14, Issue
12
August 2008 Theme |
Theme:
S'MORE SUMMER FUN
Webelos:
Forester & Naturalist
Tiger Cub
Activities |
STUNTS AND APPLAUSES
APPLAUSES & CHEERS
Sam Houston Area Council
Home Run Cheer
Simulate swinging a bat
at a ball, shade your eyes with your hand and yell, “There she goes!”
Mosquito Cheer
With hand, slap
yourself on neck, arms and legs while saying “Ooooo, aaah, eeeee”
Spider Cheer
Walk all four fingers
of one hand up the other arm and then scream ‘EEEEEKK!”
Bee Cheer
Put arms out to sides
pretending to fly, while saying “Buzz, buzz, buzz.”
Beach Cheer
Divide the audience
into three groups. When you point to group one, they yell “Sand!” When you point
to group two, they yell, “Surf!” When you point to group three, they yell,
“Sun!”
Summer Fun Cheer
Tell the group when you
say “summer” or “fun”, they are to say the opposite. Vary the speed you use to
see whether they can keep up.
Watermelon Cheer
Capital Area Council
You take a
big bite of a watermelon,
Chew it up
good and now
You spit out
the pits like a machine gun
Utah National Parks
Ocean
Cheer
Best done
with a large group;
First row
sways from side to side;
Second row
sways in opposite direction;
Third row
same as first, etc.
Then have
them add sound effects:
SWOOSH, SWOOSH, SWOOSH!!
Pole Vault Cheer
Hold one arm
straight in front.
Stand two
fingers of the other hand on the outstretched arm, like legs, and pretend that
they “run” down the arm.
When they get
to the wrist, make them “leap” into the air. As you bring your hand back down,
clap.
Baseball Cheer
Pretend to
throw a baseball in the air
Then pretend
to hit it with a bat.
After you hit
the ball, shout, “Home Run!!”
Bowling Cheer
Pretend to
throw a bowling ball down an alley
The yell,
“Strike!”
Bicycle Cheer
Say: “Pump,
pump, pump!”
Make motions
as if using a manual bicycle pump
Bear Hug a Tree Cheer
When lost in
the forest, a Cub Scout should “Hug a Tree.”
Put your arms
around your own shoulders and
Give yourself
a big bear hug just like that tree.
Long Hike Cheer
Stomp your
feet loudly three times,
shuffle your
feet softly three times
the say “Boy,
I’m tired.”
Longer Hike Cheer
Stomp your
feet loudly six times,
Shuffle your
feet softly six times
Then whine
“Are we there yet?”
End of Hike Cheer
Throw hands
up in the air and yell “We made it!” and collapse.
Capital Area Council
Big
Balloon Cheer
Stick out
your thumb and pretend to blow up your hand, keep opening your fingers until
your hand opens up really big and yell "BANG!.
Jet Plane
Cheer
Move your
hand around yelling "Zoom, Zoom"
then add one
big clap for the sonic boom.
Lightning Cheer
Shake your
finger like jagged lightning yelling "Shhhhh, Shhhh" on each movement.
Throw in a
"BOOM" every now and then.
RUN-ONS
Utah National Parks
Some of these are real scout
Classics!! CD
Cub 1: (Just standing there.)
Cub 2: (Runs on and yells) They
are after me, they are after me!
Cub 1: What’s wrong?
Cub 2: They are after me!
Cub 1: Who’s after you?
Cub 2: The squirrels are after
me, they think I’m nuts! (and runs off)
Cub 1: (Enters during break
between skits, poking stick in ground and playing with it.)
Cub 2: (Enters from other side
and says) What you doing?
Cub 1: Just stickin’ around
Cub 1: What did the bug say when
it hit the windshield?
Cub 2: I don’t have the guts to
do that again.
Cub 1: I wonder what it would be
like to be a piece of wood
Cub 2: I’d probably be bored!
Cub 1: You shouldn’t swim on a
full stomach.
Cub 2: Okay, I’ll do the
backstroke.
Willie: I just found a lost
baseball.
Dad: How do you know it was
lost?
Willie: Because the kids down
the street are looking all over for it.
Cub 1: Why are you crying?
Cub 2: I cleaned the bird cage
and the canary disappeared.
Cub 1: How did you clean it?
Cub 2: With the vacuum cleaner.
Camper: Can you pitch a
tent?
Beginner: Overhand or
Underhand?
Traveler: I’d like to buy a
round trip ticket, please.
Agent: To Where?
Traveler: Back to here, of
course.
Cub 1: I slept with my head
under the pillow last night.
Cub 2: What happened?
Cub 1: The tooth fairy came and
took my teeth out.
JOKES & RIDDLES
Utah National Parks
What kind of
a dog has no tail? Hot dog.
What kind of
an insect does your uncle like best? Ants
Why did the
hamburger look sad? It was grounded.
What do
spiders eat with their hamburgers? French Flies.
What do you
call an airline that flies backwards?
A receding airline.
Knock, Knocks
Utah National Parks
Knock, knock
Who’s there?
Hutch
Hutch who?
Did you sneeze?
Knock, knock
Who’s there?
Dozen
Dozen who?
Dozen anyone answer the door?
Knock, Knock
Who’s there?
Wooden shoe
Wooden shoe who?
Wooden shoe like to know!
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