The Police

 25 Apr 17:30
Duty six :

Start Time Activity Requirements Instructions Scouter
25 Apr 17:30 5 Activities : Opening Register, beans, flag, totem and skin
 Grand Howl
Flag Break
Register
Inspection - belts and shoes
 Akela
25 Apr 17:35 15 Game : Steal the Keys

Have all the Cubs sit in one large circle. Choose one person and blindfold them. That person will be the guard. The guard sits in the folding chair in the middle of the circle holding a rolled up newspaper or similar. Quietly place the keys on the floor near the guard’s chair. Silently choose a thief from among the remaining players. This person must try to steal the guard’s keys without making any noise. If the guard hears the thief coming, he should start swinging the newspaper to try and stop him/her. If the guard is able to swat the thief, then he/she must return to his/her spot in the circle. However, if the thief gets the keys without getting swatted, he/she becomes the new guard and a new thief is chosen for the next round.

Akela
25 Apr 17:50 20 Activities : Home Safety Game squares, cards, dice Each six to design a simple home safety game.  They can use a template or create their own from scratch.  First to identify some home safety challenges that they will use in the game.  Then to make the board and work out if they are going to get it right and avoid the problem or fail and move back.  Then any other rules or fun aspects for the game.   Akela
25 Apr 18:10 5 Activities : Juice and biscuits Juice and biscuit break
 Akela
25 Apr 18:15 5 Yarn : Story of a Good Turn - How boy scouts got to America See attached Akela
25 Apr 18:20 10 Game : Wobble Board Catch One Cub to stand on the wobble board.  Each Cub takes a turn to throw them a ball.  If Cub misses, they swop places.  Align with theme (e.g. the Cub on the wobble board is a police man who needs to see everything going on around themselves at all times, fitness, etc.) Akela
25 Apr 18:30 10 Game : What's missing?

Gather several small items. Show the items to the Cubs and have them look carefully look at the tray and take note of what’s there. Then have them close their eyes while you remove an object or two. They have to figure out which object has been removed.

 Akela
25 Apr 18:40 15 Game : Office, Help Me! Game
Have the Cubs sit in a circle. Then try one or both of the variations below:
* Choose one Cub to be the Police Officer. Pretend to be a Parent and ask the Officer to find your lost child. Silently choose another player to be your lost child and describe the player in detail. Have the Officer use the description to “find” your child. Then let the child become the new Police Officer.
* For a more challenging game, have one of the Cubs be the Parent and describe his or her missing child for the Officer.
 Akela
25 Apr 18:55 5 Activities : Closing Totem, Skin
Badges, certificates 		Announcements
Badge handouts
Grand Howl
Flag Down
Prayer
Dismiss 		Akela

Programme prepared on 25 Jun 20:55

Story of a Good Turn - How boy scouts got to America



Category Yarn
Time to allocate (mins) 5
Story
The History of the Boy Scouts of America
 The Story of a Good Turn
Taken from the Boy Scout Handbook

 One day in 1909 in London, England, an American visitor, William D. Boyce, lost his way in a dense fog. He stopped under a street lamp and tried to figure out where he was. A boy approached him and asked if he could be of help.
"You certainly can," said Boyce. He told the boy that he wanted to find a certain business office in the center of the city.
"I'll take you there," said the boy.
When they got to the destination, Mr. Boyce reached into his pocket for a tip. But the boy stopped him.
"No thank you, sir. I am a Scout. I won't take anything for helping."
"A Scout? And what might that be?" asked Boyce.
The boy told the American about himself and his brother Scouts. Boyce became very interested. After finishing his errand, he had the boy take him to the British Scouting office.
At the office, Boyce met Lord Robert Baden-Powell, the famous British general who had founded the Scouting movement in Great Britain. Boyce was so impressed with what he learned that he decided to bring Scouting home with him.
On February 8, 1910, Boyce and a group of outstanding leaders founded the Boy Scouts of America. From that day forth, Scouts have celebrated February 8 as the birthday of Scouting in the United States.
What happened to the boy who helped Mr. Boyce find his way in the fog? No one knows. He had neither asked for money nor given his name, but he will never be forgotten. His Good Turn helped bring the Scouting movement to our country.
In the British Scout Training Center at Gilwell Park, England, Scouts from the United States erected a statue of an American buffalo in honor of this unknown Scout. One Good Turn to one man became a Good Turn to millions of American boys. Such is the power of a Good Turn.
Entry written by Katy Young of 1st Bedfordview