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DEAS COMMITTEE
What is an Ideas Committee, anyway? It's a group of parents who work
together to dig up in advance all the ideas they can related to a
particular month's theme. The value of this Committee to any Pack is
immediately apparent, but there is still another very good reason for having
one. It helps give many people a feeling of responsibility for the Pack's suc-
cess. The Pack program becomes theirs to develop and improve.
The chairman of this committee is usually a member of the Pack Com-
mittee or a Den Dad. His first step is to recruit the parent helpers who
will help him carry out this job. Some can be hand picked, others might
be Den representatives. When the conference selected him as the Ideas
Chairman for one particular theme, he understood that it was his job to
find activities and games to spark the program for that month.
The committee understands that they will be making a contribution
toward next month's theme, and that other parents will help in a similar
way during other months. They start by exploring all possible sources for
activity ideas, keeping in mind the ability of their boys. They understand
projects must catch interest and challenge exploration, not too easy, lots of
fun, with plenty of variety in stunts and craft to care for individual boy
differences. They use the How Book of Cub Scouting, books at the local
library, special craft and hobby shops, Scouting Magazine, and friends and
neighbors who might have something to contribute.
As the month for their theme draws closer, they prepare actual samples,
patterns or direction sheets to present at the monthly Pack Leaders' meeting.
The Ideas Committee arrives early at the monthly Pack Leaders' meeting
and, as the folks gather, they explain and demonstrate their projects.
During the separate meetings the Ideas Committee meets with the Den
Mothers to share additional program helps. Here their contribution is really
appreciated and the activities begin to reach the boy.
To climax their contribution the Ideas Committee developed during their
explorations some suggestions for the Pack meeting. As a result, they too,
arrive early to assist the Den Dads and others in arranging the Pack meet-
ing room.
WHAT ONE IDEAS COMMITTEE DID
The Ideas Committee of Pack 75 in Cranford, New Jersey, collected and
presented their leaders with the following suggestions for the January
theme "Stars, Planets and Space" at their monthly Pack Leaders' meeting.
Possible Den Program Suggestions
1. Construction of star charts from cardboard box using pin holes and a
light underneath.
2. Colored beaded pins on heavy blue or black construction paper. See
December 1951 Scouting, pages 14-18 and Handbook for Boys (See index)
3. Explanation and description of telescope; its mechanical construction;
see the librarian and Scouting Magazine.
4. Make up a small table with balls and beads representing sun and
planets and indicate time period to travel once around the sun. See any
encyclopedia and the museum for moving model.
5. Perform an eclipse in miniature — explanation of what happens. See
December 1951 Scouting Magazine.
6. Wa^h newspapers and periodicals for clippings, articles, pictures, etc.,
to be pi ed in scrapbook.
7. Stories from magazines, periodicals, newspapers, encyclopedias to be
brought in and narrated by Cub Scouts after help at home.
8. Skits — Space Cadets, Men from Mars — improvised costumes — ray
guns — atomic guns — patterned after radio and television programs.
9. Have each Cub Scout select a planet, star, etc., such as the moon, or
Mars and find out as much as he can about it.
10. For use of visual aids see Ideas Committee or Slide Division of Depart-
ment of Education, the American Museum of Natural History, N. Y. 24, N. Y.
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