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Citizen Activity Badge
DEN MEETINGS
December Cub Scout Theme: The Golden Rule
Community Group (required for Arrow of Light Award)
Fifth grade
SECOND MONTH
FIRST WEEK
SECOND WEEK
THIRD WEEK
FOURTH WEEK
BEFORE
THE MEETING
STARTS
Supplies: books and broom for
Under the Broom game (page
2-36, Cub Scout Leader How-To
Book); Webelos Den Activities.
Supplies: rope for Behind
Your Back trick (page 67, Den
Chief Handbook)-, U.S. flag,
"Bacon" for Club Snatch game
(page 2-23, Cub Scout Leader
How-To Book).
Supplies: pencil for Disap-
pearing Pencil trick (page
7-10, Cub Scout Leader How-To
Book)-, U.S. flag, three-foot
ropes and newspapers for
Rescue game (page 241, Cub
Scout Leader How-To Book);
Cub Scout Songbook.
GATHERING
(Keep early
arrivals
busy.)
Play Under the Broom.
Den chief demonstrates and
boys practice Behind Your
Back trick.
Den chief demonstrates and
boys practice Disappearing
Pencil trick.
PERFORM
DEN
OPENING
(Ceremony)
Lead Scout Oath. Ask what Assigned boys conduct flag Assigned boys conduct flag
boys believe "duty to country" ceremony. ceremony.
means.
Brief business period—roll call, dues, uniform inspection.
GOOD TURN
(requirement 16).
ACTIVITY
BADGE
FUN
(Instruction,
practice,
games, and
contests
related to
Webelos skills)
Discuss what was learned on
visit to community leader or
government office. Ask boys
what former President or
other great American they
might write about for Citizen
requirement 9. Have them tell
why they chose him or her.
Divide den into teams and
play Club Snatch. Discuss ex-
amples of good citizenship
(requirements 10 and 11).
Divide den into two teams and
play Rescue. Discuss the pur-
poses of law and government
(requirements 12 and 13).
OR,
HAVE
AFTERNOON OF
OUTDOOR FUN.
PREPARATION
(Making props
and equipment;
getting set
for future
special events)
Announce Cub Scout theme
and tell how Webelos den will
be involved. Consider ideas
for den Good Turn and decide
on one. For ideas see page 20,
Webelos Den Activities.
Begin planning den Good
Turn.
Have boys complete their
Citizen notebooks for display
at the pack meeting.
Sign boys' books for activity badge requirements passed.
CLOSING
(Announcements,
ceremony)
Assign two boys to plan and
conduct opening and closing
flag ceremonies next week
and two others for the follow-
ing week. Give den leader's
minute on what the first two
points of the Scout Law mean
to good citizens.
Assigned boys retire colors
and fold flag. Ask boys to ob-
serve a moment of reverence.
Assigned boys retire colors
and fold flag. Sing "America"
(Cub Scout Songbook).
DEN MEETING CLEANUP UNDER SUPERVISION OF DENNER.
FOR MORE INFORMATION AIDS, READ BOYS' LIFE, SCOUTING, and ATTEND DISTRICT ROUNDTABLE.
CITIZEN NOTEBOOK. Notebooks for the Citizen activ-
ity badge need not be works of art. But for an effec-
tive display at the pack meeting, suggest that the
boys decorate their books. Inside, they might put
photos of the den's Good Turn project, as well as of
the boys working on activity badge requirements.
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