Theme: Your Vote Counts- Ideas for Wolf, Bear, Webelos Dens, including Skit, Game, Song and Activities

Theme: Your Vote Counts

Skit, Joke or Run-on:

“How Did You Get Here?” Skit

Den Chief: Transportation played a very important part in the settling of America. How did you get here?

Cub Scout #1: If the Pilgrims came over on the Mayflower, how did the Scouts get here?

Cub Scout #2: I don’t know. How?

Cub Scout #1: (Cub Scout comes on stage with a sample of a handicraft project and sign identifying it) On handy crafts.

Cub Scout #3: If the Pilgrims came on the Mayflower and the Scouts came on Handy Crafts, how did the doctors get here?

Cub Scout #4: I don’t know. How?

Cub Scout #3: (dressed as a doctor) On blood vessels.

Cub Scout #1: How did the students get here?

Cub Scout #2: (enters carrying a load of books) On scholar ships.

Cub Scout #3: How did all the ordinary people get here?

Cub Scout #4: (enters carrying a model or picture of a ship) On citizen ships

Utah National Parks Council Pow Wow Book 2013 Page 69-70 (Submission Credit: National Capital Area Council 1993 Pow Wow Book)

Game: Are You a Revolutionary Detective?

from Baltimore Area Council

See if you can find the words that are hidden in these American Revolutionary clues. Example: A penny found in BICENTENNIAL is CENT.) Can you find:

1.        Sixty seconds in MINUTEMEN? ________________________

2.        Your laundry in GEORGE WASHINGTON? _______________

3.        Two thousand pounds in BOSTON TEA PARTY? __________

4.        What you write with in INDEPENDENCE HALL? __________

5.        Where beavers live in JOHN ADAMS? ___________________

6.        A type of cereal in RED COATS? ________________________

7.        A yellow vegetable in GENERAL CORNWALLIS? __________

8.        What you put on toast in BENJAMIN FRANKLIN? _________

9.        A metal in CONTINENTAL CONGRESS? ________________

10.     A place where you bowl in VALLEY FORGE? _____________

11.     A musical instrument in MONTICELLO? __________________

12.     The opposite of young in BENEDICT ARNOLD? ___________

13.     A boy’s name in LIBERTY BELL? _______________________

14.     What an unruly mob does in PATRIOTS? __________________

15.     The sum of five plus five in BICENTENNIAL? _____________

Answers:

1. Minute, 2. Wash, 3. Ton, 4. Pen, 5. Dams, 6. Oats, 7. Corn, 8. Jam, 9. Tin, 10. Alley, 11. Cello, 12. Old, 13. Bert, 14. Riots, 15. Ten,

Song:  I Am A Citizen Song

TUNE: My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean

I’m learning to be a good citizen,

I’m learning we all have some rights.

I’m learning each right has a duty,

I must keep them both in my sights.

Chorus

Rights and Duties

They both go together, you know, you know

Rights and Duties

Good Citizenship I must show

We all have a right to religion,

To worship the way that we please,

But that means I have to allow you

Your choice, though I may not agree.

Chorus

We all have the right to assemble

To gather with people we know,

And all have the freedom of speaking

If citizenship is to grow.

Chorus

We each have the right to make choices

And no one can threaten that choice.

I may not agree with your statements,

But each one can raise his own voice.

Chorus

Craft or Activity:

Volunteer to do a flag raising at your school or chartered organization.  You could also have the boys make posters, each one with a different way that students could demonstrate being a good citizen.

Volunteer to sing a patriotic song as part of a ceremony at your school, church or chartered organization

 Encourage citizens to vote with “Remember to Vote” door hangers.  You can have the boys design their own, then make copies from a computer scan and have each boy, with an adult, put them on neighborhood front doors.

Visit a polling place or precinct office and learn how elections are held and votes are counted. See how voting is made accessible to people with language or mobility issues.  Be sure everyone knows that no political clothing can be worn and no campaigning comments are allowed at a polling place.

Attend a community event in your area – many communities have special Veteran’s Day events – or there might be a special activity for Thanksgiving.

Put up flags to honor veteran’s at a local cemetery.  Contact a local VFW or local cemeteries to get flags for putting out flags on graves of Veterans – this may only be done in older cemeteries.

Newer national cemeteries instead have a Memorial Avenue of full-size flags donated by families – flags that were used to cover veteran or military caskets.  They are flown on every holiday and whenever there is a funeral for active military.  Your group might be able to arrange to help with this ceremony.