Do You Have a Cub Scout Garden?
| Category: | Narrator |
|---|---|
| Category: | Cub Scouts |
| Category: | Opening |
| Props: | Pictures or signs of peas, lettuce, squash, and turnips with key words printed on them |
| Notes: | Boys hold signs and sit in rows (each row higher than the one in front). As narrator reads each virtue, the boy with that sign stands, shows it, and sits. Can be used as opening ceremony or skit. |
[Narrator:] Here is how to plant a thriving, productive Cub Scout Garden-one that all parents want their sons to grow up in.
As each item is read, a Cub Scout walks out with his vegetable sign, shows it, and sits in a row
[Narrator:] First, plant five rows of peas: 1. Preparedness 2. Promptness 3. Perseverance 4. Politeness 5. Praise [Narrator:] Second, plant five rows of lettuce: 1. Let us be faithful 2. Let us be unselfish 3. Let us be loyal 4. Let us be truthful 5. Let us help one another [Narrator:] Third, plant three rows of squash: 1. Squash impatience 2. Squash criticism 3. Squash indifference [Narrator:] To complete your garden, plant three rows of turnips: 1. Turn up for pack meetings 2. Turn up with a new idea 3. Turn up with determination [Narrator:] But without many hours of work and care, your garden will not grow, so: 1. Don't wait to be asked-Volunteer! 2. Don't say "I can't"-Do it! 3. Don't wait for someone else-Be first! [Narrator:] Without the help of every person in your pack, your garden will turn to weeds. So help build the background, work the soil, pull the weeds, and spread the sunshine of "I have done my best."