Pack Meeting Sparkle

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Pack Meeting Sparkle

• Presented By Staci Thomas

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Plan. . .

• Planning is your most important step for a fun
  and exciting Pack Meeting.

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Planning Steps

• Identify your theme follow Nationals theme or
  create your own. Share this theme with your den
  leaders a month in advance so they can coordinate
  their meetings around the same theme
• Check with your leaders for sharing time do
  they have a skit to perform, a song to share, or
  just a story?

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• Identify what awards are to be handed out.
• Is there time for a guest speaker?
• Come up with a Cubmaster minute
• Interactive stories
• Cheers
• And more. . . .

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Guests and Speakers

• Stick with your theme for example
• One November the theme was Citizenship so I
  invited the Registar for Chesterfield County to
  our Pack Meeting.
• October is Fire Safety Awareness month so we
  had the local fire station bring out a truck and
  talk about safety.
• Have the local Police come out to talk about
  Bike Safety
• Have Luck Stone come in and share information
  regarding rocks
• Invite Tandy Leather to visit (they will
  charge if you allow the kids to do any
  leatherwork approx. 2 per scout)
• You dont have to have a special guest every
  meeting but mix it up so that every meeting isnt
  the same ole thing. . . .

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Have fun with the theme

• Dress up in a character. My oldest sons
  Cubmaster did this and the kids loved it. He
  dressed as Dr. Seuss, Abe Lincoln, and many more.
  
• Be creative
• Know your audience choose things you know the
  boys enjoy
• Brainstorm with your committee for ideas- you
  dont have to do it alone!

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Where to get ideas?

• Baloos Bugle is great! They have a almost
  monthly newsletter that goes along with
  Nationals themes and has lots of great ideas for
  games, stories, etc. Usscouts.org/bbugle.asp
• Monthly Roundtable meetings always has great
  ideas for your Pack and Den meetings
• Scouting Magazine
• Google I have many times googled a theme for
  ideas or just general ideas to keep things
  exciting.

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Putting it all Together

• Who is your guest and what will they be doing
  if there will be a interactive activity with the
  scouts you may want to slot this for last.
• Have your den leaders present all den related
  awards advancement beads/belt loops. This way
  you are keeping things moving and also gives each
  den the opportunity to share what all they worked
  on or visited that month.
• As Cubmaster I only handed out rank awards,
  summertime pack awards, popcorn awards, etc.

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Sample Pack Meeting Agenda

• Opening (alternate your dens to do flags)
• Brief discussion of theme allow boys to share
  what they have learned
• Announcements
• Awards/sharing
• By Den then Pack awards
• Skit by Den 4
• Reminders
• Guest Speaker (if no speaker do a interactive
  story)
• Closing (Cubmaster Minute)

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• Where is Your Home
• Divide the audience into two groups and have them
  respond to the following key words
• Home "Home on the Range"
• United States "This Land is your Land"
• Be it ever so humble, there's no place like HOME.
  
• No matter where in the UNITED STATES you may
  roam.
• You may travel all over the UNITED STATES,
• But your HOME state with you always rates.
• Some choose to roam while others stay,
• Always in their HOME state 'til their dying day.
• No matter in what part of the UNITED STATES your
  HOME state may be,
• There's one thing everyone says you see,
• And everybody I'm sure will remember that.
• HOME is where you hang your hat!
• --Bay Area Council Pow Wow, 1994

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Cubmaster Minute

• Leading the Way
• Alice, Golden Empire Council
• Robert Baden-Powell knew that No one can pass
  through life, any more than he can pass through a
  bit of country, without leaving tracks behind,
  and those tracks may often be helpful to those
  coming after him in finding their way. Lets
  each make sure that OUR tracks lead others in the
  right pathway towards being a good citizen!