| CHOICE
OF SONGS:
Good Cub Scout songs make no sense whatever. Songs like: I Like Bananas (p13), John Jacob Jingleheimer (p12), Stay on the Happy Side are fun to sing. Don't try to teach a lesson by choosing songs with meaningful words for pack meetings. It makes the songs dull and the lesson fails. Closing songs like Taps(p84) or Cub Scout Vespers(p85) work, not so much for their meanings, but more for the moods that are created when they are sung. Use them to set up a Cubmaster's minute or solemn ceremony. Songs with lots of actions like Grand Ol' Duke (p24) Choose songs that you like to sing. TEACHING
NEW SONGS
"Repeat after me" songs (also called lining out) like the Bear Song(p15) and Ravioli are fun but require a little more practice by the leader. Print the words with BIG letters on news print or butcher paper. Kevin Pate, from Norman OK, advises this because song sheets are a downer: everyone is looking down at the sheets instead of up and you can't do the actions right when you're reading from a sheet or book. Don't forget songs that everyone knows like My Bonnie(p27) and Clementine(p14) Leading
Songs
Have everyone stand ( a must) and insist on loud volume. Keep the beat lively and look directly at people. Wear orange gloves People will look at the gloves instead of directly at you. (something Ed Hesser, a great Cub Scouter, taught me). Above all, KISMIF |