Greatest Hits - The Story of Blue and Gold

University of Scouting is less than one week away and you will have to registration on site for the full $50 (more here: https://www.ncacbsa.org/training/university-of-scouting/).  But that doesn't mean you can't start learning more.  Even if you can't make it to University of Scouting on Saturday we have something for you.

Thanks to our own Cub Scout Roundtable Commissioner, Roger Claff, we can provide you with some great Cub Scouting ideas right here.  In 2014, Roger compiled a "Greatest Hits" for use, sharing, etc.  It's a University class on it's own in Cub Songs and Cubmaster Minutes.  Below is a sample, but the full shareable document is here: https://goo.gl/xLqtT5

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The Story of Blue and Gold

By Roger Claff

The Blue and Gold Banquet is a good time to reflect on the history of Cub Scouting.  The following history could be read in parts by twenty Cub Scouts in your pack.  Add props and arrange the scouts in a human time line.

1. This is the story of how Cub Scouts began.  It is our story - the story of Blue and Gold.
2. The story of Blue and Gold begins in England in 1907.  Older boys are having fun reading a book for soldiers.
3. The book is called, Aids to Scouting.  It is written by a man named General Robert Baden-Powell.
4. The book tells the boys how to go camping and live outdoors.  General Baden-Powell learns of all the boys reading his book and has an idea.
5. He forms the first Boy Scout Troop at a place called Brownsea Island.  The boys go camping, take hikes, and listen to campfire stories.
6. In America, a man named Mr. Ernest Thompson Seton forms a group of boys called the Woodcraft Indians.  These boys form tribes, find out about Indian lore, tell stories, and learn nature skills.
7. It is now 1910.  The Boy Scouts of America is started by three men.  Mr. Seton is one of them.  The Woodcraft Indians become a part of the Boy Scouts.
8. The years go by. It’s 1916. Lots of older boys in England and America are having fun in Boy Scouts.
9. Lots of younger boys want to have fun in scouting too.  Many parents in England ask General Baden-Powell to help.
10. General Baden-Powell has just read a book called The Jungle Book.  It tells the story of a boy raised by a pack of wolves in the jungles of India.
11. General Baden-Powell starts Boy Scouting for younger boys.  He gets his ideas from The Jungle Book and calls this scouting, Wolf Cubbing.
12. The years go by.  It is now 1929.  Lots of younger boys in America want to do Wolf Cubbing.  Many parents ask Mr. Seton to help.
13. Mr. Seton starts Cubbing for younger boys.  He gets some ideas from Wolf Cubbing in England.  He gets other ideas from his Woodcraft Indians.
14. It is now 1930.  Cub Scouting begins.  Cub Scouting is for boys age 9 through 11.  There are five thousand Cub Scouts in America.
15. The years go by.  It is now 1933.  The country is in the Great Depression, and Cub Scout packs hold their first pot-luck dinners.  By 1943, they are called, "Blue and Gold Banquets."
16. The years go by.  It is now 1999.  Cub Scouts is bigger and better than ever.  Cub Scouting is now for boys in first grade through fifth grade.  There are now more than 2 million Cub Scouts.
17. We owe much to General Baden-Powell.  From his Wolf Cubbing we get cubs, packs, dens, Wolf, Bear, Tiger Cub, Akela, Baloo, and the Law of the Pack.
18. We also owe much to Mr. Seton.  From his Woodcraft Indians we get Webelos, arrow points, and the Arrow of Light.
19. From the Woodcraft Indians we also get Blue and Gold.  Blue is for truth, loyalty, belief in God, and the blue sky above.  Gold is for sunlight, happiness, and good cheer.
20. The story of Blue and Gold does not end.  As long as there are boys, there will be Cub Scouts.  And as long as there are Cub Scouts, the story will go on.