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Cast: 2 scouts (If more are desired, they can be passengers, with suitable sound effects and actions. Seating for pilot and co-pilot, and for passengers if required and a compass.
Announcer: This scene is on board a very low budget airline.
Pilot: Well, are we anywhere near the airport, co-pilot ?
Co-Pilot: (peering out the window) I don't know… I see lights over there to the port. That's likely it. Bring 'er around and have a look.
Pilot: (lurching plane hard to the left) Boy, I can't tell. I wish the company would buy us some instruments.
Co-Pilot: (pulling compass from pocket) Oh, I've got my trusty compass and the sun went down about 20 minutes ago, so we've got to be on course. (Excited) Look, see that spot down there, that must be it.
Pilot: Okay, here we go. Give me 20 degrees flaps, I'm going in. (Puts plane into a nose dive, sound effects.)
Pilot: This is going to be tough. Give me more flaps, cut back the engines. (Louder) More flaps, less throttle !
Co-Pilot: (Appropriate actions and sounds, acting panicky.)
Pilot: QUICK, cut the engines, give me brakes. MORE BRAKES !
Both: (Sighs of relief) We're down, we made it !
Pilot: Boy that was a short runway !
Co-Pilot: (Looking right, then left) Yep, and wide too !
Props: Colored strips of cloth for each participant, spears, and shields if desired.
Announcer: In this skit, ALEXANDER THE GREAT has called all his officers together to plan the next day's battle when they will make the big attack on Russia.
Alex: Now men, the key to tomorrow's attack will be coordinated. Each of you Generals will need to have your men begin the attack at the same moment.
General #1: How can we do that great leader? We will be so far apart we can't see each other and clocks haven't been invented yet.
Alex: [very wisely] I've commanded my chief scientist to solve the problem. It was either do it or lose his head. Mortimer, get in here, now!
Mortimer: [bumbling in] I'm here master! I've done it, I've done it! I've invented TIME! Here, everybody [passes out cloths] tie this red rag around your wrist. I've dipped it in a new miracle chemical I invented in my tent. When it's time to start the battle they will all turn blue. Alexander and Generals tie band on wrist]
Alex: That's wonderful Mortimer. What do you call your new invention?
Mortimer: Oh, ALEXANDER'S RAG TIME BAND!
Alien comes in - the traditional "take me to your leader" routine etc. When taken to the leader the alien says, "Stop singing, Ging Gang Goolie -- it's our national anthem..."
An Indian and a white man are traveling together. It's cold and the white man is shivering. The white man is all bundled up and the Indian has very little on (i.e. pants, no shirt) and his blanket. The white man complains about the cold and doesn't understand why the Indian isn't. The white man asks the Indian how he stays so warm. The Indian asks if his face is cold. The white man says no it isn't. The Indian replies, "Me all face."
Props: A sign reading: "Undertaker, Justice of the Peace, Furniture, Fresh Eggs", some overalls, straw hats, bandannas.
Announcer: Here we see old Clem Smithers sittin' in front of his country store and funeral parlor.
Josh: [strolling in, thumbs in suspenders] Good Morning Mr. Smithers. I'm Josh Martin.
Clem: Howdy bub, call me Clem.
Josh: So, you're an undertaker?
Clem: Yep.
Josh: Lived here all your life?
Clem: Not yet I ain't.
Josh: Do people die here often?
Clem: Nope …. Only once, Need an undertaker?
Josh: Oh, no. They tell me you sell cement here.
Clem: Yep.
Josh: I need two bags.
Clem: What kind?
Josh: Don't know. St. Marys, I guess,
Clem: Good as it comes... what you gonna use it fer?
Josh: Some new steps out by my cement pond.
Clem: Yep, yep ... How many steps?
Josh: Oh, 'bout six.
Clem: How wide?
Josh: 'bout four feet.
Clem: How high is each step?
Josh: Well, let's see now [counts on fingers, then takes a shoe off and counts on bare toes] Oh, 'bout seven.
Clem: How deep ya goin'?
Josh: How come you gotta know that?
Clem: 'round here we get frost so ya gotta go 'bout two feet deep [pause] Yep you'll need six, maybe seven bags.
Josh: Okay, I'll get the horse and wagon. You throw in seven bags.
Clem: Can't!
Josh: Why not?
Clem: Ain't got no cement. Ain't had none for six months!
Two scouts are needed, or one scout and the MC.
"They're all over me, they're all over me!"
"What's all over you?"
"My clothes!"
AMERICAN WATERWAYS QUIZ
- Which state has the most waterfalls?
- Which three rivers are shared with another country [Canada and Mexico]?
- Which state has the most man-made lakes?
- Which waterfall is the most famous?
- Which lakes border Canada?
- Which three States border Lake Superior?
- Which U.S. River is the longest, 2,348 miles?
- Which is the 2nd longest, 2,315 miles?
A. Niagara River, Rio Grande, St. Lawrence.
B. California [8]
C. Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota.
D. Utah—Utah, Lake Mead, Lake Powell
E. Ontario, Champlain, Erie, Huron, Superior, Memphremogog, Lake of the woods.
F. Mississippi.
G. Missouri
H. Niagara Falls
A five second gag to put into a loose moment.
Cast: Campfire chief and a volunteer in the audience
Campfire Chief: And now it's time to make a spot announcement. (Dog barks from the audience.) Thank you, Spot.
This is a skit that I have done a couple of times in the past few years. Scouter Bill Palmer - 1st Port Elgin, 15th Juan de Fuca Scouts in Victoria, B.C.
One person is laying on the floor. Two other people walk up. First-person: "Hey this guy is hurt." he goes and checks his heartbeat. First-person: "No heartbeat, help me do CPR" Second person goes down and starts pumping on the chest and the first guy does the mouth blows.
Do this for a little while.
Second person: "I'm getting kind of tired here I think it is time to switch."
First-person: "Ok, ready"
At this point the person on the ground gets up, one of the other people goes down and they start doing CPR again.
There you go, this is a good skit to do with leaders.
Characters: 6 to 8 Cub Scouts
Props: Paper sacks
Setting: The skit opens with boys standing together in a backyard. Cardboard cutout trees and bushes could be used.
1st Cub: Gee, there's nothing to do.
2nd Cub: Yeah, I know.
3rd Cub: Hey, let's have a backyard picnic.
All: Yeah!
4th Cub: But it's going to rain.
1st Cub: I don't think so. If it does, we can eat in the house.
2nd Cub: I'll bring the potato chips.
3rd Cub: I'll bring the hot dogs.
4th Cub: I'll bring the hot dog buns.
5th Cub: I'll bring the drinks.
6th Cub: And I'll bring something special!
(All walk offstage and come back carrying sacks)
2nd Cub: Here are the chips.
3rd Cub: Here are the hot dogs.
4th Cub: Here are the hot dog buns.
5th Cub: Here are the drinks.
6th Cub: (Drops his sack) Oh, no!
5th Cub: What's wrong?
6th Cub: I brought the ants!!