Showman Activity Badge
MENTAL SKILLS GROUP
Do the requirements for only ONE of the following:
PUPPETRY, MUSIC, OR DRAMA
PUPPETRY REQUIREMENTS
DO FOUR OF THESE:
- Write a puppet play about one of your Webelos den
activities.
- Make a set of fist puppets pr marionettes for the play
you have written.
- Build a simple stage for fist puppets, shadow puppets,
or marionettes.
- Alone or with the help of others, put on a show for
your den or pack.
- Make a set of paper bag puppets for a barbershop
quartet. With the help of three others, harmonize.
- There are fist, shadow, and finger puppets. There are
paper bag puppets, stick puppets, and marionettes.
Show their differences using ones you have made.
MUSIC REQUIREMENTS
DO FOUR OF THESE:
- Play four tunes on any band or orchestra instrument.
Read these from music.
- Sing two songs alone or with a group.
- Make a collection of three or more records. Tell what
you like about each one.
- Tell what folk music is. Hum, sing, or play a folk
tune on a musical instrument.
- Name three American composers. Name the most famous
work of each.
- Draw a staff. Draw on it a clef, sharp, flat, natural,
note, and rest. Tell what each is used for.
- Show by beating or playing the difference between 2/4,
3/4, and 4/4 time.
DRAMA REQUIREMENTS
DO FOUR OF THESE:
- Give a monologue on a patriotic, humorous, or holiday
subject.
- Attend a play. Describe the story. Tell what you
liked about it.
- Read a play. Make a model stage setting for one of the
acts.
- Write, put on, and take part in a one-act play.
- Make a list of stage directions. Tell what they mean.
- Describe a theater-in-the-round. What are its good and
bad points?
- Tell the difference between an opera and a light opera.
Tell how a musical and a dramatic play are different.
- Read a story about Shakespeare. Draw a picture of his
theater.