Cub Scouting means “doing.” Everything in Cub Scouting is designed to have the boys doing things.
Activities are used to achieve the aims of Scouting—citizenship training, character development, and personal fitness. Many of the activities happen right in the den and pack. The most important are the weekly den meetings and the monthly pack meetings.
National Council’s Cub Scout page has links to download the NEW meeting plans.
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Posted by nancy davis
For those Cub Scouts leaders who prefer digital resources, your wait is over.
Part of the new Cub Scout Delivery Model, this new resource offers den meeting plans for all ranks, plus pack meeting plans connected to monthly themes.
Also includes a light overview of the Cub Scouts program, an introduction to den leader responsibilities and den management, and an online resource list.
Other resources available include:
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Posted by nancy davis
All available booklets in the Cub Scout Activity Series are now only 88¢ each from BSA Supply Group. The booklets were part of the now-discontinued Den Meeting in a Box series.
Among the cool booklets still available are ones on recycling, trees, weather, bugs, and dinosaurs.
[Corrected on 2009-10-01]
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Posted by Mike Newman
Cub Scout Program Helps (apparently in its final year) is a great resource for Cub Scout leaders. It features a month-by-month breakdown of suggestions for den (Tiger, Wolf, or Bear) and pack games, songs, advancement ceremonies, crafts, and other activities to go along with the Cub Scout Monthly Themes.
BSA National has now posted a downloadable single pdf file of the entire 2009-2010 Cub Scout Program Helps. (The BSA link says “2008-2009,” but it is the 2009-2010 version.)
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Posted by Mike Newman
I picked up a copy of the 2009-2010 Cub Scout Program Helps at my local scout shop this week.
According to unofficial sources, this will be the last edition of Cub Scout Program Helps. No word yet on what will be replacing Program Helps in the future.
One nice change in this edition is that the monthly suggestions are grouped first by age level (Tiger, Wolf, Bear) and then by month. The helps for Cubmasters are at the front of the book.
[Update 07-25-2009: You can now download the full 2009-2010 Cub Scout Program Helps at the BSA website. Link (pdf)]
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Posted by Mike Newman
Some members of the Cub Scout Talk Yahoo Group are hearing from their local scout shops that a 2009 edition of the Webelos Scout Handbook will be coming out this Fall.
Perhaps the new edition will incorporate the new Cub Scout Belt Loops.
Stay tuned.
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Posted by Mike Newman
According to some discussion on the Cub Scout Talk Yahoo Group, BSA National announced that Cub Scout Monthly Themes and Cub Scout Program Helps will be discontinued after the 2009-10 program year.
Stay tuned.
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Posted by Mike Newman
If your pack is like mine in presenting a new Boy Scout Handbook to the fifth-grade Webelos Scouts at your pack graduation ceremony, you will have a pretty cool-looking book to give them in 2010.
This is the cover of the upcoming Centennial (12th) Edition of the Boy Scout Handbook (designed by enventys).
Link [Via Boyandgirlscouts.com]
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Posted by Mike Newman
Cub Scout Program Helps is a great resource for Cub Scout leaders. It contains a month-by-month breakdown of suggestions for den (Tiger, Wolf, or Bear) and pack games, songs, advancement ceremonies, crafts, and other activities to go along with the Cub Scout Monthly Themes.
BSA National has now posted a downloadable single pdf file of the entire 2008-2009 Cub Scout Program Helps.
Link (pdf)
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Posted by Mike Newman
The Official BSA Cub Scout Leader How-To Book is a great resource. It has over 230 loose-leaf 3-hole punched pages of ideas for den and pack activities including crafts, games, nature activities, recipes, songs, skits, and more.
It also has instructions on how to build a pinewood derby track, a raingutter regatta course, or a space derby rocket launcher.
The How-To Book is $12.99 from BSA Supply Group.
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Posted by Mike Newman
Our local scout shop now has the 2008 printing of the Webelos Leader Guide in stock. The cover is still the same as the previous edition (shown above) except that the right title bar has a yellow background instead of blue.
I have not reviewed the new Guide, but my understanding from someone who has reviewed it is that it has only minor changes from the previous edition.
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Posted by Mike Newman
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