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How to use beads to encourage Tiger Cub advancement
FOR MANY BOYS, the Tiger Cub year represents their first experience with Scouting—and with Scouting’s advancement program. Tiger Cub advancement couples immediate recognition, which is important for...
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Ideas to help your pack build—not lose—momentum during the holidays
IT HAPPENS EVERY YEAR. Just about the time new den leaders figure out how to lead a den and pack programming falls into a comfortable rhythm, Thanksgiving Day arrives. And not far behind it come...
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Understanding the new Cub Scout advancement program
This fall, Cub Scouts everywhere are blazing new trails in advancement. Gone is the multitude of achievements, electives, arrow points and activity badges that confused leaders and parents — plus the...
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Tiger Cub Safari celebrates Cub Scouting’s youngest members
Our story begins at the end. It begins at Joe Stieber’s mailbox, where he finds a strange invitation to an Eagle Scout court of honor. It’s strange because he doesn’t recognize the Eagle Scout’s name...
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Bright lights, fast cars in Times Square
For the past three years, Times Square has been home to the Pinewood Derby World Championship, organized by the Greater New York Councils. The 2017 event attracted 276 Cub Scouts — representing 26...
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Blue and Gold and fun all over
It’s difficult to tell who’s having more fun at the Pack 19 Blue and Gold Banquet: the Cub Scouts or the grown-ups. But one thing is clear: All the time spent planning, crafting and decorating paid off...
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How your pack can live happily alongside other youth activities
Last August, just as fall recruiting was gearing up in the Susquehanna Council in Williamsport, Pa., another local event was getting a lot more attention: the Little League World Series. Nearly 25,000...
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How to start a den or pack
Flyers and billboards look great, but Luke Rose, a Webelos den leader with Pack 873 of Annandale, Va., says there’s no recruiting technique that tops word of mouth. “Cub Scout events are fun, and the...
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Cub Scout adventures offer more than colorful swag
Adventure is a hallmark of every level of the Scouting program. But in Cub Scouting, the word takes on a special meaning. For each badge of rank, Cub Scouts must complete a series of adventures, which...
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How to make Cub Scout day camp count
Angie Williamson really, really likes Cub Scout day camp. The Mount Morris, Mich., volunteer likes it so much that she runs two separate camps every summer and also volunteers for a winter camp the...
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How to energize Tiger Cub dens
In our November-December issue, Assistant Den Leader D.K.B. reported that the Tiger Cub den in her pack meets only sporadically. Tiger Cubs and their partners rarely attend pack meetings. How, she...
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Nature’s riot of fall color contained an unusual amount of orange one October Saturday afternoon at Camp Warren Levis in southwestern Illinois. All that extra orange in the landscape had impressive...
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Fitness Fun for Cub Scouts
A council’s autumn championship gets boys excited about exercise and provides packs with an early program activity. On a cool and windy October Saturday morning, a host of eager Tiger Cubs, Cub Scouts,...
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Graduating Tiger Cubs into Cub Scouting
Committee Chairman E.R. is concerned that many of his pack’s Tiger Cubs and parents drop out of Cub Scouting. How, he asks, can leaders inspire the boys and parents to stay in Cub Scouting? Three...
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How They Do It: Successful Cub Scout Recruiting
New Cub Scouts Get ‘Official Pinewood Derby Licenses’ in the Last Frontier Council Using innovative recruiting ideas and concepts, the Last Frontier Council welcomed 3,562 new Cub Scouts after its 2004...
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Teaching Bobcat requirements to nonreaders
Because most new Tiger Cubs can’t read, Cub Scout leader H.R. is looking for creative ways to teach Bobcat requirements to these young boys. I make sure to include the Cub Scout Promise in the den’s...
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Successful 'Go See It' outings with Tiger Cubs
The Boy Scouts of America promises its members a lifetime of adventure—family camp-outs, day and summer camps, national Scout jamborees, high-adventure trips. But all of this activity starts closer to...
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Tips for teaching Cub Scouts the Scout Law
Read more about the “One Oath, One Law” policy effective in May 2014 for Venturers and May 2015 for Cub Scouts. Memorizing the 12 words of the Scout Law (16 if you count “A Scout is” and “and”), and...
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Former astronaut shares how to get Scouts hooked on STEM subjects
Dr. Bernard A. Harris Jr. tells why your Scouts should study science, technology, engineering, and math—and how to get them interested. Read an exclusive snippet of discussion from Scouting magazine’s...
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How to get Eagle Scout dads to help Cubs
Question: The Eagle Scout dads in Cubmaster S.C.’s pack prefer to work with Boy Scouts, not Cub Scouts. An Eagle Scout himself, S.C. wants to persuade these men to get with the younger-boy program. A...
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