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Cub Scout Pack 147
(Alamogordo, New Mexico)
 
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What is Cub Scouting?

If you are in first grade through fifth grade—or you're 7 to 10 years old—then Cub Scouting is for you. It's for your family, too. This is the first and the biggest of the three Scouting programs (Cub Scouting, Boy Scouting, and Venturing) from the BSA.

Cub Scouts Belong to Pack and Den

 

Every Cub Scout is a member of a Cub Scout pack. A pack is a large group of scouts.

The pack is divided into smaller groups called dens. Each den has about six to eight scouts. All of the Cub Scouts in a den are about the same age and live in the same neighborhood.

The Cub Scout pack belongs to a church, a school, or some other group of people in your community or neighborhood. This group makes sure your pack has good adult leaders, a place to meet, and exciting things to do. The group gets help from the BSA, which is part of Scouting around the world.

Cub Scouts Do Things and Go Places

 

Cub Scouting means "doing." You have lots to do as a Cub Scout—crafts, games, sports, songs, stories, and puzzles, to name a few things. Much of the fun happens right in the den and pack. The den usually meets every week, and the pack meets once a month all year long. At den meetings and pack meetings, Cub Scouts do different things for fun and learning.

Cub Scouts also go to events like the annual blue and gold banquet, field contests, and derbies such as the pinewood derby. They go on field trips. They go camping and have other kinds of outdoor adventures. They take part in community events. Cub Scouts do all sorts of exciting stuff! Whatever it is that you enjoy, you'll have a chance to do it in Cub Scouting.

Cub Scouts Earn Awards

 

While you're having fun, you'll also be earning badges and awards. You'll work on projects with your parents or other adults in your family, and all of you will feel good about the things you accomplish. When you have earned a badge, you and an adult member of your family take part in a ceremony. The badge is given to the adult, and he or she then gives it to you in front of the whole pack. This is a way of saying "thank you" to your family for their help in earning your award.

The most popular awards for Cub Scouts are the advancement awards. Scouts do requirements to advance and earn their badges of rank: Tiger Cub, Bobcat, Wolf, Bear, Webelos, and the Arrow of Light Award. The Arrow of Light is the highest award in Cub Scouting. Webelos Scouts also earn activity badges.

The Cub Scout Academics and Sports program is popular, too. Cub Scouts get to learn about favorite subjects such as art, math, science, and citizenship. Or they play individual and team sports such as archery, gymnastics, skating, or soccer. You don't need to be a star athlete to play Cub Scout Sports. You're a winner when you do your best.

Cub Scouts can earn many other awards and medals too, sometimes by themselves and sometimes as members of their pack. They can earn or help their pack earn Quality Unit awards, religious emblems, the Emergency Preparedness Award, the Outdoor Activity Award, or the World Conservation Award.

When you earn an award in Cub Scouting, you learn new skills. You also get to use your new skills and your new knowledge in projects and demonstrations. You show what you know. People get to see what you've learned as a Cub Scout.


Cub Scouting Has a Purpose

 

There is a reason for everything scouts do in Cub Scouting. Apart from the fun and excitement, the aim of Cub Scouting is to help scouts grow into good citizens who are strong in character and personally fit. This is why we say that Cub Scouting is fun with a purpose.


Bibliography

Boy Scouts of America. (2010). Boy Scouts of America Scout Source. Retrieved June 15, 2010, from Boy Scouts of America: http://www.scouting.org/sitecore/content/Home/CubScouts/Cub%20Scouts/BeingACubScout/WhatIsCubScouting.aspx

 


Cub Scouting's 12 Core Values


  • Citizenship: Contributing service and showing responsibility to local, state, and national communities.
     
  • Compassion: Being kind and considerate, and showing concern for the well-being of others.
     
  • Cooperation: Being helpful and working together with others toward a common goal
     
  • Courage: Being brave and doing what is right regardless of our fears, the difficulties, or the consequences.
     
  • Faith: Having inner strength and confidence based on our trust in God.
     
  • Health and Fitness: Being personally committed to keeping our minds and bodies clean and fit.
  • Honesty: Telling the truth and being worthy of trust.
     
  • Perseverance: Sticking with something and not giving up, even if it is difficult.
     
  • Positive Attitude: Being cheerful and setting our minds to look for and find the best in all situations.
     
  • Resourcefulness: Using human and other resources to their fullest.
     
  • Respect: Showing regard for the worth of something or someone.
     
  • Responsibility: Fulfilling our duty to God, country, other people, and ourselves.