Home- and neighborhood-centered activities appeal to boys in the first through fifth grades. Cub Scouting teaches attitudes and habits that make a boy a better member of his family and community.
Weekly Cub Scout and Webelos Scout den meetings are led by a den leader (an adult) and a den chief (a Boy Scout, Varsity Scout, or Venturer). Sometimes a teenage girl or boy also helps out as a den aide. Monthly, all the Cub Scouts and their families meet as a groupÑcalled a packÑunder the direction of a Cubmaster. Cub Scouting can relate to a variety of family traditions. Tiger Cub dens are for first-grade boys and their adult partners.
Tiger Cubs is a family- and home-centered part of the BSA program that encourages ethical decision-making skills for first-grade (or 7-year-old) boys. These boys participate in activities with an adult partner, usually a parent. Tiger Cubs emphasizes shared leadership, learning about the community, and family understanding.
Cub Scouting is a family- and home-centered part of the BSA program that helps develop ethical decision-making skills for boys in the second and third grades (or who are 8 and 9 years old). Activities emphasize character development, citizenship training, and personal fitness.
Webelos Scouting is a family- and home-centered part of the BSA program that develops ethical decision-making skills for fourth- and fifth-grade (or 10-year-old) boys. Webelos Scouts participate in more advanced activities that begin to prepare them to become Boy Scouts.
The Boy Scouts of America is proud to make available to the Scouting community the Spanish versions of the Cub Scout handbooks: Manuales del Tiger Cub, Wolf, Bear, and Webelos. These fun, novela-styled books Spanish handbooks are the latest of nearly 70 BSA resources in Spanish. They are designed to encourage Spanish-speaking parents to learn more about Cub Scouting and to get involved as volunteers in their sons' Cub Scouting program.
We hope that these new resources will support your leadership in serving our nation's Hispanic American/Latino youth.
The National Council of the Boy Scouts of America has developed Soccer and Scouting specifically to address the challenge of recruitment in the Hispanic youth population. The program blends soccer coaching and play with the Cub Scouting program, including advancement. For more information, visit http://www.soccerandscouting.org.
Since 1930, the BSA has helped younger boys through Cub Scouting, a year-round, family-oriented part of the BSA program designed for boys who are 7, 8, 9, and 10 years of age. Parents, leaders, and organizations work together to achieve the 10 purposes of Cub Scouting:
Cub Scouting uses seven specific methods to achieve ScoutingÕs aims of helping boys and young adults build character, train in the responsibilities of citizenship, and develop personal fitness. These methods are incorporated into all aspects of the program.
Cub Scouting happens in the lives of boys and their families through the following seven methods:
The Cub Scout Promise, the Law of the Pack, the Cub Scout motto, and the Tiger Cub motto are ideals that are related to everything a Cub Scout does. These ideals are not tests to be passed in order to qualify for induction; they are principles that boys learn and incorporate into their everyday lives.
I, (name), promise to do my best
To do my duty to God and my country,
To help other people, and
To obey the Law of the Pack.
The Cub Scout follows Akela.
The Cub Scout helps the pack go.
The pack helps the Cub Scout grow.
The Cub Scout gives goodwill.
Do Your Best.
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