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Customizable Pack Family Calendar

Is your unit busily planning for the upcoming Year in Scouting? If you’ve read my post, Cub Scout Leadership: Annual Pack Program Planning, you know that a unit calendar is an integral piece of your planning process. A “living document,” which is one that is regularly undergoing updates, is a great way to ensure your unitContinue reading “Customizable Pack Family Calendar”

Cub Scouts: New 2024 Cub Scout Rank Tracking Google Sheets

The new Cub Scout program officially launches on June 1st, 2024, and with it will come a tremendous amount of planning for your upcoming Year in Scouting. Having been there, done that, I’m hoping my updated 2024 Cub Scout Rank Tracking Google Sheets will help unit leaders keep track of their Scout’s achievements (alongside ScoutBook,Continue reading “Cub Scouts: New 2024 Cub Scout Rank Tracking Google Sheets”

Scouting Tech: Bear Den Slides and Meeting Resources

Well, we’ve made it to 2021! While there seems to be a light at the end of the tunnel, many units continue to encounter hurdles for meeting face-to-face. With winter weather bearing down on much of the U.S., outdoor meetings are a little less convenient, especially for Cubs. So, while we’re all still navigating aContinue reading “Scouting Tech: Bear Den Slides and Meeting Resources”

Scouting Tech: Wolf Den Slides and Meeting Resources

Congratulations, Scouters, you have made it to your new Year in Scouting, which means you are likely up to your neck in to-do lists. While we’re all still navigating a very different year in programming, many of us are trying to find ways to present Cub Scout adventures in a virtual setting. Having been aContinue reading “Scouting Tech: Wolf Den Slides and Meeting Resources”

Scouting Tech: Tiger Den Slides and Meeting Resources

Congratulations, Scouters, you have made it to your new Year in Scouting, which means you are likely up to your neck in to-do lists. Chances are good that your dining room table is a mountain of Scout stuff, and your spare room and garage look a little something like this… While we’re all still navigatingContinue reading “Scouting Tech: Tiger Den Slides and Meeting Resources”

Cub Scout Leadership: Free Bobcat Rank Videos

It’s that time of year again, where we’re (hopefully) welcoming scores of Scouts, filling up our dens with new, smiling faces! Unless they’re a Lion, all new Scouts could and should start working on their Bobcat rank right away. There are a bunch of fun ways to help these Scouts earn their very first rank…Continue reading “Cub Scout Leadership: Free Bobcat Rank Videos”

Cub Scout Leadership: Annual Pack Program Planning

UPDATED 6/5/2024: The Sample Pack Family Calendar template has been updated! Please see the new link below. I’ve been mulling over what I would jot down next, and I had considered Annual Pack Program Planning but thought it was too much to wrap my head around these days. Fifth-grade fractions and decimals and ninth-grade geometryContinue reading “Cub Scout Leadership: Annual Pack Program Planning”

Cub Scouts: Pirates of the Caribbean Blue & Gold

Aye, matey, picture it! Ye and yer merry crew of bandits have battoned down the hatches and set sail toward Port Royal. Yer aboard the Black Pearl, the cursed ship with black sails that’s captained by the worst pirate ye’ve ever heard of. But ye have heard of him, mate. If you haven’t seen theContinue reading “Cub Scouts: Pirates of the Caribbean Blue & Gold”

Cub Scout Activities: Family Bake-Off

I’d like to think that, after a decade in Cub Scouts, I have a favorite special event; just one gathering that is more exciting than the others or that I feel the kids enjoy the most. I’ve said it a million times before (and even used it to name my blog), but if you LookContinue reading “Cub Scout Activities: Family Bake-Off”