So we tried our current pack for this past year, but it wasn’t a good fit for us. I’d love to find a different pack to join this upcoming year, but the few I’ve reached out to via the find a Cub Scout Pack near me never responded.
Is that normal for Packs to be unresponsive to inquiries? Is there something particular I should be asking?
I've seen a few posts asking for this kind of view on the theming the adventures for your program, so I threw this together.
Take a theme (ie Citizenship or Personal Safety) and then map adventures for each Den/grade level. Not all programs want to structure this way, but if you do this may help to have an easy view.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1hru317J27sioIxDxk4X3bpDd-eXYCBgyEw72TyNGoEE/
Our Pack has a bunch of older stuff in storage and I've been going through it. I found several of these yellow /gold bandanas. Does anyone still use them? If so for what?
I have gotten some amazing links from a number of commenters over the past couple of months that have been SO helpful. I figured we could make a central drop zone for all the amazing canva/word/excel templates that you all have. Thanks for being awesome!
I realize prices may vary but just out of curiosity, what are your pack dues? Do you include Nat'l & Council in that amount? Do you include a "free" tshirt in that amount? How did you come up with your pack dues number? Anything else you "include" as incentives?
Do you all try to have pack meetings the same day each month? Do you think families prefer weekdays after school or weekends? What are your typical pack meetings like please amd thank you! Eta: what do yall do for weeknight pack meetings? We did some saturday pack meets last year at the lake and fishing etc.. but I like the idea of something more consistent and at our charter which is very available
Our pack was BLESSED with a huge donation of thousands of 3' x 5' American Flags 🇺🇲🇺🇸. ... We sell a lot of them for $5 each at our regular fundraisers when we set up in front of stores and the like. They are small and would ship with a single stamp. Can we sell these online? How would I go about all that, if so? Anyone have online sales links they'd care to share for inspiration? Once again, thank you for being such an amazing community! I have such a renewed sense of purpose to get our pack back to being amazeballs because of all the amazing resources and testimonials and advise you all have given to me!
Hey there! Found a like new cubs uniform with the required rank for my daughter with the right council patch on it. It had the scarf, the slide, the belt, the hat...
What a win! The den numbers peeled right off, with minimum discoloring that will be covered with our den numbers. What is this magical glue called? I struggled sooo hard stitching the required patches on my den leader shirt and it looked...not great.
Anyways. I was going to use a free motion sewing machine with translucent thread, but this glue would be fantastic. What do you guys recommend?
EDIT: the answer is badge magic
I just noticed the Liberty In Action event and associated patch. I know many of us love cool and different patches - this is a cool one. And obviously, the meaning and requirements behind it are significant. Sorry for the late notice, I just found it myself.
Here's the official page about Scouting America's Liberty in Action program celebrating USA "semiquincentential" 250-year anniversary.
https://www.scouting.org/service/a250/
Here's the requirements pdf:
https://www.scouting.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Liberty_in_Action_A250_Challenge_Final.pdf
The tricky requirement is the service project. However if your unit is doing anything for 4th of July, like walking in a parade (our pack used to do this) - that would count. But really any kind of service project would count, as the wording is so broad: "service to community, civic responsibility, liberty, equality, or the common good."
Happy 250th Birthday America!
I am newly appointed Cubmaster and I would like my pack den leaders to start using the scoutbook app for advancement tracking. I can't seem to figure out how I see the entire package progress. Right now I can only see my daughter's profile. Does anyone know how to find where I can see the whole pack?
Just came back from summer camp and learned about this so I thought I would share in case others didn't know.
There is an America 250 temporary patch available through the Scout store and an associated lesson plan to earn it. My wolf did it during free time at camp but I'm going to make a plan to do it with our whole pack in Aug when we get back together. Will make a nice memory for the anniversary hopefully
Links to patch and lesson plan at the bottom
Celebrating America 250 | Scouting America https://www.scouting.org/service/a250/
Finally found a parent willing to step into the committee chair role, so I went to take the my.scouting position specific training so I can best prep this new parent for the role when we meet in a couple days.
That AI voiceover is unlistenable. I can put up with the terrible LMS, dated graphics, mediocre instructional design because, well, I'm devoted to Scouting and understand the difficulty of getting this stuff updated. But that voiceover is something else. I don't recall it being this bad when I last took position-specific training.
If Kate or any other national person happens to read this reddit, I will record all new VO next week in a real studio and provide audio files. I don't have my grandfather's amazing radio voice, but it'd be an immediate improvement. And I know there are tons of volunteers willing to help with these trainings.