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Those are temporary patches and go on the right pocket of the scout uniform. Only one can be worn at a time

go to the cub scout leaders vertual leader book and look under bear requirements for the shavings and chips achievements. it has all the safety information and how to handle a pocket knife

By all means make up your own awards. The Cub Scout Leader How To Book has some great ideas or you can come up with your own. Each year at our last pack meeting I present all the boys with a certificate printed up on my computer recognizing them for something, weither it be achieving their rank, helping others, or anything I can come up with. I get the parents to help come up with something and the boys get a kick out of seeing what their award will be for this year

Look in the www.scouting.org website. Under the members section for cubscouts. If you look under the awards section you'll find the requirements for this award.

Gee Guys I hope no one looking for more information on Boy scouts is reading this thread. I don't think making fun of a religion ( yes Wicca is a religion) that you don't understand is keeping with the scout law. Shouldn't we be teaching the boys to respect others and their beliefs regardless of how we feel? I was under the impression that this forum was for asking questions and getting answers and help with scouting Not making fun of other people and their religons. People who make fun of what they don't understand are why we have hate crimes. Do we really want to teach our scouts t

Thanks for the help, I did find one on e-bay.

Does any one have a copy of the old Leader How to Book that I could purchase from them? I have the new one but would like to get the old one also. I have checked at the council scout shop and they no longer have the old ones. If anyone can help me I'd really appreciate it. Thanks in advance Kassie

I don't know if this will help you or not, but in my den we have a code of conduct. The boys helped to write it and agreed to follow it. Also at the beginning of the year I gave each parent a letter stating what was expected from the boys and what would happen if they could not follow the rules. If the boy has to be corrected twice the parent is called or asked to take the boy home. The next time he is asked to leave he is not allowed to return untill the boy and his parents meet with the den leader and the cubmaster. I have two ADHD boys in my den, while they do require extra handling I hav

I just finished my first year as a Webelos leader. We started our meeting with the pledge and the cub scout promise, about 1/2 way through the year we switched to the boy scout promise. Also we had the boys elect a denner and assistant denner to serve for 1 month, they switched positions after 2 weeks. The denner and asst.denner did the flag ceremony and helped out. If you dont already have it go buy the Webelos Leader guide it will really help a lot. Good Luck Kassie

DR BS: I might have visited your web site after the first message, but you have spammed every thread on this forum. do you really think that is the way to get people to visit your site?????

The only problem I really have with the uniforms is that my son wears a size 12 Husky and most of my den also wear husky sizes. The scout shop does not carry husky sizes and if you go by waist size then I suppossed to buy him a size 22??? Not to mention the length is way too long but with that size the crotch is hanging down to his knees, I know baggy clothes are in but I feel that the scout uniform should fit correctly. Any ideas on how to convince national that not everyone is a regular size and we should not have to special order husky sizes? By the time the special orders finally come in

Does anyone have a recipe for slime made from Borax that is both a solid and a liquid? I remember seeing the recipe somewhere but can't find it and I want to make it with my Webelos den as part of their scientist activity pin.

Thanks for the insight, I've just found out that I'm going to be the new Wolf den leader next year as this years Tiger leader is moving over the summer. I was going to go and get a wolf book when I picked up the awards for the next pack meeting but now I thank I'll wait untill July and get the new ones.

I haven't seen this one yet but a few months ago someone was circulating the same thing only this time it was Dr Pepper not Pepsi, turns out it was all a hoax. Don't know who started it or where but the cans never surfaced

We had the same problem in our Webelos den, I had a couple of boys who said they did the work for the Swimming Webelos activity pin at their swim team meetings and mom verified it. What I did rather than just take mom's word for it is I told the boys to take their Webelos book to the next swim team meeting and get the swim coach to sign off on the requirements. That way I know they actually did the requirements. We do the same thing with requirments that the boys say they have done in school. I send a letter to the boys teacher telling her who I am and what I need and asking her to sign of

Thanks for all of the help I knew I could count on everyone to help out. I'll definately give these a try.

I know I've read about this somewhere but I can't remember where. I need the directions for making a grill out of a 3-pound coffee can. I know it involves punching holes in it and making a door but I can't find it anywhere. If anyone has the plans or plans for a similar one please let me know. My Webelos are working on their outdoorsman activity pins and we are planning a cookout and I thought that these would be a good craft they could make. Fun to make and actually useful as we will be cooking hamburgers on them.

Good job to your son. I wouldn't worry too much about how fast he's going as long as he's having fun. I was a Bear Leader last year and I had 4 boys out of 8 that ended up with 7-8 arrow points apiece. This was just from den meetings and a few things they did on their own. These same boys are the ones who are wanting to work on their Webelos activity pins this year. they love scouting and I rarely have to ask them if they completed their projects. Just keep encouraging him and don't worry about what the other adults say, you and he both know he earned those awards and thats all that matte

My van has been used for scouts for the last 3years and right now it has inside it: a volleyball/badmitton set, a flag pole and folded flag (for the Webelos citizen pin requirements) 2 tents, 4 sleeping bags, a campstove, treatbox for the den, box of craft material, my scout books, my son's scout book, rope, rain gear, flashlights and a box of glowsticks leftover from the last campout. The van also carries my entire den to the meetings,

The Mobile and Pensacola Council Shops have both the blue diamond and the oval Webelos badges. What my den did is we gave which ever badge the boy and their parent wanted. Some of the boys (my son included) switched to the tan uniform this year because they outgrew the blue uniform. Instead of sewing the diamond patches on the tan uniform I purchased the patch protector that hung from the button and put the Bobcat, Wolf and Bear in those and then hung it on the uniform that way when they received the tan badge we didn't have to remove the old badges, the boys who still had the blue uniforms

I'm also interested in treading CSP patches, I have some from the Gulf Coast Council(Alabama-Florida) and both the old and new CSP patches from the Mobile (Alabama) Area Council

Bob I've been a den leader for 2 years, last year I was the Bear Leader and this year the Cubmaster decided to split the Webelos into two groups, so basically I've got the same boys I had last year with the exception of 1 new one. As far as training I've been to leader basic training last year, I've been to a couple of roundtables but its mostly boy scout stuff. My council has Baloo leader training in April that I will attend. I started out with meetings only an hour a week but that didn't seem to give us enough time so now we meet for an hour and a half once a week. I've taken

We do have a den code of conduct the boys came up with and agreed to follow. The building we use is our Troops scout building usually the boys are gathered around the table when we are discussing the requirements then they spred out to work on the activities. The problem seems to be when its time to work on serious items they just want to keep goofing off. Example we were working on the requirements for Citizen and discussing the names of the President etc,. the boys I'm having the problem with were shouting out answers that had nothing to do with the topic and when they were asked to settle

Thanks for the ideas I will definately give it a try as for the parents who stay, one knows how to do everything but when asked for help refuses and says she's just there to watch, the other parent is a Wolf leader and is having her wolf den meeting at the same time, but everyone else is causing the problems with her son, not him. I really can't send him home as she is in her den meeting but I did put him in the cornor by himself for a while. As for a den chief, none of the boyscouts in our troop wanted the job, I've asked about 3-4 times. I do have an assistant den leader but she has b

I've got a problem in my 1st year Webelos den, I have 6 boys in my den, 3 of them are very polite and do what is asked of them, occassionally they get a little rowdy. The problem is the other 3 one is ADHD and his medication usually wears off about time the meeting starts so I can understand his behavior a little better he's not real bad just rowdy and has to be reminded to settle down. The other 2 will not listen, will not pay attention and are a constant distraction. I have tried telling them that if I have to ask them to settle down more than twice they will be sent home but it doesn't wo