Pack meeting ideas

[SSScout 1622]

"A Cub Scout follows Akela, A Cub Scout helps the Pack GO, The Pack helps the Cub Scout GROW, The Cub Scout gives Good Will".

It is little known, but thru an editing error, the last part of the Promise was left out: "...the Parents help the Pack go, too."

 

So the CM, thru his/her example, sets the pace/standard. Encourage your Dens to be active, to individually do things: go to the Zoo, visit the Fire House, hike the Nature Center...etc.Each Den should be the Cub's "Gang", they should WANT to hang out with and "can't wait" to go with. Encourage the Cub Den to be the "BETTER ALTERNATIVE" to video games (?Havoc? ?Lethal Weapon?GrandTheft Auto?) or The Simpsons.

When they come together in the PM, celebrate their advancements,lead cheers, sing songs. Arrange for some big things that a Den couldn't easily do: State Parks "Scales and Tails", fireman gives a dress out demo, cook something in the church kitchen, divy the Dens up for a relay race of some sort, invite TV weatherman to come out & do show and tell. If it sounds fun, DO IT. Ask your Cub Scout for ideas.Find out what the Pack parents do , and enlist them to SHOW OFF! One of ours was a Transit Bus person, he brought a WHOLE BUS to the meeting once. Any contractors? Do you have any idea how cool a TRACTOR up close can be?

Camp outs and Saturday hikes are great, and need to be on your schedule, but not to the elimination of the PM.

 

Put the aannouncements in a short handout and DON"T BORE THE CUBS WITH THEM.

Above all, as CM, you are the RingMaster. Go ahead and MAKE THEIR DAY!

KiSMiF

 

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