Cub Scouts    Tiger Scouts

What is Cub Scout

Cub Scouting is a home- and neighborhood-centered program designed to support family life for boys in second through fifth grades. Each Cub Scout learns to respect his home, country, God and other people. The program also helps boys this age learn Cub Scouting has nine purposes:

• Positively influence character development and encourage spiritual growth
• Help boys develop habits and attitudes of good citizenship
• Encourage good sportsmanship and pride in growing strong in mind and body
• Improve understanding within the family
• Strengthen boys' ability to get along with other boys and respect other people
• Foster a sense of personal achievement by helping boys develop new interests and skills
• Show how to be helpful and do one's best
• Provide fun and exciting new things to do
• Prepare boys to become Boy Scouts

In society where your son is often taught that winning is everything, Cub Scouting teaches him to "do his best" and be helpful to others as expressed in the Cub Scout Promise.

A Cub Scout den provides your son with a group of boys his own age in which he can earn status and recognition. In the den, he will also gain a sense of personal achievement for the new skills he learns.

Cub Scout Motto: DO YOUR BEST

I. YOUR BOY IS A MEMBER OF A DEN

1. Has four to eight boys.
2. Meets once a week or once every other week. Regularly scheduled at the leader's convenience.
3. Led by a den leader (usually a parent).
4. Den leader is assisted by an assistant den leader, and often a den chief (an older Boy Scout), and a denner (a Cub Scout elected by den members).
5. Den meetings have games, crafts, stunts, songs, ceremonies and periodic field trips.

II. YOUR BOY IS A MEMBER OF A PACK

1. Made up of one or more dens.
2. Meets once a month - all Cub Scout families are expected to participate.
3. Pack meeting is led by Cubmaster.
4. Pack meeting is climax of the month's den meeting and activities.
5. Pack meetings have games, skits, stunts, songs, ceremonies and presentation of badges that boys earned that month.

III. PACK IS RUN BY THE PACK COMMITTEE

1. Made up of den leaders, pack leaders and all parents.
2. Meets once a month or more often if needed.
3. Led by a committee chairman.
4. Committee helps to select leadership, works with the chartered representative to find a meeting place, performs record keeping, manages pack finances, orders badges, maintains pack equipment, helps train leaders and recognizes leaders.

IV. PACK IS OWNED BY CHARTERED ORGANIZATION

1. Charter Organizations include schools, parent-school organizations, religious organizations, service clubs and other organizations interested in youth.
2. Charter Organization approves leadership, helps secure a meeting place, keeps pack within sponsor's and Boy Scout guidelines and policies.
3. Charter Organization selects a chartered organization representative (a liaison between your pack and your sponsor).
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What is Tiger Cubs

Tiger Cubs, BSA, is a school year program for first-grade boys. Each boy participates with a parent (or another adult family member) in family-oriented activities. These include things from family camping to preparing for emergencies.

The time you and your son spend in Tiger Cubs is meant to be fun, a chance to get to know one another better and do things with your family, as well as other members of the Tiger Cub Den, whom you see at bi-monthly den meetings and pack activities.

Tiger Cub Motto: SEARCH, DISCOVER, SHARE

I. EACH FAMILY IS A MEMBER OF A TIGER CUB DEN

1. Has three to eight families.
2. Meets twice each month. Each family takes a turn running the monthly meeting and all attend a pack meeting or activity.
3. Meetings are based on the big ideas taken from the Tiger Cub Book and are scheduled by the host family.
4. A T-shirt, stickers, iron on Tiger Tracks and a belt totem recognize the Tiger's activities.

II. EACH PACK HAS A TIGER CUB COACH

This person is someone from your host pack who can help organize the Den and be a resource. The Coach helps the group get organized and helps throughout the year to get the group to pack activities. The Coach is not the group leader; they help organize the families and work as a pack liaison. They may coordinate several Tiger Dens.

III. EACH TIGER DEN HAS A TIGER COORDINATOR

A parent of one of the Tigers.

Their job is to coordinate the activities amongst all the families, so all have an opportunity to share leadership.
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