Being a Cub Scout

In Cub Scouting you'll have lots of fun, adventure, and activities with your den and pack. But there's more to it than that. Being a Cub Scout means you are a member of a worldwide youth movement that stands for certain values and beliefs. Cub Scouting is more than something to do. It's all about the boy you are and the person you will become.

What Is Cub Scouting?
What do Cub Scouts do? How old are they? What awards can they earn? Look here for quick answers.

Cub Scout Values
Everything you do in Cub Scouting has a purpose. Find out what the Cub Scout Promise and the Law of the Pack mean.

Learn the Cub Scout Promise and the Law of the Pack
Baloo will help you learn to recite the Cub Scout Promise and the Law of the Pack.

Scouting for All Ages
Cub Scouting is the first step on the Scouting trail. Learn more about Scouting's family of programs, and how you can stay an active member your whole life.

Around the World
Cub Scouting is bigger than your den and pack. Millions of boys are Cub Scouts across the nation and around the world.

Some of the best things about Cub Scouting are the activities you get to do: camping, hiking, racing model cars, going on field trips, or doing projects that help your hometown and the people who live there. Cub Scouting means "doing."

Cub Scout Camping
Learn to live in the outdoors. Camping takes you on exciting adventures into the natural world.

Outings and Field Trips
Cub Scouts have many kinds of outdoor fun, such as field trips, hikes, nature and conservation activities, and outdoor games.

Blue and Gold Banquets
In February, when Scouting celebrates its "birthday," packs across the country hold blue and gold banquets. In nearly all packs, the banquet is a very special event.

Cub Scout Derbies
Race a model car, sailboat, or miniature rocket in a Cub Scout derby—the pinewood derby, raingutter regatta, or space derby.

Pinewood Derby Car Designer
Need help finding a cool design for your pinewood derby car? This interactive feature will help you pick a design and print out templates for building it.

Service Projects
Doing service projects are one way for Cub Scouts to keep their promise "to help other people."

For Boys and their Parents
We are pleased that you are considering joining our Cub Scout Pack. It is our hope that you and your son will find your time with the pack a rewarding and fun experience in which to continue or begin your Scouting adventure.

We have an active Cub Scout program; with Pack meetings every month, Den meetings and other experiences throughout the year. We encourage attendance at as many activities as possible. Some activities can help the boys advance through the Cub Scout ranks or earn belt loops and badges.

We want parents to be active as well! We have numerous positions available, ranging from a once-a-year commitment, to Den Leader to Pack administration. We have a Pack Committee made up of leaders and other adults, and that is always open to parents that usually meets to discuss and plan events and the fund raising necessary to help the pack go and to support the plans made by Den leaders.

We encourage parents to consider a role in which they can best use their talents and skills (i.e., Cubmaster, Assistant Cubmaster, Committee Chair, Secretary, Treasurer, Fund raising, Advancement, Activities Chairs or as an assistant to a position). And not to worry, there are plenty of training classes to help you along if you feel don't know what to do. Remember, all of the current adult leaders started out where you are - so just jump right up and ask the Cubmaster or another leader how you can help. And parents - don't tell the scouts - but sometimes we have as much or more fun than the boys do.