Reston Cub Scout Pack 1170

Cub Scouts is a year-round family-centered program that develops ethical decision-making skills for boys and girls in the first through fifth grade (or who are 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10 years old). Activities emphasize character development, citizenship training, and personal fitness.

Great Den and Pack Activities Help Scouts:

• Learn life-long leadership skills

• Make lasting friendships

• Increase their self-confidence through recognition

• Great den activities such as sports, nature, history

• Develop new skills like woodworking and camping

• Earn Awards, badges, belt-loops, and patches to recognize their achievements

• Builds character through learning about honesty, ethical behavior, integrity, good sportsmanship, and being helpful and respectful in everyday life. Helps boys become good citizens

• Spend quality time together as a family participating in these great activities

Lion Cub Den (Kindergarten)

Parents are most involved at the Lion Cub level. The scouts and their parent or guardian join the den together and attend all meetings and activities together.

The den is made up of three to eight of these parent-son teams. Each den also has a Tiger Cub den leader (usually one of the parents) who helps coordinate the meetings. The parent-cub teams take turns running the activities and planning meetings with the Tiger Cub den leader. The den may have one or two meetings a month, either at the homes of host parent-son teams or at a designated facility, participates in one “Go See It” activity (the den, as a group, visits a community place of interest), and attends the monthly pack meeting.

Tiger,(Grade 1), Wolf (Grade 2), and Bear (Grade 3) Cub Scout Dens

Parents are vital to the Cub Scout dens, both in the role of home support and to help the den leader, but their cubs are beginning to be more independent. The den consists of four to eight cubs, a den leader and assistant den leader (usually parents of some of the boys), and often a den chief (an older Scout or Venturer who helps the den leader).

They meet typically twice a month at a regularly scheduled time and place, and they also attend the pack meeting with their families.

The Webelos Scout Dens (Grades 4 and 5)

The Webelos den is much like the Cub Scout dens, but there is more emphasis on the cubs learning to take leadership roles and preparing to become members of Scouts BSA.