Chief Akela: Bobcat Ceremony
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Get your drum and headdress ready for Chief Akela. This is a great ceremony for when your young scouts earn the rank of Bobcat.
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Three Categories of Golf Etiquette
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The Golf Merit Badge (requirement 2a.) has us taking a look at the three categories of golf etiquette.
Read MoreThanksgiving
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It's a great time for everybody. But before the holiday passes, take a few minutes to think about what it really means.
Read MoreThe License Plate Game
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It’s that time of year when families start traveling home for the holidays. One way that mom kept us busy when we were kids was playing the license plate game. Free printable included.
Read MoreCan You Sleep When The Wind Blows?
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A young man applied for a job as a farmhand. When the farmer asked for his qualifications, he said, "I can sleep when the wind blows."
Read MoreHazards Of Living Easy
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A bluebird wearied at the constant task of hunting worms each morning and when he saw how easy a farmer found worms in his digging…
Read MoreMake Up Your Mind
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Make up your mind that you will get to Second Class rank within a month or two months’ time, and then go right ahead.
Read MoreThe Scout Slogan
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The Scout slogan is “Do a Good Turn Daily.” It is part of the third point of the Scout Law - “A Scout is helpful.” And it is part of your Scout Oath - “… to help other people at all times.”
Read MoreLeave No Trace, In Town
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On your next walk around the block, or when you take an “in-town” hike with your scouts, make sure to bring along a few trash bags.
Read More17 years after
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Seventeen years ago, I can still remember where I was and what I was doing.
Read MoreHow the Iroquois (Haudenosaunee) Confederacy Was Formed
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According to the tribal history, the Iroquois Confederacy was first suggested in about 1570 (possibly earlier), when inter tribal warfare threatened to destroy the Iroquois.
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Help Other People At All Times
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Would you choose the apple or the seeds? Here is a wonderful Scoutmaster’s Minute from 1958 about Johnny Appleseed.
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Three Swimming Ability Groups
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All persons participating in BSA Aquatic activities or summer camps are classified according to swimming ability. The classification tests and test procedures have been developed and structured to demonstrate a skill level consistent with the circumstances.
Read MoreYour Neckerchief
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There are countless variations of the neckerchief throughout all the packs, troop, and crews that are out there. From the 1976 Bear Handbook
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You Lichen Rocks?
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This last week we were on the troop summer week long scout camp up in the High Uintas of Utah. As we were hiking along between Trident and Beth Lake, I noticed that there was a ton of lichen on all the rocks. I realized that I did not know anything about lichen, except that it is usually found growing on the rocks. So, here is a few thing that I have found from my research.
Read MoreA Boy and His Mother
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As a trim British frigate anchored in a Virginia harbor on bright spring morning back in 1746, its officers and crew hurried ashore on a variety of missions.
Read MoreBearmuda Triangle
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In preparation for our troop's summer scout camp up in the High Uintas, we have been teaching the scouts to be bear aware and bear smart. Bears can smell your food from 2-3 miles away.
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Get your drum and headdress ready for Chief Akela. This is a great ceremony for when your young scouts earn the rank of Bobcat.