Have you ever stopped and counted the rings on the log your about to place in the campfire? 

French Toast receipe for the Cooking Merit Badge

Even though this post come out of the 1976 printing of the Bear Cub Scout Book, It is still valuable information to help you stay safe with your boat.

There is so much more to a coin than just simply heads and tails.

Sky is the Limit Elective Tiger Requirement 3. - Find out about two astronauts who were Scouts when they were younger...

PDQ BALLS is an acronym that will help your scouts remember safe swim practices.

Crickets are interesting animals. They're only an inch long yet they can be heard throughout the forest by rubbing their wings together...

One of my applesolute foods to eat while backpacking is apple leather.  For the most part, making these roll-ups of dehydrated fruit is extremely easy.  

There are many options for store bought backpacking meals.  The issue that I have found with these meals are that they are usually overpriced, and they usually don't taste very good.  One option is to dehydrate your own food to take backpacking...

Each time our troop has a patrol meeting, we as leaders always implement a team building activity to help the boys learn how to communicate and work together as a troop.  This activity involves the following:

Today were digging in the past with the Wolf Den and doing some research on dinosaurs.  Living in Utah, we hear and see a great deal about the Utah Raptor.  After driving past a billboard dedicated to this creature who walked the earth millions of years ago, I decided to look the beast up.

The past couple of weeks we have been working with the scouts on their backpacking skills.  Requirement 2a of the Backpacking Merit badge reads;

Last week we took the boys to our week-long scout camp. As the boys were working on their woodcarving merit badge, I also was carving my own creation out of wood.  As I was wittling away and attempting to create a wooden spoon, I noticed something about my knife...

Thursdays are a fun day to take a look at some of the older handbooks that I have collected through the years.  This edition is my favorite.  It was my Grandfather's when he was a scout leader and an employee at a Scout Camp in Iowa.

While doing any outdoor activity with your Cub Scouts, each boy should have the following six essentials.

On of my favorite things to do on a warm summer night is just chill on a blanket and gaze up into the night sky and pretend that I know all the constellations (there are 88 of them!).