Skit for two: Two scouts walk onstage. One brags about how big his muscles are as he flexes his arms. The second scout wants to know what he has to do to build up his muscles…

This knot will be used in many of your starts for your lashings along with rowing, small boat sailing, pioneering, and first class rank.

To me, July is the most patriotic months of the year.  This flag ceremony is great to do during your pack meeting this month.  You can double up on the letters per boy if your den is a little small.  Also, since a scout is thrifty, try laminating your letters to place in your cub scout box for the next time July rolls around.

What happens when your smooth sailing (canoeing) runs into trouble and now your swamped?  If canoeing with a group, the T-Rescue or Canoe-Over-Canoe method is vital to know.

The two half-hitches is a type of knot, specifically a binding knot or hitch knot. It consists of an overhand knot tied around a post, followed by a half-hitch. Equivalently, it consists of a half-turn around a post followed by a clove hitch of the running end around the standing part.

In the Webelos adventure, Into The Woods, requirement 5 has the scouts looking around their homes to find items that are made out of wood and share their findings with their den.

Smokey was born on August 9, 1944. The U.S. Forest Service wanted a spokes person to continually remind people that "Care will prevent 9 out of 10 fires", and the fictitious bear was just the ticket... as they said back then.  In 1947, Smokey's message changed to the familiar "Only YOU Can Prevent Forest Fires".

An Indian chief, Rising Sun, was concerned with how white men were expanding across the forests, plains, and mountains. His tribe was very small, but as every tribe and nation was being overpowered and sent to reservations, he came up with a plan to save the People.

Here are some tips to do your part in keeping your campsite bear free.

Hand Signals while riding with traffic will help prevent an accident between yourself and the other vehicles on the road.  

There is an old saying, "wise as an owl". People are always saying that, but the truth is, owls were not always wise.

Where you live within the US determines what kind of plants will grow in your area. 

With summer starting, it is always a good reminder to all leaders and youth about what to do when you are lost.

This is an extremely easy backpacking meal to put together and dehydrate yourself in preparations of your next backpacking trip.

The first requirement of the Tiger Theater elective asks that with your den discuss the following types of theater: puppet shows, reader’s theater, and pantomime. Now on with the show!

It's springtime! At our home that usually means it's time to start planting some seeds in the garden.  There is some truth behind the old saying, "April Showers Bring May Flowers."  So this weekend we paid a visit to our local nursery in order to complete part of requirement 2b in the Gardening Merit Badge.

Each Thursday I like to take a look in the library at some of the scout handbooks from prior years.  This one comes out of the 1976 printing of the Bear Cub Scout Book.

Fun dinosaur matching game for your scouts to play.  This could also be used as a gathering activity to maximize your time with den or pack meetings.

This last weekend we had a BLAST with our troop. We combined an over night camp with a Saturday of launching our model rockets that we build the prior weeks during patrol meetings.

One thing to always remember about these amazing animals when you encounter them out in the wild is simply that… they are wild.  Bison have the capability of sprinting up to 30 miles per hour. When was the last time you were able to run that fast?!