Cub Scout Ideas

Tips for Cub Scout Leaders & Parents

How To Make Super Cool (And Easy) Cub Scout Robots

This post is sponsored by Dollar Tree.  As always, all of the opinions are mine.

We made Cub Scout robots at day camp last week! Because the boys were going to earn the 1-2-3 Go! Nova award at camp, each rank needed to complete an adventure. For Bears, it is Robotics.

As I searched for an inexpensive way for the boys to build a robot, I found many tutorials for building bristle bots, but they all required soldering the wires. Cub Scouts + soldering = NOPE! I was happy to find a no soldering way to make these.
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Download Your Free Cub Scout Pack Meeting Plans

Cub Scout Pack Meeting PlansUpdated with 2017-2018 Cub Scout pack meeting plans!

BSA has developed Cub Scout pack meeting plans for us to download and use free of charge.  There are plans for each point of the Scout Law.

Even though the plans have specific months, you don’t have to follow that schedule unless you want to.  The Boy Scouts of America is encouraging packs to cover all 12 points of the Law.

The great thing about these plans is that we have multiple plans for each point.  So, you’ll find more than one Clean plan, more than one Reverent plan, etc. [Read more…]