Lion Elective adventure Kindergarten

Protect Yourself Rules (Lion) requirements (Lion)

Protect Yourself Rules (Lion) is a Lion elective adventure with 3 requirements. Below is what each one asks in plain language, and a sixty minute den meeting plan that works through them: a gathering activity, the opening, the activity blocks, and what to say in the closing.

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Protect Yourself Rules (Lion) requirements

Paraphrased for planning. Read the current wording in the handbook or Scoutbook Plus before you sign anything off.

Handbook requirement 1

Watch the Protect Yourself video lessons for this adventure.
Handbook requirement 2

Identify the difference between a safe touch and an unsafe touch.
Handbook requirement 3

With your adult partner, practice Shout, Run, and Tell.

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A 60 minute den meeting for Protect Yourself Rules (Lion)

Five kinds of block in the order that works: something to do on arrival, the opening, den business, the adventure work split into chunks a Cub Scout can hold attention through, and a closing that names what got finished.

0:00 · 10 min

Gathering: keep it up

Give the Scouts who arrive first something to do, so the meeting starts the moment they walk in.

Put a beach ball or a balloon in the middle of the room and start a den count.
The den's job is to keep it off the floor and beat the count from last week.
Stop it the moment the opening is ready, mid-count, so it stays fun and short.

0:10 · 5 min

Opening

Flag ceremony, Scout Oath and Scout Law. The same five minutes every week, run by the Scouts.

The denner calls the den to order and leads the flag ceremony.
Say the Scout Oath and the Scout Law together. New Scouts read from a card and nobody makes anything of it.
One sentence on tonight's adventure, Protect Yourself Rules (Lion), and the one thing everybody will get done.

0:15 · 5 min

Talk time

Den business while everyone is still sitting down, and a look at what is coming.

The two dates parents need: the next den meeting and the next pack event.
Ask who already did part of Protect Yourself Rules (Lion) at home, and write the names down so it gets recorded.
Take one question from the den. Answer it or say when you will.

0:20 · 18 min

Activity 1: Watch the Protect Yourself video lessons

Close requirements 1 and 2 of Protect Yourself Rules (Lion).

Read the requirement to the den in plain words: "Watch the Protect Yourself video lessons for this adventure".
Work it in pairs or small groups for most of the block while you move between them.
Bring the den back together and have each Scout tell you what they did.
Mark requirement 1 off as each Scout finishes rather than trying to remember afterwards.
Then requirement 2: give the den five minutes in pairs on "Identify the difference between a safe touch and an unsafe touch", then take one answer from every Scout.

Requirement 1 Requirement 2

0:38 · 17 min

Activity 2: With your adult partner

Close requirement 3 of Protect Yourself Rules (Lion): With your adult partner, practice Shout, Run, and Tell.

Do it once yourself at normal speed, then once slowly while you narrate every step.
Put the den in pairs so each Scout practices "With your adult partner, practice Shout, Run, and Tell" while their partner watches for the one thing that matters.
Go round the circle and have every Scout show you once, in their own way.
Mark it off as each Scout finishes rather than trying to remember at the end.

Requirement 3

0:55 · 5 min

Closing

End on time, and make sure every Scout leaves knowing what they finished.

Cubmaster's minute: one short thought tied to what the den just did. Sixty seconds, no lecture.
Read back what got finished tonight, requirement by requirement, so the Scouts hear their own progress.
Send the den off with the den yell, and catch the parents who need to hear something at pickup.

What to bring

Tonight's requirement list, printed, with a box to tick per Scout
A clipboard and pen for sign-offs as they happen
A ball, four cones and a whistle

Worked out from the requirement text. Swap anything you already have in the den box.

Plan this meeting for your own den

This plan does not know your Scouts. DenBuddy does: import your den from Scoutbook Plus and the planner starts from the requirements each Scout is actually missing, keeps the block times, and turns the agenda into the record sheet afterwards.

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How the planner works

Youth protection is built in: Scouts have no accounts, check-in is done by a parent from a public link, and nothing DenBuddy does writes back to Scoutbook.

How youth data is handled

Questions about Protect Yourself Rules (Lion)

How many requirements does Protect Yourself Rules (Lion) have?

3. Each one is a single thing the Scout does. Check the current wording in the handbook or Scoutbook Plus before you sign anything off.

Is Protect Yourself Rules (Lion) required for Lion?

No. Protect Yourself Rules (Lion) is a Lion elective. A Scout needs the six required Lion adventures plus at least two electives, and this one can be part of those two.

How long does Protect Yourself Rules (Lion) take?

The plan on this page runs 60 minutes and covers 3 of the 3 requirements. Most dens spend two meetings on an adventure, because somebody is always absent for the first one.

Can a Scout finish part of Protect Yourself Rules (Lion) at home?

Any of it can be. Nothing in Protect Yourself Rules (Lion) is marked as family-only work, so a Scout who misses the meeting can finish with a parent and you record it when the family tells you.