Tiger Circles: Duty to God requirements (Tiger)

0:00 · 10 min

Gathering: who helps here

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

• Put a sheet of butcher paper on the wall with the question: who helps our town run?
• Every Scout adds one job or one name as they come in, out loud, so the quiet ones hear ideas first.
• Leave it up through the meeting and point back at it in the closing.

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, Tiger Circles: Duty to God, 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 Tiger Circles: Duty to God 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 · 12 min

Activity 1: Discuss with your parent

Close requirements 1 and 2 of Tiger Circles: Duty to God.

• Sit the den in a circle, or in small groups if you have more than eight Scouts.
• Read "Discuss with your parent, guardian, den leader, or other caring adult what it means to do your duty to God" out loud and give the den ten seconds of quiet before anyone answers.
• Take one answer from every Scout. Nobody gets skipped and nobody gets rushed.
• Write the den's answers on a flip chart so parents can read them at pickup.
• Then requirement 2: put the den in pairs and have every Scout show you "With a family member, attend a religious service or other activity that shows how your family expresses reverence for God" once, in their own way.

Requirement 1 Requirement 2

0:32 · 12 min

Activity 2: Earn the religious emblem of your faith

Close requirements 3 and 4 of Tiger Circles: Duty to God.

• Read the requirement to the den in plain words: "Earn the religious emblem of your faith that is appropriate for your age or grade".
• 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 3 off as each Scout finishes rather than trying to remember afterwards.
• Then requirement 4: give every Scout a job inside the work so "Help with a local service project and talk with your den or family about how helping others is part of our duty to God" is something they did rather than watched.

Requirement 3 Requirement 4

0:44 · 11 min

Activity 3: With the approval of your parent/guardian

Close requirement 5 of Tiger Circles: Duty to God: With the approval of your parent/guardian, den leader, or other caring adult, think of and then carry out an act of kindness or respect that you think shows duty to God.

• 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 the approval of your parent/guardian, den leader, or other caring adult" 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 5

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.