Bobcat (Webelos) requirements (Webelos)

0:00 · 10 min

Gathering: what would you do

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

• Write three short what-would-you-do situations on index cards and lay them face down.
• Arriving Scouts turn one over with a partner and agree on a first move.
• Hold the answers until the activity block, then let those pairs go first.

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, Bobcat (Webelos), 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 Bobcat (Webelos) 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 · 9 min

Activity 1: Get to know the members of your den

Close requirements 1 and 2 of Bobcat (Webelos).

• Put the answers where the den can find them: three stations, a set of cards, or a chart for "Get to know the members of your den".
• Give the den five minutes in pairs to work it out, then bring the answers together on one sheet.
• Go round the circle so every Scout says one answer out loud in their own words.
• Then requirement 2: put the den in pairs and have every Scout show you "Recite the Scout Oath and the Scout Law with your den and den leader" once, in their own way.

Requirement 1 Requirement 2

0:29 · 9 min

Activity 2: Learn about the Scout Law

Close requirements 3 and 4 of Bobcat (Webelos).

• Put the answers where the den can find them: three stations, a set of cards, or a chart for "Learn about the Scout Law".
• Give the den five minutes in pairs to work it out, then bring the answers together on one sheet.
• Go round the circle so every Scout says one answer out loud in their own words.
• Then requirement 4: set the materials out on a second table and let them build "With your den create a den code of conduct" while you move between the two.

Requirement 3 Requirement 4

0:38 · 9 min

Activity 3: Learn about the denner position and responsibilities

Close requirements 5 and 6 of Bobcat (Webelos).

• Put the answers where the den can find them: three stations, a set of cards, or a chart for "Learn about the denner position and responsibilities".
• Give the den five minutes in pairs to work it out, then bring the answers together on one sheet.
• Go round the circle so every Scout says one answer out loud in their own words.
• Then requirement 6: put the den in pairs and have every Scout show you "Demonstrate the Cub Scout sign, Cub Scout salute and Cub Scout handshake" once, in their own way.

Requirement 5 Requirement 6

0:47 · 8 min

Activity 4: At home, with your parent or legal

Close requirement 7 of Bobcat (Webelos): At home, with your parent or legal guardian do the activities in the booklet "How to Protect Your Children from Child Abuse: A Parent's Guide."

• Read the requirement to the den in plain words: "At home, with your parent or legal guardian do the activities in the booklet…".
• 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 7 off as each Scout finishes rather than trying to remember afterwards.

Requirement 7

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.