Wolf Required adventure 2nd grade

Council Fire requirements (Wolf)

Council Fire is a Wolf required adventure with 7 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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Council Fire requirements

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

Handbook requirement 1

With your den or pack, participate in a flag ceremony, and learn how to properly care for and fold the flag.
Handbook requirement 2

Participate in a community service project with your pack, den, or family.
Handbook requirement 3

With your parent or guardian's permission, talk to a military veteran, law enforcement officer, member of the fire department, or someone else approved by your Den Leader. Talk about his or her service to the community or country. After you have visited with the individual, write a short thank-you note.
Handbook requirement 4

Learn about the changes in your community, and create a project to show your den how the community has changed.
Handbook requirement 5

Select one issue in your community, and present to your den your ideas for a solution to the problem.
Handbook requirement 6

Work with your den to develop a den duty chart, and perform these tasks for one month.
Handbook requirement 7

Participate in an event such as a parade or assembly celebrating military veterans.

Ready to run

A 60 minute den meeting for Council Fire

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: 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, Council Fire, 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 Council Fire 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: With your den or pack

Close requirements 1 and 2 of Council Fire.

Read the requirement to the den in plain words: "With your den or pack, participate in a flag ceremony, and learn how to properly care for and fold the flag".
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 every Scout a job inside the work so "Participate in a community service project with your pack, den, or family" is something they did rather than watched.

Requirement 1 Requirement 2

0:29 · 9 min

Activity 2: With your parent or guardian's permission

Close requirements 3 and 4 of Council Fire.

Line the visit or the guest up a week ahead and tell them the den has fifteen minutes and one ask: "With your parent or guardian's permission, talk to a military veteran, law enforcement officer".
During gathering, have each Scout write one question on an index card so nobody freezes.
Every Scout asks their question, then the den thanks the guest in its own words.
Then requirement 4: set the materials out on a second table and let them build "Learn about the changes in your community, and create a project to show your den how the community has changed" while you move between the two.

Requirement 3 Requirement 4

0:38 · 9 min

Activity 3: Select one issue in your community

Close requirements 5 and 6 of Council Fire.

Do it once yourself at normal speed, then once slowly while you narrate every step.
Put the den in pairs so each Scout practices "Select one issue in your community, and present to your den your ideas for a solution to the problem" 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.
Then requirement 6: put the den in pairs and have every Scout show you "Work with your den to develop a den duty chart, and perform these tasks for one month" once, in their own way.

Requirement 5 Requirement 6

0:47 · 8 min

Activity 4: Participate in an event such

Close requirement 7 of Council Fire: Participate in an event such as a parade or assembly celebrating military veterans.

Read the requirement to the den in plain words: "Participate in an event such as a parade or assembly celebrating military veterans".
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.

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
Paper, markers and a few pencils
Cardboard, painter's tape and safety scissors
A fire ring or camp stove, long matches and a bucket of water
The den flag, a US flag on a stand, and Oath and Law cards for new Scouts
A tape measure, a kitchen scale and a jar of something countable
One laptop or tablet, and a printed copy of the pack's device rules

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 Council Fire

How many requirements does Council Fire have?

7. 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 Council Fire required for Wolf?

Yes. Council Fire is one of the six required Wolf adventures, so the Wolf badge cannot be awarded until it is complete.

How long does Council Fire take?

The plan on this page runs 60 minutes and covers 7 of the 7 requirements. Most dens spend two meetings on an adventure, because somebody is always absent for the first one.

Can a Scout finish part of Council Fire at home?

Any of it can be. Nothing in Council Fire 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.