Safety in Numbers requirements (Wolf)

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, Safety in Numbers, 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 Safety in Numbers 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: With permission from your parent or legal guardian

Close requirement 1 of Safety in Numbers: With permission from your parent or legal guardian, watch the Protect Yourself Rules video for the Wolf rank.

• This one is done at home, not at the den meeting: a parent or legal guardian watches the Protect Yourself Rules video with their Scout ("With permission from your parent or legal guardian, watch the Protect Yourself Rules video for the Wolf rank").
• Send the link to parents the week before with one sentence saying why it is required and that they watch it together.
• At the meeting, ask which families have done it and write the names down. That is the whole den-meeting part of requirement 1.
• Nothing here is acted out, rehearsed or practiced on another Scout. Questions from a Scout go back to their own parent, and to your Cubmaster if a Scout tells you something.

Requirement 1

0:32 · 12 min

Activity 2: Discuss "safe touch" as seen

Close requirements 2 and 3 of Safety in Numbers.

• Sit the den in a circle, or in small groups if you have more than eight Scouts.
• Read "Discuss "safe touch" as seen in the Protect Yourself Rules video" 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 3: put the den in pairs and have every Scout show you "Learn about the buddy system and demonstrate how it works" once, in their own way.

Requirement 2 Requirement 3

0:44 · 11 min

Activity 3: Review common safety rules and demonstrate

Close requirement 4 of Safety in Numbers: Review common safety rules and demonstrate the proper use of playground equipment.

• Mark the play area and walk the rules through once, slowly, before anyone runs.
• Play one practice round and one for real so "Review common safety rules and demonstrate the proper use of playground equipment" gets a fair try.
• Rotate teams between rounds so the same Scout is not last twice.
• Close with the sportsmanship question: what did somebody else do well tonight?

Requirement 4

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.