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Light the Fire!: Using Campfire Principles to Build Pack Culture

My Fire for Scouting Lit

Improve meeting quality.

Develop leader resources.

Enhance Recruitment.

By...

Watering your grass.

My Vision to strengthen our pack culture:

The Beginning

Pack handbook pics

Names and faces!

Scouting benefits.

Camping info.

Year Calendar.

Etc.

That’s the Ticket!

Pack Meetings

Campfire Handbook

Blue and Gold

Measure: Start/Stop/Continue

Light the Fire-The Plan!

What Should Our Pack Culture Look Like?

Excitement: Kids wanting to come!

Connection: learning the ways of Scouting.

Inclusion: Everyone is invited.

Friendship: Building lasting memories.

Family: We serve one another

Campfire Handbook

Teach and Train

Skits

Songs

Riddles

Puns

Cubmaster Minutes

Cubmaster Minutes

Closing quietly and thoughtfully.

Expressing the vision of scouting.

Relating Values.

Pack Meeting “Campfire” Plan

Skits, jokes, riddles, LAUGHS!

(builds fun and comradery)

Cubmasters minute-

Encouraging thoughts, Unity

Visit/check on dens, invest/suppeort

Blue and Gold

Blue and Gold Tiger Dad Jokes

Blue and Gold Webelo/AOL Song

Being SMART

How to Measure Success?

Creating a pack culture can be a subjective task.

• Observing growth in Scout involvement in openings.
• Kids inviting their friends because Scouts is fun.
• Watching kids get “out of their shell” to do hard things at campfires and in life.
• Seeing the smiles and joy at pack openings.

Being SMART

Alyssa

This is Alyssa. She’s a “dragon scout.” She raises her hand every week to come up and tell a joke. She cried when she couldn’t race in the Cub Scout Pinewood derby. But she cheered the loudest for every other participant!

THANK YOU!

Take a minute and remember:

“Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.”

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Start Stop Continue

My Plans for next year include:

• Translate handbook/campfire book into Russian and also Spanish.
• Improve and update campfire books. Upgrade some skit quality.
• Visit dens during practices for B&G.
• More diverse openings.
• More scouts-make every major event an “invite a friend” night.