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Cub Scout Pack 195
(Fort Worth, Texas)
 
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Pack 195 is open to all boys and girls in Kindergarten through 5th grade.  Most of our youth come from Lone Star Elementary, but any boy or girl from the area is welcome to join.

All new scouts are required to complete an application and pay an annual registration fee of $50.  If the scout would like to receive the Boys Life magazine that comes monthly then an additional $12 per year is due.

Additional funds required to operate the pack come from popcorn sales.

To request an application, questions about completing the application, or about the Cub Scout program, please contact our Cubmaster, Mark Coffey at mark@kmcoffey.com.

In Cub Scouting you'll have lots of fun, adventure, and activities with your den and pack. But there's more to it than that. Being a Cub Scout means you are a member of a worldwide youth movement that stands for certain values and beliefs. Cub Scouting is more than something to do. It's all about the boy you are and the person you will become.

What is Cub Scouting? 
What do Cub Scouts do? How old are they? What awards can they earn? Look here for quick answers.

If you are a boy or girl in Kindergarten through fifth grade—or you're 6 to 10 years old —then Cub Scouting is for you.  Cub Scouts is for your family, too. This is the first and the biggest of the three Scouting programs (Cub Scouting, Boy Scouting, and Venturing) from the Boy Scouts of America.

Cub Scouts Belong to Pack and Den

Every Cub Scout is a member of a Cub Scout pack. A pack is a large group of boys and girls.  The pack is divided into smaller groups called dens. All of the Cub Scouts in a den are about the same age and live in the same neighborhood.

Dens 

Lion (Kindergarten)
Tigers (1st Graders)
Wolves (2nd Graders)
Bears (3rd Graders)
Webelos (4th graders)
Arrow of Light (5th graders)

Cub Scouts Do Things and Go Places

Cub Scouting means "doing." You have lots to do as a Cub Scout—crafts, games, sports, songs, stories, and puzzles, to name a few things. Much of the fun happens right in the den and pack. The den usually meets every other week, and the pack meets once a month all year long. At den meetings and pack meetings, Cub Scouts do different things for fun and learning.

Cub Scouts also go to events like the annual blue and gold banquet, field contests, and derbies such as the pinewood derby. They go on field trips. They go camping and have other kinds of outdoor adventures. They take part in community events. Cub Scouts do all sorts of exciting stuff! Whatever it is that you enjoy, you'll have a chance to do it in Cub Scouting.

Cub Scouts Earn Awards

While you're having fun, you'll also be earning badges and awards. You'll work on projects with your parents or other adults in your family, and all of you will feel good about the things you accomplish. When you have earned a badge, you and an adult member of your family take part in a ceremony. The badge is given to the adult, and he or she then gives it to you in front of the whole pack. This is a way of saying "thank you" to your family for their help in earning your award.

The most popular awards for Cub Scouts are the advancement awards. Scouts complete requirements to advance and earn their badges of rank: Lion, Tiger, Bobcat, Wolf, Bear, Webelos, and the Arrow of Light Award. The Arrow of Light is the highest award in Cub Scouting.  Webelos Scouts also earn activity badges.

The Cub Scout Academics and Sports program is popular, too. Cub Scouts get to learn about favorite subjects such as art, math, science, and citizenship. Or they play individual and team sports such as archery, gymnastics, skating, or soccer. You don't need to be a star athlete to play Cub Scout Sports. You're a winner when you do your best.

Cub Scouts can earn many other awards and medals too, sometimes by themselves and sometimes as members of their pack. They can earn or help their pack earn Quality Unit awards, religious emblems, the Emergency Preparedness Award, the Outdoor Activity Award, or the World Conservation Award.

When you earn an award in Cub Scouting, you learn new skills. You also get to use your new skills and your new knowledge in projects and demonstrations. You show what you know. People get to see what you've learned as a Cub Scout.

Cub Scouting Has a Purpose

There is a reason for everything boys and girls do in Cub Scouting. Apart from the fun and excitement, the aim of Cub Scouting is to help boys and girls grow into good citizens who are strong in character and personally fit. This is why we say that Cub Scouting is fun with a purpose.

Scouting for All Ages

Cub Scouting is the first step on the Scouting trail. Learn more about Scouting's family of programs, and how you can stay an active member your whole life.

By joining the Cub Scouts, you've taken your first step on the Scouting trail. Many people stay in Scouting, one way or another, for many years. Some stay for a lifetime.

Cub Scouting

Different ages have different ranks in Cub Scouting. As you go from Lion Cub (age 6) to Arrow of Light Scout (age 10), you learn new things and new skills that you use to meet new challenges as you get older.

  • Lion Cubs.  Kindergarteners join a Lion Cub den, where each scout works with an adult partner on the requirements to earn their Tiger Cub badge.
  • Tiger Cubs. First-graders join a Tiger Cub den, where each Scout works with an adult partner on the requirements to earn their Tiger Cub badge.
  • Wolf Cub Scouts. Second-graders graduate into a Wolf den. They go to weekly den meetings on their own, but their families still help them work on the requirements for the Wolf badge.
  • Bear Cub Scouts. Third graders are members of a Bear den. They also work with their families to do the requirements for the Bear badge, but have enough knowledge and skill to take on more of the work by themselves.
  • Webelos and Arrow of Light Scouts. Fourth and fifth graders become Webelos/Arrow of Light Scouts. Webelos/Arrow of Light Scouts do more advanced activities to get ready to graduate into Boy Scouting.

Where you begin in Cub Scouting depends on your age at the time you join. If you join when you're in first grade, you will begin as a Tiger Cub. If you do not join until the third grade, you'll begin as a Bear Cub Scout. You won't have to go back and earn the Tiger Cub and Wolf badges.

The Arrow of Light Award

The highest award in Cub Scouting is the Arrow of Light Award, which you will begin working on as a Webelos Scout. It is the only Cub Scout badge that you can wear on the Boy Scout uniform. As you work on the Arrow of Light Award, you practice outdoor skills, get physically fit, and learn more about citizenship and working with others. All of these things prepare you for the next stage of Scouting.

Boy Scouting

The Boy Scout program is for boys who are 11 years old, or are at least ten years old and have earned the Arrow of Light award as a Cub Scout. The purpose of Boy Scouting is the same as it is for Cub Scouts: to help boys grow into good citizens who are strong in character and personally fit. But because they're older, Boy Scouts have a program with more and bigger challenges.

Boy Scouts work together in groups called patrols. The patrol leader is an older boy, not an adult. The Scouts in the patrol elect their patrol leader.

Patrols are part of a troop. The troop has adult leaders, but their job is to give guidance and advice to the Boy Scouts. The Scouts run their own program.

Boy Scouts have exciting outdoor activities. They go on long camping trips and long-distance hikes. They go canoeing and whitewater rafting, and more. They move through the Boy Scout ranks, from Tenderfoot to Eagle Scout. They earn merit badges that show many kinds of knowledge and skills. Scouts can also earn special awards for feats of skill, such as completing a mile swim or 50 miles of hiking.

Venturing

Venturing is for young men and women who are 14 (and have finished the eighth grade) through 20 years old. Venturing has six experience areas: social, citizenship, service, leadership, fitness, and outdoor. The activities in Venturing help young people become adults, follow their special interests, get skills as leaders, and become good citizens.

Venturing is the last of the three Scouting programs for young people. But it isn't the end of the Scouting trail. You can stay in Scouting even as a grown-up by becoming a member of the National Eagle Scout Association or Order of the Arrow, volunteering as an adult leader, or taking a job in professional Scouting.

Around the World
Cub Scouting is bigger than your den and pack. Millions of boys and girls are Cub Scouts across the nation and around the world.

Cub Scouting Around the World

You meet and have fun in your neighborhood den and Cub Scout pack. Millions of other boys and girls are also in Cub Scouting across the nation and around the world.

Your Den and Pack

Every Cub Scout is a member of a large group called a pack. The pack has smaller groups called dens. Each den has about six to eight boys or girls. All of the Cub Scouts in a den are about the same age and live in the same neighborhood.

Most of the things that Cub Scouts do happen in the pack and its dens. You have weekly den meetings and monthly pack meetings. You also go to special events and activities with the members of your pack. You may take part in district and council activities as a member of your pack.

Across America and Beyond

Cub Scouting is bigger than your own pack. Cub Scouting is nationwide, with Cub Scout packs in every single state and in places overseas. Even in far-off places where only a few boys live, those boys can be in the program as Lone Cub Scouts. And so, you are part of something huge.

The World Organization of the Scout Movement says there are Scouting programs in almost every nation.