Program
The Cub Scout program focuses on six activity areas: The Natural World, Outdoors, Creative Expression, Healthy Living, Home and Community and Canada and the World. Activities include:
- Challenging hikes, weekend camps and outdoor activities
- Water activities like canoeing and kayaking
- Games and sports
- Model-building
- Music, storytelling and play-acting
Badges
Cubs can explore skills and knowledge in subjects they are interested in with Personal Achievement Badges. Badges are completely optional!
There are more than 16 badge areas in which Cubs can plan their own badge activities, do them and review them.
How to get a badge
Cubs select the area they want to do their badge in. They download the planning document [PDF] and create their plan for their badge. They complete the activity and then show a leader what they did as well as give their review of the process. Leaders will verify a badge has been achieved! Cubs can do more than one project for the same badge area.
Badge Areas
- Earth: anything connecting with our planet’s soil and geology including exploration, environment, leisure pursuits, experiments, etc.
- Air: anything connecting with the atmosphere including exploration, environment, leisure pursuits, experiments, etc.
- Water: anything connecting with water including exploration, environment, leisure pursuits, experiments, etc.
- Space: anything connecting with outer space including exploration, leisure pursuits, experiments, etc.
- Summer Fitness: anything related to active and healthy fitness and the summer season
- Winter Fitness: anything related to active and healthy fitness and the winter season
- Year-round Fitness: anything related to active and healthy fitness that can be pursued year-round
- Home: exploring what it means to be a contributing member in a household
- Community: exploring what it means to be an active, contributing member of one’s neighbourhood and municipality
- Canada: exploring what it means to be a citizen who makes positives contributions to the country
- World: exploring what it means to be a contributing global citizen
- Technology: exploring how to use digital technology effectively and responsibly
- Arts: exploring one’s own creative expression and the creative output of others
- Building: creating and constructing functional items in a hands-on way
- Hobby: an opportunity to develop one specific interest or to explore new interests
- Science: learning and experimenting critically and empirically
Questions?
Let us know or ask for help! Email: 26halifax@gmail.com
