OUR PACK
Since its beginning, the Cub Scout program has been a fun and educational experience concerned with values. Besides providing a positive place where boys can enjoy safe, wholesome activities, Cub Scouting focuses on building character, improving physical fitness, teaching practical skills, and developing a spirit of community service.
LEADING YOUTH TO LIFELONG VALUES
Who We Are
The Cub Scouts of Pack 201 meet regularly to have fun and earn achievements. Monthly den meetings are like stepping-stones: each week a boy progresses a little further toward the next rank, learning skills as he goes. The monthly pack meetings are like milestones that mark achievements along the Cub Scout trail and celebrate accomplishments along the way.
What We Offer
Cub Scouting means "doing." Everything in Cub Scouting is designed to have the boys doing things. Activities are used to achieve the aims of Scouting—citizenship training, character development, and personal fitness. Many of the activities happen right in the den and pack. The most important are the weekly den meetings and the monthly pack meetings.
Apart from the fun and excitement of Cub Scout activities, the Cub Scout Promise, the Law of the Pack, and the Cub Scout sign, handshake, motto, and salute all teach good citizenship and contribute to a boy's sense of belonging.
OUR DENS
Lion Scouts
Kindergarten (ages 5 to 6)
Tiger Scouts
First Grade (ages 6 to 7)
An introduction to Cub Scouts. Kindergarten boys work with their families to do the requirements to earn their Lion Rank.
First-grade boys join a Tiger den, where each boy works with an adult partner on the requirements to earn his Tiger badge.
Wolf Scouts
Second Grade (ages 7 to 8)
Second-grade boys graduate into a Wolf den. They go to den meetings on their own, but their families still help them work on the requirements for the Wolf badge.
Webelos Scouts
Fourth Grade
Arrow of Light (AoL) Scouts
Fifth Grade
Bear Scouts
Third Grade (ages 8 to 9)
Boys in the third grade are members of a Bear den. They also work with their families to do the requirements for the Bear badge, but boys this old have enough knowledge and skill to take on more of the work by themselves.
Boys in the fourth and fifth grades become Webelos Scouts. Webelos Scouts do more advanced activities to get ready to graduate into Boy Scouting.
How Does Cub Scouting Work?
One unique thing about Cub Scouting is that you, as his family, join in on the program with your son, and you will help him along the way. The family is the basis of Cub Scouting. It exists to support your family and help enrich your family time together. Boys have a different handbook at each grade level, with suggested activities that are age-appropriate for their developmental level. As your boy advances through these books by working on activities with you, he will earn badges and other recognition that he can wear on his uniform. Your son’s success in Cub Scouting depends on you!
The Cub Scouting program takes place at two levels. Your son will be a part of a den, a small group of boys in the same grade level who usually meet weekly. All dens, from kindergarten through 5th grade, make up a pack. Once a month, the dens, with their families, are together at the pack meeting, where boys show off the new skills they have learned during the month and are recognized for the badges they have earned. All boys, when they join, earn the Bobcat badge first. Your den leader will show you how.
ABOUT US
History
Pack 201 was first chartered in 1969 in Williston Park, NY. We are part of the Shelter Rock District, of the Theodore Roosevelt Council.
We meet as a Pack once per month at Center Street Elementary School, in the Herricks School District, and every Den conducts meetings throughout the month.
Please contact Den leaders for dates, times and locations.
Why Join Cub Scouting?
• Your time is valuable. More than ever, today’s families struggle to find time to spend together. Cub Scouting helps to support your family by providing ready-made
opportunities for you and your son to do things together.
• Your son needs to belong to a group of boys his own age. Through this sense of belonging, he builds his self-esteem and learns to get along with others. As a parent, you want to be assured that the groups that your boy joins will teach values consistent with good citizenship, character development, and physical fitness. The Boy Scouts of America has been weaving these lifetime values into
fun and educational activities since 1910.
• In a society where your son is taught that winning is everything, Cub Scouting teaches him to “do his best” and to be helpful to others.
• Scouting teaches family values and works to strengthen your relationship with your son. Scouting activities can bring added value to the time you already have with your son.
• He will learn to live by the code of “On my honor.”
But we know that boys do not joinCub Scouting just to get their character built. Boys join because it is fun.