Our Program

Why join Cub Scouting? Your time is valuable and it can be hard to find time together as a family. Cub Scouting helps to support your family by providing ready-made opportunities for you and your child to do things together.

By belonging to a group of kids their own age, your child builds self-esteem and learns to get along with others. Scouting America (formerly Boy Scouts of America) has been weaving lifetime values, like good citizenship, character development, and physical fitness, into fun and educational activities since 1910. We know that kids do not join Cub Scouting just to get their character built. They join because it is fun!

Cub Scouting is unique in that you, as the family, join in on the program with your child, and help along the way. The family is the basis of Cub Scouting. In fact, your entire family is welcome to participate in most Scouting activities, including camp-outs!

The program takes place on two levels. Your child will be part of a den, a small group of youth in the same grade. All of the dens, from kindergarten through the fifth grade, make up the pack. Once a month the dens, with their families, are together at the pack meeting, where we recognize their accomplishments during the month and have fun.

Den Information

Family Scouting: Pack 122 is happy to offer "Family Scouting" as we welcome all youth. Pack 122 was invited to be one of the first units in the country to have Family Scouting, as an early adopter.

Lion Cub (Kindergarten): This program is aimed at youth who will enter first grade the following year. The Lion program weaves traditional Scouting concepts like character development, leadership skills, and citizenship into activities that are age-appropriate and fun. Parents are most involved at this level. Lions wear a t-shirt and an optional cap and/or neckerchief as their uniform, and are invited to attend all pack functions. Each den has a den leader who helps coordinate their meetings.

Tiger Cub (1st grade): Parents remain heavily involved at the Tiger Cub level as they join as a parent-child team. Each den also has a den leader who helps coordinate their meetings. This level is all about having fun!

Wolf Cub (2nd grade), Bear Cub (3rd grade), & Webelos (4th grade): Each level gets more challenging, and that much more fun! The Scouts become more independent as they grow, but parents remain involved and the den leader becomes even more important.

Arrow of Light (5th grade): Arrow of Light (AOL) Scouts have more emphasis on learning to take leadership roles as they prepare to join a Scouts BSA troop. At this level, they become known as a "patrol" instead of a den. These Cubs are working on the highest rank in Cub Scouting, the only one that can be worn on their Scouts BSA uniform, and preparing to “cross the bridge” to a troop in March. The Scouts should be doing most of the work at camp: setting up their own tents, taking the lead with cooking, etc. They still have a den leader, and parents continue to participate, but the Scouts take the lead and make more decisions for the patrol. Independence is the focus for Arrow of Light Scouts!

Uniforms

Each Scout should have the appropriate uniform, available at the Scout Shop in Balboa Park or online. You can frequently find secondhand uniforms in thrift shops or on local online groups. The pack has a small number of uniform parts that have been donated to us available, which you are welcome to as needed. In addition to the below "field uniforms," Scouts have "activity shirts," which can be a pack t-shirt or any Scouting-related shirt. The pack sells activity shirts, as does the Scout Shop and other online stores. You can order a pack shirt in our online store here.

Lions (kindergarten) Lions don't need the full uniform, but can choose to wear the official Lion t-shirt (with optional Lion hat and neckerchief) instead.

Tiger, Wolf, Bear, and Webelos (1st—4th grades) The basic uniform (navy shirt with patches and navy pants, shorts, or skort) remains the same from the Tiger through Webelos years, while they update their cap, neckerchief, and neckerchief slide each year, to signify their "rank." Tigers wear orange neckerchiefs and hats, Wolves are red, Bears are light blue, and Webelos are plaid. Tigers, Wolves, and Bears wear their awards (belt loops) on a Cub Scout belt, while Webelos wear their awards (pins) on the "Adventure Colors," which is pinned to their uniform sleeve. Only the current year's awards are worn.

Arrow of Light (5th grade) Arrow of Light Scouts wear the Scouts BSA tan and olive green uniform with blue Cub Scout shoulder ribbons. There are not official hats or neckerchiefs for AOL Scouts. As a patrol they will choose whether they would like to wear a Scouts BSA neckerchief (the patrol will choose the color) from the Scout Shop or create a patrol neckerchief. Each Scout can individually choose to optionally wear an olive green Scouts BSA cap. They wear their awards (pins) on the "Adventure colors," which is pinned to their uniform sleeve.