Your Fifth Webelos Meeting

1. Bring drawing paper, crayons, colored pencils, markers and other supplies that you'll need to work on the Artist activity. Also bring trash bags, paper towels, and things that you'll need to clean up afterwards.

As Webelos Scouts arrive, ask them to participate in a short service project by picking up trash on the grounds of the meeting place. Scouts should take trash bags outside and search along the building walls, along tree lines, and in the lawn for trash that does not belong there. Be sure to monitor their activities, especially near roads.

Have an opening flag ceremony followed by everyone saying the Law of the Pack.

Draw a picture and color it using colored pencils or markers. Ask the Scouts to select a Scouting related theme for their picture.

Plan out a den display that can be set up before some upcoming Pack meeting. The display can show crafts projects that the den has made, Pinewood Derby cars assembled by any of the scouts during previous years in Cub Scouts, model rockets (if any of the boys have participated in a Pack rocket launch), photographs, displays of leafs or rocks, or any items that illustrates an activity that the den has participated in.

You can also include a display of outdoor equipment such as a tent, sleeping bags, Coleman stove, etc. Stress to the boys that as the older scouts in the Pack they are in a good position to explain what the equipment is and how it is used for the younger scouts who may not have been camping yet.

Make sure your display includes text that explain the items. It's also a good idea to have volunteers standing by to answer questions and to protect delicat items that might be handled by young scouts and siblings.

This is a closing that many Boy Scout Troops use, so it's good that the Webelos Scouts become familiar with it:

The boys form a circle (each boy facing the center of the circle). They join hands by placing their right arm over their left arm and grasping the hand of the boy on either side of them. (I.e., a boy's right hand reaches to his left, over his left arm, and joins with the left hand of the boy to his left. His left hand reaches to the right and joins with the right hand of the boy on his right.)

It's important that all boys place their right arm over their left arm.

One boy (the denner!) says a short prayer:

Finally, the boys lift their hands (while joined) and turn around. Their final position is facing out of the circle, with hands still joined.

1. Clean up your meeting place thoroughly
2. Discuss how the meeting went with your Tiger Cub and with some of the other members of the den. Adjust future meeting plans as appropriate.
3. Request a Tour Permit for any Go See It activity that you'll do in a upcoming weeks.
4. If any of your scouts have completed awards or advancement report it to the Cubmaster or Pack Advancement chairperson.
5. Review plans for your next meeting.
6. Thank your co-leaders and den chief (if you have one).