Nature Advancement Ceremony

Equipment:

A tree branch standing in a coffee can filled with sand, pebbles, or plaster of paris to enable it to stand as a tree. Green paper leaves with Cub Scouts’ names, awards, badges and arrow points.

Personnel:

Cubmaster, Webelos and Den Leaders, advancing Cub Scouts and their parents.

Cubmaster:

This little tree is a symbol of the natural beauty of our land. The tree also represents Cub Scouting.

It takes a long time for a beautiful tree to grow. In the same way, a Cub Scout spends a lot of time and effort in advancement from rank to rank. So do the parents.

Today, we will see how much prettier this Cub Scouting tree will be when we put some leaves on it. Each of these leaves represents the time and effort put into their advancement work by our Cub Scouts and parents.

(Call forward cub scout, their parents and Den Leaders by rank; give them their awards and have them place a leaf for each award on the tree. After all awards are presented and leaves added to the three, the Cubmaster resumes speaking.)

Each of you has helped to nurture this tree. Just as trees endure for many years, so the values gained from working on achievements, electives and badges will last you a lifetime. May you always stand strong and tall like a tree—and be a beautiful resource for our land.