Free word search printable for your next den or patrol meeting gathering activity during this Easter holiday.

Most of the time you can purchase inexpensive watercolors at the dollar store… but where is the fun in that?! For half the cost you can make your own

One of my favorite things to add to the arrow is an eagle feather. Here is how I make them.

Here is a free word search to help you and your scouts with the names of all 45 Presidents of the United States.

The simplest of all tents, a trail tarp is a large piece of waterproof nylon or canvas fabric with grommets along the edges for the attachment of cords. It can be pitched in many different ways…

Kim’s game is a memory game that will keep your scouts engaged during a gathering activity as they wait for the meeting to start. At last nights troop meeting we incorporated the game into a team building activity.

Found on page 112 of the 1980 copy of the Boy Scout Handbook: Here are nine different types of fire lay.

Throughout the years, many items change within the different printings of the handbooks, manuals, merit badge books, and fieldbooks. One topic stays constant is the three materials you need to make fire.

Found in the 6th edition of the Boy Scout Handbook. The tepee fire lay is good for boiling and frying in pots and pans:

Found in the 1942 printing of the Boy Scout Handbook - Find out what Fielding H Yost says about what it takes to get on the Michigan team.

The Golf Merit Badge (requirement 2a.) has us taking a look at the three categories of golf etiquette.

It’s that time of year when families start traveling home for the holidays. One way that mom kept us busy when we were kids was playing the license plate game. Free printable included.

The Scout slogan is “Do a Good Turn Daily.” It is part of the third point of the Scout Law - “A Scout is helpful.” And it is part of your Scout Oath - “… to help other people at all times.”

Seventeen years ago, I can still remember where I was and what I was doing.

There are countless variations of the neckerchief throughout all the packs, troop, and crews that are out there. From the 1976 Bear Handbook

This last week we were on the troop summer week long scout camp up in the High Uintas of Utah. As we were hiking along between Trident and Beth Lake, I noticed that there was a ton of lichen on all the rocks.  I realized that I did not know anything about lichen, except that it is usually found growing on the rocks.  So, here is a few thing that I have found from my research.

In preparation for our troop's summer scout camp up in the High Uintas, we have been teaching the scouts to be bear aware and bear smart.  Bears can smell your food from 2-3 miles away. 

One of the solutions to fixing a leaking window is to apply silicone caulk within all gaps and cracks of where the window meets the house. This will satisfy requirement 2b. of the Home Repairs Merit Badge. 

Each Thursday I enjoy opening up one of the vintage books in my library and seeing what was taught in prior years. This excerpt, even though it is from half a century ago, made me ponder on how I'm living my life in conjunction with the Scout Law.

Found in the Woodsman's Tools section of the 1949 edition of the Handbook For Boys, these axe skills still hold true.