Family& Reverence Adventures

Lion Adventure: Lion Pride

With your parent or legal guardian talk about your family's faith traditions. Draw a picture of your favorite family’s faith tradition holiday or celebration.
With your family, attend a religious service OR other gathering that shows how your family expresses reverence.
Make a cheerful card or a drawing for someone you love and give it to them.

Tiger Adventure: Tiger Circles

With your parent or legal guardian talk about your family's faith traditions. Identify three holidays or celebrations that are part of your family’s faith traditions. Draw a picture of your favorite family’s faith tradition holiday or celebration.
With your family, attend a religious service OR other gathering that shows how your family expresses Family & Reverence.
Carry out an act of kindness .

Wolf Adventure: Footsteps

With your parent or legal guardian talk about your family's faith traditions. Identify three holidays or celebrations that are part of your family’s faith traditions. Make a craft or work of art of your favorite family’s faith tradition holiday or celebration.
With your family, attend a religious service OR other gathering that shows how your family expresses reverence.
Carry out an act of kindness.
Listen to or read Aesop’s fable “The Boy Who Cried Wolf.” With your den or family discuss why being truthful is important.

Bear Adventure: Fellowship

With your parent or legal guardian talk about your family's faith traditions. Identify three holidays or celebrations that are part of your family’s faith traditions. Make a craft, work of art, or a food item that is part of your favorite family’s faith tradition holiday or celebration.
With your family, attend a religious service OR other gathering that shows how your family expresses reverence .
Carry out an act of kindness.
With your parent or legal guardian identify a religion or faith that is different from your own. Determine two things that it has in common with your family’s beliefs.

Webelos Adventure: Duty to God and You

With your parent or legal guardian, talk about your family's faith traditions. Identify three holidays or celebrations that are part of your family’s faith traditions. Make a craft, work of art, or a food item that is part of your family’s faith tradition holiday or celebration.
Carry out an act of kindness.
With your parent or legal guardian identify a religion or faith that is different from your own. Identify two things that it has in common with your family’s beliefs.
Discuss with our parent or legal guardian what it means to be reverent. Tell how you practice being reverent in your daily life.

Arrow of Light Adventure: Duty to God in Action

Discuss with your parent or legal guardian about your family's faith traditions or one of your choosing. Choose a view value of that faith tradition that is related to the Scout Law. Discuss with your family how each family member demonstrates this value.
Meet with a representative of a faith based organization in your local community that provides a service that assists people in crisis regardless of their faith. Identify who they help and how.
Discuss with our parent, legal guardian, or adult leader what “Duty to God” means to you. Tell how you practice your Duty to God in your daily life.

Ideas for Spiritual Practices with Cub Scouts

The following is a simple list of ideas that can work in many (but not all) religious contexts and even in a family that has no faith tradition at all.

Giving Thanks/ Thankfulness
Reading a religious or inspirational texts
Prayer/mindful meditation
Prayer/writing/journaling
Fasting
Labyrinths or nature walks
Setting up and using a Sacred space/prayer stations/quiet space

This list is neither exhaustive nor is it prescriptive. The most important practice is that your Scout a conversation with their parents and family about what they believe and why they believe it.

Please keep in mind that the Scouts BSA encourages each Scout and family to interpret the requirements as they make sense in their context including the uses of the words “God” and “faith” which might not be a believe in a personal god but may refer to trust in a higher power or a commitment to a set of ethics or way of life.

Earning a Religious Emblems

No Scout is required to earn a Religious Emblem, but it does fulfill one or more of the requirements for a Scout in a given year. If you go on Scouting.org you can find a ton of religious emblems: https://www.scouting.org/awards/religious-awards/chart/. Right now, however, We aware of only nine official options to earn the religious emblem within Cub Scouts, and most Christian denominations fall under the P.R.A.Y. Program:

Churches of Christ
Eastern Orthodox
Islam
Jewish
Latter Day Saints
Most Protestants, Pentecostals and Non-Denominational Christians -> The P.R.A.Y Program
Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)
Roman Catholic
Unitarian Universalist

We have not been able to find good resources for Buddhist, Hindu, Sikh, Bahai, Tao, Shinto, Zoroastrian, or other Eastern or ancestral-based Religions.

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