Free Online Resources
New Den Leader Guides
Pack Meeting Overview
Summary of Pack Meeting with tips for flow and getting started on planning
Pack Meeting Plans
Downloadable PDFs with a suggested Pack Meeting for each month. Some include supplemental activity ideas and tie into that month's Boys Life theme. Pack Meeting Plans (PDF for each month):
Den Meeting Plans
These plans, modeled to support a school-year program, will, if followed, result in all boys in the den advancing in rank.
Arrow of Light Den Meeting Plans
Leader Books and Manuals at the Scout Shop
Cub Scout Den & Pack Meeting Resource Guide. This guide is designed to have everything a leader needs to plan and conduct den and pack meetings. The activities found in the Resource Guide are designed to support the purposes of Cub Scouting and are chosen to help promote the overall aims of Scouting.
Cub Scout Leader Book Good "getting started" book for any leader. Covers Cub Scouting Basics, The Cub Scouting Program, and Family Administration.
Cub Scout Leader How-To Book A more tactical book, this is chock full of ideas for games, crafts, meetings, and how to complete advancements in a fun way.
Cub Scout Family Guide Cub Scouts is a family experience. This guide covers how to go through the program as a family and appropriate parental involvement
Advancements
www.meritbadge.org
The best requirements resource on the web. This side lists the advancement requirement for every single Scout patch, award, rank, belt loop and merit badge from Bobcat to Eagle. It's a great resource to bookmark and much less cumbersome to understand rank requirements than reading your son's handbook. Highly reccomended!
Cub Scout Academics and Sports Progrman - Belt Loops and Pins
The Academic and Sports program is the suppliement program of Belt Loops and Pins the boys can earn. It lets boys wanted to get deeped in Scouting to earn more than is requred for their annual rank advnacement.
List of Belt Loops, Pins, and Requirements
Cub Scout Academics and Sports Guide - Purchase at Scout Shop
Cub Scout Academics and Sports Program Introduction - Downloadable PDF
Other Cub Scout Awards (Leave No Trace, World Conservation, Summertime Award, etc)
Cub Scout Ranks
Webelos Badge Rank Requirements