Cub Scout Pack 3049 Muddy boots. Big ideas. Every Monday.
Campfires, water rockets, pinewood cars that go way too fast, and 78 kids figuring out what they are capable of. Pack 3049 has been doing this in Leo for more than 90 years. Kindergarten through 5th grade, boys and girls, everybody welcome.
A location change, a time change, and a form to finish
Three things for families before Monday. The first two changed after the calendar went out.
Safety Day and the bike rodeo are no longer at Safety Village. They could not host us this year because of internal changes on their end. We are holding it at the church instead.
- Bring a bike and a helmet
- The Leo-Grabill firefighters are coming, truck and all
The fall hike starts half an hour early. Monday October 5 runs 6:00 to 7:00 PM, not 6:30. Get there for 6:00 or you will miss the start.
Bring the six essentials
- First aid kit
- Filled water bottle
- Flashlight
- Trail food
- Sun protection
- Whistle
The Bobcat Adventure
Every Scout starts with Bobcat, and part of it is meant to be done at home with a parent, not at a meeting. Sit down together and work through the activities in Scouting America's booklet Parents Guide to Protecting Your Children From Child Abuse. It is a short guide about checking with a parent first, using the buddy system, personal space, not keeping secrets, and naming three trusted adults your Scout can go to.
Then turn in the form two ways, whichever is easier:
- Bring the completed sheet to the meeting on Monday September 28
- Or send your den leader a photo of it
Both the Scout and a parent sign and date it. Keep the trusted adults your Scout names between the two of you, the pack only needs the signed form.
Fall Festival and free Cub camping at CCLT
Pleasant Lake Montessori School, Pack 3651 and the Anthony Wayne Area Council are putting on a festival day at camp, and the camping that night is free for every AWAC pack. That includes us.
Fall Festival, Saturday 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM
- Carnival games and food, classic games and autumn treats
- Archery, fishing and slingshots
- Bounce houses
- Silent auction, prizes and local goods
Stay the night, Saturday 3:00 PM to Sunday 11:00 AM
Bring everything. Packs and families provide all their own meals and all their own equipment. Tents, bedding, food, cooking gear, the lot. Nothing is provided and there is no dining hall for this one.
If your Scout has never camped with the pack, this is a good first one. It is one night, it is free, and it is on a camp they will already know from summer.
Family Fun Run, Saturday morning
What Cub Scouts actually looks like
Most weeks your Scout meets with their den, a small group of kids in the same grade. They build something, play a purposeful game, learn a skill, and work on an adventure toward their rank. It takes about an hour.
Once a month the whole pack gets together with families for a pack meeting: skits, awards, a theme, and a lot of noise. Between those, we hike, camp, race cars, tour the fire station, launch water rockets, and hand out more than a few pies to the face.
Scouting is a family program. Parents are not dropping kids off and leaving. You will be right there, and that is most of the point.
Where and when we meet
Den meetings: Mondays, 6:30 to 7:30 PM
Pack meetings: one Monday a month, 6:30 to 8:00 PM
Committee meetings: Thursdays at 7:00 PM, all adults welcome
Cedar Creek Church
12606 Leo Road, Fort Wayne, IN 46845
Dens usually meet two to three times a month. The pack takes off for school breaks and most holidays.
Find your den
Every Scout joins the den that matches the grade they are entering. Each rank has its own handbook, its own adventures, and its own patch to sew on.
Short meetings, a grown up at every one, and a whole lot of firsts.
Exploring the neighborhood and meeting the people who run it.
Outdoor skills, and the first real taste of doing it themselves.
Tools, camp cooking, critters. Bears run the pumpkin contest.
Camping gets serious and Scouts start running things themselves.
The highest Cub Scout rank, and the bridge into a Scouts BSA troop.
The STEM is the fun part
Nobody in this pack calls it STEM. They call it launching a bottle rocket over the parking lot, or figuring out why the fast car is fast. Same thing.
Water rockets and launch day
Air pressure, fins, water volume, and a lot of arguing about whose design goes higher. Then they change one variable and try again. That is an experiment, and they never notice.
Pinewood Derby physics
A block of pine, four wheels, and a hard cap on weight. Scouts learn about friction, mass, and center of gravity by losing a heat and figuring out why.
Nature, up close
Tracks in the mud at Metea Park, water bugs in a creek, constellations from the campsite. Field science, done in the field.
Build it and use it
Knots that hold, fires that light, a pocket knife used correctly, a meal cooked over coals. Practical engineering with immediate consequences.
Nova awards
Scouting America's own STEM program. Scouts who want to go deeper earn Nova awards in science, technology, engineering, and math.
Fix the thing that broke
Tents in the wind, a wheel that wobbles, a plan that fell apart at 9 PM. Troubleshooting under real pressure is the most underrated skill Scouting teaches.
What they actually walk away with
Nerve
Knocking on a stranger's door to sell popcorn is terrifying at seven. It is not at nine.
Leadership
By Webelos they are running den meetings, teaching younger Scouts, and leading a flag ceremony in front of a hundred people.
Grit
Rain on the campout. Losing the derby. Do Your Best is not a participation trophy, it is a standard you hold yourself to.
Service
Food drives, park cleanups, flags on veterans' graves. Kids learn that a community is something you maintain.
A year in Pack 3049
Fall
Recruitment night, the popcorn sale, a pack hike at Metea Park, the corn maze, and the fall carnival with the Bears' pumpkin contest.
Winter
Pack camp-in at the church, the pie in the face pack meeting, crossover, and the Pinewood Derby.
Spring
Blue and Gold banquet, rank advancement, service projects, and getting back outside the second the weather allows.
Summer
Resident camp at Camp Chief Little Turtle, day camp, the Grabill Days parade, and pack picnics.
The Scout Oath
On my honor I will do my best
To do my duty to God and my country and to obey the Scout Law;
To help other people at all times;
To keep myself physically strong, mentally awake, and morally straight.
The Scout Law
A Scout is trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean, and reverent.
The Cub Scout motto
Do Your Best.
You will hear those three words constantly around here. It is the whole standard. Not win, not be the best. Just do your best.
Come see for yourself
New families are welcome any time of year, not just in the fall. Show up on a Monday, say hello, and let your kid try a den meeting before you decide anything. Call or text either Cubmaster with any question at all.