Webelos Woods is an outdoor program activity designed  to help Webelos form a desire to know more about Boy Scouting and to give the younger Scouts an opportunity to see how much fun the Boy Scouts have.

Scouts Activity Classes will cover areas such as these:

Camping Awareness skills:  From site choice to set up -  with Leave No Trace guidelines (Showing how to find a proper camp site location, preparation, set up, recommended personal equipment, personal hygiene, including cat pits) 

Camp Safety:  (Ex: axe handling, bugs, snakes, animals, and poison plants)

Fire Safety and Building Techniques:

First Aid:  Reality check on the most common first aid treatments they may need to know in a camping situation.

Tents:   (and other shelter types, ways to set up, use of tarps)

Cooking:   Meal planning and food storage tips, outdoor cooking choices, plus how to properly set up and use a propane stove, a Dutch oven stove, and a cooking campfire, and cook on it. 

Orienteering:  Introduction to Compass and Map Reading Skills with a Course to test what you have learned.

Lashing and Knot tying:   (Building a miniature climbing tower, monkey bridge, or any pioneer type project) Have one built that the Webelos can climb on, possibly to have a competition among the Troops on who could build the best one, and the Webelos could vote on the best one.

Scout Craft: 

Troop and Patrol Organization   Ranks and Advancement  and the  Eagle Challenge    

Hiking:   (Friday evening hike or a night hike)

Stargazing:   (Friday night)

Camp Games:   Team building games

Some of these skills may be combined, others may be better suited done individually, and there very well may be other skills we should include as well.  This is not another Klondike Derby, all though it would enhance your boys Klondike capabilities afterwards, the emphasis on this event is the fun the Boy Scouts have being knowledgeable campers, and to learn the basic concepts of a Troop and its workings.

This is something we need to plan well and ahead of time.  Please consider what your Pack or Troop might get out of an event like this, and send in your comments, recommendations, suggestions, questions, and areas where your Unit would like to participate so that we may begin planning this event now!

Boy Scout Leaders and Cub Scout Leaders If you would like to be involved in the planning for this event please contact me at seanhiggins@earthlink.net