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.
Fitness Fun Day
The whole pack, four stations, and every den rotates through all of them. Opening ceremony at 6:30, done by 7:40.
The four stations
- Nutrition, in the kitchen. A milkshake with surprise healthy ingredients, and the food groups.
- Hygiene, by the restrooms. How germs spread, real handwashing, and taking care of teeth.
- Fitness, in the lobby. Ten minutes of games, exercises or an obstacle course.
- Healthy Minds, in the den room. Breathing, stretching and a calm few minutes, or a den's own leftover requirements.
Arrow of Light Scouts do their own activities for the evening.
Where your den goes, and when
| Time | Lions | Tigers and Wolves | Bears | Webelos |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6:40 to 6:50 | Nutrition | Hygiene | Fitness | Healthy Minds |
| 6:53 to 7:03 | Hygiene | Fitness | Healthy Minds | Nutrition |
| 7:06 to 7:16 | Fitness | Healthy Minds | Nutrition | Hygiene |
| 7:19 to 7:29 | Healthy Minds | Nutrition | Hygiene | Fitness |
Three minutes between each rotation to move. Closing, cleanup and dismissal 7:29 to 7:40.
$42,000 sold, five weekends to go, and one thing we have not explained well
Our Scouts have put in real work and it shows. Here is where the sale stands and what to do at the next few Monday meetings.
Every Monday is a swap, not a pickup
Every Monday of the sale is a two way exchange. Bring back what is not selling, take what you actually need for the week ahead. Product in, product out, every week, all the way to the end.
Nobody needs a month of inventory in their garage. Take what you can move this weekend, bring the rest back Monday, pick up something different if that is what people are buying. Families who swap every week sell more and carry far less risk than families holding the same boxes since September. This is how the sale is meant to run.
Tonight, Monday October 19, is the important one. It is the last Monday unsold popcorn can go back to the council. After this week, anything returned belongs to the pack and we pay for it, which takes money away from camp, awards and activities. If you are holding popcorn you are not going to sell, bring it tonight.
If you have October 23 on your calendar, that is the council's deadline on their end, and it is why everything has to be in hand tonight.
So what should you bring?
- Still selling? Keep what you are working and swap out what is not moving. There are five more weekends. Do not send back product you are going to sell.
- Done selling? Bring back what is unopened and in good condition. Not all of it, only what you honestly are not going to move.
The sale runs through Monday, November 23, the Monday of Thanksgiving week. There is still a month of selling, so there is no reason to wrap up early.
Popcorn does not cover registration
Two separate things, and this trips people up every year. Registration is $100 per Scout, per year, for the membership year that runs August through April. Every family pays it no matter how much popcorn their Scout sells. It goes to Scouting America and the council, not to the pack.
Popcorn pays for everything else: about $222 per Scout of programming, plus the council and national fees your $100 does not cover. A Scout year truly costs about $376. You pay $100. Popcorn closes the gap.
The goal, in two parts
To be whole for the year, each family does both. Not one or the other.
How the buyout works
If your Scout sells nothing, the buyout is $300. Every dollar sold brings that down, and it reaches zero at $525. You are never choosing between selling and paying. Whatever you sell counts, and you only write a check for the part you did not get to.
| Sold | Buyout owed |
|---|---|
| $0 | $300 |
| $175 | about $200 |
| $350 | about $100 |
| $525 | $0 |
Order form sales, storefront shifts, online orders and donations all credit the same. The pack earns 38 cents on every dollar, which is the money that funds the program.
Questions? Your den leader first. They can handle most of it or get an answer quickly. For anything more complicated, find the popcorn kernel in the parking lot on a Monday.
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.