Create an Activity Chest
A treasure chest of physical activities you can use as a "back pocket" program, or to surprise your Beavers. This link will redirect you to our Funstuff area.
Developing Program Ideas
Thought starters for developing program ideas include: season and events, occupations, hobbies, excursions, stories, and stuff.
Evaluating Your Program
Evaluation is not just happy faces. It also means digging into what Beaver and parents want, and striving for constant improvement.
Meeting Guidelines
To make you meetings, Scouting or otherwise, more fruitful, here are some useful guidelines.
New Beaver Colony Start-Up Kit
This outline contains meeting plans for the first six meetings of a brand new Beaver Colony.
Outdoors With Beavers
While these pages could appear under Outdoors and Activities, here are some ideas to help you build and outdoor program for your Beavers.
Principles to Work By
I thought the following five points could become the operating principles of a successful Beaver program. What do you think?
Proactive Ideas for Programming
Before you start any program it's a good idea to think it through. Here are some ideas to help you anticipate needs and organizational issues.
Programming Jumpstarts
Everything you need for one-night program. Include songs, crafts, games, stories and poems.
Some Points About Programming
Fourteen ideas to consider when you are putting together and delivering a program.
Summary of Short and Long Range Planning Process
An abbreviated copy of a conference presentation, these page outlines the essence of the planning process. It includes many questions for evaluating your meetings and your program.
White Tail Activities
Originally a conference presentation, this page suggests how you can keep White Tail Beavers from getting bored, or worse, leaving. It addresses the special needs of White Tails, giving them challenges suitable to their age, involving them in the program planning, and preparing them for Cubs.
10 Months of Programming
To help get those creative juices flowing, here are some programming ideas for the Scouting year.
