Pack Information

Getting Started

Go to www.cubscoutpack1343.org, click on the “Join Now” tab and complete the online application. Our member management system is set up to track families. Each family has a primary contact that will register the other family members in our online application. You have the choice to pay online through our secure website or give the registration fee to your Den Leader. All checks should be payable to “Cub Scout Pack 1343.”

Carefully review this page so you know what Cub Scouting is all about and how your son or daughter can get the most out of it. 

Purchase a Cub Scout Book now and begin doing the activities with your children. 

Find out what kind of activities your Cub Scout Pack is doing in the next few months, and put them on your calendar so you can participate. Once registered you will be emailed updates on activities or you can always find out what’s going on via the Event Calendar on the website.

Scouting is more fun with friends! Every boy and girl can be a Cub Scout at any time and can register at any point during the year. Talk with other parents and children and have them join your child’s Cub Scout Den now to make Cub Scouting even more fun. Your child will be recognized as a “recruiter” and will be recognized by the Pack if he recruits a friend to join. 

Consider being a Cub Scout leader for your child’s Cub Scout den. Your son or daughter’s experience in Cub Scouting depends on your involvement.  

Purchase a Cub Scout Uniform for your child to wear their awards on. Be sure to get a size large enough to last several years as your child grows. Visit the Camp Snyder Scout Shop (6100 Antioch Road, Haymarket, VA 20169 ) or shop online at https://www.scoutshop.org/ for all of your uniform needs and more. 

How Cub Scouting Works

Scouting is Family Oriented 

• Activities are intended for the whole family, so feel free to bring little brother or sister to the meetings. No need to get a babysitter.

• You work with your children on their various award requirements. 

• Many skills they will learn are family oriented. 

Your child is a member of a Cub Scout Den 

• The Den is broken up by grade level. 

• The den meets each month. 

• The den is led by a Den Leader (parent volunteer). 

• Scouts earn rank patches and belt loops by completing a series of adventures that will include activities like hiking, camping, community service and learning skills like first aid, good eating habits, knot tying and more!

• Scouts may join at any time and in any grade level, even if they have not completed the previous ranks.

The Cub Scout Ranks:

Lion - Kindergartners

Tiger - First graders

Wolf - Second graders

Bear - Third graders

Webelos - Fourth graders

Arrow of Light - Fifth graders

Your child is a member of a Cub Scout Pack 

• The “Pack” consists of all the Dens and other leaders. The pack meets once a month on Monday nights in addition to other weekend activities like hikes and camping. All Cub Scout families are invited and encouraged to attend. 

• The Cubmaster and Asst. Cubmasters lead the monthly pack meeting.

• Pack meetings have games, activities, ceremonies and presentations of awards that the boys have earned during the month.

The pack is run by a Pack Committee (group of parent volunteers). 

The Pack Committee is made up of a Chartered Organization Representative, Committee Chair, Treasure, Cubmaster, Den Leaders, Event Chairs and many other positions. Most of these leaders are parents of boys and girls in the pack. All leaders and interested parents are encouraged to attend. 

• The committee meets once a month. 

• The committee plans pack meetings events, organizes volunteers and has fun! 

• The committee selects leaders, performs record keeping, manages pack finances, orders awards, maintains pack equipment, helps train leaders, and recognizes leaders.

The pack is owned by a Chartering Organization 

• The Chartered organization for Pack 1343 is Piney Branch Elementary School in Gainesville. 

• The chartered organization provides a meeting place, and operates the pack within the guidelines and policies of the chartered organization and the Scouting America.