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Tiger Cub Program
Tiger Cubs BSA gives parents an opportunity to provide their children with a safe, structured, and
nurturing environment. Tiger Cubs and their adult partners have fun together while developing closer
family relationships. Scouting can provide positive, enriching experiences and activities to
complement a child's formal classroom education. Scouting and education share the common goal of
helping young people grow into self-reliant, dependable, and caring adults. Tiger Cubs BSA is a
simple, fun, easy-to-operate program that helps a boy and his adult partner gain a better
understanding of, and an appreciation for, the community environment in which they live, and even
the world at large.
Tiger Cubs BSA offers an opportunity for boys to enter the Scouting family at an important age.
Research has shown that early involvement in values-based programs is vital to strong character
development. The longer a boy stays in Scouting, the more likely he is to develop the values and
skills needed to become an ethical and productive citizen.
The Tiger Cub dens are a part of the Pack. Tiger Cub dens meet once or twice a month and
attendance at all pack meetings is urged. There are Tiger Cub resource books and program helps
available for the Tiger Cub Den Leaders. Tiger Cubs are not first-grade Cub Scouts. Tiger Cubs
BSA introduces boys and their adult partners to the excitement of Cub Scouting as they "Search,
Discover, and Share" together.
The Tiger Cub Promise
I promise to love God, my family and
my country, and to learn about the world.
The Tiger Cub Motto
Search, Discover, and Share
The Tiger Cub program has a series of "Big Ideas" that are designed to fulfill many specific purposes.
The Tiger Cub program is designed for First Grade boys and the ideas are geared to their level.
They are also arranged to help the boy and his adult partner interact together in a positive way.
The following is a list and general description of the "Big Ideas." The details of each "Big Idea" can
be found in the Tiger Family Activity Book (publication #33932).
1.GETTING TO KNOW YOU
2.FAMILY ENTERTAINMENT
3.DISCOVER NATURE AND ENERGY
4.PREPARE FOR EMERGENCIES
5.KNOW YOUR FAMILY
6.KNOW YOUR COMMUNITY
7.HELPING OTHERS
8.GO SEE IT
9.GETTING THERE
10.SOMETHING SPECIAL, ALL YOUR OWN
11.MAKING YOUR FAMILY SPECIAL
12.MAKE YOUR OWN
13.CARING FOR YOUR HOME AND HOUSEHOLD
14.FAMILY GAMES, TRICKS, PUZZLES
15.FITNESS AND SPORTS
16.TELL IT LIKE IT IS
17.CUB SCOUTING, HERE WE COME
1.GETTING TO KNOW YOU
Purpose: To provide a fun time for all Tiger Cubs and adults to get to know one another at the first
Tiger Cub group meeting. Also, to provide a meeting format as an example of one way a future
meeting can be run.
2. FAMILY ENTERTAINMENT
Purpose: To have fun together and in this way to help bring family closer together.
3. DISCOVER NATURE AND ENERGY
Purpose: To develop in your child an appreciation of the world around him, and an awe for its
Creator. Also it will provide the basis for several hobbies and interests that may extend into the
future. Perhaps most important, you are given the opportunity through this big idea to reinforce your
own values about environment, energy, and even spirituality.
4. PREPARE FOR EMERGENCIES
Purpose: This activity is designed to equip the child to deal with an emergency when there is no adult
present. There are activities that will help him help others. In the expanding world of a first-grade
boy, there are times that he is not under the immediate protection of a parent of other adult family
member. His knowledge of emergency procedures will strengthen his self-esteem and
self-confidence. In this big idea, you can discuss with your son how to react to strangers and persons
whose motives are either not known or are unacceptable.
5. KNOW YOUR FAMILY
Purpose: Gives you a chance to explore your family's heritage, background, and structure. But it also
gives you an opportunity to express to one another what makes you feel good - what makes you feel
bad - all of you. It also aids in his understanding of other family members and their feelings.
6. KNOW YOUR COMMUNITY
Purpose: One of the underlying purposes of the Boys Scouts of America is to develop responsible
citizenship in boys. This begins with an understanding of their community. As you explore your
community with your boy and your Tiger Cub group, you will be giving your boy and others a better
understanding of the environment in which they live. Boys will develop a deeper appreciation of their
community and how it works.
7. HELPING OTHERS
Purpose: Helping others should be part of anyone's life, not only because it makes for a better world,
but also because it gives good feelings to both the helper and the one being helped. Giving your boy
a chance to help others enables him to learn that it is an important part of his life both now and in the
future. It also lets him learn that helping others can be fun and rewarding. Helping others as a family
or as a group makes the experience all the more fun and rewarding.
8. GO SEE IT
Purpose: This big idea gives you and your boy a chance to enjoy all the special places and activities
in your area. Seeing these things as a family makes for enjoyable times for all. It allows your family to
have fun together, and grow together as well. GO SEE IT!
9. GETTING THERE
Purpose: Transportation is a big part of everyone's lives. We travel to work, we travel on vacations.
This big idea lets you and your Tiger Cub explore some of the many ways man travels from one
place to another. As your boy learns about transportation, you can take the opportunity to explain
how important it is to be on time, to be courteous to others. You can also plan activities that will help
to make your family trips pleasant experiences for everyone.
10. SOMETHING SPECIAL, ALL YOUR OWN
Purpose: This is your own big idea. Pick whatever big idea your group wants. Let the boys play as
big a part in this as the adults. Make it fun for everyone. Let your imagination suggest whatever it
wants to. Make it the group and family happening of the year. What's important is that the boys and
adults plan the big idea together. That way it belongs to you and your group. Come up with family
activities and group activities, too.
11. MAKING YOUR FAMILY SPECIAL
Purpose: To help you and your boy explore the things that make your family unique, special, one of a
kind. Take the opportunity to let everyone talk about those things that strengthen the family. It will
help everyone develop more of a sense of belonging and pride. And the goal of this big idea is to
make family bonds stronger.
12. MAKE YOUR OWN
Purpose: To help your boy develop a sense of pride and satisfaction by making all kinds of things.
This big idea also will help him develop patience, perseverance, and initiative.
13. CARING FOR YOUR HOME AND HOUSEHOLD
Purpose: Learning what is required to keep a home neat and clean is important for a first-grader.
Part of the goal of this big idea is to help your boy realize that if everyone does his part to keep the
home clean, neat, and fixed up it will be a happier place to live. In addition, some of the activities in
this big idea are designed to give your boy a greater appreciation of all things that others do to keep
the home in good shape. Lastly, an objective of this big idea is to help your boy learn to follow
directions.
14. FAMILY GAMES, TRICKS, PUZZLES
Purpose: Part of the goal of this big idea is to have boys learn to become both good winners and
good losers as well. In addition, this big idea will teach them how to play by the rules and how to
follow instructions. It also holds the opportunity for boys to develop patience as they work to solve a
puzzle or invent a new game.
15. FITNESS AND SPORTS
Purpose: Sport and physical fitness activities, even calisthenics, can be fun. Naturally, though these
activities do more than just provide fun. They can make family members healthier as well as bring
families closer together. Learning new sports can help give a boy more self-confidence and self-esteem. And if good sportsmanship and teamwork are emphasized, the boy will learn some
important things that extend far beyond sports. But let's not forget what was said at the beginning.
More than anything else sports and other physical fitness activities can spell fun for the whole family.
16. TELL IT LIKE IT IS
Purpose: Communication is a big word to a first-grade boy, but it is an important one. This big idea
lets the boy learn some of the many ways people communicate with each other. It also has the goal
of letting him learn how to communicate better with those around him. The activities are designed to
make it fun and interesting.
17. CUB SCOUTING, HERE WE COME
Purpose: Tiger Cub groups are affiliated with a Cub Scout pack, and both the Cub Scouts and them
adults who run the Cub Scout Pack are looking forward to having your boys join the pack after their
time as Tiger Cubs. Cub Scouting will build on what your boy is learning and discovering as Tiger
Cubs, BSA. This big idea will be carried out by you and your group and by your Tiger Cub Group
Coach. Unlike the other big ideas in your Family Activity Book, this big idea is set up on an
organized basis and is designed to be held at specified times of the year. Your Group Coach will
contact you with details at the proper times. It is asked that as you take part in the various activities
in this big idea, look over Cub Scouting. The program can do wonderful things for you and your
boy. It is hoped that this glimpse into the Tiger Cubs, BSA FAMILY ACTIVITY BOOK
will help you to decide to join the Tiger Cub group at a pack in your neighborhood. It is truly a fun program
and a great experience for your first-grader and the whole family. For more information about Cub
Scouting, or to find out how to join, contact the Boy Scouts of America council listed in the white
pages of your local telephone directory.
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