Program Planning for August 2025

August All Together: Laugh, Play, and Explore the Joys of Summer

 

Things to Remember This Month:

  • Welcome Back to School and “Back to the Pack”
  • Sign Up for Cub Haunted Weekend
  • Plan Your Unit Popcorn Kick Off and Show N Sell Merchandise Order

August Events

Click on each heading below to expand or collapse and discover more details about Camping, Training, Program, Fundraising and Community events for this month.

Summer OA Ordeal

August 22-24

Join us for our 2025 Quelqueshoe Lodge Ordeals held at Camp Edgewood where we induct new members and there will be an opportunity for Brotherhood conversion. We need your help welcoming new members into our Lodge. Don't miss out on this opportunity for service and fellowship. We hope to see you there!

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Unit Camping

 

Check with your unit on camping activities for this month.

Unit Popcorn Kick Off

August 7

Join us for kicking off the 2025 popcorn season. Pick up materials and meet with Campmasters leadership.

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Learning Programs for Leaders

 

A trained leader is better prepared to make the Scouting program all it can be!

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South Calcasieu Area Council Roundtable

TBD

Monthly program that provides leaders hands-on experience and provides a forum for leaders to offer and receive help from their fellow Scouters.

North Calcasieu Area Council Roundtable

TBD

Monthly program that provides leaders hands-on experience and provides a forum for leaders to offer and receive help from their fellow Scouters.

Popcorn Fundraising

 

With each bite, you’re helping Scouts in your community earn their own way to outdoor adventures and life-changing learning opportunities. Online orders start on August 1, 2025. Show N Sell starts on August 22, 2025.

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Show N Sell Orders Due

August 9

If your unit is planning to do Show N Sell at local stores, be sure to place the order by 11:59 PM on Saturday, August 9, 2025.

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Show & Sell Popcorn Distribution

August 22

Pick up your Show N Sell popcorn.

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The Roast of Heath Schroyer

August 28

Come on down to the Roast of Heath Schroyer, where we’ll support Scouting in South Louisiana and have a riot of a time doing it!

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Community Activities Supported by Units

August

Check with your unit on community activities for this month.

August Planning Items

Pack Sign Up Events

Back to School time is back to Cub Scouting time, and your pack and dens have many routes to recruit, from Registration, Meet the Teacher or Meet and Greet days where you can have one-on-one contacts with families, to one or more fun den and pack activities (swim? bike? cookout?) that you can invite friends and classmates to attend, to School Sign Up Nights supported by your District Executive. A fun calendar of outdoor activities is the number one reason families like Cub Scouting, so… Get Out And Cub Scout! Check out the "Signup Events Tips" leveraged from the Atlanta Area Council.

Pack Parent Orientation (Alongside a Fun Event)

After your big Sign-Up Event, be sure that your Pack parents know how your Pack and Dens will operate – have a Pack orientation for all families. A best practice is to have this alongside a super fun event for the Scouts – and with food – so that every family will want to attend and get on the right path. For ideas about how to put on a great Pack Orientation, see New Parent Orientation page.

Bobcat and “First Meeting” Plans

Here’s something you might do as part of that first orientation and fun event.  What if you had an easy way where parents could have fun with their kids and share the joy of leading their Scouts as they complete the Bobcat and earn their first badge? (Psst: your returning Scouts can use a refresher too.) These are great for “getting started” meetings and activities with your Den and can let parents feel the power of their leadership skills. See Bobcat Adventure Ideas for Den Activities and Parent Participation

Advancement Resources for Leaders and Parents

Cub Scouting is full of Handbook Advancement and Adventures – 96 in all. The link below will take you to resource pages for all of those Adventures, and give you – and the parents in your Den – helpful information to be great leaders of your Scouts. That page includes resources to lead the Bobcat rank too – the first rank badge awarded a new Cub Scout, except for Lions (who work on most of Bobcat in Lion Adventures). Check out the Cub Scout Advance leveraged from the Atlanta Area Council.

Stay in the Know!

Make sure your leaders and parents know how to obtain the latest information about District and Council programs by including the following on all unit district communications: