Webelos Leader Outdoor Training
Purpose
Learn the skills necessary to put the “Outing in Scouting!” This is your opportunity to learn how to conduct a great Webelos Outdoor Program. Webelos Outdoor Training includes sessions on how to camp within the guidelines set forth by BSA, hands on sessions for many of the outdoor group activity badges, and camping skills for the novice and experienced camper alike. This training is for any adult scout leader who works with the Webelos Den, not just Webelos Den Leaders.
Objectives
The GOAL of this training is to provide you with skills that assure a Webelos den overnight event that is:
- Age Appropriate
- Based on the purposes of Cub Scouting
- Successful in whetting the appetite of your Scouts, their parents and the leaders who want to do more in the outdoors!
- Webelos Outdoor Activities: health and safety issues, hiking and camping concerns, outdoor ceremonies
- Webelos outdoor-related activities (Outdoorsman, Naturalist, Forester, Geologist), values of the outdoor program, identifying and conducting Webelos outdoor activities. Flag Ceremonies: procedures for flag raising, lowering and folding.
- Planning Overnight Campouts: key factors, planning and conducting a Webelos overnight campout, joint campouts (with BS troops), and council camping opportunities.
- Campfire Planning: how to plan and direct successful Den campfires and Outdoor Skill Workshops in the following areas in:
- First Aid: Cooking and sanitation
- Knots and Ropes: Campsite selection and tents
- Wood Tools: Bedding and Weather
Cost
$25
Dates
March 23-24, 2012
May 18-19, 2012
Registration
Click here to register online for the March 23-24, 2012 course.
Click here to download a registration flyer for the March 23-24, 2012 course.
Click here to register online for May 18-19, 2012 course.
Click here to download a registration flyer for the May 18-19, 2012 course.