Pathfinder Social Distancing Challenge- Naturalist Badge
This is a great time to have your pathfinders work on the Naturalist badge. You can see all the requirements below. Your pathfinders can tell you the answer to number 1, over the phone or...
Monthly Archive: July 2020
What is that? A Zoomable Game for Pathfinders
Recently, my mother texted me this picture with the questions: “Is this Bear Poop? I found it in the yard.” So, we created a scout zoom meeting around this question, and asked the scouts...
Semaphore- A scouting skill designed to do from a distance
Now is the perfect time to actually use semaphore with your group. Scouts can social distance and send messages to each other! Semaphore a method of sending messages with 2 flags, where the flag...
Otter Pals!
From Nicole with the 141st Irregulars in Florida: I’m an Otter leader and one way I’m trying to keep our raft engaged is having them put together an ‘otter buddy’ to scout with while...
How to Plan a BPSA Year!
This post was written before the complications of Covid-19 affected our scouting year. I will be posting soon some ideas for scouting during this new challenge. However, the basic ideas for how to lay...
Rover Book List – Scouting and Leading
Aside from Scouting for Boys and Rovering to Success, what other books can a person read to learn more about scouting? Here is a book list compiled by Rovers all across the country of...
Announcing Our Name Change
Dear Scouts, It’s such a privilege to write that – Dear Scouts – because scouts, and especially the Rover Scouts of the BPSA, are some of the finest people I know. I haven’t met...