Wolf Elective Adventures
Wolf Elective Adventures are designed to enhance the program of our youngest enrolled scouts. One elective completion is a requirement to earn the Wolf rank. A Wolf is entering Second Grade in the fall. We have guidance, tips, and resources to complete each elective below.
What’s in the Wolf Elective Program?
- Our Rank specific manual includes four Wolf electives – Air of the Wolf, Code of the Wolf, Cubs Who Care, Digging in the Past, and a Rank specific checklist that can be turned into the scout’s den leader or used to help fill in Scoutbook {our manual is optional, but good for groups working outside of the normal den structure}
- Project material suggestions (excepting common household items)
- Printables to help complete activities
Families & Dens can expect to have fun together working on projects while completing the following adventures:
- Adventures in Coins
- Air of the Wolf – is all about the motion of air and its effects. Scouts will make a balloon-powered sponge boat, a classic favorite musical wind instrument, and more!
- Code of the Wolf evolves a scout’s knowledge of codes and their relationship to arithmetic.
- Cubs Who Care learn about disabilities through simulations
- Digging in the Past takes us way, way back! Discover fossils, how they were made, and who left them.
- Finding Your Way
- Germs Alive!
- Grow Something (Retired 5/2022) will have your scout down in the dirt and learning about what grows in our backyards. Plant a seed, make a terrarium, and visit a garden!
- Paws of Skill
- Spirit of the Water
- Yo-Yo (Wolf)
PROJECTS
If you complete the Wolf CUBS | Elective Adventures your scout can:
- Make a balloon powered boat
- Regale the family with music from their homemade kazoo (sorry!)
- Fly a kite
- Play mathematical “Go Fish!”
- Construct a rekenrek
- Go on a hike
- Design a Dinosaur
- Make a fossil cast
- Model the formation of fossils
- Make a code stick
GETTING STARTED
The CUBS program is designed to be extremely easy to use. Materials are often items you have at home already or are easy and inexpensive to source. Each adventure begins with a list of materials you should acquire. Let’s take a look at some examples:
Here are a few pages from the retired Wolf elective Grow Something adventure.
Intro | The adventure is introduced and the supplies are listed.
Printables | Any helpful printables are included or linked to a useful outside source.
Other Information | Some adventure requirements do not lend themselves to being “bagged.” We include relevant links to help these situations.
Need more help? Use the drop down menu or links above to see each adventure and see more detailed photographs of experiments and activities.
COMPLETING A WOLF ELECTIVE ADVENTURE
If you are using our program manual, at the beginning of each adventure are the requirements to complete the adventure and the corresponding number of paws to color in as you go along. You can use this to help you track and your scout’s achievements. Likewise, there is a place in the rank book to track completions.
When all the paws are colored in transfer the information to Scoutbook and your pack leadership can approve it remotely. Or, share it with your scout’s den or pack leader – per pack advancement procedures.
