Pack 129 has six ranks from kindergarten through fifth grade. Your scout joins the den for their grade, stays with the same friends year after year, and grows into bigger adventures as they go.
The Lion den is all about the first taste of scouting — short meetings, big imagination, a parent at every meeting. We sing, we play, we make a mess, and we send everyone home with something to show a grandparent.
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Tigers start earning real badges. We dip a toe into hiking, first aid, and the outdoors — still with a grown-up nearby, still with a lot of laughing. This is the year most kids decide they love it.
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Wolves start stretching. More time outdoors, more self-reliance, more pocket-knife basics. They're old enough to run a knot-tying station and young enough to still think s'mores are the best reason to be alive.
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Bears get bigger projects — a bird feeder that actually holds, a solo tent they set up themselves, a map they can read. This is where scouts start teaching younger dens, and where parents start to step back.
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Webelos is the bridge year — still a Cub Scout, already preparing for Scouts BSA. Longer hikes, more autonomy, and adventure pins that stretch into real skills: engineering, outdoor cooking, citizenship, fitness.
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The last year of Cub Scouts and the highest rank in the program. Arrow of Light scouts pick their Scouts BSA troop, plan their own adventures, and close out the year with a crossover ceremony at Blue & Gold.
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It's the one that matches your kid's grade. Lions are kindergarten, Arrow of Light is 5th — everyone else falls in between.