Lion Rank Advancement
Here’s How to Help Your Scout Advance!
Our Lion rank has exciting indoor and outdoor activities specifically designed for kindergarten age youth and their adult partners. Adult partners (parents/guardians) participate with their Scouts and have fun with them in activities. Each adult partner also supports and guides, allowing the new Cub Scout to discover risks and rewards under the security of adult supervision. Lion Scouts learn by doing!
To earn the Lion badge, a Scout must complete six required adventures with their den or family, plus two elective adventures from among the 16 electives in the Lion Handbook (including the Archery and Slingshot electives available at approved Council and District events). The National Resource page for Lion Adventures is here. Each Adventure resource page there (also linked below) lists the Requirements and shares a selection of “Activity Cards” that you can choose to complete each Requirement. Also linked below each Adventure is an “Assembled” Den Meeting Plan that selects one activity for each Requirement and merges those activities into a full Den Meeting. The plans prompt parent participation for each activity so every parent can easily lead a small part of the meeting or activity plan. Word versions of those plans are attached below if you would like to edit to fit your Den’s people and places.
Required Rank Adventures
Bobcat Lion
Character & Leadership
Download meeting plan
Fun on the Run
Personal Fitness
Download meeting plan
King of the Jungle
Citizenship
Download meeting plan
Lion's Pride
Family & Reverence
Download meeting plan
Lion's Roar
Personal Safety
Download meeting plan
Mountain Lion
Outdoors
Download meeting plan
Elective Rank Adventures
Parents/guardians or the den leader approve each requirement when completed by signing the Scout’s handbook. Scouts can receive an adventure loop on completing each adventure.
Every Lion Handbook is packaged with an adult leader guide to help you. Click here for information on Cub Scout Uniform options – but check with your Cub Scout Pack to find out what the expectations are (because “A Scout is Thrifty”).