Cub Scouts First Six Weeks

This Scouting Ireland resource provides a six-week starter framework to help Cub Scout Packs begin the year smoothly, focusing on SPICES, leadership roles, ceremonies, and team-building games. It is organised around six core activities, each supported by the Atlantic Six characters and linked to SPICES development (Social, Physical, Intellectual, Character, Emotional, Spiritual).

The Six Core Activities Included:

1. Saying Goodbye to Cubs Moving Up

   • How to plan and run a moving-on ceremony

   • Sharing memories, presenting link badges, welcoming Scouts section

2. Welcoming New Cubs (“Saying Hello”)

   • Tips for inclusion and settling in

   • Icebreaker games: Two Truths and a Lie, Coat of Arms, No-See-Ems

3. Understanding Roles Within a Six

   • Explains the purpose of Sixes

   • Roles: Sixer, Seconder, Scribe, First Aider, Quartermaster, Researcher, PRO

   • Team-building games (human pyramid, blindfold tent pitching, etc.)

4. Creating a Cub Scout Code of Conduct

   • Sixes propose rules based on the Promise & Law

   • Pack compiles and signs a shared code of honour

5. Introducing the SPICES Through Games

   • Sixers represent SPICES

   • Cubs play games and decide which SPICE each relates to

6. SPICES-Themed Games List

   • Social: Two-Cub Reef Knot

   • Physical: North–South–East–West

   • Intellectual: Wink-Wink Murder

   • Character: Arm Sling Relay

   • Emotional: We Like…We Don’t Like

   • Spiritual: Cat and Mouse