Tiger Cub Scouts Requirements to Earn in February Meetings

Have you noticed your energy and enthusiasm for scouting waning a little? If so, let us help you reenergize your February Tiger Cub Scouts Meetings for your den. The excitement of seeing their friends again has warn off and the winter blues have begun to set in. Depending on where you live, you might also be limited to indoor activities during February. Even so, there are so many fun Tiger Cub Scout activities you can try in February.

February is a short month but packed full of special days. Be sure to check your school calendar to for special events, holidays, and other breaks from school. February brings Candlemas, Groundhogs Day, Valentine’s Day, President’s Day, Lincoln’s Birthday, George Washington’s Birthday, and sometimes Leap Day. Many schools celebrate 100th Day during February as well. Some districts host parent teacher conferences, a winter break, or other in-service days as well during February.

If you have been following our plan, you should have successfully earning both the Bobcat rank and Tiger rank with most of your scouts. You may find that you have some scouts who are struggling behind and need a little push to catch up. February is a great month to help those scouts finish up the requirements. For our February Tiger Cub Scout meeting, we are focusing on Stories in Shapes and Tiger Theater, in case you only had one meeting in January.

February can often be a hot and cold month for us. We can experience super frigid temperatures one week and find ourselves comfortable in the 50s the next. Be sure to keep an eye on your local weather when planning outdoor and even traveling to indoor events and take advantage of those beautiful days when they happen.

As you begin to move into the more busy spring months for scouting and families in general, it’s important to help your straggling Tigers earn their Tiger rank soon. Check out our first and second Tiger Scout meetings for earning some required Tiger adventures. Tiger meetings and Tiger outings help you to outline your Tiger Scout year, as well as a done for you Tiger Cub Scout Camping Trip to earn Tiger rank. It’s never too late to begin cub scouts and you most definitely can make Bobcat rank and Tiger rank in the second half of the year.

February Special Events

February tends to be one of the most difficult months of scouting, so planning for some extra fun can be extra important. The long winter, colder temperatures, and time indoors can be a little much for your scouts, so finding any rare warmer day to enjoy the outdoors can help as well. And if your February is extra cold, work with your Tiger Cub Scouts to plan a fun trip in the spring.

While February is most notably Black History Month, it is also National Bird Feeding Month and National Library Lover’s Month. Planning a special bird feeder craft or a trip to the library can be a great way to break up the February blues. National Library Lover’s Month pairs well with Stories in Shapes and Tiger Theater, which we also planned for January but can easily be moved to February depending on your schedule.

There are many special days in February that your Tiger Cub Scouts may wish to celebrate. The second week of February is National Jell-O Week, which would be fun to bring some Jell-O to a Tiger Cub Scout Den Meeting. The third week in February is Random Acts of Kindness Week. This is a great time to encourage your Tiger Scouts to complete some service and help others.

While February is a short month, it is packed full of Holidays and special events. Whenever possible, try to include some holiday fun in your scouting meetings. Many years, Lunar New Year falls in February, so this can be a great time to learn about another culture. Just be sure to check the date. February focuses on friendship and food, which can liven up any Tiger Cub Scout meeting.

February 2nd: Groundhogs Day

February 4th: Bubble Gum Day

February 7th: National Send a Card to a Friend Day

February 8th: National Boy Scouts Day & National Kite Flying Day

February 9th: National Pizza Day

February 11th: National Make a Friend Day

February 14th: Valentine’s Day

February 20th: National Love Your Pet Day & National Comfy Day

February 27th: National Polar Bear Day

The third Monday of February is President’s Day.

If you are lucky to be in a leap year, don’t forget leap day.

February Special Activities

February can be an extreme month with blistering cold days and feels like spring days. February also usually brings in a few winter storms that may close schools and roads. You will definitely want to watch the weather in February.

February is a month focused on love and friendship. With Valentine’s Days, you could have your scouts bring in Valentine cards to share with their fellow Tiger Scouts. To further this, ask your scouts to make a card for a friend for National Send a Card to a Friend Day on the 7th or make a new friend for National Make a New Friend Day on the 11th. You could also couple this with the third week of February by challenging your scouts to try a random act of kindness.

February is the perfect time to explore shake painting. We usually pair this with Valentine’s Day so cut out heart shapes from construction paper. Place in a box or other container. We love a box because it’s easy to just throw away when done. Drop in some spoonfuls of paint. We love to use red, purple, white, and pink. Then add in some nature or balls. We have done anything from acorns, magnets, golf balls, rocks, pinecones, and sticks. Close up the box and shake away to create a beautiful work of art with little mess.

Another fun Tiger Scout activity for February pairs with Groundhogs Day. Our Tiger Scouts love learning about shadows and spending some time tracing shadows. If you can get outside while it’s still light, this activity is super easy. You’ll need some chalk, small pieces are okay, to trace shadows. If you need to be inside, we love large sheets of paper and a few flashlights or lamps. This is fun because you can vary the position of the “sun” to see how the shadow changes. You could also use yarn if you don’t want to trace the shadows.

Most of these activities can be tied into one of the adventures or done just for fun. Below we will explore a Tiger Scout specific adventures that we love for the month of February.

Stories in Shapes Adventure Requirements

Stories in Shapes is perfect for February and National Library Lover’s month! This adventure is all about exploring what artists do using shapes, lines, and colors to make abstract art.

1. Visit an art gallery or a museum, explore an art website, or visit your library.
2. Look closely at pictures of some art with your den or a family member. Decide what you like about the art, and share your ideas with the other Tigers.
3. Create a piece of art on paper, poster board, or canvas.
4. Draw or create an art piece using shapes.
5. Use tangrams to create shapes.

Stories in Shapes Meeting Agenda for Tiger Cub Scouts

Try to host this meeting at your local library so that you can check off the first requirement by looking at the art displayed in the library. Most libraries have meeting rooms or study rooms that would work nicely for a Tiger Scout den meeting.

We like to open this meeting by providing a variety of shapes for the Tigers to create their own work of art to meet requirement 4. The Tiger scouts can use the shapes to make any picture, pattern or abstract artwork they wish. You will need a variety of colors of shapes cut out and some glue. If your scouts have a little more fine motor skills, you could let them cut their own shapes or use stencils to draw shapes to make art.

Next, provide some artwork for your scouts to look at and discuss. We love to ask each family to bring in 1 – 2 pictures of art to share with the scouts. This helps you to compile a bunch of art to share with your Tigers and you only need to find a picture or two. However, if you need an easy resource try Abstract Art for Kids or the Met Museum for a virtual field trip. Then take a walk through the library and explore the various artwork hanging up around the library.

Then we like to ask our Tigers to create their own art using what they liked about the art we just looked at. Provide each scout a canvas, large paper, or poster board. Then choose a drawing medium like chalk, crayons, paint, watercolor, or pastels for the Tigers to create their own artwork. Ours really liked using canvas with paint but in the library, you may wish to try something a little less messy.

You can finish your meeting with tangram exploration, however, you only need to complete 4 of the 5 requirements to earn the Stories in Shapes adventure. Be sure to bring a tangram template for each scout, and maybe one for the adult partners too, and maybe some pattern cards. Our scouts loved taking their tangram pieces home to continue exploring.

Stories in Shapes Crafts

For the Stories in Shapes Tiger elective adventure, crafts are built into the elective adventure by creating art with shapes, using tangrams to make art/shapes, and creating art on paper or canvas.

You could also add in shake painting in place of the canvas or paper painting. Just place a paper into a box, add some dollops of paint and any objects you want, then close up the box and shake to create your own abstract art.

Another option is to make shape stamps or use shape foam brushes to create art with shapes. Then use ink pads or paint to dip the stamps or foam brushes to create artwork.

Tiger Theater Adventure Requirements

We love the Tiger Theater Adventure in February or January as well! If you were able to complete this adventure in January, skip it here. However, if you only had time for one meeting in January, the Tiger Theater adventure fits well in February also. A visit to the library is the perfect indoor trip. This adventure is all about learning telling stories through theater.

1. With your den, discuss the following types of theater: puppet shows, reader’s theater, and pantomime.
2. As a den, play a game of one-word charades.
3. Make a puppet to show your den or to display at a pack meeting.
4. Perform a simple reader’s theater. Make a mask afterward to show what your character looks like.
5. Watch a play or attend a story time at a library.

Tiger Theater Meeting Agenda for Tiger Cub Scouts

Begin by planning to attend a library storytime or other theater event. We love to pair this meeting with our magic show, so reserving a room in the library is a must. This meets requirement 5.

We love to open the Tiger Theater meeting by creating a Tiger Scout puppet for part of requirement 3. We asked each scout to make themselves as a puppet however they would like. Some wanted to be a tiger while others wanted to try to look just like them.

Then we move on with a game of one-word charades to earn requirement 2. We use the 12 points of the Scout Law as a refresher for the Tiger Scouts after the long winter break. The scouts simply pick a word and then act out the word for the other scouts to try to guess the trait of the Scout Law. Our scouts had so much fun with this and were all laughing by the end.

Then we introduce the different types of theater in the Tiger Handbook: puppet shows, reader’s theater, and pantomime for requirement 1. The scouts have already done some pantomime with the charades, so help them to see this connection. Most scouts will be familiar with puppet shows, while reader’s theater might be new to them. A reader’s theater is basically when the scouts can read straight from the script while acting. They will still want to practice, but will not need to memorize their lines.

Our scouts wanted to make a puppet show, so we asked them to make puppets to introduce their magic show to finish requirement 3. This worked really well as our scouts and we used the Tiger Scout puppets that they made at the beginning of the meeting. To make a stage, we placed a table cloth over a table and had the scouts hide on one side with their puppets above the table. Super simple and easy for Tiger Cub Scouts.

Then our Tigers introduced their magic show with their puppets and performed their magic show for their audience.

Tiger Theater Crafts

For Tiger Theater, our Tiger Cub Scouts enjoyed making paper bag puppets and masks for reader’s theater.

Paper bag puppets are super easy. Just remember that the bottom of the bag and part of the side become the face. Where the bottom of the bag ends is the top of the face and the side then becomes the bottom of the face.

1. Turn paper bags upside down.
2. Let the scouts draw the puppet. We use pencil for easy erasing for mistakes.
3. Then scouts can color or glue scraps of paper, googly eyes, yarn, and other art supplies to create their puppet.

We love to make paper plate masks. These are great because the Tiger Cub Scouts can place over their face or wear on a string around their necks. Just like with puppets, scouts can color or glue scraps of paper, googly eyes, yarn or other art supplies to create their masks.

1. Draw an outline of the mask using pencil.
2. Then let scouts color or glue scraps of paper, googly eyes, yarn, and other art supplies to create their mask.

February Service Projects for Tiger Cub Scouts

We love planning a service project for our Tiger Cub Scouts in February as a way to help boost everyone’s spirits. This also helps any family still looking to complete their service project requirement to make Tiger rank. Service and scouting go hand in hand and is one of the reasons we love scouting so much. We want to help our children learn the benefits and rewards of service.

Shoveling Snow

If you happen to live in an area where you get a lot of snow, put your Tiger Cub Scouts to the task. Spend a day helping neighbors or visit an older senior neighborhood to shovel sidewalks and driveways. See a fire hydrant? Teach scouts to shovel around the fire hydrant. Scouts can even shovel near parks or other community areas so that everyone can still enjoy the area. You could even tie this into Random Acts of Kindness by challenging your scouts to shovel the sidewalk or driveway for a neighbor or clear the snow from their car.

Senior Center Visit – Valentine’s Day Cards

With Valentine’s Day during February, many nursing homes, hospitals, and senior centers will be in search of Valentine’s Day cards to decorate their senior’s rooms. This is the perfect pair with Stories in Shapes as the scouts can make Valentine’s Day cards using tangrams, shapes, or paper. It can work for any of the art creation in the adventure.

Make a Card for a Friend

With National Send a Card to a Friend Day on February 7th, this is the perfect service project to pair for February. You scouts can create a card for a friend. Depending on the card you make, this could count as any part of the Stories in Shapes requirements as well.

Book Drive

With National Library Lover’s Month in February, this is the perfect time to host a book drive for your local library or set up a little library near their school for donated books. Your scouts could host a book drive to donate to children in need. If you happen to have a literacy project near you, they could also help package books for children in need.

Random Acts of Kindness

Start a random acts of kindness adventure. Ask each scout to perform 2 random acts of kindness throughout the week or month. Then they can pass it forward by asking the person who they helped to help another person. If you like, you could even make little cards for the scouts to learn when they perform a random act of kindness.

Create Valentine’s for Children in Foster Care

Team up with your local foster care or Department of Children Services to create Valentine’s cards for children. You could also put together a little bag of treats or treasures for the children. This is the perfect pair with Stories in Shapes as the scouts can make Valentine’s Day cards using tangrams, shapes, or paper. It can work for any of the art creation in the adventure.

Write Friendship Messages

Take a moment or two to decorate the sidewalk in your neighborhood or at your school. Leave messages of friendship and caring for others. Simply grab some chalk and start decorating.

Tiger Cub Scouts February Outings

We love planning a few outings in February. Even though February is a short month, it can feel very long, especially in the middle of winter. This is a great time to get your scouts together for something fun and can be extremely helpful for families who need to get out for a bit. As you plan outings, be sure to have an emergency plan in place in case you need to cancel at the last minute for weather. We love a quick group text message, but many dens prefer a phone tree to ensure parents receive the communication or posting on a Facebook page.

Visit a Library for a StoryTime or Other Performance

As we plan Stories in Shapes and Tiger Theater for February, we often pair this Tiger adventure with a trip to a local library. We plan to attend a special storytime or weekend theater performance at the library. This is a great way to get your scouts together and be warm inside. Then take a tour of the different artwork on display in the library while working towards earning a badge or two.

Fly a Kite

I know by us, it is awfully cold still in February but we do get a few nice days in the month. February 8th is National Fly a Kite day, so this would be a great time to get out and fly a kite if your weather cooperates. If not, you could always make kites with your Tiger Cub Scouts as part of Stories in Shapes. Either use the kite as the paper or decorate the kite with shapes to help meet your requirements.

Snowshoe Hiking

Even though February tends to bring in the colder weather, our Tiger Scouts still enjoy being outdoors. Be sure to plan for a shorter walk for your adult partners if the weather is cold for your area. Our Tiger Cub Scouts loved trying out snowshoes. Learning to walk in them is a little bit of an artform in itself and takes some practice. So getting outside to a snowy park and letting the scouts explore using snowshoes. We suggest having scouts wear snowpants and gloves for when they fall down, because they will.

Ice Skating

Outdoor ice skating is prefect in February. The ice is usually nice and frozen and ready for scouts to enjoy. We have a variety of options in our area from indoor skating rinks, manmade outdoor skating rinks and pond skating. Work with your families to determine their level of interest in the different kinds of ice skating and plan a skating party for your scouts.

Go Sledding

Out Tiger Cub Scouts love sledding. After a beautiful snowfall, plan a weekday trip to a sled hill near you. We love to ask all the families to bring a sled or two of their own. This provides a nice variety of sleds for the scouts to view, try out, and compare. Some scouts will love round sleds while others will prefer the longer sleds. Scouts may enjoy sledding with friends or sledding alone.

Be sure to remind your families to dress for the weather. Scouts will need snowpants, jackets, hats, gloves, and boots. They may also wish to bring along handwarmers and hot cocoa to stay warm while outside. We have had some luck grabbing a hot cocoa box from a local donut shop.

Ice Fishing

If you happen to live near a fishing pond or lake, plan an ice fishing expedition. This can be a little tricky with needing the right temperatures and thickness of the ice, but your Tiger Cub Scouts will have a blast. Our Tiger Scouts love fishing and ice fishing adds a little extra fun to their winter. Just be sure to clearly cover safety rules and check the thickness of the ice before beginning fishing.

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Adding a little extra spirit to your February Tiger Cub Scout meetings will help your meetings to run smoothly and keep your scouts engaged. Sometimes with February we can plan two meetings and other years, one is all we are able to accommodate in the schedule, especially with our annual Blue and Gold Ceremony for our Arrow of Light Cub Scouts. Don’t stress out about needing to have two meetings and an outing. Instead, do what you can, where you can, and enjoy your Tiger Scouts because soon they will be Wolf Cub Scouts.

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Hi, I’m Nicole.

Here at Creatingbutterflies we provide families with practical solutions to real life problems for everything parenting, scouting, dual language, and enjoying time outdoors. We are a family of 6 with 4 wonderful becoming bilingual children who loves scouting, camping, and hiking with their family. Mom is an educator and dad is a firefighter/paramedic.