Kindergarten · Ages 5–6
Lions are our youngest scouts. The Lion program is designed to be a gentle, fun introduction to scouting for kindergarten-age kids and their families.
What Lions do
Lion meetings are short, hands-on, and full of activity. Lions:
- Learn the Scout Oath, Law, sign, and salute
- Explore the outdoors with their family
- Try basic skills — building, observing, helping
- Earn their Lion rank by completing five required adventures
- Earn elective adventure loops for things they want to dig deeper into
How Lion dens work
Lion dens always have a parent or trusted adult attending with each scout. The Lion program is explicitly designed as a parent-and-child experience — the adult isn’t dropping off, they’re participating.
Most den meetings last about 45 minutes to an hour. We keep things moving because attention spans at this age are short, and we don’t overload Lions with paperwork or sit-still time.
What you need
The Lion uniform is simple:
- Lion T-shirt (blue, with the Lion logo)
- Cub Scout belt
- Lion handbook — your scout’s record of adventures completed
That’s it for the start. As Lions move into Tigers (1st grade), they’ll graduate to the full blue Cub Scout uniform shirt with patches.
What’s next
After kindergarten, Lions move up to Tigers in 1st grade. The format shifts a bit — Tigers do more activities and start earning the more detailed advancement loops — but the parent-and-child structure continues.