Southern Crescent District

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Welcome to the Southern Crescent District Website!

The Southern Crescent District is in the Atlanta Area Council, serving Scouts, Leaders and Parents in Clayton County and South Fulton County. See the BeAScout website for location and contact information for Cub Scout Packs (Kindergarten through 5th Grade are Cub Scouts), Scouts BSA Troops (end of 5th Grade to age 18), and Venturing Crews.

For an overview of Scouting, see this "We Are Scouts" video or this Pack 1030 animoto; or this "What Scouting Does Right" video; or this one about Cub Scout Camping and Outdoor Activities! Or this one from a Michigan Troop (the activities depicted have been done by local Troops too!), or these. Deciding between Sports and Scouts (you can do both): see this clip. Like us on our Facebook Page! And see the District Flickr Photo Site. Need more information? Please contact:

Our District Chair, KP Smith, our District Commissioner, Gerius Patterson, or our District Executive Ramon Montgomery, or all of them at this email.
Our Units (Packs, Troops and Crews) through the contacts on this list.

Forgot how to Login (forgot the Username and Password)? Click here. Please see the "Menu" of items to the left. As noted in the Website Guide, "About Us & How to Join" tells you about Scout Programs and Units, gives you the paperwork needed to join; Cub Scout Meeting Plans gives you "rip and run" complete plans for Meetings with your Scouts, and the Cub Scout Month by Month Activity Ideas will give you easy + fun ideas of cool places to go and things to do including this Great Big List of Places to Go (good for Scouts BSA Troops and Visiting Relatives too); "Leader Training" shows you how to learn more for an easier + better program, and more. The Southern Crescent District serves South Fulton County, including Chattahoochee Hill Country, College Park, East Point, Fairburn, Hapeville, Palmetto & Union City, and Clayton County, including Jonesboro, Riverdale, Rex, Forest Park, Morrow, Lovejoy and Lake City; many of us are friends with the South Fulton County Chamber of Commerce, Keep South Fulton Beautiful, Safe Kids Georgia programs.

Steps to Successful Cub Scout Family Recruiting

Posted on Jul 27 2021 - 6:26pm

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The Pack Leader’s Guide to Recruiting describes these steps for successful recruiting, starting with:

(1) Make a Calendar of Fun Activities that families like (be the Pack they want to Join, then

(2) Let People Know – Promote Your Fun Events! (share with your families, and encourage them to share with their friends -- by using BeAScout and Online Registration, they can sign up right now),

(3) Recruit More Leaders and Helpers (do this throughout your recruiting process - yes, recruiting is hard, but that page has many ideas about ways to approach leader recruiting),

(4) Grow your School and Community Presence so that you're known beyond current Pack families and have strong school relations,

leading to (5) Sign-Up Events: not just the "School Sign-Up Night" scheduled by the District Professional and run by the District Professional and Pack Leaders, but also Fun Joining Events that you create!

Reminder About Cub Advancement Resource Pages Here

Posted on Jul 27 2021 - 2:51pm

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Here's a Reminder about Cub Advancement Resource pages here, also found on the AAC Website through Cub Scout Advancement. In our Cub Scout Adventure (meeting) Plans pages -- which has sub-pages for each Rank and then further sub-pages with resources for each and every Adventure, ready for sharing with parents.

There are now 97 Adventures with Family Led Plans (100% of Cub Adventures plus Bobcat) -- plans that are also useful for den activities too, since they provide easily available information for parents and parent leaders -- like useful videos, tips and links, plus simpler plans in a Cub Scout format -- and in a fun, simple and innovative manner to help take the stress out of guiding a Scout in Adventure advancements. The list of Adventures with Family Led Plans is here, and below - click on the link you like for a Rank or any Adventure:

Our Kindergarten Lion Adventure Plans page has Adventure by Adventure pages, including Family-Led Plans, for each Adventure:

Required Adventures: Lion’s Honor, Animal Kingdom, Fun on the Run, King of the Jungle and Mountain Lion.
Elective Adventures: Build it Up, Knock it Down, Gizmos and Gadgets, I'll Do It Myself, On Your Mark, Pick My Path, Ready, Set, Grow and Rumble in the Jungle.

Our 1st Grade Tiger Adventure Plans page has Adventure by Adventure pages, including Family-Led Plans, for each Adventure:

Required Adventures: Backyard Jungle, a/k/a My Tiger Jungle, Games Tigers Play, Tiger Circles: Duty to God, Team Tiger, Tiger Bites and Tigers in the Wild.
Elective Adventures: Curiosity, Intrigue, and Magical Mysteries, Earning Your Stripes, Family Stories, Floats and Boats, Good Knights, Rolling Tigers, Safe and Smart, Sky is the Limit, Stories in Shapes, Tiger-iffic, Tiger Tag, Tiger Tales and Tiger Theater.

Our 2nd Grade Wolf Adventure Plans page has Adventure by Adventure pages, including Family-Led Plans, for each Adventure:

Required Adventures: Call of the Wild, Council Fire, Duty to God Footsteps, Howling at the Moon, Paws on the Path and Running with the Pack
Elective Adventures: Adventures in Coins, Air of the Wolf, Code of the Wolf, Collections and Hobbies, Cubs Who Care, Digging in the Past, Finding Your Way, Germs Alive, Grow Something, Hometown Heroes, Motor Away, Paws of Skill and Spirit of the Water.

Our 3rd Grade Bear Adventure Plans page has Adventure by Adventure pages, including Family-Led Plans, for each Adventure:

Required Adventures: Bear Claws, Bear Necessities, Fellowship and Duty to God, Fur, Feathers and Ferns, Baloo the Builder and Paws for Action.
Elective Adventures: A Bear Goes Fishing, Bear Picnic Basket, Beat of the Drum, Critter Care, Forensics, Grin and Bear It, Make It Move, Marble Madness, Roaring Laughter, Robotics, Salmon Run, Super Science and A World of Sound.

Our 4th Grade Webelos Adventure Plans page has Adventure by Adventure pages, including Family-Led Plans, for each Adventure:

Required Adventures: Cast Iron Chef, Duty to God and You, First Responder, Stronger, Faster, Higher and Webelos Walkabout.
Elective Adventures: Adventures In Science, Aquanaut, Art Explosion, Aware and Care, Build It, Build My Own Hero, Castaway, Earth Rocks, Engineer, Fix It, Game Design, Into the Wild, Into the Woods, Looking Back, Looking Forward, Maestro!, Moviemaking, Project Family and Sports.

Our 5th Grade Arrow of Light Adventure Plans page has Adventure by Adventure pages, including Family-Led Plans, for each Adventure:

Required Adventures: Building a Better World, Outdoor Adventurer, Duty to God in Action and Scouting Adventure.
The Elective Adventures are the same as in the 4th Grade Webelos Elective Adventure Plans listed above.

Bobcat Adventure Plans. We've also created a set of Bobcat and First Meeting Adventure Plans as part of a resource page called Bobcat Rank. That also has a page on "Tips about Den Meetings Generally As You Get Started", so that you can get your Den and your Scout off to a good start and earn the Bobcat Rank! Got returning Scouts? Review the Rank as you organize for the year.

:Here's a Scouting Magazine "App Exclusive" article about these pages.

Build Your Best Year Ever in Cub Scouting!

Posted on Jul 27 2021 - 1:20pm

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The first and most important step in Cub Scout Recruiting is to develop your Calendar of Fun Activities – a program filled with fun so that Scouts and families want to attend, they have a great time, and also pick up the character-building that lasts a lifetime. We’ve got ideas about how to build your Pack and Den Program of activities in this video called How to Build Your Best Year in Cub Scouting Ever! Supporting links and resources are found here.