The Southern Crescent District invites families to join us for an exciting Back-to-School Membership Event filled with fun, friendship, learning, and Scouting adventure on Saturday, September 26, 2026 - 5:30 PM–7:00 PM at Hapeville First Baptist Church, 612 College Street, Hapeville, GA 30354.

Come learn how Cub Scouting helps children build confidence, develop leadership skills, make new friends, serve their community, and enjoy outdoor adventures. 

• Cub Scouts is open to boys and girls in grades K–5. 

• Bring the entire family, invite a friend, and discover everything Scouting has to offer!

Southern Crescent District Scouting is committed to strengthening families, building character, and developing future leaders.  Come join the fun and start your Scouting adventure!  It’s Always a Great Day for Scouting!

If you would like to attend, you can register at this google link.

If your School hosts them, Open House / Meet the Teacher / Sneak a Peek Days can be excellent ways to connect with new families.  With permission from your School, and a team of people (parents and their Scouts) who like Cub Scouting, you can:

• Meet families coming in and out to pitch them on your Pack
• Welcome them to your upcoming fun events
• Get to know them one on one, with peer to peer and parent to parent and kid to kid contact.
• Kids in uniform draw attention!
• Hand them your "Pack Packet" flyer of information (event dates, contact information, pictures, QR Code for more information)
• Share how to Sign Up online using BeAScout Online Registration (see this page to fine tune your tools). 

Does Your School Have Open House Events?  When Are These Dates?  Short answer: you'll need to ask the school if they are having an Open House or Meet the Teacher day during the Profession Development Days in the last week of July.

• If you draw Scouts out of Clayton County Schools, some School Websites show Open Houses on July 30 from 1:00 to 3:00 - others show little, or nothing new for 2026-2027.  Best practice is to contact your local school directly.  The School List is here:  https://www.clayton.k12.ga.us/about/district-schools.
• If you draw Scouts out of Fulton County Schools, contact your school directly.  You can see a list of schools at this site (scroll down for Elementary Schools):  https://www.fultonschools.org/our-district/schools-admin-locations/all-fcs-schools

District Back To School Events - Multiple Elementary Schools.  Are There Other Events To Meet School Families Before School Starts?  Yes.  Both Clayton School and Fulton County Schools have District events before school starts on Saturday July 25 at different locations. 

• Fulton County Schools holds a "First Day Fulton" event on July 25 from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm at Banneker High School 6015 Feldwood Road, Union City.  
• Clayton County Schools holds four separate Back to School Bash events on July 25 from 10:00 am to Noon at four High School locations (scroll down https://www.clayton.k12.ga.us/ for some information; promo video here).
• Clayton County has another Back to School Bash on Saturday, August 1 from 11:00 am to 3:00 pm at Bethlehem City of Faith Church in Riverdale.  Registration for that is here. 

Moreideas on using those Open House days to recruit are here. 

If you're no longer interested in Scouting and you want to "opt out" of these messages, email the Webmaster and we'll drop you from the list.  But If you want to be "all in" on Scouting, see our Leader Training page (good resources for parents too through the National On Line Training site at ScoutingU with the same login as at My.Scouting.Org), and if you want the login code, just email the Webmaster ... If you want to add parents or leaders to the distribution list who are not in your unit's roster here, just email the Webmaster. 

Highlights of the most recent District News were these (click links for information):  Recruiting Step Five: Sign Up Events – Yes, Have More Than One! ... Help for Den Leaders -- "Assembled" Den Meeting Plans ... Den Meeting Plans for Mixed Grade Dens ... and from the week before: Recruiting Step Four: School and Community Presence and Profile ... The Great Big List of Places to Go and Things to Do Around Atlanta ... See And Share Photos and Videos of Southern Crescent Scouting in Action ... Email webmaster@southfultonscouting.com if you need a reminder about the login.

Sign Up Events are not “one and done” – every Pack and Den should have more than one sign up event, because any fun Den or Pack event can be a “welcoming” event for new families, and a time to join.  A big opportunity is one -- or more than one! -- end of summer and "back to school” fun events to get returning families fired up and new families signed up and engaged.   Do these along with the "School Sign Up Nights" that will be scheduled with your school in coordination with your Cubmaster and your District Executive, Equon Smith – and if your Pack is Prepared, you can run your School Sign-Up Night yourself, just like you'll run your Fun Sign-Up Events on your own.

• We do share both a great Sign Up Event plan and script at the Council Sign-Up Events page that you can download and edit to fit your Pack and Leader Team. More below.

• Reminder: Sign-Up Events build on a foundation of A Calendar of Fun Activities, Pack Promotion – Flyers and Media and More (including BeAScout), Newly Recruited Leaders (yeah, gotta keep working that), and a strong School and Community Presence.
• Because if you Build a Calendar, Promote it, Recruit Leaders, and have that School and Community Presence, your Pack and Dens can take off big time.

Any group joining event will need to cover what families need to know, which is shared at in our updated Guide to Pack Recruiting:

• a Welcome and brief Overview of Cub Scouting,
• focusing on your Pack Program and Activity Highlights,
• a brief description of Dens, Handbooks & Advancement,
• a brief recognition of Den Leadership (and how every parent helps),
• plus brief information about Uniforms and Costs and your Pack approach to each.
• Then pitch for completion of Online Registration through your Online Registration link. 

In that Guide to Cub Scout Family Recruiting, we’ve included a Script for any Sign-Up Event and we’ve also attached it in Word so that you can download and revise to fit your own Pack.  The Script breaks down the content into topic by topic parts noted above:

• For group presentations, you can assign different volunteers to make the brief pitch (and show that every parent helps – it’s not just the Cubmaster leading Cubs). 

• If you have an in person “station to station” event, those script topics can be delivered at your stations. 

More support is at our Sign Up Events page and the related pages about the Steps for Successful Recruiting.

Do you like the new and simpler requirements for each Cub Scout Adventure?

• Where you don't have to pick and choose which requirements to do?
• Cool!  Simple.  Easy.  Do all of 1 through 6.  No need to choose!

But what about the new National Resources for each Cub Scout Adventure?  Are they Simple and Easy?

• Where you must pick and choose which which activities to do!  So ... for each Requirement, you have to sort through 2 or 3 activity options.  
• You have to go somewhere else to find out how to do a Den Meeting!
• You have to assemble the activities you pick into the other parts of a Den Meeting!
• Is that Simple??  Is that Easy??  No.  We can do better.

To help den leaders and parents, we've assembled 126 Cub Scout Adventures into a Den Meeting Plan format with added videos and tips to make leading Cub Scouts easier.  Really.  Click here for more, or keep reading below.  Email webmaster@southfultonscouting.com if you need a reminder about the login.

In each plan, we select one way to complete the requirement -- sometimes from a National activity card or adapted from it, sometimes just from the Requirement itself -- and put it into an "Assembled" Den Meeting Plan with prompts for the Parts of a Den Meeting.  Namely, Preparation (plan + collect materials needed), Gathering (something for early arrivals to do), Opening (a ceremony to start), then Activities (an Activities Intro chat, then alternate energetic and learning activities + add fun), Closing + Recognition (ceremony), and After the Meeting (follow up).