What Cub Scouts Can Do!
What Cub Scouts Can Do!
Cub Scouts can learn about aquatic trash and participate in a variety of activities to help remove trash from our parks and community areas.
Learn about Aquatic Trash
Cub Scouts can learn about aquatic trash and participate in a variety of activities to help remove trash from our parks and community areas.
Den Leader Questions
- What is littering? When someone litters, what do you think happens?
- What do you think will happen if the earth’s waterways, like oceans, lakes, rivers and streams, are filled with litter?
- What are some ways we could help stop littering? How can we keep litter out of the earth’s waterways?
- Pretend you are a fish who lives in the ocean. How could litter, like a plastic water bottle, be harmful to you?
- What other materials could harm the earth’s waterways?
- Why is it important to take care of the environment? How can you take care of the environment?
Cub Scouts Take Action
Dens or Packs can participate in clean-up activities in their local communities.
Clean up activities can be held anywhere there is a need. Community parks and recreation areas, school grounds, and the areas around our houses of worship are all ideal candidates for a Cub Scout – Scouting for Clean Waterways activity.
Cub Scout – Scouting for Clean Waterways activities should only last 1-2 hours.
Cub Scout Dens or Packs can organize the activity on their own or they can participate with community organizations hosting similar activities.
Cub Scout families can be included on any Scouting for Clean Waterways project.
Scouting for Clean Waterways projects can be held anytime. Scheduling the activity each year between April and June, as an Earth Day, or as a Scouts Trash the Trash Day activity are the most popular options.
*Every piece of trash collected and properly disposed of is one less piece of trash that can enter our waterways.
Recognize the Cub Scouts' Accomplishments
- Scouting for Clean Waterways participants may be presented with the Scouting for Clean Waterways’ certificate after logging the service project on Scoutbook.
- Scouting for Clean Waterways participants may be presented with the Scouting for Clean Waterways’ patch, available from national supply or your local Scout Shop.
- Scouting for Clean Waterways activities may be used to complete a conservation service project for the Champions for Nature Adventure.
Together, let’s make a positive impact on our environment and protect our precious water resources for future generations. Join us for Scouting For Clean Waterways!
Share The Story
Enter your Pack or Den’s information on Scoutbook:
- Post pictures and stories on our Scouting for Clean Waterways facebook Group at: https://www.facebook.com/CleanWaterScouts/
- Email your stories to us at CleanWaterScouts@scouting.org
- Share your stories with your Council and with local media. Let our communities know how the Cubs Scouts are taking action to reduce aquatic trash and why it is important.
Reporting Your Event
After the completion of your Scouting for Clean Waterways’ project, we need you to report your event so that we can truly show the ripple effect being accomplished by Scouting America units.
If you are doing the project as an individual or unit, please have your leadership report it through Scoutbook+. Click here to learn how to record it. This way the individual Scouts will get the information recorded on their records.
If the council or district is doing the event as a large event, click here for fillable PDF and then email the completed form to cleanwaterScouts@scouting.org
More details coming soon!
Suscribe to Updates
Scouting For Clean Waterways supports several Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) outlined by the United Nations, including:
- Clean Water and Sanitation
- Life Below Water
- Life on Land
- Responsible Consumption and Production
- Partnerships for the Goals
