About the pack
Built to Explore. Bound to Lead.
We are here to raise kids who can look after themselves, look after each other, and look after the place they live.
Cub Scout Pack 3591 is a volunteer-run pack for children in Kindergarten through 5th grade and their families. Every leader here is a parent. Nobody is paid, nobody is a professional youth worker, and every one of us signed up because we wanted something better for our own kids than a screen.
Our promise is simple. Give us a year and your scout will have slept in a tent, cooked something over a fire, built something with their own hands, stood in front of a room and spoken, and done something useful for a stranger. They will have failed at a few of those the first time, and tried again. That is the whole point.
Built to Explore. Bound to Lead.
Scouting calls this “a game with a purpose.” To a nine-year-old it looks like racing a wooden car down a track. To us it is a child learning that preparation, patience and good sportsmanship are things you can practise. We keep the game fun on purpose, because a kid who is having fun will keep showing up long enough for the purpose to take hold.
What we ask of every scout
These two are the constitution of Scouting. Scouts recite them at every meeting, and leaders are held to exactly the same standard.
On my honor I will do my best to do my duty to God and my country and to obey the Scout Law; to help other people at all times; to keep myself physically strong, mentally awake, and morally straight.
Cub Scouts also have a motto of their own — Do Your Best — which is the version of the Oath a six-year-old can carry in a pocket. Doing your best is the standard here, not winning.
A Scout is trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean and reverent.
Twelve words, and a den leader will spend a whole year unpacking them: what loyalty looks like when your friend is being left out, what brave means when you are the smallest kid on the hike, why thrifty is about taking care of things rather than about money.
Pack 3591 welcomes every family in our community. Scouts of any faith or none are welcome; “duty to God” is a conversation we leave to each family, and we never single a child out for how they answer it.
The character of this pack
There are good packs all over Wichita. Here is honestly what is different about this one, so you can decide whether it fits your family.
Our scouts largely come from one school community, so den meetings are full of kids who already know each other. Friendships carry from the classroom to the campout and back again, and parents recognise each other in the drop-off line.
We plan the calendar around getting outside. If a meeting can happen in a field instead of a classroom, it happens in a field. We would rather run a slightly muddier programme than a slightly tidier one.
Dens stay small enough that a leader knows every scout by name and knows which one needs a hand today. Siblings, grandparents and caregivers are welcome at almost everything we do.
Our service projects stay local — food drives, park clean-ups, flag retirements, cards and care packages for service members and veterans in the Wichita area. Kids should be able to drive past the thing they helped with.
Den, pack, troop
Scouting has its own vocabulary. Three words will get you through your first month.
You can see each den’s current meeting night and location on the den listing on our home page. Meeting times are set by the volunteer leading that den and do change from year to year.
Straight answers
Nothing here is a sales pitch. If an answer worries you, email us and we will tell you the truth about your family’s situation.
There are two pieces. The first is the national registration fee paid to Scouting America when you sign up, plus a subscription to the magazine if you want it. The second is pack dues, which cover badges, awards, pinewood derby cars, campout supplies and the end-of-year party.
Current amounts are on the registration paperwork and change from year to year, so we will quote you the real number rather than a stale one on a website. Bigger trips like summer camp are paid separately, and always optional.
Popcorn and other fundraisers exist so families can cover most of the year’s cost without writing a cheque. And if cost is the only thing standing between your child and this pack, email us privately — we have quiet ways to help, and no child has ever been turned away for it.
Plan on about two den meetings a month, roughly an hour each, plus one pack meeting a month. That is the baseline — call it three or four hours a month.
On top of that there are optional adventures: campouts, hikes, service projects, day camp. Families who do everything are busy about twice a month more. Families who only make den meetings are still full members in good standing, and their scouts still advance.
Scouting is not a sport with a season you can fall behind in. Miss three weeks for a family trip and you will be caught up in one evening.
Cub Scouts wear the blue uniform shirt with a neckerchief, slide and rank badges; Webelos and Arrow of Light scouts may wear either the blue or the tan shirt. Most families buy the shirt, neckerchief, slide and a hat, and wear it with their own jeans or shorts. Full official trousers are entirely optional.
We also have a uniform exchange: outgrown shirts come back to the pack and go out again free to whoever needs one. Ask before you buy anything.
For most outdoor events the “uniform” is a pack t-shirt, closed-toe shoes and clothes you do not mind ruining.
About an hour, at the same place and time each month, with six to a dozen kids from the same grade. It opens with the flag, the Scout Oath and the Law. Then there is a game to burn off the first ten minutes of energy, an activity that works toward the current adventure — building, cooking, first aid, a nature walk, a craft, a visit from a firefighter — and a closing.
It is loud, it moves quickly, and shy kids do fine because there is always something to do with your hands.
Visitors are welcome at a den meeting before you register. Just tell us you are coming so the leader can plan for one more.
For Lions (Kindergarten) yes — each Lion scout comes with an adult partner, and that is part of the design of the programme. From Tigers up, parents are welcome but not required to stay at den meetings.
Every event is run under Scouting America’s youth protection rules: at least two registered, background-checked adults are present at all times, and no adult is ever one-on-one with a child who is not their own. Every leader in this pack completes that training and it is re-verified every two years.
Cub Scout camping is family camping: your scout does not go without you. You camp as a family, alongside the other pack families, and an adult from your household stays the night.
A typical fall campout is one night. We arrive Saturday afternoon, set up tents together, cook dinner in groups, do a campfire programme with skits and songs, sleep, cook breakfast, run a morning activity and are home by lunch.
Gear is the easiest problem we solve. The pack keeps loaner tents, and there is always a family with a spare. A first campout genuinely needs nothing more than a sleeping bag, a torch and a change of clothes.
Not ready for a night outdoors? Come for the Saturday afternoon and go home at bedtime. Plenty of families do exactly that the first year.
Yes, any month of the year. Dens work through adventures in a loop, so a scout who joins in January simply starts wherever the den is and picks up the earlier ones later. Nobody repeats a year for joining late.
January and February are actually a great time to start — pinewood derby season is the most fun a new family can walk into.
Almost certainly not. Dens have room for the kid who talks constantly and the kid who watches from the edge for three months before joining in. Our leaders are parents who have raised both.
If your scout has a disability, a medical need, an allergy or anything else we should plan around, tell us early and privately. We would much rather adapt an activity in advance than have a child sit one out.
Pack 3591 is led by a Cubmaster, a committee chair, a treasurer and six den leaders — all parent volunteers, all background-checked and trained.
Everything reaches them through one address, and it is read by more than one person, so your question will not sit in a single inbox while somebody is on holiday. We deliberately do not publish our leaders’ personal phone numbers or home addresses on this site. Once your family is registered and your portal account is approved, you get your den leader’s direct contact details there.