Cub Scouts Pack 3271 - Chattanooga, TN

12/13/2025

Pack 3271 spent the day at Cloudland Canyon on this sunny Saturday in December! The kids (including Lions!) hiked 2 miles of the West Rim trail after Cubmaster Denise gave a show and tell of all the stuff she keeps on her backpack and then a visit to the Interpretive Center. We celebrated one of our Arrows of Light before his official crossover ceremony into a Troop next Thursday. We roasted hot dogs and marshmallows for s'mores before heading home before the cold front comes through tonight. Such a fun day!!!

10/06/2025

Thanks to Fire Station 15 for opening your doors for our Pack 3271 to come visit today! The kids got to touch a real fire truck and learn about this vital service that keeps our communities safe. It left quite an impression on all the kids!!

09/08/2025

Being a Cubmaster is truly one of my more fulfilling experiences in life ... imagine having the priveledge to take kids out on their VERY FIRST camping trip - EVER ... and them waking up in the morning and the first words our of their mouth is how much they love camping. I mean ... 😍😍😍😍. Our Pack ventured to Skymont this past weekend and despite a soggy Saturday - the kids had a fantastic time of mostly unstructured outdoor play time. We did a hike and found that we (kids and Cubmaster) enjoyed finding the *perfect* consistency of mud to leave footprints. I think a slime making session may be in order for this bunch - lol!

All logic and reason said to cancel the camping weekend because of the rain. But the rain created a magical and enchanting experience with mist and fog (and salamanders!). Mud and puddles - the excuse to stay at the camp site and just play (and play and play!). Sigh. I'm not ready to go back to the real world tomorrow!

08/10/2025

The school year has begun and we celebrated the end of summer with a hike at Big Soddy Gulf yesterday. We follow a bit of a different model here at Pack 3271 in that we try to avoid having "meetings." Instead ... we do "outings". It stumps a lot of people when I try to convey this in a unit description in purely a narrative format. Luckily - we have pictures to leverage the explanation on this platform!

We are a Family Pack which means the whole family is welcome to attend. We have younger siblings, grandparents, aunts or uncles join in the fun. Yesterday, we were lucky to have a parent that is a geology professor to teach us about the rocks we saw along the way. Adults and kids were enthralled with the hands on physical science lesson in the out of doors. Further explorations at the creek bed invited kids to draw on rocks with charcoal art sticks - testing how the medium worked dry vs wet. There's something magical about exploring the natural world in this up close and personal format.

In the year ahead we have outings planned to the 911 Call Center, elected officials coming to speak about their jobs, camping, nature hikes, pinewood derby builds and races, service projects - all learning opportunities disguised as fun with friends.

I am beyond excited to have this time with all of these kids. Seeing their joy and spirit - and building friendships with their lovely parents is why I volunteer as a leader.

Cheers to a great year ahead! And if anyone wants to join in our outing adventures - we would be thrilled to have you! [email protected]

12/15/2024

Today's outing was on a Saturday - so that we would have plenty of time to squeeze in all the fun planned for our Pack outing. We opted to stay closer to town and met at Harrison Bay State Park for a hike and shared meal. We talked about a lot of nature observations on the hike, found all kinds of animal signs, and looked at a few of the birds near the interpretive center. We read a story called Stone Soup and all of the kids brought something to share in our own Stone Soup. The kids made stick bread and we topped off the meal with smores (of course!). A few of the Cub Scoits came up with their own skit to perform before packing up and returning to our cars for the drive home. It's such a great to share this time with all of these families!

11/11/2024

What fun with so many kids in the St Elmo United Methodist Church food forest garden this afternoon! They were so curious to nibble and sample all they could from the garden beds, learning about botany and permaculture style gardening principals. We demonstrated how the compost corral works, they added 4 bags of leaves to the new leaf mold bins. We talked about the things that live in the soil and they completely POUNCED at filling up the raised beds with soil and mushroom compost. I could not get out of their way fast enough. Pastor Walter from St Elmo UMC met us on site before we sprung into action - talking about the different kinds of ministries offered to the surrounding communities from our church. I'll need to plan to have them back in the spring when it's time to plant for a new growing season!! Especially if we can time it when there are fresh strawberries to munch on right out of one of the beds!

10/07/2024

We had another very successful Pack meeting to work through various camping adventures. I (Cubmaster Denise) got exactly ZERO pictures because I was literally bouncing all over the place for 90 minutes (plus setting up ahead of time and putting everything away after). I have to say that I had a really great time and I think the kids did, too. We made a pretend fire from bits of wood I pulled out of our own log pile and used battery powered candles and tissue paper to simulate the flames. We were able to demonstrate safe behavior around the fire. Plus demonstrating BAD behavior and letting the kids correct me without the hazard of anyone getting hurt. Pretend play was a great success for kindergartens through 5th graders. (And for this 43rd grader?) I loved loved loved playing make believe with these kids.

Picture staged in my backyard after unpacking and before returning materials back to the wood pile for a future real fire when it hopefully cools back down one day.

09/25/2024

Hey, Cub Scout friends and family! Mark your calendars to attend a BOX TOWN build day at the downtown branch of the Chattanooga Library on November 9th. THIS EVENT IS OPEN TO THE ENTIRE COMMUNITY - NOT JUST PACK 3271 CUB SCOUTS! This gives our Wolf Cub Scouts a larger group and context to work on their "Council Fire" adventure requirements. Building our buildings out of cereal and snack packaging will make it easier to "think outside the box" - with easier to cut and decorate materials. We hope to see you there!

AIA Chattanooga Cherokee Area Council BSA

09/15/2024

Troops 223 and 1223 visited Pack 3271 to teach our Webelos and Arrow of Light Cub Scouts about first aid. This was near peer learning at its best ... the Webelos and AOLs learned what to do when they come across someone in need of assistance. Then they went thru various stations to learn how to treat a range of conditions. Finally, the older Scouts created a mock simulation for a number of different emergencies and the Cub Scouts tested what they had just learned in the stations. It was great! I know I learned a bunch of new things and the kids all seemed to enjoy listening to the slightly older Scouts instead of us boring grown ups. :)

09/08/2024

08/10/2024

This was our third year in a row to offer a "back to school" hike for the families of Pack 3271. It was another year of perfect weather, smiling faces, and fun out in the woods!

08/10/2024