Program

August is our Welcome Back Pack meeting, Scouts will be building and launching pop bottle rockets and the adults will have a program to have all their questions asked.

Each den will begin working on their Bobcat Adventure which prioritizes scouts getting to know eachother and Youth Protection for both scouts and their grownups.  

All new adults are strongly encouraged to take the Youth Protection free online course once, and all scout leaders will review and renew their completions of the youth protection courses to make sure they are compliant with their bi-annual requirements.

The September pack meeting helps get families ready to participate in camping and hiking.  We've invited local Scouts BSA Troops to participate and helps us learn to make fires, put up shelters, tie useful knots and other outdoor skills that come in handy.

Our third grade Bear Den is exited to host our annual tradition, the Bear Carnival, for our October pack meeting.  The Bear den creates games of luck and skill and awards prizes.

You can find the Pack at Halloween Happenings, and October is also our first pack service project of the school year.  Historically, we have volunteered with a collaboration of churches to run games for the community at a Trunk or Treat.

This month cub scouts compete head to head in our pack wide rain gutter regatta.  Scouts will assemble and decorate their own boat kit in advance.  At this meeting when they aren't racing the Cub Scouts will decorate orniments to adorn our Joyful Traditions Christmas tree along the Prairie Path in Villa Park.

A long time tradition for families of Villa Park is Joyful Traditions.  Every year Pack 122 sponsors a tree along the Prairie Path for the Joyful Traditions display.  We have a short pack meeting outdoors by our tree and then turn families loose to have fun and this family oriented event.

Did you know that Joyful Traditions was created by Villa Park Cub Scout Pack 33 which merged with Pack 122 about ten years ago?

Our oldest scouts, the AOL den, have completed all of their requirements for their AOL rank at this point.  This is when they "bridge" up to a Scouts BSA troop.  We encourage every 5th grade Cub Scout to try Scouts BSA, since they are given much more freedom as they learn scouting skills and leadership under qualified supervision. 

This month marked the changeover to our new cubmaster team.  Our new cubmaster Michael Welchko planned a really great abilities awareness meeting where cub scouts learned a little bit about living with different abilities.

Every year we have a pinewood derby for the pack.  We host car cutting events in advance, so scouts can prepare their entries.  Our March meeting is where that pinewood derby takes place.  The winners from the Pack have the opportunity to go on to the Chippewa District pinewood derby race in April.

In January 2025 Scouting America announced its partnership with the Clean Waterways initiative.  At the cub scout level this initiative focuses on keeping the areas around local bodies of water free of trash and debris since that rubbish can end up in the water and be transported down stream.  Pack 122 will take our April meeting to do a service project which benefits not only to the Villa Park Community but also all the users and people who benefit from the Salt Creek, the Des Plaines River, the Illinois River, before leaving the state into the Mississippi River which feeds into the world's oceans

To end our school year we will host our Blue and Gold banquet.  This event will see awards issued to scouts for everything from the Nova Program to their rank advancement.  This is a great conclusion to the year.