Suggest an outdoor community service project for cub scouts besides picking up trash?

Question

I'm looking for ideas for community service projects for cub scouts besides picking up trash in a park, which we already do every spring. I am especially interested in something that involves nature or conservation.

Answer 1

Find someone who wants a garden in their yard.
Talk to home depot/Lowe's and have a cub scout day where they can build something. (They have those kits ya know and it's free)
Find a fence or building that has been graffiti and needs to be painted. Talk to the owners and let the kids fix it. Take before and after photos.
Have to kids write letters and give them a dollar then let them go into the dollar store and buy socks, lotion or crossword puzzles to take to a retirement center. Talk to the director and set up a time the kids can come spend an hour with the residents and give them their gifts and letters.
Talk to the fire dep and police dept in your area and see if there is a day the kids can come down and wash a cruiser or truck. Make sure the moms baked cookies for the officers and firemen.
Have fun and good luck.

Answer 2

suggest outdoor community service project cub scouts picking trash

Answer 3

The scouts in my town built a small, roofed, gazebo-type structure to be used as an information booth in a local park. There is a bulletin board in it with information on local attractions, and maps of the area. I thought that was a nice idea...They also have some small garden plots that they maintain in another park along a nature walk.

Answer 4

Hi Matt!

My name is Susan Ernst and I am the Coordinator of Friendship Feast in Ponca City, Oklahoma. We are going to have a Crop Walk in Ponca City in October. It is a walk that people do all across the US to collect money for hunger. This is an excellant Community Service Project. Please call me at: [phone] Mon. through Fri. between 9 and 11.

Thank you!

Susan Ernst
Coordinator of Friendship Feast

Answer 5

A few places you could check include:

City Parks and Rec. If your community is quasi rural or abuts rivers or foothills, there's all sorts of opportunities for repairing riparian areas, replanting hill sides, trail maintenance, and so forth.

Your city's department of Urban Forestry. In our city, scouting groups help with planting trees in city parks and right of way areas.

Local department of US Fish & Game. Also lots of opportunity to help with habitat restoration.

Local field office for the US National Forest for reseeding areas damaged by forest fires.

Our local zoo and wildlife refuges also use volunteers to help clean cages, tag birds, prune back shrubs, repair trails, prepare food and dozens of other jobs.

Answer 6

i have had a few scouts in my house. one thing we did was a scavenger hunt, with the items looked for were canned goods.
we also have volunteeered at local walkathons handing out water. we helped at a cothing drive soritng things fo Karina victims. The SPCA always needs people to go there and walk around with their dogs. once you start thinking there is alot the kids can do even as a Tiger Scout. good luck

Answer 7

A community garden. It can be done in the park with the permission of the city. Not only will it teach this years troops about nature and conservation it will continue to teach future troops. When the vegetables and flowers bloom and are ripe you can then have the troops deliver the food to homeless shelters and the flowers to nursing homes or hospitals,

Answer 8

The local parks often need help weeding and rebuilding trails.

Our Girl Scout troop helps clean up the local cemetery every year (the weekend closest to Halloween, of course!)

Maybe you can plant flowers at a nursing home, library, etc.

One year we helped repaint the park benches, messy but fun!

Answer 9

A lot of elementary schools are required to do their own groundskeeping and gardening. You could volunteer to help weed the gardens and flowerbeds around the school. They may even let you plant some things of your own, as was the case with my girl scout troop.

Answer 10

Planting flowers at the local park, nursing home, in front of your local church. (This is good for spring summer time)

-A book drive - donate books to be shipped or sold
-A food drive - local food bank
-A clothes drive - local homeless shelter
-Making fleece knot blankets and cookies for the homeless - take to local homeless shelter
- Animal shelter - donates items for the animals, plant flowers outside the building.