When you are around 8 years old, it is time to say goodbye to Beavers and move up to Cubs.
The Cub Pack is very similar to the Beaver Colony – except that as you get older, the adventures you go on and the skills you learn are even bigger and more exciting!
Moving up
At your last Beavers meeting you will take part in a “swimming up” ceremony, where you will officially leave the Beaver Colony.
Once you’ve been at Cubs for a few weeks, you will be invested as a Cub to make you a full member of the pack. This is very similar to when you were invested as a Beaver, but you will make the Cub Scout promise.
Uniform and badges
Find out about the Cubs uniform here.
When you finish Beavers, you will have a lot of badges on your Beaver uniform! You shouldn’t move any of those across to your Cubs uniform to start with, but after you’ve been invested into the Cub pack there are a number of badges you should move across:
- You won’t need to move your membership badge, group name tape, district or county badges across because you will be given new ones.
- Your Beaver activity badges (round with a yellow background) do not get moved across, but any staged activity badges (round with a blue background) can get moved across to your new Cubs uniform. You can work on the next stage of these badges as a Cub!
- If you have any Joining In awards (for each year of membership), you should move across the most recent one only.
- If you have earned the Chief Scout’s Bronze Award as a beaver, you should move this across to your Cubs uniform until you achieve the Chief Scout’s Silver Award.
Keep your old Beavers badges that you have not moved across – you can add them to your camp blanket (or put them onto your camp blanket in the future if you haven’t got one yet!). If you would like to recycle your old Beavers uniform, please let your leaders know – we try to offer unwanted uniform to new members in order to reduce their costs.
