Beaver Scouts
For Boys and Girls Aged 6 to 8
Beaver Scouts typically meet once a week during school terms. At meetings they play team games and learn Scouting skills like hiking, camping, knots, first aid, cooking and more. Beavers go on outdoor adventures – walks, treasure hunts, one or two night camps, litter-picking, parading on Saint Patrick’s Day, slumber parties in hostels or Scout Dens and more.
Children of this age love the outdoors. National events for Beavers include JamÓige – a camp held every four years for Beavers and Cubs. There are also events run at Scout County level and at Scout Province level.
Our Beaver Section meets from 1800 to 1900 every Wednesday.
Adventures!
The Beaver Scout Adventure book is designed to help Beavers understand scouting and give them ideas of what to do. We’ve some ideas from the book for Beavers to look through in this download. Beavers can also earn Special Interest Badges for activities that they are interested in.
Parents may like to look through our ‘The Adventure Begins! Beaver Scouts’ booklet. This is a booklet for leaders but will give you an idea of what we do, as well as how and why we do it. We try and incorporate as much of this as we can into our Beaver scout program.
The Tribe
A Beaver Colony is known as a Tribe. There are three ranks in the Tribe that correspond to the stages of a Beaver Scout Journey: Bree meaning Noble (Year 1), Ruarc meaning Champion (Year 2) and Conn meaning Chief (year 3). The Beavers progress individually through the ranks of the Tribe and along their own personal journey under the guidance of Adult Scouters.