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The October 2024 issue of Scout Life magazine is chock-full of family-friendly goodness

October 7, 2024 0

It’s been more than 113 years since our organization’s flagship youth publication — formerly known as Boys’ Life, now called Scout Life — made its debut. One thing that hasn’t changed: The magazine is still one of the best sources of fun, engaging, entertaining content for kids out there.

Where are you going this year? Tell Scout Life!

August 28, 2024 0

Part of your plans should be to tell Scout Life about your unit’s adventures. (Also included in this post is Scout Life’s printable planner.)

This council organized an epic re-creation of a 1966 trek

July 31, 2024 0

Follow along as these Scouts cycled, canoed and hiked 170 miles from one side of North Carolina to the other.

Three Scout-approved ways to view the Great North American Eclipse (and two ways to avoid)

March 27, 2024 0

The phenomenon dubbed the Great North American Eclipse is aptly named, as it promises to give most viewers across the continent a total or partial view of the April 8 solar eclipse. And our nation’s

Removing timber, burning underbrush – is this conservation?

March 12, 2024 4

On the surface, this work might seem counter-productive. Shouldn’t wild places just stay wild?

12 ways leaders, parents, Scouts can plan now for the April 8 eclipse

March 11, 2024 4

Ideas and resources to make the eclipse a day of science, creativity and a whole lot of fun.

Lions, Tigers, Bears – and sharks! How an aquarium overnighter enhanced this pack’s program

January 17, 2023 0

The pack often plans a family overnighter every year. In the past, the Cub Scouts and their parents have slept at zoos and aboard an aircraft carrier. This was the first time they’ve stayed at an aquarium.

How do you promote Scout Life to families in your unit?

August 8, 2022 3

Boys’ Life is now Scout Life, but the value of the magazine remains the same. It’s not an exaggeration to say we’ve been a vital part of youth culture for more than 100 years.

How to submit a story idea for Scout Life magazine

May 13, 2022 2

Scout Life is the magazine for Scouts, so let’s fill it with their stories! Here’s how your Scouts can contribute story ideas to the BSA’s official youth publication.

Zane Grey, prolific writer of best-selling Westerns, wrote for Boys’ Life, too

January 31, 2022 1

On what would have been Zane Grey’s 150th birthday, let’s look back on the Western writer’s contributions to Boys’ Life magazine.