Cub Rank - Arrow of Light: Seven Rays
| Category: | Advancement |
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| Props: | An Arrow of Light badge or picture of one (optional) |
| Notes: | For fifth-grade Arrow of Light Scouts, when they earn the rank or at the start of the year. Arrow of Light is the highest Cub Scout rank, and it can be worn on the Scouts BSA uniform. Specific requirements change, so check the current Arrow of Light handbook. See also the arrow-of-light minute, the Crossover minutes, and the rest of the Cub rank series: cub-rank-lion, cub-rank-tiger, cub-rank-wolf, cub-rank-bear, and cub-rank-webelos. |
(Hold up the badge or picture, if you have one.) This is the Arrow of Light. It's the highest rank in all of Cub Scouting. Look closely at it. There's a sun with rays shining out of it, and an arrow pointing the way.
Count the rays. There are seven. Those seven rays stand for the seven days of the week. They're a reminder that a Scout doesn't just do their best on meeting nights, or when someone is watching. A Scout does their best every single day.
And the arrow? An arrow is made to go somewhere. It points forward. For Arrow of Light Scouts, it points toward what's next: crossing over into a Scout troop, with bigger adventures, longer campouts, and new challenges.
Here's something special about this badge. When you cross over and put on a Scouts BSA uniform, almost every Cub Scout patch stays behind. But not this one. The Arrow of Light is the one Cub Scout badge you get to keep wearing. It goes with you, because everything you learned as a Cub Scout goes with you too.
So wear it proudly. You started as a Lion or a Tiger, maybe barely tall enough to see over the table. Look how far you've come.
Now follow the arrow.