• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to footer

Scouter Mom

A resource Scouts and Scouting

Follow Us on FacebookFollow Us on TwitterFollow Us on InstagramFollow Us on RSSFollow Us on E-mail
  • Home
  • Cub Scouts
    • Bobcat
    • Lions
    • Tigers
    • Wolves
    • Bears
    • Webelos and Arrow of Light
    • Other Cub Scout Awards
    • Cub Scout Pack Committee
  • Scouts BSA (Boy Scouts)
    • Scout Rank
    • Tenderfoot
    • Second Class
    • First Class
    • Star
    • Life
    • Eagle Scout
    • Eagle Palms
    • Merit Badges
    • Scouts BSA Nova Awards
    • Other Scouts BSA Awards
    • Youth Leadership
    • Troop Committee
  • Venturers
    • Venturing Award
    • Discovery Award
    • Pathfinder Award
    • Summit Award
    • Venturing Ranger Award
    • Quest Award
    • TRUST Award
    • Venturing Nova Awards
    • Other Venturing Awards
  • Ideas
    • Ceremonies
    • Crafts
    • Games
    • Gathering Activities
    • Team Building Activities
    • Cheers, Run Ons, and Audience Participation
    • Prayers and Graces
    • Projects and Tools
    • Scoutmaster and Cubmaster Minutes
    • Recipes
    • Songs
    • Skits
    • Puzzles and Printables
    • Stories
    • Magic Tricks and Stunts
    • Humor
  • Program Themes
    • Cub Scout Themes
    • Scouts BSA (Boy Scout) Themes
    • Program Ideas by Holidays both Serious and Silly
  • About
    • Contact Scouter Mom
    • Gifts for Scouts and Scouters
    • Questions and Answers from Scouters

Service Project Ideas for Scouts BSA

December 14, 2010 5 Comments

Scouts BSA are required to participate service projects for rank advancement.  Our troop encourages all Scouts to participate in service projects whether they need the hours or not.

The chartered organization is a great source of service projects. And it is a nice way for the troop to give back to the organization. We are chartered by a church, so our Scouts often do setup and cleanup for things like the big Fall Festival, fish fries, and blood drives.  Have your youth leadership check in with your chartered organization regularly and see if there is anything you can do for them.

Local food pantries and thrift stores are also always looking for help. Scouts can sort and stock items. After spring floods receded, troop members helped a local youth organization clean up their ball fields.

Add the types of service projects your Scouts like to participate in to the comments below.

Filed Under: Participatory Citizenship



Reader Interactions

Comments

  1. laura goerke says

    December 14, 2010 at 12:25 PM

    we have done:
    food drives, coat drives, toy drives, toiletries for the local VA, visit the veterans in the local VA Nursing Home/hospital, book drives
    yard work for the school for the deaf, projects for the local historical society, projects for the local library, place and remove flags on main street, help during Veterans with flag ceremony for Veteran’s Day and so on

    Reply
    • susan says

      July 16, 2014 at 6:44 PM

      Thank you for great ideas for service projects. our troop has been talking about many and could not decide, this will help us decide.

      Reply
  2. Noah says

    April 7, 2013 at 7:30 PM

    I love Boy Scouts and thanks for the great ideas!!!!

    Reply
  3. Anonymous says

    December 30, 2013 at 1:44 PM

    nice

    Reply
  4. lisa says

    May 14, 2014 at 9:04 PM

    Can a scout use youth coaching as a life service project

    Reply

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Recipe Rating




This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

Footer




 

Reliable Web Hosting

  • Popular
  • Discovery

This site is not sponsored or endorsed by the Boy Scouts of America. All opinions expressed belong to Scouter Mom and her readers.

© A2ZWare LLC and Scouter Mom, 2021 . Unauthorized use and/or duplication of this material without express and written permission from the site author and/or owner is strictly prohibited. Excerpts and links may be used, provided that full and clear credit is given to Scouter Mom with appropriate and specific direction to the original content.

Scouter Mom is a participant in affiliate programs and generates revenue by advertising and linking to Amazon and other affiliate sites. Your purchase of items through this website helps pay the bills to keep this site running. Thank you!