The Scout Craft program is located at the Otter shelter.  This is the place for practicing your outdoor skills and camp craft. Whether it’s pitching a tent or cooking dinner over an open fire or lashing staves to construct an awesome tower. The Scout Craft program offers something special for everyone.

Dan Beard Program

Go to the Dan Beard Program Schedule

We strongly recommend that all first time summer campers participate in the Dan Beard Program for:

1. Camp Orientation/Familiarity

2. Rank Advancement Instruction through First Class.

3. Camp and Citizenship Training

The Dan Beard Program meets at the Scout Craft every weekday.  Participants in the Dan Beard Program will earn a Partial Completion in Cooking MB.

UNIT LEADERS - Here are resources for you!

Merit Badges

Camping   

Orienteering

Pioneering   

Wilderness Survival

Scout Craft Resources 

Knots and Ropes

Animated Knots for Scouts and Guides (42nd Brighton Scouting Group)

Knots & Lashings (Scouting Resources UK)

Ropemaking  (USScouts.org)

What Knot Should I Use? (www.scouting.org)

Camp Craft

Outdoor Skills (Inquiry.net)

Pioneering Projects (Hurricane District)

Scout Tips  (www.scouting.org)