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Lion's Roar

Cub Scouts · Adventure, Required

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Lion's Roar helps you learn how to stay safe. You'll practice what to do if something feels wrong, how to get help in an emergency, and how to be careful around cars. Knowing these things helps you feel brave and ready.

Why it's worth it

A lion's roar tells everyone, "I need help." In this adventure you learn your own safety roar. You'll practice what to do if something feels wrong, how to call for help in an emergency, and how to be careful around cars. Knowing what to do helps you feel brave instead of worried, and it helps the grown-ups who love you feel calm too.

Start this week

  1. Pick a quiet time when your adult can sit with you, and watch the Lion Protect Yourself Rules video together.
  2. Practice Shout, Run, Tell as a game in your living room or yard: shout "No" in a big voice, run to your grown-up, and tell them what happened.
  3. Learn your home address or the name of your street, and say it out loud with your adult.

Stay safe

  • Never call 911 just to practice. Use a toy phone or a phone that's off, and make sure your Lion knows a real emergency means calling right away.

Requirements · 4

Every official requirement and part, numbered to match Scouting America, in plain language. Sign off against the official wording (opens in a new tab).

  1. Requirement 1

    With your parent's or legal guardian's permission, watch the Lion Protect Yourself Rules video

    Tip: Watch the video with your parent or guardian, then talk about one rule you want to remember.

  2. Requirement 2

    With your adult partner, practice Shout, Run, Tell the way the video shows

    Tip: Practice Shout, Run, Tell with your adult partner as a game until it feels easy.

    For example: Your adult says, "Pretend someone you don't know tries to take your hand at the park." You shout "No" as loud as you can, run to your grown-up, and tell them. Try it until it feels easy.

  3. Requirement 3

    With your adult partner, show how to reach emergency services

    Tip: Practice on a toy phone how to call 911 and say your name and where you are.

    For example: Use a toy phone or a phone that's turned off. Pretend to dial 911, then say your name, that you need help, and where you are. Talk about what counts as a real emergency, like a fire.

  4. Requirement 4

    With your adult partner, show how to cross a street or walk through a parking lot safely

    Tip: Hold your grown-up's hand, stop at the curb, and look both ways. In parking lots, stay right beside your adult.

    For example: Walk to a crosswalk with your adult. Stop at the curb, hold hands, look left, right, and left again, and cross when it's clear. In a parking lot, keep one hand on the car or your adult's hand.

Places to visit

Ask an adult to set it up, and go with your family, den, patrol, or crew.

  • A fire station or police station

    Firefighters and officers can show you how they answer emergency calls and how they help kids who need it.

    How: Have your den leader call the station's non-emergency number and ask about a short tour for a kindergarten den.

Talk about it together

  • What is one safety rule from the video that you want to remember?
  • Who are the grown-ups you can tell if something feels wrong?
  • How does your body feel when something isn't okay, and what can you do then?
  • What would you say if you called 911?
  • Why do you think drivers sometimes can't see kids in a parking lot?

Helpful reads

For leaders & parents

  • Let parents or guardians lead the video and talk at home, then reinforce key ideas gently at the den meeting.
  • Make a short walk to a crosswalk part of a meeting so Lions can practice in a real place.

People & places that can help

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Tips, examples, and questions are ideas from experienced leaders, not extra requirements. Your unit leader or counselor decides when a requirement is complete.