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Discover ideas from other leaders
Find activities that have been tried in real dens, with the practical details you need to decide whether they’ll work for yours.
Compare time, supplies, prep, setting, energy level, and Scout count.
The Scouting Exchange
Every great den meeting should make the next one easier.
Discover ideas that worked for other Den Leaders, share what worked for yours, and bring those ideas directly into meeting plans grounded in the official Cub Scout curriculum.
The work one leader does can help the next.
Actively improving with volunteer feedback
Why it exists
Great ideas shouldn’t disappear when the meeting ends.
Every Den Leader creates things worth passing on—a game that finally clicked, a creative way to meet a requirement, an adaptation that worked for their Scouts, or simply a better way to run an activity.
The Scouting Exchange gives those ideas somewhere to live, so another leader can discover them, adapt them, and make them their own.
What worked?
What did you change?
What should the next leader know?
Could another den use it?
How can I bring it into my meeting?
From the Exchange to the meeting
Volunteers already juggle enough. Planning should be the easy part.
Requirements live in one place. Activity ideas live in another. The useful details are often buried—or missing entirely.
Finding a good idea is only useful if you can actually use it. The Scouting Exchange brings those pieces together.
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Plan with the official curriculum
Start with Adventures and requirements instead of rebuilding the curriculum yourself.
See the work to be done, then plan around it.
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Build the whole meeting
Turn requirements and activities into an organized meeting plan instead of scattered notes and browser tabs.
Keep the plan together from opening to closing.
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Share what worked
Publish successful activities so another Den Leader can use them as-is or adapt them for their own den.
Let one good idea travel farther.
Product preview
See the Exchange, the meeting, and the year in one place.
Discover an activity with the details your den needs, bring it into a practical meeting plan, and keep the bigger picture in view.
Activity Exchange
Find practical activities using requirements, time, supplies, setting, and other details that matter to your den.
Meeting Planner
Bring requirements, activities, preparation, and meeting flow together in one plan.
Annual Plan
Map Adventures across the year and keep the bigger picture in view.
From the plan to the people who need it
Keep families in the loop.
Planning the meeting is only part of the job. The Scouting Exchange helps turn the leader’s plan into clear, useful information for parents—without making you rewrite everything.
Parent-friendly meeting summaries
Give families the details they need without all of the leader-facing planning information.
Printable agendas
Prepare a detailed Leader Agenda for meeting night and a streamlined Parent Summary to share with families.
At-home assignments
Clearly communicate when something needs to be completed outside the meeting and who it applies to.
Built from real den-leader experience
This started with a real planning problem.
This did not start as a generic software idea. It started with repeatedly planning real den meetings, searching for activities, adapting ideas to requirements, keeping track of supplies, and wishing that the work one volunteer already did could make planning easier for the next volunteer.
Read why we’re building itPublic direction, shaped by volunteers
What We’re Building Next
The Scouting Exchange is actively being developed with feedback from Cub Scout volunteers. Priorities may change as we learn from leaders using The Scouting Exchange.
View the RoadmapParent Volunteer Planning
Let Den Leaders delegate a meeting or Adventure to a parent volunteer with appropriate planning access.
AI Planning Assistant
Help volunteers draft parent communications, find activities, and turn rough ideas into more complete meeting content.
Smarter Activity Creation
Turn a basic idea into a structured activity with instructions, supplies, prep, duration, energy level, and other useful details.
Browser-to-Activity Tools
Explore ways to capture an idea found online and adapt it into an activity while retaining the original source.
Independently built
Help good ideas travel farther.
Optional support helps maintain and improve the Exchange for the volunteers who use it.
Your experience can make it better
Help Shape The Scouting Exchange
Try the product, tell us where planning still feels difficult, and share the feature that would save you the most time.
Built with volunteer feedback
Ready to help shape The Scouting Exchange?
Bring a meeting you need to plan. Your feedback can help the next volunteer, too.