Arrow of Light arrows

I have been a Cub Scout Den Leader for just over four full years. My six Webelos are crossing over to Boy Scouts soon (as soon as this weather lets up). As a remembrance, I took ideas from other Scout Leaders and made career arrows for my boys. I chose to use beads to represent the accomplishments they archived in their time with us.


Here is a full shot of a different boy's career arrow.



I chose feathers of blue & gold (Cubs) and red & green (BSA).
I attached them with hot glue, then lashed them with gold cord, just like in the Webelos book.

I added name beads (fuzzed out for posting) on a pipe cleaner / chenille stem, with a blue and yellow glow bead.

(I love glow stuff. Our den behavior markers were glow MegaBloksTM that were my wedding gift from my husband.)



I used translucent and opaque tri-beads to represent each segment patch they earned. There is a stopper bead on the end. The hole was small, so I used elastic gold cord.

Next are shiny pony beads to represent beltloops, silver for sports and gold for academics, just like the loops themselves. I couldn't find copper beads for the BB and Archery loops, so I used shiny red. These holes were large enough to use yarn. I used variegated rainbow yarn.

The large orange bead represents the Tiger badge. It was a plain wooden bead that I colored with a dry erase marker. I couldn't get paint to look good. Each Rank bead has matching glow beads above and below it. I used opaque tri-beads for the totem beads, with a glow stopper bead

Finally, the blue bead represents Bobcat. I added two shiny blue pony beads to represent the 8 steps to earn the Bobcat.



Red wooden bead for Wolf badge, yellow pony beads for the progress towards rank beads, a gold oval bead for the gold arrow point and silver oval beads in two columns to the silver arrow points earned. The oval beads have small holes, so I used gold cord.

Teal wooden bead for Bear badge with red progress beads

Dark blue wooden bead for the Webelos badge and unpainted wooden bead for the Arrow Light badge. The star beads are in five colors to represent the five categories of activity pins. These are the exact beads we had on pipe cleaners for each boy's den doodle. Earning the compass badge added a fat blue disk bead. Earning arrow points after each four more stars placed a shiny purple pony bead on the stack.



The arrowhead was purchased at our Scout Shop. I used hot glue to affix it to the dowel (painted with gold glitter paint) and then lashed it on, knotting in the back and sealing the knot in hot glue.

The arrow has glow Rexlace for hanging purpose.