During the meeting: 

1. Gather Cub Scouts and adult partners and share with them that Knights would help others just like Scouts like to help other people at all times.  Helping others doesn’t have to be hard, it can be as simple as doing something to help your teacher, a friend, or a family member. 
2. Ask Cub Scouts to share what are some things that they could do as a good turn to help someone else? 
3. Share with the Cub Scouts the story of William D. Boyce who brought Scouting to the United States from England.
   “Scouting was brought to America by William D. Boyce, a Chicago publisher, and the way Boyce discovered Scouting is one of the movement’s most colorful stories. Boyce, it seems, was in London in the fall of 1909 and was out in a famed London fog looking for an office in the center of the city. Nearly at his wit’s end, Boyce stopped a young man and asked directions. Not only did the youth tell Boyce how to reach his destination, but he also actually led Boyce there to make certain the American found his way without becoming lost again. Boyce, to show his gratitude, offered the youth a tip, but the youth would not accept it. When asked why, the young man told Boyce he was a Boy Scout and taking a tip would negate the good deed he had done and violate his Scouting code.

   The youth’s gesture impressed Boyce, who later visited with Lord Baden-Powell himself. Boyce was so taken with Baden-Powell and the Scouting idea that back in America he and other men interested in youth development founded the Boy Scouts of America in Washington, D.C., on February 8th, 1910. No one knows who the Scout was who performed his Good Turn for Boyce, but he has not been forgotten. In Gilwell Park in London, American Scouts had a statue erected in his honor. A large-scale representation of the Silver Buffalo Award, the statue bears the inscription, “To the Unknown Scout Whose Faithfulness in the Performance of the Daily Good Turn Brought the Scout Movement to the United States of America.” 

4. Tell the Cub Scouts “You see, a good turn doesn’t have to be a big thing and it could lead to something really big.  When we do a good turn, we do it because we are helping someone else, we do not do it for a reward, for credit, or any other reason.” 
5. Have Cub Scouts think of ways they can do a good turn by helping someone else.  Have them share their ideas and commit to doing the good turn by the next den meeting. 
6. At the next den meeting ask each Cub Scout what they did as their good turn.