Don Orione ScoutsOradea · since 1993
What your patrol needs between two camps: the books, the games, the knots and a few local links.
The list is short on purpose. A good patrol leader uses three resources until they know them by heart, not thirty they once leafed through. The shelf grows as we translate.
The big documents: translated in full, with contents and search, to read on a phone in the meeting hall.
The complete manual for running Cub Scouts, translated in full from French.
What a pack is and how it divides into sixes, what a leader does, educational objectives across six domains, how to run a meeting, an action and a camp, the Hunt, the songs, techniques and games, every ceremony written out as a script, and the progression system. It is the ASB's handbook, not our official texts: a very good working tool.
Baden-Powell's 1908 book, the one Scouting started from — translated in full into Romanian.
Twenty-eight "Camp Fire Yarns" written to be read aloud: the patrol and its leader, the Law and the Promise in their first form, life in the open, camping, pioneering, tracking and stalking, animals and plants, health, chivalry, first aid and citizenship — each with its games and practices. The text is in the public domain.
311 games for Cubs and Scouts, with instant search.
Three hundred and eleven games translated from Italian and classified by section (pack or patrol), place (indoors or outdoors), energy (lively or quiet) and materials — including the "nothing at all" filter, for the Saturday you left the kit bag at home. Type two letters and the game appears, with its full rules.
Baden-Powell's book for the adults who lead — translated in full into Romanian.
The shortest and most direct of Baden-Powell's books, written in 1920 for adults: who the Scoutmaster is and what his reward is, what the boy is like and what catches him, how the patrol system and the Court of Honour work, and the four aims of the training — character, health and strength, handcraft, service to others.
Baden-Powell's handbook for girls — translated in full into Romanian.
The companion to Scouting for Boys: the same method, written for girls, in the 1938 edition Baden-Powell revised himself. The story of the Brownies and their tests, how to become a Tenderfoot, a Second Class and a First Class Guide — signalling, woodcraft, camp, cooking, first aid, badges — then Rangers and the chapter for Guiders.
To learn with the rope in your hands, not only with your eyes on the screen.
Every knot you need at camp, animated step by step: reef knot, bowline, figure-eights, square and diagonal lashings for pioneering. The best place on the internet for knots.
The scouting encyclopedia, written by scouts: technique, history, method, songs and traditions. There is a Romanian edition, and the English one has a whole section of camp and patrol games.
Our home and the people around it.
The "Don Orione" Charitable Society, Str. Alexandru Cazaban 49/E — the centre that hosts our community, the oratory and the social work.
Opened in 1995 with 32 pupils, the first private school in Bihor; today from kindergarten to high school, with about 800 pupils.
News from the Greek-Catholic Eparchy of Oradea, where the reports from Scout Day and our camps appear.
If this is your first time here, start from chapter one.
About the scouts
The story of the community since 1993, the saint we are named after and the history of Scouting in Romania.
Chapter 1 →
The method
The patrol, the Law, the Promise and the road from Cub to Rover.
Chapter 2 →
Camp
A whole day, hour by hour, the places we go up to and what goes in the rucksack.
Chapter 3 →
Join us
Where and when we meet, and what parents usually ask.
Chapter 4 →
Skills
Knots, fire, cooking in the cauldron, map and compass, animal tracks, trees, birds, weather.
Chapter 5 →
The best resource is still a Saturday afternoon spent outdoors with your patrol.
Start the camp day →