The Associazione Guide Italiane (AGI), the Italian Catholic girls' scouting association, was founded in 1943, almost thirty years after its male counterpart, the Associazione Scout Cattolici Italiani (ASCI, 1916). Until 1974 - when the merger with ASCI formed the Associazione Guide e Scout Cattolici Italiani (AGESCI) - AGI remained smaller in membership and, from the 1960s onward, was increasingly defined by a far-reaching reappraisal of the Scout method and of the association's own institutional traditions. This drive was linked both to reflections on "female specificity" within the Scout proposal and to the forms of socio-political engagement adopted by the association. The birth of the new unified association under the banner of coeducation contributed, in some respects, to diluting the most innovative developments that emerged within AGI inside a larger and more complex associative body, cooling the ferment that had animated its leadership in the wake of 1968. While a demographic boom in scouting was closing the quantitative gap between girls and boys, the incorporation of AGI's legacy posed significant methodological and cultural challenges. The paper proposes, as a case study, the process that led to the adoption of two distinct symbolic frameworks for the 8-11 age group. At the end of a decade of experimentation, AGESCI largely confirmed male or mixed packs of lupetti (Wolf Cubs), based on Kipling's Jungle Book, while preserving all-female coccinelle (Ladybirds) circles. This latter option, inherited from AGI, was supported by a handbook titled Sette punti neri (Seven Black Dots), explicitly constructed to mirror the playful experience of the Wood environment. This trajectory captures an intense phase of pedagogical debate within Catholic scouting, as the 1970s fostered a fusion of educational work and political commitment, occurring alongside the growth and institutionalization of youth associational life in late twentieth-century Italy.