Bobcat Rank Requirements

THE BOBCAT TRACKS

When a boy is between the ages of six and eleven years old or is (at least) in the first grade, he can become a Cub Scout. But, regardless of a qualifying boy's age, he must complete the Bobcat Trail as the first step in his Cub Scouting adventure.

To earn the Bobcat badge the boy must complete these eight tracks of Akela:

1.    LEARN AND SAY THE CUB SCOUT PROMISE.  'I (name) promise to do my best To do my duty to God and my country, To help other people, and To obey the Law of the Pack.'

2.    SAY THE LAW OF THE PACK.  'The Cub Scout follows Akela. The Cub Scout helps the pack go. The pack helps the Cub Scout Grow. The Cub Scout gives goodwill. '

3.    TELL WHAT 'WEBELOS' MEANS. 'WE'll BE LOyal Scouts'

4.    SHOW THE CUB SCOUT SIGN.

5.    SHOW THE CUB SCOUT HANDSHAKE.

6.    SAY THE CUB SCOUT MOTTO. 'DO YOUR BEST. '

7.    GIVE THE CUB SCOUT SALUTE.

8.    With your parent or guardian, complete the exercises in the parent's guide, 'How to Protect Your Children from Child Abuse'.

Tiger Requirements

To begin his path to the Tiger Cub Rank, a boy must do the following to earn the Tiger Cub Totem:

• Learn the Cub Scout Motto
• Learn the Cub Scout Sign
• Learn the Cub Scout Salute

Once he earns the Totem, to earn the Tiger Cub rank the Tiger Cub Scout must complete a Family Activity, a Den Activity, and a 'Go See It' Activity in each of five Achievement Areas:

1. Making My Family Special
2. Where I Live
3. Keeping Myself Healthy and Safe
4. How I Tell It
5. Let's Go Outdoors

As he completes each Achievement, he is awarded a bead which is hung from the Totem.

• He earns a WHITE bead for each required FAMILY Activity.
• He earns an ORANGE bead for each required DEN Activity.
• He earns a BLACK bead for each required GO SEE IT Activity.

1. Making My Family Special

1F - Family Activity - Think of one chore you can do with your adult partner. Complete it together.   Character Connection: Responsibility

1D - Den Activity - Make a family scrapbook

1G - Go See It Activity - Go to a library, historical society, museum, old farm, or historical building, or visit an older person in your community. Discover how family life was the same and how it was different many years ago.

1. Where I Live

2F - Family Activity - Look at a map of your community with your adult partner.

2D - Den Activity - Practice the Pledge of Allegiance with your den, and participate in a den or pack flag ceremony.   Character Connection: Citizenship

2G - Go See It Activity - Visit a police station or a fire station. Ask someone who works there how he or she helps people in your community.  

1. Keeping Myself Healthy and Safe

3F - Family Activity

1. With your family, plan a fire drill then practice it in your home.
2. With your adult partner, plan what to do if you became lost or separated from your family in a strange place.

3D - Den Activity - Make a Food Guide Pyramid. Character Connection: Health and Fitness

3G - Go See It Activity - Learn the rules of a game or sport. Then, go watch an amateur or professional game or sporting event.  

1. How I Tell It

4F - Family Activity - At a family meal, have each family member take turns telling the others one thing that happened to him or her that day. Remember to practice being a good listener while you wait for your turn to talk.  Character Connection: Respect

4D - Den Activity - Play 'Tell It Like It Isn't'

4G - Go See It Activity - Visit a television station, radio station, or newspaper office. Find out how people there communicate with others.  

1. Let's Go Outdoors

This achievement is also part of Cub Scouting's Leave No Trace Award.

5F - Family Activity - Go outside and watch the weather. Character Connection: Faith

5D - Den Activity - With a crayon or colored pencil and a piece of paper, make a leaf rubbing.

5G - Go See It Activity - Take a hike with your den.

Wolf Requirements

The Wolf rank is for boys who have finished first grade (or who are 8 years old). To earn the Wolf badge, a boy must pass 12 achievements. His parent or guardian approves each achievement by signing his book.

After he has earned the Wolf badge, a Wolf Cub Scout can work on the  Wolf Electives until he finishes second grade (or turns 9 years old). When he completes 10 elective projects, he earns a Gold Arrow Point to wear under the Wolf badge. For each 10 elective projects after that, he earns a Silver Arrow Point.

To earn the Wolf rank a Cub Scout must complete 58 tasks out of a possible 74 tasks that are offered in the book.  Note that these activities are primarily done at home and signed off by the parent after the boy has completed each task. The book is then shown to the Den Leader who records the progress and also signs the boy's book.

If the Cub Scout has not previously earned the Bobcat Badge, it must be earned first.

Achievement 1 – Feats of Skill

NOTE for Akela: If a physician certifies that a Cub Scout's physical condition for an indeterminable time won't permit him to do three of these requirements, the Cubmaster and pack committee may authorize substitution of any three Arrow Point electives.

1. Play catch with someone 10 steps away. Play until you can throw and catch.
2. Walk a line back and forth. Do it sideways too. Then walk the edge of a board six steps each way.
3. Do a front roll.
4. Do a back roll.
5. Do a falling forward roll.

Do one of the following (f, g, h, i, j, k, or l):

1. See how high you can jump.
2. Do the elephant walk, frog leap, and crab walk.
3. Using a basic swim stroke, swim 25 feet.
4. Tread water for 15 seconds or as long as you can. Do your best.
5. Using a basketball or playground ball, do a –

Chest pass, Bounce pass, Overhand Pass

1. Do a frog stand.
2. Run or jog in place for 5 minutes.

Achievement 2 – Your Flag

To earn the Wolf rank a Cub Scout must complete 58 tasks out of a possible 74 tasks that are offered in the book. If the Cub Scout has not previously earned the Bobcat Badge, it must be earned first. Note that these activities are primarily done at home and signed off by the parent after the boy has completed each task. The book is then shown to the Den Leader who records the progress and also signs the boy's book.

1. Give the Pledge of Allegiance to the flag of the United States of America. Tell what it means.
2. Lead a flag ceremony in your den. (Ideas shown in book)
3. Tell how to respect and take care of the U.S. flag. Show three ways to display the flag.
4. Learn about the flag of your state or territory and how to display it.
5. Learn how to raise a U.S. flag properly for an outdoor ceremony.
6. Participate in an outdoor flag ceremony.
7. With the help of another person, fold the U.S. flag.

Achievement 3 – Keep Your Body Healthy

To earn the Wolf rank a Cub Scout must complete 58 tasks out of a possible 74 tasks that are offered in the book. If the Cub Scout has not previously earned the Bobcat Badge, it must be earned first. Note that these activities are primarily done at home and signed off by the parent after the boy has completed each task. The book is then shown to the Den Leader who records the progress and also signs the boy's book.

1. Make a chart and keep track of your health habits for two weeks.
2. Tell four ways to stop the spread of colds.
3. Show what to do for a small cut on your finger.

Achievement 4 – Know Your Home and Community

To earn the Wolf rank a Cub Scout must complete 58 tasks out of a possible 74 tasks that are offered in the book. If the Cub Scout has not previously earned the Bobcat Badge, it must be earned first. Note that these activities are primarily done at home and signed off by the parent after the boy has completed each task. The book is then shown to the Den Leader who records the progress and also signs the boy's book.

1. Make a list of phone numbers you need in case of an emergency. Put a copy of this list by each phone or in a central place in your home. Update it often. (List shown in book)
2. Tell what to do if someone comes to the door and wants to come in.
3. Tell what to do if someone calls on the phone.
4. When you and your family leave home, remember to ... (List shown in book)
5. Talk with your family members. Agree on the household jobs you will be responsible for. Make a list of you r jobs and mark off when you have finished them. Do this for one month.
6. Visit an important place in your community, such as a historic or government location. Explain why it is important.

Achievement 5 – Tools for Fixing and Building

To earn the Wolf rank a Cub Scout must complete 58 tasks out of a possible 74 tasks that are offered in the book. If the Cub Scout has not previously earned the Bobcat Badge, it must be earned first. Note that these activities are primarily done at home and signed off by the parent after the boy has completed each task. The book is then shown to the Den Leader who records the progress and also signs the boy's book.

1. Point out and name seven tools. Do this at home, or go to a hardware store with an adult. Tell what each tool does.
2. Show how to use pliers.
3. Identify a Philips head and a standard screw. Then use the right tool to drive and then remove one from a board.
4. Show how to use a hammer.
5. Make a birdhouse, a set of bookends, or something else useful.

Achievement 6 – Start a Collection

To earn the Wolf rank a Cub Scout must complete 58 tasks out of a possible 74 tasks that are offered in the book. If the Cub Scout has not previously earned the Bobcat Badge, it must be earned first. Note that these activities are primarily done at home and signed off by the parent after the boy has completed each task. The book is then shown to the Den Leader who records the progress and also signs the boy's book.

1. Make a collection of anything you like.  Start with 0 things.  Put them together in a neat way.
2. Complete the Character Connection for Positive Attitude

Know. Discuss with your family how a cheerful and positive attitude will help you do your best at school and in other areas of your life.

Commit. Discuss with your family how gathering items for a collection may be difficult. How does a hopeful and cheerful attitude help you to keep looking for more items. Why is a positive attitude important?

Practice. Practice having a positive attitude while doing the requirements for 'Start a Collection.'

Achievement 7 – Your Living World

To earn the Wolf rank a Cub Scout must complete 58 tasks out of a possible 74 tasks that are offered in the book. If the Cub Scout has not previously earned the Bobcat Badge, it must be earned first. Note that these activities are primarily done at home and signed off by the parent after the boy has completed each task. The book is then shown to the Den Leader who records the progress and also signs the boy's book.

This achievement is also part of the Cub Scout World Conservation Award and Cub Scouting's Leave No Trace Award.

1. Complete the Character Connection for Respect.

Know. Discuss these questions with your family: What things have people done to show a lack of respect to our world? Why is it important to respect our environment and ntural resources? How can you show respect for your environment?

Commit. Discuss with your family how you feel when you see places in your neighborhood that have lots of litter. Name one thing you can do to help the environment.

Practice. Practice being respectful while doing the requirements for 'Your Living World.'

1. Land, air and water can get dirty. Discuss with your family ways this can happen.
2. It takes a lot of energy to make glass, cans, and paper products. You can help save energy by collecting these items for use again. Find out how recycling is done where you live. Find out what items you can recycle.
3. With an adult, pick up litter in your neighborhood. Wear gloves to protect your hands against germs and cuts from sharp objects.
4. With an adult, find three stories that tell how people are protecting our world. Read and discuss them together.
5. Besides recycling, there are other ways to save energy. List three ways you can save energy, and do them.

Achievement 8 – Cooking and Eating

To earn the Wolf rank a Cub Scout must complete 58 tasks out of a possible 74 tasks that are offered in the book. If the Cub Scout has not previously earned the Bobcat Badge, it must be earned first. Note that these activities are primarily done at home and signed off by the parent after the boy has completed each task. The book is then shown to the Den Leader who records the progress and also signs the boy's book.

1. Study the Food Guide Pyramid. Name some foods from each of the food groups shown in the pyramid.
2. Plan the meals you and your family should have for one day. List things your family should have from the food groups shown in the Food Group Pyramid. At each meal, you should have foods from at least three food groups.
3. Help fix at least one meal for your family. Help set the table, cook the food, and wash the dishes.
4. Fix your own breakfast. Wash and put away the dishes.
5. With an adult, help to plan, prepare, and cook an outdoor meal.

Achievement 10 – Family Fun

To earn the Wolf rank a Cub Scout must complete 58 tasks out of a possible 74 tasks that are offered in the book. If the Cub Scout has not previously earned the Bobcat Badge, it must be earned first. Note that these activities are primarily done at home and signed off by the parent after the boy has completed each task. The book is then shown to the Den Leader who records the progress and also signs the boy's book.

Do requirement a and do TWO of requirements 10b through 10g:

1. Complete the Character Connection for Cooperation.

Know. Discuss these questions with your family: What is 'cooperation'? Why do people need to cooperate when they are doing things together? Name some ways that you can be helpful and cooperate with others.

Commit. Discuss with your family what makes it hard to cooperate. How do listening, sharing, and persuading help us cooperate?

Practice. Practice being cooperative while doing the requirements for 'Family Fun.'

1. Make a game like one of these. Play it with your family.

Eagle Golf

Beanbag Archery

1. Plan a walk. Go to a park or a wooded area, or visit a zoo or museum with your family.
2. Read a book or Boys' Life magazine with your family. Take turns reading aloud.
3. Decide with Akela. what you will watch on television or listen to on the radio.
4. Attend a concert, a play, or other live program with your family.
5. Have a family Board Game night at home with members of your family.

Achievement 11 – Duty to God

To earn the Wolf rank a Cub Scout must complete 58 tasks out of a possible 74 tasks that are offered in the book. If the Cub Scout has not previously earned the Bobcat Badge, it must be earned first. Note that these activities are primarily done at home and signed off by the parent after the boy has completed each task. The book is then shown to the Den Leader who records the progress and also signs the boy's book.

1. Complete the Character Connection for Faith

Know. What is 'faith'? With your family, discuss some people who have shown their faith - who have shown an inner strength based on their trust in a higher power or cause. Discuss the good qualities of these people.

Commit. Discuss these questions with your family: What problems did these faithful people overcome to follow or practice their beliefs? What challenges might you face in doing your duty to God? Who can help you with these challenges?

Practice. Practice your faith while doing the requirements for 'Duty to God.'

1. Talk with your family about what they believe is their duty to God.
2. Give two ideas on how you can practice or demonstrate your religious beliefs. Choose one and do it.
3. Find out how you can help your church, synagogue, mosque, temple, or religious fellowship.

Achievement 12 – Making Choices

To earn the Wolf rank a Cub Scout must complete 58 tasks out of a possible 74 tasks that are offered in the book. If the Cub Scout has not previously earned the Bobcat Badge, it must be earned first. Note that these activities are primarily done at home and signed off by the parent after the boy has completed each task. The book is then shown to the Den Leader who records the progress and also signs the boy's book.

Do requirement A and do FOUR of requirements 12b through 12k:

1. Complete the Character Connection for Courage.

Know. Discuss with your family what 'courage' is. Review the requirements and discuss how you might need courage in each one to do what is right.

Commit. Give some examples of when it is hard to do the right thing. Discuss with your family times that it might take courage to be honest and kind. Tell about a time in your life when you needed to be brave and courageous to do the right thing.

Practice. Practice learning about courage while doing the requirements for 'Making Choices.' With family members, act out the choices you would make for some of the requirements.

1. There is an older boy who hangs around Jason's school. He tries to give drugs to the children. What would you do if you were Jason?
2. Lee is home alone. The phone rings. When Lee answers, a stranger asks if Lee's mother is home. She is not. Lee is alone. What would you do if you were Lee?
3. Justin is new to your school. He has braces on his legs and walks with a limp. Some of the kids at school tease him. They want you to tease him, too. What would you do?
4. Juan is on a walk with his little sister. A car stops and a man asks them to come over to the car. What would you do if you were Juan?
5. Matthew's grandmother gives him money to buy an ice-cream cone. On the way to the store, a bigger boy asks for money and threatens to hit Matthew if he does not give him some money. If you were Matthew what would you do?
6. Chris and his little brother are home alone in the afternoon. A woman knocks on the door and says she wants to read the meter. She is not wearing a uniform. What would you do if you were Chris?
7. Sam is home alone. He looks out the window and sees a man trying to break into a neighbor's back door. What would you do if you were Sam?
8. Mr. Palmer is blind. He has a guide dog. One day as he is crossing the street, some kids whistle and call to the dog. They want you and your friends to call the dog, too. What would you do?
9. Some kids who go to Bob's school want him to steal candy and gum from a store, which they can share later. Bob knows this is wrong, but he wants to be popular with these kids. What would you do if you were Bob?
10. Paul and his little sister are playing outdoors. A very friendly, elderly woman stops and watches the children for a while. Paul doesn't know the woman. She starts to talk to them and offers to take Paul's little sister on a walk around the block. What would you do?

After a Wolf Cub Scout earns his Wolf Badge he may begin earning Arrow Points in the Electives section of his book. He may work on his 'Arrow Point Trail' at any time, however he cannot receive Arrow Points until after he has earned the Wolf Badge.

WOLF ELECTIVES (ARROW POINTS)

GOLD ARROW POINT

For the FIRST 10 arrow points completed in the 'Electives' section of his book, the Wolf Cub earns his GOLD ARROW POINT.

SILVER ARROW POINTS

For EACH 10 arrow points completed (AFTER HE EARNS THE GOLD ARROW POINT) the Wolf Cub earns a SILVER ARROW POINT.

He may earn any number of SILVER ARROW POINTS, but he may only earn ONE GOLD ARROW POINT for the first 10 elective points that he completes.

The possible electives are as follows:

 Elective 1 -  It’s a Secret

1. Use a secret code.
2. Write to a friend in invisible 'ink'
3. 'Write' your name using American Sign Language. People who are deaf use this language.
4. Use 12 American Indian signs to tell a story.

Elective 2 – Be an Actor

1. Help to plan and put on a skit with costumes.
2. Make some scenery for a skit.
3. Make sound effects for a skit.
4. Be the announcer for a skit.
5. Make a paper sack mask for a skit
6. Make something useful for your home or school. Start with a recipe card holder.
7. Use the ruler on this page (125) to see how far you can stretch your hand.
8. Make and use a bench fork.
9. Make a door stop.
10. Or make something else.
11. Play Pie-tin Washer Toss.
12. Play Marble Sharpshooter.
13. Play Ring Toss.
14. Play Beanbag Toss.
15. Play a game of marbles.
16. Play a wide-area or large group game with your den or pack.
17. Explain safety rules for kite flying.
18. Make and fly a paper bag kite.
19. Make and fly a two-stick kite.
20. Make and fly a three-stick kite.
21. Make and use a reel for kite string.
22. Make a model boat with a rubber-band propeller.
23. G-H-I, Make or put together some kind of model boat, airplane, train, or car.
24. Visit a bookstore or go to a public library with an adult. Find out how to get your own library card. Name four kinds of books that interest you (for example, history, science fiction, how-to-books).
25. Choose a book on a subject you like and read it. With an adult, discuss what you read and what you think about it.
26. Books are important. Show that you know how to take care of them. Open a new book the right way. Make a paper or plastic cover for it or another book.
27. Learn to walk on a pair of stilts.
28. Make a pair of 'puddle jumpers' and walk with them.
29. Make a pair of 'foot racers' and use them with a friend.
30. Name 10 kinds of trucks, construction machinery, or farm machinery and tell what each is used for.
31. Help an adult do a job using a wheel and axle.
32. Show how to use a pulley.
33. Make and use a windlass

Elective 3 – Make it Yourself

Elective 4 – Play a Game

Elective 5 – Spare Time Fun

Elective 6 – Books, Books, Books

Elective 7 – Foot Power

Elective 8 – Machine Power

Elective 9 – Let’s Have a Party

1. Help with a home or den party.

B-C, Make a gift or toy like one of these and give it to someone. (examples shown in book)

Elective 10 – American Indian Lore

1. Read a book or tell a story about American Indians, past or present.
2. Make a musical instrument American Indians used.
3. Make traditional American Indian clothing.
4. Make a traditional item or instrument that American Indians used to make their lives easier.
5. Make a model of a traditional American Indian house.
6. Learn 12 American Indian word pictures and write a story with them.
7. Learn and sing the first and last verses of 'America.'
8. Learn and sing the first verse of our national anthem.
9. Learn the words and sing three Cub Scout songs.
10. Learn the words and sing the first verse of three other songs, hymns, or prayers. Write the verse of one of the songs you learned in the space below (on page 166).
11. Learn and sing a song that would be sung as a grace before meals. Write the words in the space below (on page 166).
12. Sing a song with your den at a pack meeting.
13. Make a freehand sketch of a person place, or thing.
14. Tell a story in three steps by drawing three cartoons.
15. Mix yellow and blue paints, mix yellow and red, and mix red and blue. Tell what color you get from each mixture.
16. Help draw, paint, or color some scenery for a skit, play, or puppet show.
17. Make a stencil pattern.
18. Make a poster for a Cub Scout project or a pack meeting.

Elective 11 – Sing-Along

Elective 12 – Be an Artist

Elective 13 – Birds

This elective is also part of the World Conservation Award.

1. Make a list of all the birds you saw in a week and tell where you saw them (field, forest, marsh, yard, or park).
2. Put out nesting material (short pieces of yarn and string) for birds and tell which birds might use it.
3. Read a book about birds.
4. Point out 10 different kinds of birds (5 may be from pictures).
5. Feed wild birds and tell which birds you fed.
6. Put out a birdhouse and tell which birds use it.
7. Take care of a pet.
8. Know what to do when you meet a strange dog.
9. Read a book about a pet and tell about it at a den meeting.
10. Tell what is meant by rabid. Name some animals that can have rabies. Tell what you should do if you see a dog or wild animal that is behaving strangely. Tell what you should do if you find a dead animal.

Elective 14 – Pets

Elective 15 – Grow Something

This elective is also part of the Cub Scout World Conservation Award

1. Plant and raise a box garden.
2. Plant and raise a flower bed.
3. Grow a plant indoors.
4. Plant and raise vegetables.
5. Visit a botanical garden or other agricultural exhibition in your area.
6. Talk with your family about what you will do in an emergency.
7. In case of a bad storm or flood, know where you can get safe food and water in your home. Tell how to purify water. Show one way. Know where and how to shut off water, electricity, gas, or oil.
8. Make a list of your first aid supplies, or make a first aid kit. Know where the first aid things are kept.
9. Learn to tie an overhand knot and a square knot.
10. Tie your shoelaces with a square bow knot.
11. Wrap and tie a package so that it is neat and tight.
12. Tie a stack of newspapers the right way.
13. Tie two cords together with an overhand knot.
14. Learn to tie a necktie.
15. Wrap the end of a rope with tape to keep it from unwinding.
16. Help plan and hold a picnic with your family or den.
17. With an adult, help plan and run a family or den outing.
18. Help plan and lay out a treasure hunt something like this. (Example map shown in book.)
19. Help plan and lay out an obstacle race. Use this idea or make up your own. (Example list shown in book.)
20. Help plan and lay out an adventure trail.
21. Take part in two summertime pack events with your den.
22. Point out poisonous plants. Tell what to do if you accidentally touch one of them.
23. Help plan and hold a picnic with your family or den.
24. With an adult, help plan and run a family or den outing.
25. Help plan and lay out a treasure hunt something like this. (Example map shown in book.)
26. Help plan and lay out an obstacle race. Use this idea or make up your own. (Example list shown in book.)
27. Help plan and lay out an adventure trail.
28. Take part in two summertime pack events with your den.
29. Point out poisonous plants. Tell what to do if you accidentally touch one of them.

Elective 16 – Family Alert

Elective 17 – Tie it Right

Elective 18 – Outdoor Adventure

Elective 18 – Outdoor Adventure

Elective 19 – Fishing

This elective is also part of the Cub Scout World Conservation Award.

1. Identify five different kinds of fish.
2. Rig a pole with the right kind of line and hook. Attach a bobber and sinker, if you need them. Then go fishing.
3. Fish with members of your family or an adult. Bait your hook and do your best to catch a fish.
4. Know the rules of safe fishing.
5. Tell about some of the fishing laws where you live.
6. Show how to use a rod and reel.
7. Play a game of tennis, table tennis, or badminton.
8. Know boating safety rules.
9. Earn the Cub Scouting shooting sports Archery belt loop.
10. Understand the safety and courtesy code for skiing. Show walking and the kick turn. Do climbing with a side stop or herringbone. Show the snowplow or stem turn, and how to get up from a fall.
11. Know the safety rules for ice skating. Skate, without falling, as far as you can walk in 50 steps. Come to a stop. Turn from forward to backward.
12. In roller skating, know the safety rules. From a standing start, skate forward as far as you can walk in 50 steps. Come to a stop within 10 walking steps. Skate around a corner one way without coasting. Then do the same coming back. Turn from forward to backward.
13. Go bowling.
14. Show how to make a sprint start in track. See how far you can run in 10 seconds.
15. Do a standing long jump. Jump as far as you can.
16. Play a game of flag football.
17. Show how to dribble and kick a soccer ball. Take part in a game.
18. Play a game of baseball or softball.
19. Show how to shoot, pass, and dribble a basketball. Take part in a game.
20. Earn the Cub Scouting shooting sports BB-gun shooting belt loop.
21. With your den, participate in four outdoor physical fitness-related activities.

Elective 20 – Sports

Bear Requirements

The Bear rank is for boys who have finished second grade (or are 9 years old). There are 24 Bear achievements in four groups. A boy must complete 12 of the achievements to be a Bear Cub Scout. These requirements are harder and more challenging than those for the Wolf badge.  Note that these achievements, are primarily done at home and signed off by an adult family member after the boy has completed each one.  When a boy has earned his Bear badge, he may work on electives to earn Arrow Points to wear under his Bear badge.  If the Cub Scout has not previously earned the Bobcat Badge, it must be earned first.

The requirements are broken into four different groups: 
God; Country; Family and Self.

GOD (Do one of the following.)

Achievement 1 – Ways We Worship

1. Complete the Character Connection for Faith

• Know. Name some people in history who have shown great faith. Discuss with an adult how faith has been important at a particular point in his or her life.
• Commit. Discuss with an adult how having faith and hope will help you in your life, and also discuss some ways that you can strengthen your faith.
• Practice. Practice your faith as you are taught in your home, church, synagogue, mosque, or religious fellowship.  

1. Make a list of things you can do this week to practice your religion as you are taught in your home, church, synagogue, mosque, or other religious community. Check them off your list as you complete them.

Achievement 2 – Emblems Of Faith - Earn the religious emblem of your faith.

COUNTRY  (Do THREE of the following.)

Achievement 3 – What Makes America Special?

(Do requirements (a) and (j) and any two of the other requirements.)

1. Write or tell what makes America special to you.
2. With the help of your family or den leader, find out about two famous Americans. Tell the things they did or are doing to improve our way of life.
3. Find out something about the old homes near where you live. Go and see two of them.
4. Find out where places of historical interest are located in or near your town or city. Go and visit one of them with your family or den.
5. Choose a state; it can be your favorite one or your home state. Name its state bird, tree, and flower. Describe its flag. Give the date it was admitted to the Union.
6. Be a member of the color guard in a flag ceremony for your den or pack.
7. Display the U.S. flag in your home or fly it on three national holidays.
8. Learn how to raise and lower a U.S. flag properly for an outdoor ceremony.
9. Participate in an outdoor flag ceremony
10. Complete the Character Connection for Citizenship.

• Know. Tell ways some people in the past have served our country. Tell about some people who serve our country today. (Don't forget about 'ordinary' people who serve our country.)
• Commit. Tell something that might happen to you and your family if other people were not responsible citizens. Tell one thing you will do to be a good citizen.
• Practice. Tell three things you did in one week that show you are a good citizen.
   

Achievement 4 – Tall Tales

(Do all three requirements)

1. Tell in your own words what folklore is. List some folklore stories, folk songs, or historical legends from your own state or part of the country. Play the Folklore Match Game on page 48.
2. Name at least five stories about American folklore. Point out on a United States map where they happened.
3. Read two folklore stories and tell your favorite one to your den.
    

Achievement 5 – Sharing Your World With Wildlife

(Do four of the requirements)

This elective is also part of the Cub Scout World Conservation Award.

1. Choose a bird or animal that you like and find out how it lives. Make a poster showing what you have learned.
2. Build or make a bird feeder or birdhouse and hang it in a place where birds can visit safely.
3. Explain what a wildlife conservation officer does.
4. Visit one of the following: Zoo, Nature center, Aviary, Wildlife refuge, Game preserve.
5. Name one animal that has become extinct in the last 100 years. Tell why animals become extinct. Name one animal that is on the endangered species list.
    

Achievement 6 – Take Care Of Your Planet

(Do three requirements)

1. Save 5 pounds of glass or aluminum, or 1 month of daily newspapers. Turn them in at a recycling center or use your community's recycling service.
2. Plant a tree in your yard, or on the grounds of the group that operates your Cub Scout pack, or in a park or other public place. Be sure to get permission first.
3. Call city or county officials or your trash hauling company and find out what happens to your trash after it is hauled away.
4. List all the ways water is used in your home. Search for dripping faucets or other ways water might be wasted. With an adult, repair or correct those problems.
5. Discuss with an adult in your family the kinds of energy your family uses.
6. Find out more about your family's use of electricity.
7. Take part in a den or pack neighborhood clean-up project.
    

Achievement 7 – Law Enforcement Is A Big Job

(Do all six requirements)

1. Practice one way police gather evidence: by taking fingerprints, or taking shoeprints, or taking tire track casts.
2. Visit your local sheriff's office or police station or talk with a law enforcement officer visiting your den or pack to discuss crime prevention.
3. Help with crime prevention for your home.
4. Be sure you know where to get help in your neighborhood.
5. Learn the phone numbers to use in an emergency and post them by each phone in your home.
6. Know what you can do to help law enforcement.

FAMILY (Do four of the following.)

Achievement 8 – The Past Is Exciting And Important

(Do requirement G and two other requirements)

1. Visit your library or newspaper office. Ask to see back issues of newspapers or an almanac.
2. Find someone who was a Cub Scout a long time ago. Talk with him about what Cub Scouting was like then.
3. Start or add to an existing den or pack scrapbook.
4. Trace your family back through your grandparents or great-grandparents; or, talk to a grandparent about what it was like when he or she was younger.
5. Find out some history about your community.
6. Start your own history: keep a journal for 2 weeks.
7. Complete the Character Connection for Respect.

• Know. As you learn about how Cub Scout-age life was like for adults you know, does what you learn change what you think about them. Tell how it might help you respect or value them more.
• Commit. Can you think of reasons others might be disrespectful to people or things you value? Name one new way you will show respect for a person or thing someone else values.
• Practice. List some ways you can show respect for people and events in the past.
   

Achievement 9 – What's Cooking?

(Do four requirements)

1. With an adult, bake cookies.
2. With an adult, make snacks for the next den meeting.
3. With an adult, prepare one part of your breakfast, one part of your lunch, and one part of your supper.
4. Make a list of the 'junk foods' you eat. Discuss 'junk food' with a parent or teacher.
5. Make some trail food for a hike.
6. With an adult, make a dessert for your family.
7. With an adult, cook something outdoors.
    

Achievement 10 – Family Fun

(Do both requirements)

1. Go on a day trip or evening out with members of your family.
2. Have a family fun night at home.
    

Achievement 11 – Be Ready!

(Do requirements A through E and requirement G. Requirement F is recommended, but not required)

1. Tell what to do in case of an accident in the home. A family member needs help. Someone's clothes catch on fire.
2. Tell what to do in case of a water accident.
3. Tell what to do in case of a school bus accident.
4. Tell what to do in case of a car accident.
5. With your family, plan escape routes from your home and have a practice drill.
6. Have a health checkup by a physician (optional).
7. Complete the Character Connection for Courage.

• Know. Memorize the courage steps: Be brave, Be calm, Be clear, and Be careful. Tell why each courage step is important. How will memorizing the courage steps help you to be ready?
• Commit. Tell why it might be difficult to follow the courage steps in an emergency situation. Think of other times you can use the courage steps. (Standing up to a bully is one example.)
• Practice. Act out one of the requirements using these courage steps: Be brave, Be calm, Be clear, and Be careful.
   

Achievement 12 – Family Outdoor Adventure

(Do three requirements)

This achievement is also part of Cub Scouting's Leave No Trace Award.

1. Go camping with your family.
2. Go on a hike with your family.
3. Have a picnic with your family.
4. Attend an outdoor event with your family.
5. Plan your outdoor family day.
    

Achievement 13 – Saving Well, Spending Well

(Do four requirements)

1. Go grocery shopping with a parent or other adult member of your family.
2. Set up a savings account.
3. Keep a record of how you spend money for 2 weeks.
4. Pretend you are shopping for a car for your family.
5. Discuss family finances with a parent or guardian.
6. Play a board game with your family that involves the use of play money.
7. With an adult, figure out how much it costs for each person in your home to eat one meal.

SELF (Do FOUR of the following.)

Achievement 14 – Ride Right

(Do requirement A and three other requirements)

1. Know the rules for bike safety. If your town requires a bicycle license, be sure to get one.
2. Learn to ride a bike, if you haven't by now. Show that you can follow a winding course for 60 feet doing sharp left and right turns, a U-turn, and an emergency stop.
3. Keep your bike in good shape. Identify the parts of a bike that should be checked often.
4. Change a tire on a bicycle.
5. Protect your bike from theft. Use a bicycle lock.
6. Ride a bike for 1 mile without rest. Be sure to obey all traffic rules.
7. Plan and take a family bike hike.
    

Achievement 15 – Games, Games, Games!

(Do two requirements)

1. Set up the equipment and play any two of these outdoor games with your family or friends. (Backyard golf, Badminton, Croquet, Sidewalk shuffleboard, Kickball, Softball, Tetherball, Horseshoes, Volleyball)
2. Play two organized games with your den.
3. Select a game that your den has never played. Explain the rules. Tell them how to play it, and then play it with them.
    

Achievement 16 – Building Muscles

(Do all three requirements)

1. Do physical fitness stretching exercises. Then do curl-ups, push-ups, the standing long jump, and the softball throw.
2. With a friend about your size, compete in at least six different two-person contests. (Many examples in book.)
3. Compete with your den or pack in the crab relay, gorilla relay, 30-yard dash, and kangaroo relay.
    

Achievement 17 – Information, Please

(Do requirement A and three more requirements)

1. With an adult in your family, choose a TV show. Watch it together.
2. Play a game of charades at your den meeting or with your family at home.
3. Visit a newspaper office or a TV or radio station and talk to a news reporter.
4. Use a computer to get information. Write, spell-check, and print out a report on what you learned.
5. Write a letter to a company that makes something you use. Use e-mail or the U.S. Postal Service.
6. Talk with a parent or other family member about how getting and giving facts fits into his or her job.
    

Achievement 18 – Jot It Down

(Do requirement H and four other requirements)

1. Make a list of the things you want to do today. Check them off when you have done them.
2. Write two letters to relatives or friends.
3. Keep a daily record of your activities for 2 weeks.
4. Write an invitation to someone.
5. Write a thank-you note.
6. Write a story about something you have done with your family.
7. Write about the activities of your den.
8. Complete the Character Connection for Honesty.

• Know. Tell what made it difficult to be clear and accurate as you wrote details and kept records, and tell what could tempt you to write something that was not exactly true. Define honesty.
• Commit. Tell why it is important to be honest and trustworthy with yourself and with others. Imagine you had reported something inaccurately and tell how you could set the record straight. Give reasons that honest reporting will earn the trust of others.
• Practice. While doing the requirement for this achievement, be honest when you are writing about real events.
   

Achievement 19 – Shavings And Chips

(Do all four requirements)

1. Know the safety rules for handling a knife.
2. Show that you know how to take care of and use a pocketknife.
3. Make a carving with a pocketknife. Work with your den leader or other adult when doing this.
4. Earn the Whittling Chip card.
    

Achievement 20 – Sawdust And Nails

(Do all three requirements.)

1. Show how to use and take care of four of these tools.
   (Hammer, Hand saw, Hand drill, C-clamp, Wood plane, Pliers, Crescent wrench, Screwdriver, Bench vise, Coping saw, Drill bit)
2. Build your own tool box.
3. Use at least two tools listed in requirement (a) to fix something.
    

Achievement 21 – Build A Model

(Do requirement g and two other requirements.)

1. Build a model from a kit.
2. Build a display for one of your models.
3. Pretend you are planning to change the furniture layout in one of the rooms in your home.
4. Make a model of a mountain, a meadow, a canyon, or a river.
5. Go and see a model of a shopping center or new building that is on display somewhere.
6. Make a model of a rocket, boat, car, or plane.
7. Complete the Character Connection for Resourcefulness.

• Know. Review the requirements for this achievement and list the resources you would need to complete them. Then list the materials you could substitute for items that you do not already have. Tell what it means to be resourceful.
• Commit. After you complete the requirements for this achievement, list any changes that would make the results better if you did these projects again. Tell why it is important to consider all available resources for a project.
• Practice. While you complete the requirements for this achievement, make notes on which materials worked well in your projects and why.
   

Achievement 22 – Tying It All Up

(Do five requirements.)

1. Whip the ends of a rope.
2. Tie a square knot, bowline, sheet bend, two half hitches, and slip knot. Tell how each knot is used.
3. Learn how to keep a rope from tangling.
4. Coil a rope. Throw it, hitting a 2-foot square marker 20 feet away.
5. Learn a magic rope trick.
6. Make your own rope.
    

Achievement 23 – Sports, Sports, Sports

Do all five requirements.

1. Learn the rules of and how to play three team sports.
2. Learn the rules of and how to play two sports in which only one person is on each side.
3. Take part in one team and one individual sport.
4. Watch a sport on TV with a parent or some other adult member of your family.
5. Attend a high school, college, or professional sporting event with your family or your den.
    

Achievement 24 – Be A Leader

Do requirement f and two other requirements.

1. Help a boy join Cub Scouting, or help a new Cub Scout through the Bobcat trail.
2. Serve as a denner or assistant denner.
3. Plan and conduct a den activity with the approval of your den leader.
4. Tell two people they have done a good job.
5. Leadership means choosing a way even when not everybody likes your choice.
6. Complete the Character Connection for Compassion.

• Know. Tell why, as a leader, it is important to show kindness and concern for other people. List ways leaders show they care about the thoughts and feelings of others.
• Commit. Tell why a good leader must consider the ideas, abilities, and feelings of others. Tell why it might be hard for a leader to protect another person's well-being. Tell ways you can be kind and compassionate.
• Practice. While you complete the requirements for this achievement, find ways to be kind and considerate of others.

BEAR ELECTIVES

After a Bear Cub Scout earns his Bear Badge he may begin earning Arrow Points in the Electives section of his book. He may work on his 'Arrow Point Trail' at any time, however he cannot receive Arrow Points until After he has earned the Bear Badge. There is a big difference in the achievements for arrow points for Bear. In this rank the Cub Scout can go back and do requirements from the achievements a section of the book and use them as requirements for arrow points, as long as they do not count any requirements from achievements that they used to earn the Bear Badge. Unused parts of achievements that were used for the Bear badge may not a be counted toward Arrow Points.

GOLD ARROW POINT - For the FIRST 10 arrow points completed, the Bear Cub earns his GOLD ARROW POINT.

SILVER ARROW POINTS  - For EACH 10 arrow points completed (AFTER HE EARNS THE GOLD ARROW POINT) the Bear Cub earns a SILVER ARROW POINT.

He may earn any number of SILVER ARROW POINTS, but he may only earn ONE GOLD ARROW POINT for the first 10 elective points that he completes.

 Elective 1 -  Space

1. Identify two constellations and the North Star in the night sky.
2. Make a pinhole planetarium and show three constellations.
3. Visit a planetarium.
4. Build a model of a rocket or space satellite.
5. Read and talk about at least one man-made satellite and one natural one.
6. Find a picture of another planet in our solar system. Explain how it is different from Earth.

Elective 2 -  Weather

This elective is also part of the Cub Scout World Conservation Award.

1. Learn how to read an outdoor thermometer. Put one outdoors and read it at the same time every day for two weeks. Keep a record of each day's temperature and a description of the weather each day (fair skies, rain, fog, snow, etc.).
2. Build a weather vane. Record wind direction every day at the same hour for two weeks. Keep a record of the weather for each day.
3. Make a rain gauge.
4. Find out what a barometer is and how it works. Tell your den about it. Tell what 'relative humidity' means.
5. Learn to identify three different kinds of clouds. Estimate their heights.
6. Watch the weather forecast on TV every day for two weeks. Describe three different symbols used on weather maps. Keep a record of how many times the weather forecast is correct.
7. Build a crystal or diode radio. Check with your local craft or hobby shop or the nearest Scout shop that carries a crystal radio kit. It is all right to use a kit.
8. Make and operate a battery powered radio, following the directions with the kit.
9. Help an adult rig and sail a real boat. (Wear your PFD.)
10. Help an adult repair a real boat or canoe.
11. Know the flag signals for storm warnings.
12. Help an adult repair a boat dock.
13. With an adult on board, and both wearing PFDs, row a boat around a 100-yard course that has two turns. Demonstrate forward strokes, turns to both sides, and backstrokes.
14. Identify five different kinds of aircraft, in flight if possible, or from models or photos.
15. Ride in a commercial airplane.
16. Explain how a hot air balloon works.
17. Build and fly a model airplane. (You may use a kit. Every time you do this differently, it counts as a completed project.)
18. Sketch and label an airplane showing the direction of forces acting on it (lift, drag, and load).
19. Make a list of some of the things a helicopter can do that other kinds of airplanes can't. Draw or cut out a picture of a helicopter and label the parts.
20. Build and display a scale airplane model. You may use a kit or build it from plans.
21. With an adult's help, make a scooter or a Cubmobile. Know the safety rules.
22. With an adult's help, make a windmill.
23. With an adult's help, make a waterwheel.
24. Make an invention of your own design that goes.
25. Make and play a homemade musical instrument - cigar-box banjo, washtub bull fiddle, a drum or rhythm set, tambourine. etc.
26. Learn to play two familiar tunes on any musical instrument.
27. Play in a den band using homemade or regular musical instruments. Play at a pack meeting.
28. Play two tunes on any recognized band or orchestra instrument.
29. Do an original art project and show it at a pack meeting. Every project you do counts as one requirement. Here are some ideas for art projects:

Elective 3 -  Radio

Elective 4 -  Electricity

1. Wire a buzzer or doorbell.
2. Make an electric buzzer game.
3. Make a simple bar or horseshoe electromagnet.
4. Use a simple electric motor.
5. Make a crane with an electromagnetic lift.

Elective 5 -  Boats

Elective 6 -  Aircraft

Elective 7 -  Things That Go

Elective 8 -  Cub Scout Band

Elective 9 -  Art

• Mobile or wire sculpture
• Silhouette
• Acrylic painting
• Watercolor painting
• Collage
• Mosaic
• Clay sculpture
• Silk screen picture

1. Visit an art museum or picture gallery with your den or family.
2. Find a favorite outdoor location and draw or paint it.
3. Make a simple papier-mâché mask.
4. Make an animal mask.
5. Make a clown mask.
6. Practice holding a camera still in one position. Learn to push the shutter button without moving the camera. Do this without film in the camera until you have learned how. Look through the viewfinder and see what your picture will look like. Make sure that everything you want in your picture is in the frame of your viewfinder.
7. Take five pictures of the same subject in different kinds of light.

Elective 10 -  Masks

Elective 11 -  Photography

• Subject in direct sun with direct light.
• Subject in direct sun with side light.
• Subject in direct sun with back light.
• Subject in shade on a sunny day.
• Subject on a cloudy day.

1. Put your pictures to use.

• Mount a picture on cardboard for display.
• Mount on cardboard and give it to a friend.
• Make three pictures that show how something happened (tell a story) and write a one sentence explanation for each.

1. Take a picture in your house.
2. With available light, use a flash attachment or photoflood (bright light)

Elective 12 -  Nature Crafts

This elective is also part of the Cub Scout World Conservation Award.

1. Make solar prints of three kinds of leaves.
2. Make a display of eight different animal tracks with an eraser print.
3. Collect, press, and label ten kinds of leaves.
4. Build a waterscope and identify five types of water life.
5. Collect eight kinds of plant seeds and label them.
6. Collect, mount, and label ten kinds of rocks or minerals.
7. Collect, mount, and label five kinds of shells.
8. Build and use a bird caller.
9. Learn and show three magic tricks.
10. With your den, put on a magic show for someone else.
11. Learn and show four puzzles.
12. Learn and show three rope tricks.
13. With an adult, help take care of your lawn or flower beds or help take care of the lawn or flower beds of a public building, school, or church. Seed bare spots. Get rid of weeds. Pick up litter. Agree ahead of time on what you will do.
14. Make a sketch of a landscape plan for the area right around your home. Talk it over with a parent or den leader. Show which trees, shrubs and flowers you could plant to make the area look better.
15. Take part in a project with your family, den, or pack to make your neighborhood or community more beautiful. These might be having a cleanup party, painting, cleaning and painting trash barrels, and removing weeds. (Each time you do this differently, it counts as a completed project.)
16. Build a greenhouse and grow twenty plants from seed. You can use a package of garden seeds, or use beans, pumpkin seeds, or watermelon seeds.

Elective 13 -  Magic

Elective 14 -  Landscaping

Elective 15 -  Water And Soil Conservation

This elective is also part of the Cub Scout World Conservation Award.

1. Dig a hole or find an excavation project and describe the different layers of soil you see and feel. (Do not enter an excavation area alone or without permission.)
2. Explore three kinds of earth by conducting a soil experiment.
3. Visit a burned-out forest or prairie area, or a slide area, with your den or your family. Talk to a soil and water conservation officer or forest ranger about how the area will be planted and cared for so that it will grow to be the way it was before the fire or slide
4. What is erosion? Find out the kinds of grasses, trees, or ground cover you should plant in your area to help limit erosion.
5. As a den, visit a lake, stream, river, or ocean (whichever is nearest where you live). Plan and do a den project to help clean up this important source of water. Name four kinds of water pollution.
6. Take care of a farm animal. Decide with your parent the things you will do and how long you will do them.
7. Name and describe six kinds of farm animals and tell their common uses.
8. Read a book about farm animals and tell your den about it.
9. With your family or den, visit a livestock exhibit at a county or state fair.

Elective 16 -  Farm Animals

Elective 17 -  Repairs

With the help of an adult, fix an electric plug or appliance.

1. Use glue or epoxy to repair something.
2. Remove and clean a drain trap.
3. Refinish or repaint something.
4. Agree with an adult in your family on some repair job to be done and do it. (Each time you do this differently, it counts as a completed project.)
5. Build and use an outdoor gym with at least three items from this list.
   1. Balance board
   2. Trapeze
   3. Tire walk
   4. Tire swing
   5. Tetherball
   6. Climbing rope
   7. Running long jump area.

Elective 18 -  Backyard Gym

Build three outdoor toss games.

1. Plan an outdoor game or gym day with your den. (This can be part of a pack activity). Put your plans on paper.
2. Hold an open house for your backyard gym.

Elective 19 -  Swimming

Where is something about this elective that is different from any other. That is this rule: whenever you are working on the Swimming elective, you must have an adult with you who can swim. Jump feet first into water over your head, swim 25 feet on the surface, stop, turn sharply, and swim back.

1. Swim on your back, the elementary backstroke, for 30 feet.
2. Rest by floating on your back, using as little motion as possible for at least one minute.
3. Tell what is meant by the buddy system. Know the basic rules of safe swimming.
4. Do a racing dive from edge of pool and swim 60 feet, using a racing stroke. (You might need to make a turn.)

Elective 20 -  Sports

In archery, know the safety rules and how to shoot correctly. Put six arrows into a 4-foot target at a distance of 15 feet. Make an arrow holder. (This can be done only at a district/council day or resident or family camp.)

1. In skiing, know the Skier's Safety and Courtesy Code. Demonstrate walking and kick turn, climbing with a side step or herringbone, a snowplow stop, a stem turn, four linked snowplow or stem turns, straight running in a downhill position or cross-country position, and how to recover from a fall.
2. In ice skating, know the safety rules. From a standing start, skate forward 150 feet; and come to a complete stop within 20 feet. Skate around a corner clockwise and counterclockwise without coasting. Show a turn from forward to backward. Skate backward 50 feet.
3. In track, show how to make a sprint start. Run the 50-yard dash in 10 seconds or less. Show how to do the standing long jump, the running long jump, or high jump. (Be sure to have a soft landing area.)
4. In roller skating (with conventional or in-line skates), know the safety rules. From a standing start, skate forward 150 feet; and come to a complete stop within 20 feet. Skate around a corner clockwise and counterclockwise without coasting and show a turn from forward to backward. Skate backward 50 feet. Wear the proper protective clothing.
5. Earn a new Cub Scout Sports pin. (Repeat three times with different sports to earn up to three Arrow Points.)

Elective 21 -  Sales

Take part in a council- or pack-sponsored, money-earning sales program. Keep track of the sales you make yourself. When the program is over, add up the sales you have made.

Help with a garage sale or rummage sale. This can be with your family or a neighbor, or it can be a church, school, or pack event.

Elective 22 -  Collecting Things

Start a stamp collection. You can get information about stamp collecting at any U.S. post office.

1. Mount and display a collection of emblems, coins, or other items to show at a pack meeting. This can be any kind of collection. Every time you show a different kind of collection, it counts as one requirement.
2. Start your own library. Keep your own books and pamphlets in order by subject. List the title, author, and subject of each on an index card and keep the cards in a file box, or use a computer program to store the information.

Elective 23 -  Maps

Look up your state on a U.S. map. What other states touch its borders?

1. Find your city or town on a map of your state. How far do you live from the state capital?
2. In which time zone do you live? How many time zones are there in the U.S.?
3. Make a map showing the route from your home to your school or den meeting place.
4. Mark a map showing the way to a place you would like to visit that is at least 50 miles from your home.

Elective 24 -  American Indian Life

American Indian people live in every part of what is now the continental United States. Find the name of the American Indian nation that lives or has lived where you live now. Learn about these people.

1. Learn, make equipment for, and play two American Indian or other native American games with members of your den. Be able to tell the rules, who won, and what the score was.
2. Learn what the American Indian people in your area (or another area) used for shelter before contact with the Europeans. Learn what American Indian people in that area used for shelter today. Make a model of one of these shelters, historic or modern. Compare the kind of shelter you made with the others made in your den.

Elective 25 -  Let's Go Camping

Learn about the ten essential items you need for a hike or campout. Assemble your own kit of essential items. Explain why each item is 'essential.'

1. Go on a short hike with your den, following the buddy system. Explain how the buddy system works and why it is important to you to follow it. Tell what to do if you are lost.
2. Participate with your den in front of the pack at a campfire.
3. Participate with your pack on an overnight campout. Help put up your tent and help set up the campsite.
   d. Participate with your den in a religious service during an overnight campout or other Cub Scouting event.
4. Attend day camp in your area.
5. Attend resident camp in your area.

 Webelos Requirements

As with all Cub Scout ranks, you must first earn the Bobcat Badge to be eligible to work for this award. Also, your Webelos Den Leader will now sign off your activities (your parent or guardian does not sign off the activities as they did when you were a Tiger, Wolf or Bear).

1. Have an adult member of your family read the Webelos Scout Parent Guide that comes with the book,  and sign it.  
2. Be an active member of your Webelos den for 3 months (Active means having good attendance, paying den dues, working on den projects).  
3. Know and explain the meaning of the Webelos badge.  
4. Point out the three special parts of the Webelos Scout uniform. Tell when to wear the uniform and when not to wear it. 
5. Earn Fitness and Citizen activity badges and one other activity badge from a different activity group. 
6. Plan and lead a flag ceremony in your den that includes the U.S. flag.  
7. Show that you know and understand the requirements to be a Boy Scout.
   1. Demonstrate the: Scout salute, Scout sign, Scout handshake.  Explain when you would use them.
   2. Explain the: Scout Oath, Scout Law, Scout Motto, Scout slogan
   3. Explain and agree to follow the Outdoor Code. 

1. Faith

After completing the rest of requirement 8, do these (a, b, and c):

1. Know: Tell what you have learned about faith.
2. Commit: Tell how these faith experiences help you live your duty to God. Name one faith practice that you will continue to do in the future.
3. Practice: After doing these requirements, tell what you have learned about your beliefs.
   And do one of these (d OR e):

Earn the religious emblem of your faith* (Do two of these.)

• Attend the mosque, church, synagogue, temple, or other religious organization of your choice, talk with your religious leader about your beliefs. Tell your family and your Webelos den leader what you learned.
• Discuss with your family and Webelos den leader how your religious beliefs fit in with the Scout Oath and Scout Law, and what character-building traits your religious beliefs have in common with the Scout Oath and Scout Law.
• With your religious leader, discuss and make a plan to do two things you think will help you draw nearer to God. Do these things for a month.
• For at least a month, pray or meditate reverently each day as taught by your family, and by your church, temple, mosque, synagogue, or religious group.
• Under the direction of your religious leader, do an act of service for someone else. Talk about your service with your family and Webelos den leader. Tell them how it made you feel.
• List at least two ways you believe you have lived according to your religious

After you've earned the Webelos badge, you can earn the compass points emblem. It is awarded after you earn seven activity badges, four more in addition to the three you earned for the Webelos badge.

ARROW OF LIGHT AWARD REQUIREMENTS:

The highest rank in Cub Scouting is the Arrow of Light Award. Earning this rank prepares a Webelos Scout to become a Boy Scout. Webelos Scouts who have earned the Arrow of Light Award have also completed all requirements for the Boy Scout badge.

This award is the only Cub Scout badge that can be worn on the Boy Scout uniform when a boy graduates into a troop. Adult leaders who earned the Arrow of Light Award when they were young may also show their achievement by wearing a special square knot on their adult uniform.Be active in your Webelos den for at least 6 months since completing the fourth grade (or for at least six months since becoming 10 years old), and earn the Webelos badge.

1. Show your knowledge of the requirements to become a Boy Scout by doing all of these:
   1. Repeat from memory and explain in your own words the Scout Oath or Promise and the 12 points of the Scout Law. Tell how you have practiced them in your everyday life.
   2. Give and explain the Scout motto, slogan, sign, salute, and handshake.
   3. Understand the significance of the First Class Scout badge. Describe its parts and tell what each stands for.
   4. Tell how a Boy Scout uniform is different from a Webelos Scout uniform.
   5. Tie the joining knot (square knot) 
2. Earn five more activity badges in addition to the three you already earned for the Webelos badge. These must include:  Citizen, Fitness, Readyman, Outoorsman, and at least one from  the mental skills group; one from the technology group; one more of your choice;  plus the one other badge of your choice that was already earned for the Webelos badge 

1. With your Webelos den, visit at least

• one Boy Scout troop meeting, and
• one Boy Scout-oriented outdoor activity.

(If you have already done this when you earned your Outdoorsman activity badge, you may not use it to fulfill requirements for your Arrow of Light Award requirements.) 

1. Participate in a Webelos overnight campout or day hike.

(If you have already done this when you earned your Outdoorsman activity badge, you may not use it to fulfill requirements for your Arrow of Light Award requirements.) 

1. After you have completed all five of the above requirements, and after a talk with your Webelos den leader, arrange to visit, with your parent or guardian, a meeting of a Boy Scout troop you think you might like to join. Have a conference with the Scoutmaster.  
2. Complete the Honesty Character Connection.

• Know: Say the Cub Scout Promise to your family. Discuss these questions with them. What is a promise? What does it mean to keep your word? What does it mean to be trustworthy? What does honesty mean?
• Commit: Discuss these questions with your family. Why is a promise important? Why is it important for people to trust you when you give your word? When might it be difficult to be truthful? List examples.
• Practice: Discuss with a family member why it is important to be trustworthy and honest. How can you do your best to be honest even when it is difficult?

The following is a list of the Activity Pin Requirements.  Note that the required pin for Webelos is fitness and required for Arrow of Light is Citizen and Readyman. 

AQUANAUT ACTIVITY

Do These:

1. Jump into water over your head. Level off and swim 100 feet, at least half of this using the elementary backstroke.
2. Stay in the water after the swim and float on your back in a resting position with as little motion as possible for one minute.

And Do Three of These:

1. Do a surface dive and swim under water for two strokes before coming up.
2. Swim on the surface for 50 feet, while properly using a mask, fins, and a snorkel.
3. Demonstrate three basic water rescue methods. Demonstrate reaching and throwing. Describe going with support.
4. Know the rules of small-boat safety. Show that you know how to handle a rowboat.
5. Put on a personal Flotation device (PFD) that is the right size for you. Make sure it is properly fastened. Wearing the PFD, jump into water over your head. Show how the PFD keeps your head above water by swimming 25 feet.  Get out of the water, remove the PFD, and hang it where it will dry.
6. While you are a Webelos Scout, earn the Cub Scout Sports belt loop for swimming.

Note: For requirement 8, you must earn the Swimming Belt Loop while you are a Webelos Scout. (even if you earned it while in a Cub Scout Den).

ARTIST ACTIVITY

Do Five of These:

1. Draw or paint an original picture, using the art materials you prefer. Frame the picture for your room or home.
2. List the primary and secondary colors. Explain what happens when you combine colors.
3. Using a computer, make six original designs using straight lines, curved lines, or both.
4. Draw a profile of a member of your family.
5. Use clay to sculpt a simple object.
6. Make a mobile, using your choice of materials.
7. Make an art construction, using your choice of materials.
8. Create a collage that expresses something about yourself

ATHLETE ACTIVITY

DO THESE:

Do These:

1.  
   1. Explain what it means to be physically healthy.
   2. While a Webelos Scout, earn the Cub Scout Sports Pin for Physical Fitness.

And Do Five of These:

1.  
   1. Lie on your back. Have another person hold your feet to the floor and do 30 curl-ups.
   2. Do two pull-ups on a bar.
   3. Do eight pushups from the ground or floor.
   4. Do a standing long jump of at least 5 feet.
   5. Do a vertical jump and reach of at least 9 inches.
   6. Do a 50-yard dash in 8.2 seconds or less.
   7. Do a 600-yd run (or walk) in 2 minutes 45 seconds or less.

CITIZEN ACTIVITY

Do All of These:

1. Know the names of the President and Vice-President of the United States. Know the names of the Governor of your state and the head of your local government.
2. Describe the flag of the United States and give a short history of it. With another Webelos Scout helping you, show how to hoist and lower the flag, how to hang it horizontally and vertically on a wall, and how to fold it.
3. Explain why you should respect your country's flag. Tell some of the special days you should fly it. Tell when to salute the flag and show how to do it.
4. Repeat the Pledge of Allegiance from memory. Explain its meaning in your own words. Lead your Webelos den in reciting the pledge.
5. Tell how our National Anthem was written.
6. Explain the rights and duties of a citizen of the United States. Explain what a citizen should do to save our natural resources.
7. Alone or with your Webelos den, do a special Good Turn. Help your church or other religious organization, school, neighborhood, or town. Tell what you did.

And Do Two of These:

1. Tell about two things you can do that will help law enforcement agencies.
2. Visit a community leader. Learn about the duties of the job or office. Tell the members of your Webelos den what you have learned.
3. Write a short story of not less than 50 words about a former U.S. president or some other great American man or woman. Give a report on this to your Webelos den.
4. Tell about another boy you think is a good citizen. Tell what he does that makes you think he is a good citizen.
5. List the names of three people you think are good citizens. They can be from any country. Tell why you chose each of them.
6. Tell why we have laws. Tell why you think it is important to obey the law. Tell about three laws you obeyed this week.
7. Tell why we have government. Explain some ways your family helps pay for government.
8. List four ways in which your country helps or works with other nations.
9. Name three organizations, not churches or other religious organizations , in your area that help people. Tell something about what one of these organizations does.

COMMUNICATOR ACTIVITY

  Do Seven of These

1. Play the Body Language Game with your den.
2. Prepare and give a three-minute talk to your den on a subject of your choice.
3. Invent and use a sign language or a picture writing language and use it to tell someone a story.
4. Identify and discuss with your den as many different methods of communication as you can (at least six different methods).
5. Invent your own den secret code and send one of your den members a secret message.
6. With your den, visit a library and talk to a librarian. Learn how books are catalogued to make them easy to find.
7. Visit the newsroom of a newspaper or radio or television station and find out how they receive information.
8. Write an article about a den activity for your pack newsletter or local newspaper.
9. Invite a person with a visual, speaking, or hearing impairment to visit your den. Ask about the special ways he or she communicates. Discover how well you can communicate with him or her.
10. Use a personal computer to write a letter to a friend or relative. Create your letter, check it for grammar and spelling, and save it to either a hard drive or a diskette. Print it.
11. Under the supervision of a parent or adult, search the Internet and connect to five Web sites that interest you. Exchange e-mail with a friend or relative.
12. Earn the academics belt loop for Computers.
13. Earn the academics belt loop for Communicating.
14. Find out about jobs in communications. Tell your den what you learn.

CRAFTSMAN ACTIVITY

DO THESE:

1. Explain how to safely handle the tools that you will use for this activity badge.
2. With adult supervision and using hand tools, construct two different wooden objects you and your Webelos den leader agree on, such as the items listed below. Use a coping saw or jigsaw for these projects. Put them together with glue, nails, or screws. Paint or stain them. 

1. Make a display stand, or box to be used to display a model or an award. Or make a frame for a photo or painting. Use suitable material.
2. Make four useful items using materials other than wood that you and your Webelos den leader agree on, such as clay, plastic, leather, metal, paper, rubber, or rope. These should be challenging items and must involve several operations.

ENGINEER ACTIVITY
Do Five of These:

1. List 10 different things engineers do.
2. Visit a construction job. Look at a set of plans. Tell your Webelos den leader about these.  (Get permission before you visit.)
3. Visit a civil engineer to understand how to measure the length of a property line. Explain how property lines are determined.
4. Tell about how electricity is generated and then gets to your home.
5. Construct a simple working electrical circuit using a flashlight battery, a switch, and a light.
6. Make drawings of three kinds of bridges and explain their differences. Construct a model bridge of your choice.
7. Make a block and tackle and show how it works.
8. Build a catapult and show how it works.
9. Draw a floor plan of your house. Include doors, windows, and stairways.
10. Explain how engineers use computers.

FAMILY MEMBER ACTIVITY

Do All of These:

1. Tell what is meant by family, duty to family, and family meetings.
2. Make a chart showing the jobs you and other family members have at home. Talk with your family about other jobs you can do for the next two months.
3. Inspect your home and surroundings. Make a list of hazards or lack of security that you find. Correct one problem that you found and tell what you did.
4. Explain why garbage and trash must be disposed of properly.
5. Make a list of some things for which your family spends money. Tell how you can help your family save money.
6. Plan your own budget for 30 days. Keep track of your daily expenses for seven days.

And Do Two of These:

1. Prepare a family energy-saving plan. Tell the things you did to carry it out.
2. Tell what your family does for fun. Make a list of fun things your family might do for little cost. Do one of them with a member of your family.
3. Learn how to clean your home properly. Help do it for one month.
4. Show that you know how to look after your clothes. Help with at least two family washes.
5. Help plan the meals for your family for at least 1 week. With adult supervision, help buy the food and help prepare at least three meals for your family.
6. Take part in at least four family meetings and help make decisions. The meetings might involve plans for family activities, or they might be about serious topics that your parent wants you to know about.

FITNESS ACTIVITY

Do Six of These:

1. With a parent or other adult family member complete a safety notebook, which is discussed in the pamphlet 'How to Protect Your Children from Child Abuse ' found in the front of this book.
2. Read the meal planning information in this chapter. With a parent or other family member, plan a week of meals. Explain what kinds of meals are best for you and why.
3. Keep a record of your daily meals and snacks for a week.  Decide whether you have been eating foods that are good for you.
4. Tell an adult member of your family about the bad effects smoking or chewing tobacco would have on your body.
5. Tell an adult member of your family four reasons why you should not use alcohol and how it could affect you.
6. Tell an adult member of your family what drugs could do to your body and how they would affect your ability to think clearly.
7. Read the booklet Take A Stand Against Drugs! Discuss it with an adult and show that you understand the material.

FORESTER ACTIVITY

Do Five of These:

1. Make a map of the United States. Show the types of forests growing in different parts of the country. Name some kinds of trees that grow in these forests. For each type of forest, give one or more examples of uses for the wood of its trees.
2. Draw a picture to show the plant and tree layers of a forest in your area. Label the different layers. (If you don't live in an area that has  forests, choose an area that does and draw a picture of that forest.)
3. Identify six forest trees common to the area where you live. Tell how both wildlife and humans use them. (If you don't live in a region that has  forests, read about one type of forest and name six of its trees and their uses.)
4. Identify six forest plants (other than trees) that are useful to wildlife. Tell which animals use them and for what purposes.
5. Draw a picture showing
   • how water and minerals in the soil help a tree grow
   • how the tree uses sunlight to help it grow
6. Make a poster showing how a tree's growth rings tell its life history
7. Collect pieces of three kinds of wood used for building houses.
8. Plant 20 forest tree seedlings. Tell how you planted them and what you did to take care of them after planting.
9. Describe the harm wildfires can cause. Tell how you can prevent wildfire.
10. Draw your own urban forestry plan for adding trees to a street, yard, or park near your home. Show what types of trees you would like to see planted.

GEOLOGIST ACTIVITY

Do Five of These

1. Collect five geologic specimens that have important uses.
2. Rocks and minerals are used in metals, glass, jewelry, road-building products, and fertilizer. Give examples of minerals used in these products.
3. Make a scale of mineral hardness for objects found at home. Show how to use the scale by finding the relative hardness of three samples.
4. List some of the geologic materials used in building your home.
5. Make a drawing that shows the cause of a volcano, a geyser, or an earthquake.
6. Explain one way in which mountains are formed.
7. Describe what a fossil is. How is it used to tell how old a formation is? Find two examples of fossils in your area.

HANDYMAN ACTIVITY
Do Six of These:

1. With adult supervision, wash a car.
2. Help an adult change a tire on a car.
3. With adult supervision, replace a bulb in the taillight, turn signal, or parking light or replace a headlight on a car.
4. With adult supervision, show how to check the oil level and tire pressure on a car.
5. Make a repair to a bicycle, such as tightening the chain, fixing a flat tire, or adjusting the seat or handlebars.
6. Properly lubricate the chain and crank on a bicycle.
7. Properly inflate the tires on a bicycle.
8. Replace a light bulb in a fixture or lamp.
9. With adult supervision, arrange a storage area for household cleaners and other dangerous materials where small children cannot get them.
10. Build a sawhorse or stool to be used around your home.
11. Help take care of the lawn.
12. Arrange a storage area for hand tools or lawn and garden tools.
13. Clean and properly store hand tools or lawn and garden tools in their storage area.
14. Mark hand tools or lawn and garden tools for identification.

NATURALIST ACTIVITY

Do Four of These

1. Keep an 'insect zoo' that you have collected. You might have crickets, ants, or grasshoppers. Study them for a while then release them.
2. Set up an aquarium or terrarium. Keep it for at least a month.
3. Visit a museum of natural history, nature center, or zoo with your family, den, or pack. Tell what you saw.
4. Watch for birds in your yard, neighborhood, or town for one week. Identify the birds you see and write down where and when you saw them.
5. Learn about the bird flyways closest to your home. Find out which birds use these flyways.
6. Learn to identify poisonous plants and venomous reptiles found in your area.
7. Watch six wild animals (snakes, turtles, fish, birds, or mammals) in the wild. Describe the kind of place (forest, field, marsh, yard, or park) where you saw them. Tell what they were doing.
8. Give examples of
   • A producer, a consumer, and a decomposer in the food chain of an ecosystem
   • One way humans have changed the balance of nature
   • How you can help protect the balance of nature

OUTDOORSMAN ACTIVITY

Do Five of these:

1. Show your ability to tie the following knots:
   • Square knot,
   • Bowline,
   • Clove hitch,
   • Two half hitches,
   • Taut-line hitch
2. Pitch a tent using two half hitches and a tautline hitch.
3. With your adult partner, take part in a Webelos overnighter or camp overnight with a Boy Scout troop.
4. Help with a two-night campout away from home with your family. Or go on two one-night campouts with your family.
5. With your family or Webelos den, plan and take part in an evening outdoor activity that includes a campfire.
6. Help cook your own lunch or supper outdoors with a parent or another adult. Clean up afterward.
7. Know and practice the rules of outdoor fire safety.
8. Visit a nearby Boy Scout camp with your den.

READYMAN ACTIVITY  

Do All of These:

1. Explain what first aid is. Tell what you should do after an accident.
2. Explain how you can get help quickly if there is an emergency in your home. Make a 'help list' of people or agencies that can help you if you need it. Post it near a phone or other place with easy access.
3. Show what to do for these 'hurry cases':
   • Serious bleeding
   • Stopped breathing
   • Internal poisoning
   • Heart attack
4. Show how to treat shock.
5. Show first aid for the following:
   • Cuts and scratches
   • Burns and scalds
   • Choking
6. Tell what steps must be taken for a safe swim with your Webelos den, pack, family, or other group. Explain the reasons for the buddy system.

And Do Two of These:

1. Explain six rules of safety you should follow when driving a bicycle.
2. Plan a home fire escape plan for your family.
3. Explain how to use each item in a first aid kit for a home or car.
4. Tell where accidents are most likely to happen inside and around your home.
5. Explain six safety rules you should remember when riding in a car.
6. Attend a first aid demonstration at a Boy Scout troop meeting, a Red Cross center, or other place.

SCHOLAR ACTIVITY

Do Three of These:

1. Have a good record in attendance, behavior, and grades at school.
2. Take an active part in a school activity or service.
3. Discuss with your teacher or principal the value of having an education.
4. List in writing some important things you can do now because of what you've learned in  school.

And Do Three of These:

1. Trace through history the different kinds of schools. Tell how our present public school system grew out of these early schools.
2. Make a chart showing how your school system is run.
3. Ask a parent and five other grown-ups these questions:
   • What do you think are the best things about my school?
   • What are its main problems?

What do you think were the best answers? Why?

1. List and explain some of the full-time positions in the education field.
2. Help another student with schoolwork. Tell what you did to help.

SCIENTIST ACTIVITY

Do These:

1. Read Bernoulli's Principle. Show how it works.
2. Read Pascal's Law. Tell about some inventions that use Pascal's law.
3. Read Newton's first law of motion. Show in three different ways how inertia works.

And Do Six of These:

1. Show the effects of atmospheric pressure.
2. Show the effects of air pressure.
3. Show the effects of water pressure. This may be combined with atmospheric pressure or with air pressure.
4. Build and launch a model rocket with adult supervision. (NOTE: You must be at least 10 years old to work with a model rocket kit sold in hobby stores.)
5. Explain what causes fog. Show how this works.
6. Explain how crystals are formed. Make some.
7. Explain how you use your center of gravity to keep your balance. Show three different balancing tricks.
8. Show in three different ways how your eyes work together.
9. Show what is meant by an optical illusion.

SHOWMAN ACTIVITY

Choose one set of requirements for this badge:
PUPPETRY REQUIREMENTS

Do Four of These:

1. Write a puppet play about one of your Webelos den activities or a subject of your choice.
2. Make a set of puppets or marionettes for the play you have written or for another play.
3. Build a simple stage for puppets or marionettes.
4. Alone or with the help of others, put on a puppet show for your den or pack.
5. Make a set of four paper bag puppets for a singing group. With the help of three other den members, sing a song with the puppets as the performers.
6. There are sock, stick and finger puppets. There are paper bag puppets and marionettes. Explain their differences and show any puppets you have made for this badge.

MUSIC REQUIREMENTS

Do Four of These:

1. Play four tunes on any band or orchestra instrument. Read these from music.
2. Sing two songs alone or with a group.
3. Make a collection of three or more records, tapes, or compact discs. Tell what you like about each one.
4. Tell what folk music is. Hum, sing, or play a folk tune on a musical instrument.
5. Name three American composers. Name a famous work by each.
6. Draw a staff. Draw on it a clef, sharp, flat, natural, note, and rest. Tell what each is used for.
7. Show the difference between 2/4, 3/4, and 4/4 time by beating time or playing an instrument.

DRAMA REQUIREMENTS

Do Four of These:

1. Give a monologue (a talk) on a patriotic, humorous, or holiday subject, or another subject of your choice.
2. Attend a play. Describe the story. Tell what you liked about it.
3. Read a play. Make a model stage setting for one of the acts.
4. Write, put on, and take part in a one-act play.
5. Make a list of stage directions. Tell what they mean.
6. Describe a theater-in-the-round. What are its good and bad points?
7. Explain the difference between a grand opera and a light opera.  Explain the difference between a musical and a play.
8. Read about William Shakespeare. Draw a picture of his Globe Theater.

SPORTSMAN ACTIVITY

DO THESE:

1. Show the signals used by officials in one of these sports: football, basketball, baseball, soccer, or hockey.
2. Explain what good sportsmanship means.
3. While you are a Webelos Scout, earn Cub Scout Sports belt loops for two individual sports (archery, badminton, bicycling, bowling, fishing, golf, gymnastics, marbles, physical fitness, skating, skiing, swimming, table tennis, or tennis).
4. While you are a Webelos Scout, earn Cub Scout Sports belt loops for two team sports (baseball, basketball, soccer, softball, volleyball, or ultimate).

TRAVELER ACTIVITY

Do Five of These:

1. Get a map or timetable from a railroad, bus line, airline, subway, or light rail. The line should serve the place where you live or where you live. Look up some places it goes.
2. Use a timetable to plan a trip from your home to a city in another state by railroad, bus, airline, or ferry.
3. With your parent or guardian, take a trip to a place that interests you. Go by car, bus, boat, train, or plane.
4. Figure out what it costs per mile for the trip you have taken in requirement 3.
5. List four nearby trips you would like to take with your parents or guardian. Lay out the trips on a highway map. Using the map, act as navigator on one of these trips. It should start at your home, be at least 25 miles long, and have six or more turns.
6. Pack a suitcase for a trip.
7. Check the first aid kit in the family car to see if it contains what it needs

Earn them all? 
You're a Webelos Super Achiever!