This badge represents a rank. Advancement refers to the progress a Cub Scout makes toward their badge of rank. All of the activities for each rank are in the Cub Scout handbooks. Based on different topics such as hiking, nature, science, citizenship, first aid, sports, and more, adventures are earned as a Cub Scout advances toward their badge of rank. Once an adventure is completed, a Cub Scout receives recognition in the form of an adventure loop or adventure pin.
In partnership with dozens of faith organizations representing different religions, youth may earn the Religious Emblem of their faith. The uniform is one of the methods of delivering the Scouting program. In addition to creating a sense of belonging, the uniform gives a Scout the ability to display their personal achievements.
There are various awards for those who serve as Scout volunteer leaders. Some have specific requirements and are earned, while others are awarded for exceptional service. Scoutreach The Scoutreach service area is a non-traditional school based program. Service Projects Unit Finance Business-like finance management not only assures that your unit will remain solvent and have what it needs when it needs it, Sign-in Page.
Why are single-gender dens recommended instead of a co-ed model? Source - Page 3 What if I only have one or two girls who are interested in joining? Keep recruiting — have the girls invite their friends. Packs will continue to have the option to combine grade levels to form a den as long as they are working on their respective ranks. For example, if you have two third-grade girls and two fourth-grade girls, you may combine into one single-gender den as long as they are working on their Bear and Webelos, respectively.
Source - Page 9 Can separate boy and girl dens work on the same activity at the same time together? There is no set rule or guideline on this. If appropriate, this can be treated the same as two dens of the same gender working together. It will be up to the good judgment of leaders to decide what is best for their units. Source - Page 8.
Show the Cub Scout sign. Tell what it means. Repeat the Cub Scout motto. Show the Cub Scout salute. Show teamwork and good sportsmanship by playing a game with your den. Participate in an outing. Learn and say the Scout Oath, with help if needed 2. Learn and say the Scout Law, with help if needed. Show the Cub Scout handshake. Say the Cub Scout motto.
Give the Cub Scout salute. Do the following: a. With your den or adult partner, say the Scout Law. Explain to your den one of the 12 points of the Law and why you think a knight would have the same behavior. If you have not already done so, make a code of conduct with your den that will describe how each person should act when you are all together. If your den has a code of conduct, discuss with your den the updates it might need.
Vote on which actions should go in your den code of conduct. Create a den shield and a personal shield. Using recycled materials, design and build a small castle with your adult partner to display at the pack meeting.
Think of one physical challenge that could be part of an obstacle course. Then help your den design a Tiger knight obstacle course. With your adult partner, participate in the course.
Participate in a service project. Citizenship There are four aims of Scouting: citizenship, character, personal fitness, and leadership. Patriotic theme Flags Citizenship.
Participate in a service project Help with a local service project Work on a service project Hometown Heroes retiring 4A. Honor a serviceman or servicewoman by sending a care package Do a cleanup project Aware and Care 4G.
Participate in a service project that focuses on a specific disability. Participate in a parade or assembly celebrating military veterans Paws for Action 4B. Participate in a patriotic community parade or other civic event Flags King of the Jungle Visit a Webelos den meeting Council Fire 1. Participate in a flag ceremony Building a Better World 1. Show how to properly display the flag in public, and help lead a flag ceremony Community Paws for Action 2B.
Visit places of historical interest Building a Better World 4. Meet with a government or community leader Nature Since , conservation and environmental studies have been an integral part of the Boy Scouts of America. Wildlife fact sheets. Invasive Species. Maps of Wetlands in Houston area. Visit with an individual who can demonstrate different ways to garden and the basic skills needed to garden. Grow Something retiring 3. Visit or research a botanical or community garden Fishing Fun, Feathers and Ferns 2.
Visit a fish hatchery A Bear Goes Fishing 4. Go on a fishing adventure, and spend a minimum of one hour trying to catch a fish Museum Into the Wild 9. Visit a museum of natural history, a nature center, or a zoo Tigers in the Wild 7. Visit a nature center, zoo, or another outside place Fun, Feathers and Ferns 2. Visit a zoo, wildlife refuge, nature center, aviary, game preserve, local conservation area, wildlife rescue group, or fish hatchery Into the Woods 7.
Visit a nature center, nursery, tree farm, or park, and speak with someone knowledgeable about trees and plants that are native to your area Visit an ecosystem near where you live. Visit a place where you can observe wildlife. Examples include parks national, state, and local , zoos, wetlands, nature preserves, and national forests.
Visit an aquatic habitat near your home. Examples include a stream, river, lake, pond, ocean, and wetland a marsh or swamp. My Tiger Jungle 1. Go for a walk outside Take a 1-foot hike listed under Nature Tigers in the Wild 2. Short hike Paws on the Path 5. Hike one mile Hike 3 miles Participate in outdoor pack meeting or campfire Call of the Wild 1. Attend a campout, outdoor activity, day camp or resident camp Howling at the Moon 3.
Plan campfire program Perform Bear Necessities 1. Attend campout, outdoor activity, day camp, or resident camp Outdoor 1. Participate in a campout Learn and demonstrate three exercise you can do each day. Have Lions make a nutritious snack for the den. Understand the importance of rest. Participate as a den in Jungle Field Day. Tiger Bites Food Required 1. With your parent, guardian, or other caring adult, or with your den, find out about good food choices and not-so-good choices.
Identify three foods that you think would be good choices and three foods that would not be good choices. Explain the importance of hand washing before a meal and cleanup after a meal. Then show how you would do each. Show that you know the difference between a fruit and a vegetable. Eat one of each. With your parent, guardian, or other caring adult, pick a job to help your family at mealtime. Do it for at least four meals.
Talk with your parent, guardian, or other caring adult about what foods you can eat with your fingers. Practice your manners when eating them. With your parent, guardian, or other caring adult, plan and make a good snack choice or other nutritious food to share with your den. Play catch with someone in your den or family who is standing 5 steps away from you.
Play until you can throw and catch successfully at this distance. Take a step back and see if you can improve your throwing and catching skills. Practice balancing as you walk forward, backward, and sideways. Practice flexibility and balance by doing a front roll, a back roll, and a frog stand.
Play a sport or game with your den or family, and show good sportsmanship. Do at least two of the following: frog leap, inchworm walk, kangaroo hop, or crab walk. Demonstrate what it means to eat a balanced diet by helping to plan a healthy menu for a meal for your den or family. Make a shopping list of the food used to prepare the meal. Bear Picnic Basket Food Elective 1. Create your own Bear cookbook using at least five recipes you might cook or prepare either on your own or with some adult help.
Include at least one recipe each for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and a nutritious snack. With a family member or den leader, prepare for cooking by explaining the importance of planning, tool selection, sanitation, and cooking safety.
Select and prepare two nutritious snacks for yourself, your family, or your den. With the help of an adult, select a recipe to prepare in a kitchen for your den or your family. Cook and serve your planned meal. Clean up after the preparation and cooking. With the help of an adult, select a recipe to prepare in the outdoors for your family or den. Cast Iron Chef Food Required 1. Plan a menu for a balanced meal for your den or family.
Determine the budget for the meal. If possible, shop for the items on your menu. Stay within your budget. Prepare a balanced meal for your den or family.
If possible, use one of these methods for preparation of part of the meal: camp stove, Dutch oven, box oven, solar oven, open campfire, or charcoal grill. Demonstrate an understanding of food safety practices while preparing the meal.
Use tinder, kindling, and fuel wood to demonstrate how to build a fire in an appropriate outdoor location. If circumstances permit and there is no local restriction on fires, show how to safely light the fire, under the supervision of an adult. After allowing the fire to burn safely, safely extinguish the flames with minimal impact to the fire site. Safety Supplemental Resources First aid Safety ideas. Learn the role of someone who provides a service to your community. Tiger: Safe and Smart 9.
Visit an emergency responder station, or have an emergency responder visit you Rolling Tigers 8. Visit police department to learn about bicycle-riding laws Council Fire 3. Talk to a military veteran, law enforcement officer, member of the fire department Hometown Heroes retiring 2. Visit a community agency where you will find many heroes Find out how officers collect evidence. Visit with a first responder or health-care professional. Arts Cub Scouts love to make and build things.
Visit an art gallery or a museum, explore an art website, or library. Art Explosion 1. Visit an art museum, gallery, or exhibit Historical Landmark Tiger Tales retiring 7.
Visit a historical museum or landmark Duty To God Footsteps 6. Visit a religious monument Put on a magic show for an audience Native American Beat of the Drum retiring 4B. Visit an American Indian event or an event presented by other indigenous people. Beat of the Drum retiring 4A. Visit an Order of the Arrow dance ceremony. Pack meeting or campfire Tiger Theater retiring 3. Make a puppet show to display at a pack meeting. Make up a new game, and play it with members of your pack Participate in an outdoor pack meeting or pack campout campfire.
Sing a song and act out a skit with your Tiger den Rehearse a campfire program to present at a den meeting or pack program Participate in flag ceremony listed under Citizenship Howling at the Moon 3.
Plan and perform campfire program Perform your role for a pack program Perform two run-ons at a pack meeting or campfire program Grin and Bear It 2. Organize a carnival Lead younger Scouts in a fitness game or games as a gathering activity for a pack Share engineering projects at pack meeting listed under Science Building a Better World 6b.
Set up an exhibit at a pack meeting to share information about the World Friendship Fund. Watch a play or attend a storytime at a library. Maestro retiring 1A. Attend a live musical performance. Visit a facility that uses a sound mixer Visit a place where symmetry is important such as an art exhibit, building site, or printer.
Sports There are four aims of Scouting: citizenship, character, personal fitness, and leadership. Supplemental Resources Sports ideas Sports theme.
Visit a sporting event Cubs Who Care 8. Attend an event where people with disabilities are participants or accommodations are made listed under Character Aware and Care 4H. Participate in an activity with an organization whose members are disabled. Participate in Jungle Field Day On Your Mark 2. Participate in an obstacle course relay. Stronger, Faster, Higher 6. Lead younger Scouts in a fitness game or games Aquatics Floats and Boats 4. Show how to enter the water safely, blow your breath out under the water, and do a prone glide Spirit of the Water 5.
Visit a local pool or public swimming area Salmon Run 2. Visit a local pool or swimming area. Go swimming or take a swimming lesson Aquanaut 4. Attempt the BSA swimmer test Learn and demonstrate two strokes Biking Rolling Tigers 5.
Go on a bicycle hike wearing your safety equipment Participate in a game with your den. Participate in a box derby race. Rumble in the Jungle. Play a game with rules; indicate an understanding of the rules and why it is important to follow the rules while playing the game. Choose a jungle animal that you would like to be; describe the animal and why you chose it. Participate in a parade with the other animals in your den.
Games Tigers Play Games Required 1. Do the following: A. Play two initiative or team-building games with the members of your den. Listen carefully to your leader while the rules are being explained, and follow directions when playing C.
At the end of the game, talk with the leader about what you learned when you played the game. Tell how you helped the den by playing your part.
Talk with your den or family about why good nutrition helps you to be strong and active. Bring a nutritious snack to a den meeting. Share why you picked it and what makes it a good snack choice. Make up a game with the members of your den, and play it with den members. After playing the game, talk with your den about the experience.
Make up a new game, and play it with your family or members of your den or pack. Then talk with the group about the experience. Attend a sporting event with your den or family. Before or after the event, talk with a coach or athlete about what it is like to participate in the sport.
OR find out more about the sport and share what you have learned with your den or family members before or after the event. Show your understanding of knights' service to others by participating in a service project in your community. Choose one active game you like, and tell your den about how to play and why you like this game.
Play two team or relay games with your den. Tell your parent, guardian, or other caring adult or the other Tigers what you liked best about each game. Have your den choose a team or relay game that everyone can play, and play it at least twice. With your parent, guardian, or other caring adult, select an active outside game that you could play with the members of your den. Talk with den members about the games suggested by all Tigers. With your den, decide on a game to play and play the game that your den has chosen.
After the game, discuss with your den the meaning of being a good sport. Play at least two different games by yourself; one may be a video game. Play a board game or another inside game with one or more members of your den. Play a problem-solving game with your den. Play a video game with family members or den members in a tournament.
List at least three tips that would help someone who was learning how to play your favorite video game. Play an appropriate video game with a friend for 30 minutes. With other members of your den, invent a game, OR change the rules of a game you know, and play the game.
Play a team game with your den. Complete two of the following: A. With the members of your den or family, make a game with simple materials that requires math to keep score. Do five activities at home, at school, or in your den that use mathematics, and then explain to your den how you used everyday math.
Make a rekenrek with two rows, and show your den leader or other adult how you would represent the numbers 4, 6, 9, and Make a rain gauge or some other measuring device, and use it.
Complete one of the following: A. With other members of your den or family, identify three different types of shapes that you see in nature.
With other members of your den or family, identify two shapes you can see in the construction of bridges. Select a single shape or figure. Observe the world around you for at least a week, and write down where you see this shape or figure and how it is used.
With your den, find something that comes with many small, colored items in one package. Count the number of items of each color in your package. Keep track of each color.
Then: i. Draw a graph showing the number of items of each color. Determine what the most common color is. Compare your results to those of the other Scouts. Predict how many items of each color you will find in one more package. Decide if your prediction was close.
With your den or family, measure the height of everyone in the group and see who takes more steps to walk feet. Have each member of your den shoot a basketball. Count the number of shots it takes for each Scout to sink five baskets.
Make a graph that shows how successful your den was. Your graph should show each group that needed 5, 6 —10, 11—15, 16 —20, and more than 20 tries to sink their shots. Use a secret code using numbers to send a message to one of your den members or your den leader. Have that person send a message back to you.
Be sure you both use the same code. Send a message to another member of your den or your den leader using the pig pen code or another code that changes letters into special shapes. Practice using a code stick to create and decode a message. Marble Madness Games Elective 1. Discuss with your family or den the history of marbles, such as where and when the game began.
Talk about the different sizes of marbles and what they are made of and used for. Learn about three different marble games, and learn to play one of them. Learn how to keep score. Learn and follow the rules of the game. Play the game with your family, friends, or your den. Learn four or five words that are used when talking about marbles. Tell what each of the words means and how it relates to playing marbles. Share this information with your den. With your den or family, make a marble obstacle course or marble golf course.
Share what you create. Invite everyone to go through your course. Create your own game using marbles, and design rules for playing the game. Share the game you created with your den, family, or friends. Explain the rules and how to play the game. With your den or family, create a marble race track. Have at least two lanes so you can race your favorite marbles against each other.
Make a marble maze. With the help of an adult, make a marble bag to hold marbles. Grin and Bear It Games Elective 1. Play a challenge game or initiative game with the members of your den. Take part in a reflection after the game. Working with the members of your den, fand lead it at a special event. Help younger Cub Scouts take part in one of the events at the Cub Scout carnival.
After the Cub Scout carnival, discuss with the members of your den and your den leader what went well, what could be done better, and how everyone worked together to make the event a success. With your den, develop a thank-you cheer to recognize those who helped organize the Cub Scout carnival. Decide on the elements for a game. List at least five of the online safety rules that you put into practice while using the internet on your computer or smartphone.
Skip this if your Cyber Chip is current. Create your game. Teach an adult or another Scout how to play your game. Family Field Trips Family Stories retiring 3. Visit your public library to find out information about the heritage of some of your family members.
Critter Care 3A. Visit with a local veterinarian or an animal shelter caretaker Visit religious monument or site. Character Supplemental Resources Heroes ideas Heroes theme coming soon. Attend an event where people with disabilities are participants or where accommodations are made a part of the event Aware and Care 4H. Science Field Trips Sky is the Limit 8.
Visit planetarium, observatory, science museum or astronomy club, or college or high school astronomy teacher Adventures in Science retiring 2. Visit a museum, college, laboratory, observatory, zoo, aquarium, or other facility that employs scientists Robotics retiring 5. Visit a place that uses robots. Engineer 2C. Share engineering projects at pack meeting.
Visit a science place e. Visit an earth science place e. Visit a space science place e.. Visit an excavation place e. Visit a technology place e. STEM: Swing! Visit a place that uses levers e. Visit an observatory, research facility, or a museum that highlights flight, aviation, or space. The purpose is to help families and volunteers keep youth safe while online. Grade Requirements Grade Requirements Outdoor Activity Award Cub Scouts in 1 st - 5 th grade can earn the Outdoor Activity Award in each of the program years as long as the requirements are completed each year.
This can be a day trip, a one night campout, or a weekend away. Scouts BSA troops can decide which activities fit their program the best. Or your younger patrols might do a simpler program while patrols with more experienced Scouts uses one of the more challenging plans. Program Themes. Skip to primary navigation Skip to main content Skip to footer Themes are a way to help your youth leadership plan an month of activities around a central skill or emphasis.
So check out the list of Scouts BSA program themes below and pick one which interests your unit. The program feature includes some general information and some more specific ideas for meetings:.
Fitness and Nutrition Program Feature for Scouts BSA Troops The Fitness and Nutrition program feature is listed in the Sports program features category, but fitness and nutrition are important for everyone, whether involved in sports or not.
Topics include…. They witness reenactments and learn about historical events and different ways…. It also introduces them to the sport of orienteering, where participants race to find markers called…. Scouts learn the satisfaction of preparing their own…. Scouts learn to appreciate everything they see and experience around them…. While doing this, they learn about fitness, teamwork, and fun. Project Planning Program Feature for Scouts BSA Troops The Project Planning feature helps youth leaders learn how to accomplish their goals, whether that be a service project or a troop campout or planning other activities together.
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