Have your Lion adult partner or den leader read the Scout Law to you. Demonstrate your understanding of being friendly.
Share with your Lion adult partner, during a den meeting or at home, a time when you have demonstrated the Cub Scout motto “Do Your Best.”
At home, with your parent or legal guardian do the activities in the booklet “How to Protect Your Children from Child Abuse: A Parent’s Guide.”
Mountain Lion
Identify the Cub Scout Six Essentials. Show what you do with each item.
With your den, pack, or family, take a walk outside spending for at least 20 minutes exploring the outdoors with your Cub Scout Six Essentials. While outside, identify things that you see with your Lion adult partner that are natural and things that are manmade.
Discover what S.A.W. means.
Identify common animals that are found where you live. Separate those animals into domesticated and wild.
Fun on the Run
Identify the five different food groups.
Practice hand washing. Point out when you should wash your hands.
Be active for 20 minutes.
Practice methods that help you rest.
King of the Jungle
Draw a picture or take a photo of the people you live with.
With your Lion adult partner, choose a job that will help your family. Follow through by doing that job at least once.
Talk with a grandparent or other older adult about what citizenship means to them.
Participate in a service project.
Lion’s Roar
With permission from your parent or legal guardian, watch the Protect Yourself Rules video for the Lion rank.
With your Lion adult partner, demonstrate Shout, Run, Tell as described in the Protect Yourself Rules video.
With your Lion adult partner, demonstrate how to access emergency services.
With your Lion adult partner, demonstrate how to safely cross a street or walk in a parking lot.
Lion’s Pride
With your parent or legal guardian talk about your family’s faith traditions.
Draw a picture of your favorite family’s faith tradition holiday or celebration.
With your family, attend a religious service or other gathering that shows how your family expresses reverence.
Make a cheerful card or a drawing for someone you love and give it to them. Scouts may earn this adventure by completing the requirements above OR earning the religious emblem of their choosing
LION Elective Adventures
Build It Up, Knock It Down
With your Lion adult partner, build a structure.
With your den or family, build a structure.
Build something that is designed to be knocked down.
Champions for Nature
Discover the difference between natural resources and man-made items.
Discover the difference between organic, paper, and glass waste.
Discover recycling.
Participate in a conservation service project.
Count on Me
Make a Lion using only squares, triangles, and circles.
Play a game with your Lion adult partner or den that is based on counting or numbers.
Organize a group of items based on shape, then based on color, and one other category. Count how many different shapes are in each category. After organizing them build anything using only one category.
Everyday Tech
Discover technology around your home, meeting place, or neighborhood.
Discover ways that digital technology can make life easier.
Identify an item of digital technology you use at home. Demonstrate to your adult partner how you use it safely.
Gizmos & Gadgets
Explore properties of motion.
Explore properties of force.
Use household materials to create a useful object.
Go Fish
With your Lion adult partner, learn the rules of fishing safely.
Draw a picture of the type of fish you think lives in the water where you are going fishing.
Go fishing with your Lion adult partner.
I’ll Do It Myself
Make and use a “lion bag” for personal Scouting gear.
Construct a personal care checklist.
Put on your shoes without help. Take them off and put them away.
Let’s Camp
Learn about the buddy system and how it works in the outdoors.
Before going on the overnight campout, discuss what type of weather is expected and what type of clothes you should wear.
Pack up your Cub Scout Six Essentials for the campout.
Attend a council or district Cub Scout overnight camp or attend a campout with your pack.
On A Roll
With your den or Lion adult partner, learn about the safety gear you should use while riding a bicycle.
With your den or Lion adult partner, learn the safety rules to follow when riding a bicycle.
With your Lion adult partner or family, ride a bicycle wearing appropriate safety gear and follow safety rules.
On Your Mark
Play a game with your den.
Participate in an obstacle course relay.
Build a box derby and participate in a race.
Pick My Path
Explain that choices have consequences.
Perform a Good Turn for another person.
Learn the basic rules of a game and play the game.
Race Time
With your Lion adult partner, assemble and decorate either a Pinewood Derby car or a
Raingutter Regatta boat.
Learn the rules of the race for the vehicle chosen in requirement 1.
Before the race, discuss with your Lion adult partner how you will demonstrate good sportsmanship during the race.
With your Lion adult partner, participate in a Pinewood Derby or a Raingutter Regatta.
Ready, Set, Grow
Discover where the food we eat comes from.
Plant a small garden outside or in a container.
Visit with an individual who can demonstrate different ways to garden (outside, greenhouse, container, etc.) and the basic skills needed to garden.
Time to Swim
Learn about the swimming safety rules that you need to follow.
Demonstrate how to enter the swimming area properly.
With your Lion adult partner as your buddy, be active in water depths matching your ability for 20 minutes.
Place your face in the water and blow bubbles.
Demonstrate how to exit the swimming area properly.
LION Range and Target Activities
Archery*
With your Lion adult partner, identify and wear the appropriate safety gear.
With your Lion adult partner, recite the archery range safety rules and whistle commands.
With your Lion adult partner, demonstrate proper range commands.
With your Lion adult partner, identify the main parts of your shooting equipment and how to properly use them.
With your Lion adult partner, demonstrate proper stance and shooting techniques.
Shoot 2 arrows at your target. Repeat and do your best to improve your score. Shoot at least 4 arrows.
Demonstrate how to safety retrieve your target arrows.
Slingshot*
With your Lion adult partner, identify and wear the appropriate safety gear.
With your Lion adult partner, recite the safety rules for using a slingshot.
With your Lion adult partner, demonstrate proper range commands.
With your Lion adult partner, explore the parts of a slingshot and their usage.
With your Lion adult partner, discover the types of ammunition that may be used and types that may not be used.
Shoot 5 shots at a target. Repeat and do your best to improve your score. Shoot at least 10 shots.
Demonstrate how to put away and properly store your slingshot and shooting equipment after use.
*These adventures can only be completed at a council-supported activity, such as Family Adventure Camp, Cub Scout Summer Camp, or Day Camp. They require certified instructors to deliver the Adventure in a safe environment.
TIGER Required Adventures
Bobcat
Get to know the members of your den.
Recite the Scout Oath with your den, including your Tiger adult partner.
Have your Tiger adult partner or den leader read the Scout Law to you. Demonstrate your understanding of being trustworthy, helpful, or friendly.
Demonstrate the Cub Scout sign, Cub Scout salute and Cub Scout handshake. Show how each are used.
Share with your Tiger adult partner, at a den meeting or at home, a time when you have demonstrated the Cub Scout motto “Do Your Best.”
At home, with your parent or legal guardian do the activities in the booklet “How to Protect Your Children from Child Abuse: A Parent’s Guide.”
Tigers in the Wild
Identify the Cub Scout Six Essentials. Show what you do with each item.
With your den leader or Tiger adult partner, learn about the Outdoor Code.
With your den, pack, or family, take a walk outside spending for at least 20 minutes exploring the outdoors with your Cub Scout Six Essentials. While outside, identify things that you see with your Tiger adult partner that are natural and things that are manmade.
Identify common animals that are found where you live. Learn which of those animals is domesticated and which animal is wild. Draw a picture of your favorite animal.
Look for a tree where you live. Describe how this tree is helpful.
Tiger Bites
Identify the five different food groups.
Practice hand washing. Point out when you should wash your hands.
Be active for 30 minutes.
Practice methods that help you sleep.
Team Tiger
Play a game with your den, or family members, that has a set of rules. Discuss why rules are important to the game you are playing.
With your Tiger Adult Partner, choose a job that will help your team. Follow through by doing that job at least once.
Play a game that requires at least two teams with your den, or two other family members. Afterwards discuss what it means to be part of a team & what makes a good team member.
Participate in a service project.
Tiger’s Roar
With permission from your parent or legal guardian watch the Protect Yourself Rules video for the Tiger rank.
With your Tiger adult partner, demonstrate Shout, Run, Tell as explained in the Protect Yourself Rules video.
With your Tiger adult partner, demonstrate how to access emergency services.
With your Tiger adult partner, demonstrate that you know what to do if you get lost or separated.
Tiger Circles
With your parent or legal guardian talk about your family’s faith traditions. Identify three holidays or celebrations that are part of your family’s faith traditions. Draw a picture of your favorite family’s faith tradition holiday or celebration.
With your family, attend a religious service OR other gathering that shows how your family expresses reverence.
Carry out an act of kindness. Scouts may earn this adventure by completing the requirements above OR earning the religious emblem of their choosing
TIGER Elective Adventures
Champions for Nature
Discover the difference between renewable natural resources and non-renewable natural resources.
Learn about the 3 R’s: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.
Discover what happens to the garbage in your community.
Participate in a conservation service project.
Curiosity, Intrigue, and Magical Mysteries
Learn a magic trick. Practice the trick. Share the trick with you den or family members.
Demonstrate how a magic trick works to your den, family or Tiger adult partner.
Write your name in secret code.
Write a message with the code. Challenge your den, family or Tiger adult partner to read your coded message.
Designed by Tiger
Think about something that you would like to build. Draw a picture of what the final project should look like.
Using your drawing as a guide, build the project.
When completed, discuss with your Tiger adult partner what could be done to improve your project.
Make the improvement to your project.
Make a drawing of your final project.
Fish On
With your den or Tiger adult partner, identify the body of water where you will go fishing.
With your Tiger adult partner, learn the rules of fishing safely.
Draw a picture of the type of fish you think lives in the water where you are going fishing.
Go fishing with your Tiger adult partner.
Floats & Boats
Identify five different types of boats.
Identify five things that float and five things that do not float.
Build or create a model boat and float it on the water. This can be made from recycled materials or other items.
Good Knights
Discuss with your den or Tiger adult partner what it means to have courteous behavior, how a knight behaves. Tell another Tiger which points of the Scout Law help you to have the same Knightly behavior.
Create a shield that can be for your den or a personal shield.
Using recycled and other materials, design and build a small castle in your den or at home.
Do a Good Turn.
Let’s Camp
Learn about the buddy system and how it works in the outdoors.
Before going on the overnight campout, discuss what type of weather is expected and what type of clothes you should wear.
Pack up your Cub Scout Six Essentials for the campout.
Learn a camping skill.
Attend a council or district Cub Scout overnight camp or attend a campout with your pack.
Race Time
With your Tiger adult partner, assemble and decorate either a Pinewood Derby car or a Raingutter Regatta boat.
Learn the rules of the race for the vehicle chosen in requirement 1.
Before the race, discuss with your Tiger adult partner how you will demonstrate good sportsmanship during the race.
With your Tiger adult partner, participate in a Pinewood Derby or a Raingutter Regatta.
Rolling Tigers
Learn the ABC’s of bike gear (air, brakes, chain.)
With your den or Tiger adult partner, learn about the safety gear you should use while riding a bicycle.
With your den or Tiger adult partner, learn the safety rules to follow when riding a bicycle.
With your den or Tiger adult partner, demonstrate proper hand signals.
With your Tiger adult partner or family, ride a bike or begin learning how to ride a bike.
Safe & Smart
Memorize your address. Recite it to your Tiger adult partner or den leader.
Memorize an emergency contact’s phone number. Recite it to your Tiger adult partner or den leader.
Show you can Stop, Drop and Roll.
With your Tiger adult partner or den leader, create a fire escape plan for your home or den meeting place. Include your outside meet-up spot. Practice the escape route you would take.
With your Tiger adult partner, find the location of the smoke detectors in your home or den meeting place. Confirm they are working properly.
With your Tiger adult partner or den leader, learn why matches and lighters are only for adults.
Visit an emergency responder station or have an emergency responder visit your den.
Sky is the Limit
Observe the night sky with your den or Tiger adult partner. Talk about the items you see or might see there.
Look at distant objects through a telescope, binoculars, or camera. Show how to focus the device you choose.
Observe in the sky or select from a book, chart, computer, or electronic device two constellations that are easy to see in the night sky. With your den or Tiger adult partner, find out the constellation name and how to identify them. Create a picture of one of the constellations.
Create a homemade model of a constellation.
Stories in Shapes
Explore art in your community.
Look closely at art or a picture of art with your den or Tiger adult partner. Decide what you like about the art, and share your ideas with your den, family or Tiger adult partner.
Create a piece of art using shapes.
Learn how to spell your name in Braille and sign language.
Summertime Fun
Anytime during May through August participate in a total of three Cub Scout activities.
Tech All Around
Discover technology around your home, meeting place, or neighborhood.
Discover ways that digital technology can make life easier.
Identify an item of digital technology you use at home. Demonstrate to your adult partner how you use it safely.
With your parent or legal guardian, set up a policy for digital devices.
Tiger Tag
Play an active game with your den. Share with your Tiger Adult Partner or your den why you like this game.
Play a relay game with your den. Share with your Tiger Adult Partner or your den why you like this game.
Discuss what it means to be a good sport in a game with your Tiger adult partner or other Tigers.
Attend a sporting event.
Tiger-iffic!
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 or family.
With other members of your den or family, invent a game, or change the rules of a game you know, and play the game.
Play a team game with your den or family.
Tigers in the Water
Learn about the swimming safety rules that you need to follow.
Demonstrate how to enter the swimming area properly.
With your Tiger adult partner as your buddy, be active in water depths matching your ability for 20 minutes.
Place your face in the water and blow bubbles.
Demonstrate a flutter kick.
Demonstrate how to exit the swimming area properly.
TIGER Range and Target Activities
Archery*
With your Tiger adult partner, identify and wear the appropriate safety gear.
With your Tiger adult partner, recite the archery range safety rules and whistle commands.
With your Tiger adult partner, demonstrate proper range commands.
With your Tiger adult partner, identify the main parts of your shooting equipment and how to properly use them.
With your Tiger adult partner, demonstrate proper stance and shooting techniques.
Shoot 3 arrows at your target. Repeat and do your best to improve your score. Shoot at least 6 arrows.
Demonstrate how to safety retrieve your target arrows.
BB Gun*
With your Tiger adult partner, identify and wear the appropriate safety gear.
With your Tiger adult partner, recite the four safety reminders.
With your Tiger adult partner, demonstrate proper range commands.
With your Tiger adult partner, show how to use the safety mechanism.
With your Tiger adult partner, demonstrate how to properly load, fire, and secure your BB gun.
With your Tiger adult partner, demonstrate one of the positions for shooting a BB gun.
Fire 5 BBs at the target . With the help of your Tiger adult partner, score your target. Repeat and do your best to improve your score. Fire at least 10 BBs.
Demonstrate how to put away & properly store your BB gun and shooting equipment after use.
Slingshot*
With your Tiger adult partner, identify and wear the appropriate safety gear.
With your Tiger adult partner, recite the safety rules for using a slingshot.
With your Tiger adult partner, demonstrate proper range commands.
With your Tiger adult partner, explore the parts of a slingshot and their usage.
With your Tiger adult partner, discover the types of ammunition that may be used and types that may not be used.
Shoot 5 shots at a target. Repeat and do your best to improve your score. Shoot at least 10 shots.
Demonstrate how to put away and properly store your slingshot and shooting equipment after use.
*These adventures can only be completed at a council-supported activity, such as Family Adventure Camp, Cub Scout Summer Camp, or Day Camp. They require certified instructors to deliver the Adventure in a safe environment.
Recite the Scout Oath and the Scout Law with your den and den leader.
Learn about the Scout Law.
With your den, create a den Code of Conduct.
Demonstrate the Cub Scout sign, Cub Scout salute and Cub Scout handshake. Show how each is used.
Share with your den, or family, a time when you demonstrated the Cub Scout motto “Do Your Best.”
At home, with your parent or legal guardian do the activities in the booklet “How to Protect Your Children from Child Abuse: A Parent’s Guide.”
Paws on the Path
Identify the Cub Scout Six Essentials. Show what you do with each item.
Learn about the buddy system and how it works in the outdoors. Pick a buddy for your walk.
Identify appropriate clothes and shoes for your walk outside. Do your best to wear them on your walk.
Learn about the Outdoor Code and Leave No Trace Principle for Kids.
With your den, pack, or family, take a walk outside for at least 30 minutes to explore nature in your surroundings. Describe four different animals, domestic or wild, that you could see on your walk.
Running with the Pack
Sample three different foods that are naturally three different colors. The food must be a protein, vegetable, fruit, dairy, or a grain.
Demonstrate the proper way to brush your teeth.
Be active for 30 minutes with your den or at least one other person. That includes both stretching and moving.
Be active for 10 minutes doing personal exercises.
Do a relaxing activity for 10 minutes.
Review your BSA Annual Health and Medical Record with your parent or legal guardian. Discuss your ability to participate in den and pack activities.
Council Fire
Learn how to properly care for and fold the United States flag. With your den or pack, participate in a flag ceremony.
Identify three points of the Scout Law that are important to being a good neighbor.
Build a model of your home.
Using the same materials from requirement 3, create a model of a building that you visit.
Using the models built in both requirements 3 and 4, create a neighborhood.
Participate in a service project. Explain how your volunteering is helpful to your neighborhood.
Safety in Numbers
With permission from your parent or legal guardian, watch the “Protect Yourself Rules” video for the Wolf rank.
Discuss “safe touch” as seen in the Protect Yourself Rules video.
Learn about the buddy system and demonstrate how it works.
Review common safety rules and demonstrate the proper use of playground equipment.
Footsteps
With your parent or legal guardian talk about your family’s faith traditions. Identify three holidays or celebrations that are part of your family’s faith traditions. Make a craft or work of art of your favorite family’s faith tradition holiday or celebration.
With your family, attend a religious service or other gathering that shows how your family expresses reverence.
Carry out an act of kindness.
Listen to or read Aesop’s fable “The Boy Who Cried Wolf.” With your den or family discuss why being truthful is important. Scouts may earn this adventure by completing the requirements above OR earning the religious emblem of their choosing
WOLF Elective Adventures
A Wolf Goes Fishing
Identify the type of water you will be fishing in and what type of fish live in the water.
Learn about the different types of bait used to attract fish.
Demonstrate a proper cast for the pole or rod you are using.
Learn the rules of fishing safely.
With your den, pack, or family, go fishing.
Adventures in Coins
Identify different parts of a coin.
Find the mint mark on a coin and identify the mint facility where it was made and the year it was made.
Play a coin game.
Choose a coin that interests you and make a cion rubbing. List information next to the coin detailing the pictures on it, the year it was made, and the mint where it was made.
Air of the Wolf
Make a paper airplane and fly it five times. Record the flight distance and time.
Make a paper airplane of a different design and fly it five times. Record the flight distance and time.
Compare and contrast the two paper airplanes by distance and flight times.
Build a flying machine that is not a paper airplane.
Champions for Nature
Discover the difference between renewable natural resources and nonrenewable natural resources.
Learn about the three R’s: reduce, reuse, recycle.
Discover what happens to the recyclables in your community.
Participate in a conservation project.
Code of the Wolf
Create a secret code. Send a message to a member of your den or family. Have that person send a message back to you using the same secret code.
Build and play a game that requires the use of codes or patterns.
Select a single shape. Observe the environment around you. Write down where you see that shape and how it is being used.
Using a package that contains a number of different colored items, discover the most common color.
Computing Wolves
Discover the basic components of a computer.
Determine how to properly dispose of computer components.
Using a digital device application of your choice, create a story that you can share with others.
With your parent or legal guardian, set up a policy for safely using digital devices.
Cubs Who Care
Explore what it is to have a physical disability.
Explore what it is to have a visual impairment.
Explore what it is to have a hearing loss.
Explore barriers to getting around.
Digging in the Past
Play a dinosaur game that shows what you know about them.
Create an imaginary dinosaur. Share with your den or family its name, what it eats, its size, and where it lives.
Be a paleontologist and dig through a dinosaur dig.
Build a fossil layer.
Finding Your Way
Using a map, locate where you live.
Draw a map for a friend to locate your home or school. Create a key for the map.
Find the directions north, east, south, and west and the compass rose on a map.
Find the directions north, east, south, and west using a compass.
Practice using both a map and a compass.
Germs Alive
Wash your hands with soap and water while singing the “Happy Birthday” song two times.
Play Germ Magnet with our den or your family. Wash your hands afterward.
Conduct the sneeze demonstration.
Conduct the mucus demonstration.
Grow a mold culture. Show what formed at a den or pack meeting.
Let’s Camp
Learn about the buddy system and how it works in the outdoors.
Know the Cub Scout Six Essentials.
In addition to your Cub Scout Six Essentials, list the personal items you need for your campout.
Learn a camping skill.
Attend a council or district Cub Scout overnight camp or attend a campout with your pack.
Paws for Water
Learn about the swimming safety rules that you need to follow.
Demonstrate how to enter the swimming area properly.
Using the buddy system and staying within your ability group, go swimming with your den or family for 30 minutes.
Attempt at least one swimming stroke: front crawl, restful backstroke, or breaststroke.
Jump feet first into water that is chest high or deeper.
Demonstrate how to exit the swimming area properly. This adventure may be earned by completing the requirements above OR enrolling in and completing a swimming instruction program offered by an accredited instructor OR passing the BSA swimmer test
Paws of Skills
With your den, discuss sportsmanship and what it means to be a good sport. Make the connection between sportsmanship and the Scout Oath and the Scout Law.
Learn the rules of a team sport that you can play with your den, pack, family, or friends. After learning the rules, play the game for 30 minutes.
Visit or watch a team sporting event with your family or den. Look for ways the team works together and share with your family or den.
Pedal With the Pack
Show how to properly wear a bicycle helmet. Show you can take off and put on without help.
Decide what you should wear when riding a bike.
Learn about different types of bikes and when/where you might ride these different types.
Demonstrate you can start and stop your bicycle without help.
Demonstrate proper hand signals.
With your den, pack, or family, follow the buddy system and take a bike ride.
Race Time
With an adult, build either a Pinewood Derby car or a Raingutter Regatta boat.
Learn the rules of the race for the vehicle chosen in requirement 1.
Identify how you could increase the speed of your chosen vehicle.
Before the race, discuss with your den how you will demonstrate good sportsmanship during the race.
Participate in a Pinewood Derby or a Raingutter Regatta.
Spirit of the Water
Discover where the water in your home comes from.
Discuss how water can become polluted.
Share some ways you can conserve water in your home.
Discover how water in your community is treated to become safe to drink.
Summertime Fun
Anytime during May through August participate in a total of three Cub Scout activities.
WOLF Range and Target Activities
Archery*
Identify and wear the appropriate safety gear.
Demonstrate the archery range safety rules and whistle commands.
Demonstrate proper range commands.
Identify the main parts of your shooting equipment and how to properly use them.
Demonstrate proper stance and shooting techniques.
Shoot 5 arrows at your target. Repeat and do your best to improve your score. Shoot at least 10 arrows.
Demonstrate how to safety retrieve your arrows.
BB Gun*
Identify and wear the appropriate safety gear.
Recite the four safety reminders.
Demonstrate proper range commands.
Show how to use the safety mechanism.
Demonstrate how to properly load, fire, and secure your BB gun.
Demonstrate one of the positions for shooting a BB gun.
Fire 5 BBs at the target and score your target. Repeat twice and do your best to improve your score. Fire at least 15 BBs.
Demonstrate how to put away & properly store your BB gun and shooting equipment after use.
Slingshot*
Identify and wear the appropriate safety gear.
Recite the safety rules for using a slingshot.
Demonstrate proper range commands.
Explore the parts of a slingshot and their usage.
Discover the types of ammunition that may be used and types that may not be used.
Shoot 5 shots at a target. Repeat & do your best to improve your score. Shoot at least 10 shots.
Demonstrate how to put away & properly store your slingshot & shooting equipment after use.
*These adventures can only be completed at a council-supported activity, such as Family Adventure Camp, Cub Scout Summer Camp, or Day Camp. They require certified instructors to deliver the Adventure in a safe environment.
Familiarize yourself with the flag of the United States of America including the history, demonstrating how to raise and lower the flag, how to properly fold and display, and the United States etiquette.
Identify three symbols that represent the United States. Pick your favorite and make a model, work of art, or other craft that depicts the symbol.
Learn about the mission of any non-profit. Find out how they fund their activities and how volunteers are used to help.
With permission from your parent or legal guardian, watch the “Protect Yourself Rules” video for the Bear rank.
Complete the Personal Space Bubble worksheet that is part of the Protect Yourself Rules resources.
With your parent or legal guardian, set up a family policy for digital devices.
Identify common personal safety gear for your head, eyes, mouth and nose, hands, and feet. List how each of these items protect you. Demonstrate the proper use of personal safety gear for an activity.
With your parent or legal guardian talk about your family’s faith traditions. Identify three holidays or celebrations that are part of your family’s faith traditions. Make a craft, work of art, or a food item that is part of your favorite family’s faith tradition holiday or celebration.
With your family, attend a religious service OR other gathering that shows how your family expresses reverence.
Carry out an act of kindness.
With your parent or legal guardian identify a religion or faith that is different from your own. Determine two things that it has in common with your family’s beliefs. Scouts may earn this adventure by completing the requirements above OR earning the religious emblem of their choosing
With your den or an adult, identify the attributes of qualified adult supervision at a swimming activity.
Learn the three swimming ability groups for the Boy Scouts of America and water depths appropriate for each.
Go swimming with your den, pack, or family for 30 minutes using the buddy system.
Demonstrate the use the buddy system, buddy checks, and ability groups with your den or an adult.
Attempt the BSA beginner swim test.
Demonstrate both a reach rescue and a throw rescue. This adventure may be earned by completing the requirements above OR passing the BSA swimmer test OR taking swim lessons
Read, understand, and promise to abide by the “Cub Scout Knife Safety Rules.”
Demonstrate the knife safety circle.
Demonstrate that you know how to care for and use your pocketknife safely.
Make two carvings with a pocketknife.
BEAR Range and Target Activities
Archery*
Identify and wear the appropriate safety gear.
Demonstrate the archery range safety rules and whistle commands.
Demonstrate proper range commands.
Identify the main parts of your shooting equipment and how to properly use them.
Demonstrate proper stance and shooting techniques.
Shoot 5 arrows at a target. Repeat twice and do your best to improve your score each time. Shoot at least 15 arrows.
Demonstrate how to safety retrieve your arrows.
BB Gun*
Identify and wear the appropriate safety gear.
Recite the four safety reminders.
Demonstrate proper range commands.
Show how to use the safety mechanism.
Demonstrate how to properly load, fire, and secure your BB gun.
Demonstrate one of the positions for shooting a BB gun.
Fire 5 BBs at the target and score your target. Repeat twice and do your best to improve your score. Fire at least 15 BBs.
Demonstrate how to put away and properly store your BB gun and shooting equipment after use.
Slingshot*
Identify and wear the appropriate safety gear.
Recite the safety rules for using a slingshot.
Demonstrate proper range commands and explain them to an adult or another scout.
Explore the parts of a slingshot and their usage.
Discover the types of ammunition that may be used and types that may not be used.
Discover the types of targets that may be used and types that may not be used.
Shoot 5 shots at a target. Repeat twice and do your best to improve your score each time. Shoot at least 15 shots.
Demonstrate how to put away and properly store your slingshot and shooting equipment after use.
*These adventures can only be completed at a council-supported activity, such as Family Adventure Camp, Cub Scout Summer Camp, or Day Camp. They require certified instructors to deliver the Adventure in a safe environment.
Prepare for a 2-mile walk outside. Gather your Cub Scout Six Essentials and weather appropriate clothing and shoes.
Plan a 2-mile route for your walk.
Check the weather forecast for the time of your planned 2-mile walk.
Review the four points of BSA SAFE Checklist and how you will apply them on your 2-mile walk.
Demonstrate first aid for each of the following events that could occur on your 2-mile walk.
• Blister
• Sprained ankle
• Sun burn
• Dehydration and heat related illness
With your den, pack, or family, go on your 2-mile walk while practicing the Leave No Trace Principles for Kids and Outdoor Code.
After your 2-mile walk, discuss with your den what went well and what you would do differently next time.
With permission from your parent or legal guardian, watch the Protect Yourself Rules video for the Webelos rank.
Identify items in your house that are hazardous and make sure they are stored properly. Identify where on the package it describes what to do if someone is accidentally exposed to the product.
Identify ways you and your family keep your home or your meeting space safe.
Complete a “Be Prepared for Natural Events” worksheet for at least two natural events most likely to happen near where you live.
With your parent or legal guardian, talk about your family’s faith traditions. Identify three holidays or celebrations that are part of your family’s faith traditions. Make a craft, work of art, or a food item that is part of your family’s faith tradition holiday or celebration.
Carry out an act of kindness.
With your parent or legal guardian identify a religion or faith that is different from your own. Identify two things that it has in common with your family’s beliefs.
Discuss with our parent or legal guardian what it means to be reverent. Tell how you practice being reverent in your daily life. Scouts may earn this adventure by completing the requirements above OR earning the religious emblem of their choosing
State the safety precautions you need to take before doing any swimming activity.
Explain the meaning of “order of rescue” and demonstrate the reach and throw rescue techniques from land.
Learn how to prevent and treat hypothermia.
Attempt to tread water.
Attempt the BSA swimmer test.
Have 30 minutes, or more, of free swim time where you practice the buddy system and stay within your ability group. The qualified adult supervision should conduct at least three buddy checks per half hour swimming.
Learn about some basic tools and the proper use of each tool. Learn about and understand the need for safety when you work with tools.
Demonstrate how to check for plumb, level, and square when building.
With the guidance of your Webelos den leader, parent, or legal guardian, select a carpentry project that requires it to be either plumb, level, and/or square.
Create a list of materials and tools you will need to complete the project.
Make a plan to go fishing. Determine where you will go and what type of fish you plan to catch. All of the following requirements are to be completed based on your choice.
Use the BSA SAFE Checklist to plan what you need for your fishing experience.
Describe the environment where the fish might be found.
Make a list of the equipment and materials you will need to fish.
Determine the best type of knot to tie your hook to your line and tie it.
Choose the appropriate type of fishing rod and tackle you will be using. Have an adult review your gear.
Using what you have learned about fish and fishing equipment, spend at least one hour fishing following local guidelines and regulations.
Examine the three types of rocks, sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic.
Find a rock, safely break it apart and examine it.
Make a mineral test kit and test minerals according to the Mohs scale of mineral hardness. Using the rock cycle chart or one like it, discuss how hardness determines which materials can be used in homes, in landscapes, or for recreation.
With your den, pack, or family, plan and participate in a campout.
Upon arrival at the campground, determine where to set up a tent.
Set up your tent without help from an adult.
Identify a potential weather hazard that could occur in your area. Determine the action you will take if you experience the weather hazard during the campout.
Show how to tie a bowline. Explain when this knot should be used and why.
Know the fire safety rules. Using those rules, locate a safe area to build a campfire.
Using tinder, kindling, and fuel wood, properly build a teepee fire lay. If circumstances permit, and there is no local restriction on fires, show how to safely light the fire while under adult supervision. After allowing the fire to burn safely, extinguish the flames with minimal impact to the fire site.
Recite the Outdoor Code and Leave No Trace Principles for Kids from memory.
After your campout, share the things you did to follow the Outdoor Code and Leave No Trace Principles for Kids with your den or family.
Decide on gear and supplies you should bring for a long bike ride. Determine how to safely carry the gear.
Discover how multi-gear bicycles work and how they benefit a rider.
Practice how to lubricate a chain.
Pick a bicycle lock that you will use. Demonstrate how it locks and unlocks, how it secures your bicycle, and how you carry it while you are riding your bicycle.
With your family, den, or pack, use a map and plan a bicycle ride that is at least 5 miles.
With your den, pack, or family and using the buddy system, go on a bicycle ride that is a minimum of 5 miles.
Demonstrate proper range commands and explain them to an adult or another scout.
Explore the parts of a slingshot and their usage.
Discover the types of ammunition that may be used and types that may not be used.
Discover the types of targets that may be used and types that may not be used.
Shoot 5 shots at a target. Repeat twice and do your best to improve your score each time. Shoot at least 15 shots.
Demonstrate how to put away and properly store your slingshot and shooting equipment after use.
*These adventures can only be completed at a council-supported activity, such as Family Adventure Camp, Cub Scout Summer Camp, or Day Camp. They require certified instructors to deliver the Adventure in a safe environment.
Determine what you will bring on an overnight campout – including a tent and sleeping bag/gear – and how you will carry your gear.
Review the four points of the BSA SAFE Checklist and how you will apply them on the campout.
Locate the camp and campsite on a map.
With your patrol or a Scouts BSA troop, participate in a campout.
Upon arrival at the campout determine where to set up your campsite: kitchen, eating area, tents, and firepit. Help the patrol set up the patrol gear before setting up your own tent.
Explain how to keep food safe and the kitchen area sanitary at the campsite. Demonstrate your knowledge during the campout.
After your campout, discuss with your patrol what went well and what you would do differently next time. Include how you followed the Outdoor Code & Leave Not Trace Principles for Kids.
Personal Fitness
Plan a balanced meal that you would eat when camping. Prepare that meal using the gear you would use on a campout.
Examine what it is to be physically fit and how you incorporate this in your life. Track the number of times you are active for 30 minutes or longer over a 14-day period. Share with your patrol or family what you enjoyed and if you feel you are living up to the Scout Oath of being physically fit.
Be active for 30 minutes with your patrol, a younger den, or at least one other person in a way that includes both stretching and moving.
Review your BSA Annual Health and Medical Record with your parent or legal guardian. Discuss your ability to participate in Arrow of Light patrol and pack activities.
Identify a community service project that your patrol or pack could accomplish. Use the BSA SAFE Checklist and develop a plan to conduct the service project safely.
Participate in a service project for a minimum of two hours or multiple service projects for a total of two hours.
First Aid
With permission from your parent or legal guardian, watch the Protect Yourself Rules video for the Arrow of Light rank.
Explain what you should do if you encounter someone in need of first aid.
Demonstrate what to do for hurry cases of first aid: serious bleeding, heart attack or sudden cardiac arrest, stopped breathing, stroke, poisoning.
Demonstrate how to help a choking victim.
Demonstrate how to treat shock.
Demonstrate how to treat the following: cuts and scratches, burns and scalds, bites and stings of insects and animals, and nosebleed.
Make a personal first-aid kit. Demonstrate the proper use of each item in your first-aid kit.
Discuss with your parent or legal guardian your family’s faith traditions or one of your choosing. Choose a view or value of that faith tradition that is related to the Scout Law. Discuss with your family how each family member demonstrates this value.
Meet with a representative of a faith-based organization in your local community who provides a service that assists people in crisis regardless of their faith. Identify who they help and how.
Discuss with your parent, legal guardian, or an adult leader
Decide on gear and supplies you should bring for a long bike ride.
Discover how multi-gear bicycles work and how they benefit a rider.
Show how to lubricate a chain.
Pick a bicycle lock that you will use. Demonstrate how it locks and unlocks, how it secures your bicycle, and how you carry it while you are riding your bicycle.
Repair a flat tire.
With your patrol, pack, or family, use a map and plan a bicycle ride that is at least 10 miles.
With your patrol, pack, or family and using the buddy system, go on a bicycle ride that is a minimum of 10 miles.
Make a plan to go fishing. Determine where you will go and what type of fish you plan to catch. All of the following requirements are to be completed based on your choice.
Use the BSA SAFE Checklist to plan what you need for your fishing experience.
Describe the environment where the fish might be found.
Make a list of the equipment and materials you will need to fish.
Determine the best type of knot to tie your hook to your line and tie it.
On your own, choose the appropriate type of fishing rod and tackle you will be using. Have an adult review your gear.
Using what you have learned about fish and fishing equipment, spend at least one hour fishing following local guidelines and regulations.
Visit a place with a variety of wild animals. Select one of the animals and observe its behavior. Use your selected animal to complete the remaining requirements.
Create a model of your animal’s ecosystem.
Investigate how your animal coexists with other animals in the wild.
Describe how humans interact with your chosen animal’s ecosystem.
Discover how wildlife management benefits your animal.
Explain the meaning of “order of rescue” and demonstrate the reach and throw rescue techniques from land.
Attempt the BSA swimmer test.
Have 30 minutes or more of free swim time during which you practice the buddy system and stay within your ability group. The qualified adult supervision should conduct at least three buddy checks per half hour of swimming. This adventure may be earned by completing the requirements above OR taking swimming lessons OR passing the BSA swimmer test
Demonstrate proper range commands and explain them to an adult or another scout.
Explore the parts of a slingshot and their usage.
Discover the types of ammunition that may be used and types that may not be used.
Discover the types of targets that may be used and types that may not be used.
Shoot 5 shots at a target. Repeat twice and do your best to improve your score each time. Shoot at least 15 shots.
Demonstrate how to put away and properly store your slingshot and shooting equipment after use.
*These adventures can only be completed at a council-supported activity, such as Family Adventure Camp, Cub Scout Summer Camp, or Day Camp. They require certified instructors to deliver the Adventure in a safe environment.
I saw you mentioned the Woven theme patch. That is no longer the annual theme at the end of the month. AHG makes an annual theme patch. To make it easier, I would simply create a patch that says, “AHG Annual Theme Patch”, make it repeatable, and move on. Of course, I’m not a typical user in that way. The new one for next year will be released June 1.
Did you get updates for Tenderhearts for an outdoor cooking badge and canoeing badge? Otherwise, no major changes that we know of with badges.
Hi. What’s the expected completion date of for the new Cub Scout program updates requirements? I thought I had seen an earlier post stating by June, but still only seeing 2016+ items in dens. Thanks!
I see updated cub requirements now, but only under Cub Scout Ranks (2024+), not under Cub Scout Awards and adventures broken out by ranks. Is this still a work in progress or the final intended state?
Thanks!
Brad
Is there a reason I can see the new cub scout adventures under an individual but not in the bulk recording for progress? Or is the thought that we will go through the rank and go through the entire list from now on? And is there anyway the summertime adventures can be changed from 1 requirement to 3, so they can be tracked as they do the events?
Thanks!
