| GOD | Do ONE of These: | ||
| Ways we worship. | 1 | Practice your religion as you are taught in your home, church, synagogue, mosque, or other religious community. | |
| Emblems of faith | 2 | Earn the religious emblem of your faith. |
| Country | Do A and any THREE of These: | ||
| What makes America special. | 3 | a | Write or tell what makes America special to you. |
| b | With the help of your family or den leader, find out about two Americans. Tell the things they did or are doing to improve our way of life. | ||
| c | Find our somethings about the old homes near the place where you live. Go and see two of them. | ||
| d | Find our where places of historical interest in or near your town are located. go and visit one of them with your family or den. | ||
| e | Pick your favorite state or home state. Name its state bird, tree and flower. Descrive its flag. Give the date it was admitted to the union. | ||
| f | Be a member of the color guard in a flag ceremony for your den or pack. | ||
| Do ALL THREE of These: | |||
| Tall tales | 4 | a | Tell in your own words what folklore is. List some folklore stories, folksongs, or historical legends from your own state or part of the country. |
| b | Name at least five stories about American folklore. Point out on a United States map where they took place. | ||
| c | Read two folklore stories and tell your favorite one to your den. | ||
| Do FOUR of These: | |||
| Sharing your world with wildlife | 5 | a | Choose a bird or animal that you like and find out how it lives. Make a poster showing what you have learned. |
| b | Build or make a bird feeder or bird house. | ||
| c | Explain what a wildlife conservation officer does. | ||
| d | Visit one of the following with your den or family: Zoo; Nature Center; Wildlife refuge; Game preserve. | ||
| e | Name one animal that has become extinct in the last 100 years. Tell why animals become extinct. | ||
| Do THREE of These: | |||
| Take care of your Planet | 6 | a | Save 5 pounds of glass or aluminum, or 1 month of newspapers, and turn them in at a recycling center. |
| b | Plant a tree in your yard, or on the grounds of the group that operates your Cub Scout pack, or in a park. Be sure to get permission first. | ||
| c | Call city or county officials or your trash hauling company and find out what happens to your trash after it is hauled away. | ||
| d | Do a water-usage survey in your home. Note all the ways water is used. Look for any dripping faucets. | ||
| e | Discuss with one of your parents the ways your family uses energy. | ||
| f | Find out more about your families use of electricity. | ||
| Do FOUR of These: | |||
| Law enforcement is a big job | 7 | a | Make a set of your own fingerprints. |
| b | Make a plaster cast of a shoeprint in the mud. | ||
| c | Check the doors and windows of your home. | ||
| d | Visit your local sheriffs office or police station. | ||
| e | Be sure you know where to get help in your neighborhood. | ||
| f | Be sure fire and police numbers are listed by your phone in your home. | ||
| g | Know what you can do to help law enforcement. |
| Family | Do FOUR of These: | ||
| That past is exciting and important | 8 | a | Visit your library or newspaper office. Ask to see back issues of newspapers. |
| b | Find someone who was a Cub Scout a long time ago. Talk with hom about what Cub Scouting was like then. | ||
| c | Find out of your pack has a pack scrapbook and give something to it. | ||
| d | Trace your family back through your grandparents or great grandparents; or, talk to your grandparents about what it was like when they were younger. | ||
| e | Find out some history about your community. | ||
| f | Keep a diary for 2 weeks. | ||
| Do FOUR of These: | |||
| What's Cooking | 9 | a | Bake cookies or brownies. |
| b | If your parent or guardian says it is all right, volunteer to make snacks for the next den meeting. | ||
| c | Prepare one part of your breakfast, one part of your lunch, and one part of your supper. | ||
| d | Make a list of the "junk" foods you ear. Discuss "junk" food with your parent or teacher. | ||
| e | Make some healthful after-school snacks or some snacks for watching television. | ||
| f | Make a dessert for your family. | ||
| Do ALL of These: | |||
| 10 | a | Go on a trip with members of your family to visit one of the following: Parl; Airport; farm/ranch; Museum; Seashore; Aquarium. | |
| b | Have a "family-make-and-do-night". | ||
| Do FOUR of These: | |||
| 11 | a | Tell what to do in case of accident in the home. | |
| b | Tell what to do in case of a water accident. | ||
| c | Tell what to do in case of a school bus accident. | ||
| d | Tell what to do in case of a auto accident. | ||
| e | Have a health checkup by a physician. | ||
| Do THREE of These: | |||
| 12 | a | Go camping with your family. | |
| b | Go on a hike with your family. | ||
| c | Have a picnic with your family. | ||
| d | Attend an outdoor event with your family. | ||
| e | Plan your outdoor family day. | ||
| Do FOUR of These: | |||
| 13 | a | Go grocery shopping with a parent. | |
| b | Setup a savings account. | ||
| c | Save a record of how you spend money for 2 weeks. | ||
| d | Make believe you are shopping for a car for your family. | ||
| e | Discuss family finances with one of your parents. | ||
| f | Play a board game with your family that involves the use of make-believe money. | ||
| g | Figure out how much it costs for each person in your home to eat one meal. |
| Self | Do A and any THREE of These: | ||
| 14 | a | Know the rules for bike safety. If your town requires a bicycle license, be sure to get one. | |
| b | 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. | ||
| c | Keep your bike in good shape. Identify the parts of a bike that should be checked often. | ||
| d | Change a tire on a bicycle. | ||
| e | protect your bike from theft. Use a bicycle lock. | ||
| f | Ride a bike for 1 mile without rest, and be sure to obey all traffic rules. | ||
| g | Plan a take a family bike hike. | ||
| Do TWO of These: | |||
| 15 | a | Set up the equipment and play any two of the following outdoor games with your family or friends. Backyard gold; badminton; croquet; sidewalk shuffleboard; kickball; tenpins; tetherball; horseshoes; volleyball. | |
| b | Play two organized games with your den. | ||
| c | Select a game your den has never played. Explain the rules. Tell them how it is played, then play it with them. | ||
| Do ALL of These: | |||
| 16 | a | Do physical fitness stretching exercises. Then do sit-ups, pushups, the standing long jump, and softball throw. | |
| b | With a friend, compete in a least six different person contests. | ||
| c | Compete with your den or pack in the crab relay, gorilla relay, 30-year dash and kangaroo relay. | ||
| Do A and any THREE of These: | |||
| 17 | a | With an adult in your family, select a TV show. Watch it together and talk about it. What did you like; What did you learn; What didn't you like about it; what would you have changed ? | |
| b | Visit a newspaper office, or TV or radio station and talk to a news reporter. | ||
| c | Play a game of charades at your den meeting, or with you family at home. | ||
| d | Visit a place where computers are being used. | ||
| e | Write a letter to a company that makes something you use. | ||
| f | Talk with one of your parents or another family member about how getting and giving facts fits into his or her job. | ||
| Do FIVE of These: | |||
| 18 | a | Make a list of things you want to do today. Check them off when you have done them. | |
| b | Write two letters to relatives. | ||
| c | keep a daily record of your activities for 2 weeks. | ||
| d | Write an invitation to someone. | ||
| e | Write a story about something you have done with your family. | ||
| f | Write a thank-you note. | ||
| g | Write about the doings of your den. | ||
| Do ALL of the These: | |||
| 19 | a | Know the safety rules for handling a knife. | |
| b | Show that you know hot to take care of and use a pocketknife. | ||
| c | Make a carving with a pocketknife. Work with your parent or den leader in doing this. | ||
| d | Earn the Whittling Chip card. | ||
| Do ALL of These: | |||
| 20 | a | Show how to use and take care of four tools shown in book. | |
| b | Build your own tool box. | ||
| c | use at least two tools listed in requirement "a" to fix something. | ||
| Do THREE of These: | |||
| 21 | a | Build a model from a kit. | |
| b | Build a display for one of your models. | ||
| c | Make believe you are planning to change the furniture in one of the rooms in your home. | ||
| d | Make a model of a mountain, a meadow, a canyon, or river. | ||
| e | Look at a model of a shopping center or a new building that is on display somewhere. | ||
| f | Make a model of anything--A rocket, boat, car or plane. | ||
| Do FIVE of These: | |||
| 22 | a | Whip the ends of a rope. | |
| b | Tie a square knot, bowline, sheet bend, two half hitches, and a slip knot. Tell how each knot is used. | ||
| c | Learn how to keep a rope from tangling. | ||
| d | Coil a rope. Throw it, hitting a 2-foot square marker 20 feet away. | ||
| e | Learn a magic rope trick. | ||
| f | Make your own rope. | ||
| Do ALL of These: | |||
| 23 | a | Learn the rules and how to play three team sports. | |
| b | Learn the rules and how to play two sports in which only one person is on each side. | ||
| c | Take part in one team and one individual sport. | ||
| d | Watch a sport on TV with a parent or some other member of your family. | ||
| e | Attend a high school, college, or professional sporting event with your family or your den. | ||
| Do A and any THREE of These: | |||
| 24 | a | Help a boy scout join the Cub Scouts, or help a new Cub Scout through the Bobcat trail. | |
| b | Serve as a denner or assistant denner. | ||
| c | Plan and conduct a den activity with the approval of your den leader. | ||
| d | Tell two people they have done a good job. |
Bear Electives (Arrow Point Trail)
| Space | Do ANY of These: | |
| a | Identify two constellations and the North Star. | |
| b | Make a pinhole planetarium and show three constellations. | |
| c | Visit a planetarium. | |
| d | Build a model of a rocket or space satellite. | |
| e | Read and talk about at least one man-made satellite and one natural one. | |
| f | Find a picture of another planet in our solar system. Explain how it is different from Earth. |
| Weather | Do ANY of These: | |
| a | Learn how to read a thermometer. Put a thermometer outdoors and read it at the same time every day for 2 weeks. Keep a record of each day's temperature and a description of the weather each day (fair, rain, fog, snow, etc.) | |
| b | Build a weather vane, record wind direction for 2 weeks at the same hour. Keep a record of the weather for each day. | |
| c | Make a rain guage. | |
| d | Find out what a barometer is and how it works. Tell your den about it. Tell what "relative humidity" means, too. | |
| e | learn to identify threee different kinds of clouds. Estimate their height. |
| Radio | Do ANY of These: | |
| a | Build a crystal or diode radio. Check with your local craft or hobby shop or in the Boys' Life ads. It is all right to use a kit. | |
| b | Make and operate a battery powered radio following directions with the kit. |
| Electricity | Do ANY of These: | |
| a | Wire a buzzer or doorbell. | |
| b | Make an electric buzzer game. | |
| c | make a simple bar or horeshoe electromagnet. | |
| d | Use a simple electric motor. | |
| e | Make a crane with an electromagnetic lift. |
| Do ANY of These: | ||
| a | Help an adult rig and sail a real boat. | |
| b | Help an adult repair a real boat or canoe. | |
| c | Know storm warning flag signals. | |
| d | Help an adult repair a boat dock. | |
| e | Know the rules of boat safety. | |
| f | With an adult, demonstrate forward strokes, turns and backstrokes. Row a boat around a 100-year course involving two turns. |
| Aircraft | Do ANY of These: | |
| a | Identify five different kinds of aircraft in flight, if possible, or from models or photos. | |
| b | Ride in an airplane (commercial or private). | |
| c | Explain how a hot air balloon works. | |
| d | Build and fly a model airplane. (You can use a kit. Every time you do this differently, it counts as a completed project.) | |
| e | Sketch and label an airplane showing the direction of forces acting on it (life, drag and load). | |
| f | What are some of the things a helicopter can do that other kinds of airplanes can't ? Make a list. Draw or cut out a picture of a helicopter and label the parts. | |
| g | Build and display a scale airplane model. You may use a kit or build it from plans. |
| Things that go | Do ANY of These: | |
| a | Make a scooter or a Cubmobile. Know safety rules. | |
| b | Make a windmill. | |
| c | Make a waterwheel. | |
| d | Make an invention of your own design that goes. |
| Cub Scout Band | Do ANY of These: | |
| a | Make and play a homemade musical instrument - cigar box banjo, washtub bull fiddle, a drum or rhythm set, tambourine, etc. | |
| b | Learn to play two familiar tunes on an ocarina, a harmonica, or a tonette. | |
| c | Play in a den band using homemade or regular musical instruments. Play at a pack meeting. | |
| d | Play two tunes on any recognized band or orchestra instrument. |
| Art | Do ANY of These: | |
| a | Do an original art project and show it at a pack meeting. Every project you do counts as one requirement. | |
| b | Visit an art museum or picture gallery with your den or family. |
| Masks | Do ANY of These: | |
| a | Make a simple papier-mache mask. | |
| b | Make an animal mask. | |
| c | Make an American Indian mask. | |
| d | Make a clown mask. |
| Photography | Do ANY of These: | |
| a | Practice holding a camera 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 your want in your picture is in the frame of your viewfinder. | |
| b | Take five pictures of the same subject in different kinds of light. | |
| c | Put your pictures to use. (cardboard display, cardboard present, part of story). | |
| d | Make a picture in your house. |
| Nature Crafts | Do ANY of These: | |
| a | Make a shadow prints or blueprints of three kinds of leaves. | |
| b | Make a display of eight different animal tracks with an eraser print. | |
| c | Collect, press, and label 10 kinds of leaves. | |
| d | Collect, mount and label 10 kinds of insects. | |
| e | Collect eight kinds of plant seeds and label. | |
| f | Collect, mount and label 10 kinds of rocks or minerals. | |
| g | Collect, mount and label 5 kinds of shells. | |
| h | Make a spider web print; mount and display it. |
| Magic | Do ANY of These: | |
| a | Learn and show three magic tricks. | |
| b | With your den, put on a magic show for your pack. | |
| c | Learn and show four puzzles. | |
| d | Learn and show three rope tricks. |
| Landscaping | Do ANY of These: | |
| a | Help your parents take care of your lawn or help take care of the lawn 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. | |
| b | Make a sketch of a landscape plan for the area right around your house or for an apartment building. talk it over with your parents or den leader. Show what trees, shrubs, and flowers you could plant to make the area look better. | |
| c | Take part in a project with your family, den or pack to make your neighborhood or community more beautiful. These might be cleanup parties, painting, cleaning and painting trash barrels and removing ragweek. (each different activity counts as a completed project). | |
| d | Build a greenhouse and grow 20 plants from seed. You can use a package of garden seeds, or use beans, pumpkin seeds, or watermelon seeds. |
| Water and soil conservation | Do ANY of These: | |
| a | Dig a hole or find an excavation project and describe the different layers of soil you see and feel. Don't enter a excavation area without permission. | |
| b | Take three cans the same size and punch four holes in the bottom of each with a hammer and nail. Put clay in the first can, soil in the second can, and sand in the third can. Fill all three cans 1/2 half full. Pour 1/2 can of water into each can, one at a time. Write down the time it takes the water to run through (until dripping stops) each kind of earth. )The three kinds of earth are not good for growing things along, but when mixed together they make very good soil. | |
| c | Visit a burned-out forest or prairie area, or a slide area, with your den or your family. talk to a member of the US forest service about how the area will be planted and cared for; to grow again the way it was before the accident. | |
| d | Some people like to use live Christmas trees. After Christmas, plat the tree in your yard, or at school, or at your Boy Scout council service center; or a park. Find out all things you need to know about how to take care of a live Christmas tree in your home. | |
| e | What is wind erosion ? Find out the kinds of grass, trees, or ground cover you need to plant to stop wind erosion. | |
| f | As a den, visit a lake, stream, river or ocean (whichever is nearest to where you live). Plan a den project to help clean up this important source of water. name four kinds of water pollution. |
| Farm Animals | Do ANY of These: | |
| a | Take care of a farm animal. Decide with your parent the things you will do and how long you will do them. | |
| b | Name and describe siz breeds of farm animal and tell their common uses. | |
| c | Read a book about a farm animal and tell your den about it. | |
| d | With your family or den, visit a livestock exhibit at a county or state fair. |
| Repairs | Do ANY of These: | |
| a | With the help of an adult, fix an electric plug or an electric appliance. | |
| b | Use glue or epoxy to repair something. | |
| c | Remove and clean a drain trap. | |
| d | Refinish or repaint something. | |
| e | Agree with your parent on some repair job to be done and do it. (each time you do this differently, it counts as a completed project). |
| Backyard Gym | Do ANY of These: | |
| a | Build and use an outdoor gym with at least three items from the following: Balance board; Trapeze; Tire walking; Tire swing; Teatherball; Climbing rope; Running long jump area. | |
| b | Build three outdoor toss games. | |
| c | Plan an outdoor game or gym day with your den (this can be a part of a pack activity). Put your plans on a paper. | |
| d | Hold an open house for your back year gym. |
| Swimming | Do ANY of These: | |
| a | Jump feet first into water over your head, swim 25 feet, turn around and swim back. | |
| b | Swim on your back, using a resing stroke,, for 30 feet. | |
| c | Rest by floating on your back, using as little motion as possible, for at least one minute. | |
| d | Tell what is meant by the buddy plan and the basic rule of safe swimming and simple rescue. | |
| e | Do a racing dive from the edge of the pool and swim 60 feet, using a racing stroke. |
| Sports | Do ANY of These: | |
| a | In archery, know the safety rules. Know hot to shoot correctly. Put size arrows into a 4-foot target at a distance of 15 yards. Make an arrow holder. | |
| b | In skiing, know the skier's safety code. Demonstrate walking and kick turn, climbing with side step or herringbone, snowplow stop, stem turn, four linked snowplow or stem turns, and straight running in a downhill position. or a cross-country position and show how to recover from a fall. | |
| c | In ice skating, know the safety rules. From standing start, skate forward 150 feet; come to 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. | |
| d | 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. Land in a soft area. | |
| e | In roller skating, know the safety rules. From a standing start, skate forward 150 feet; come to a complete stop within 20 feet. Skare aournd a corner clockwise and counterclockwise without coasting and show a turn from forward to backward. Skate backward 50 feet. |
| Sales | Do ANY of These: | |
| a | Take part in a pack-sponsored, money-earning sales program. Keep track of the sales you make yourself. When the sale is over; add up the sales you have sold. | |
| b | Help with a garage sale or rummage sale. this can be with your family, a neighbor; or a church, school or pack event. |
| Collecting Things | Do ANY of These: | |
| a | Start a stamp collection. You can get information about stamp collecting at any US post office. | |
| b | Mount and display a colletion of emblems, coins, or other things 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. | |
| c | Start your own library. Keep your own books and pamphlets in order by subject. List the title and author of each ona piece of paper or card. |
| Maps | Do ANY of These: | |
| a | Look up your state on a US map. What other states touch its borders. | |
| b | Find your city or town on a map of your state. How far do you live from the state capital. | |
| c | In which time zone do you live ? How many time zones are there in the US ? | |
| d | Make a map showing the way from your home to your school or den meeting place. | |
| e | Mark a map showing the way to a place you would like to visit that is at least 50 miles from your home. |
| Indian Life | Do ANY of These: | |
| a | Indians lived all over what is now the United States. Find the name of the tribe who lived nearest where you live now. What is this tribe best know for ? | |
| b | Make and display a sand painting. | |
| c | Learn, make equipment for, and play two Indian game with members of your den. Be able to tell the rule, who won and what the score was. | |
| d | Make a model of an Indian house. |
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