Tiger Adventure Requirements
Required: Bobcat, Tigers in the Wild, Tiger Bites, Team Tiger, Tiger's Roar, Tiger Circles
Electives: Champions for Nature, Curiosity, Intrigue, and Magical Mysteries, Designed by Tiger, Fish On, Floats and Boats, Good Knights, Let's Camp, Race Time, Rolling Tigers, Safe and Smart, Sky Is the Limit, Stories in Shapes, Summertime Fun, Tech All Around, Tiger Tag, Tiger-iffic!, Tigers in the Water
Retired: Earning Your Stripes, Family Stories, Tiger Tales, Tiger Theater, Backyard Jungle, Games Tigers Play, My Family's Duty to God
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.
Electives
Scouts choose at least two of these elective adventures to complete:
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 and 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 and 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.
Retired Electives
These electives can no longer be earned.
(Retired) Earning Your Stripes
Complete the following requirements.
- Show your loyalty to Tiger orange by bringing in and sharing with your den five items that are the color orange.
- Demonstrate loyalty over the next week at school or in your community. Share at your next den meeting how you were loyal to others.
- With your parent, guardian, or other caring adult, decide on one new task you can do to help your family, and do it.
- Talk with your parent, guardian, or other caring adult, or with your den about polite language. Learn how to shake hands and introduce yourself.
- Play a game with your den. Then discuss how your den played politely.
- With your den and parent, guardian, or other caring adult, work on a service project for your pack's meeting place or chartered organization.
(Retired) Family Stories
Complete Requirement 1 plus at least three others. Note that any requirement may be completed based on your family of origin OR the family with whom you live.
- Discuss with your parent, guardian, a family member, or other caring adult where some of your family members originated. Discuss family history, traditions, and culture - your family heritage. Share a story or bring something to share with your den about yourself and your family.
- Make a family crest.
- Visit your public library to find out information about the heritage of some of your family members.
- Interview one of your grandparents or another family elder, and share with your den what you learned.
- Make a family tree designed for your particular family.
- Share with your den how you got your name or what your name means.
- Share with your den your favorite snack or dessert that reflects the cultural heritage of one of more of your family members.
- Learn where some members of your family came from, and locate the place(s) on a map. Share this information with your den. With the help of your parent, guardian, or other caring adult, locate and write to a pen pal there.
(Retired) Tiger Tales
Complete at least four of the following requirements
- Create a tall tale with your den.
- Create your own tall tale. Share your tale with your den.
- Read a tall tale with your parent/guardian or other caring adult.
- Create a piece of art from a scene in the tall tale you have read, using your choice of materials. Share it with your den.
- Play a game from the past.
- Sing two folk songs.
- Visit a historical museum or landmark with your parent, guardian, or other caring adult.
(Retired) Tiger Theater
Complete at least four of the following requirements.
- With your den, discuss the following types of theater: puppet shows, reader's theater, and pantomime.
- As a den, play a game of one-word charades.
- Make a puppet to show your den or to display at a pack meeting.
- Perform a simple reader's theater. Make a mask afterward to show what your character looks like.
- Watch a play or attend a story time at a library.
Retired Electives
These electives can no longer be earned.
My Tiger Jungle
Complete Requirement 1 plus at least two others.
- With your parent, guardian, or other caring adult, go for a walk outside, and pick out two or more sights or sounds of "nature" around you. Discuss with your partner or den.
- Take a 1-foot hike. Make a list of the living things you find on your 1-foot hike. Discuss these plants or animals with your parent/guardian, other caring adult, or your den.
- Point out two different kinds of birds that live in your area. With your parent/guardian, other caring adult, or den, find out more about one of these birds.
- Be helpful to nature by planting a plant, shrub, or tree. Learn more about the needs and growth of the item you've planted.
- Build and hang a birdhouse.
Games Tigers Play
Complete Requirements 1 and 2 plus at least two others.
- 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.
- 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've learned with your den or family members before or after the event.
My Family's Duty to God
Complete Requirement 1 plus at least two others.
- Discuss with your parent, guardian, den leader, or other caring adult what it means to do your duty to God. Tell how you do your duty to God in your daily life.
- With a family member, attend a religious service or other activity that shows how your family expresses reverence for God.
- Earn the religious emblem of your faith that is appropriate for your age or grade.
- Help with a local service project and talk with your den or family about how helping others is part of our duty to God.
- With the approval of your parent/guardian, den leader, or other caring adult, think of and then carry out an act of kindness or respect that you think shows duty to God.
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