Wolf Call of the Wild Adventure

Adventure Goal: Introduce camping skills and promote preparedness for challenges outdoors.

Adventure Requirements:
Complete Requirements 1-4 plus at least one other.

1. Attend one of the following:
   1. A pack or family campout
   2. An outdoor activity with your den or pack
   3. Day camp
   4. Resident camp
2. With your family or den, make a list of possible weather changes that could happen during your outing according to the time of year you are outside. Tell how you will be prepared for each one.
3. Do the following:
   1. Recite the Outdoor Code with your leader.
   2. Recite the Leave No Trace Principles for Kids with your leader. Talk about how these principles support the Outdoor Code.
   3. After your outdoor activity or campout, list the ways you demonstrated being careful with fire or other dangers.
4. Show or demonstrate what to do:
   1. In case of a natural disaster such as an earthquake or flood.
   2. To keep from spreading your germs.
5. Show how to tie an overhand knot and a square knot.
6. While on a den or family outing, identify four different types of animals you see or explain evidence of their presence. Tell how you identified them.

Ideas for Adventure Requirements:

1. Ensure everyone is aware and ready to camp by using Campout Checklist to prepare.
2. Practice your knots so you can help the scouts learn. Overhand Knot (half hitch)   Square Knot
3. A scout doesn't need to actually see an animal. Animals can be identified by sight, sound, tufts of fur, scat, or tracks. I guess a few, such as skunk, could be identified by smell also.
4. There are many ways to prepare for adverse weather. Rather than a heavy, hot raincoat, an umbrella or light poncho might be a better choice for warm, humid, rainstorms.
   A hotter than expected day can be dangerous, too. Having a wide-brimmed hat, umbrella, or shade tarp available could make a big difference.
5. Read these pages about child safety which is no longer just 'stranger danger' - kidsmartz.org, NCPC.org, free-for-kids.com
6. Communicate with other den leaders to ensure a variety of entertainment since they will all have similar requirements.
7. The Outdoor Code is easier to remember if you start with memorizing the Four Cs - Clean, Careful, Considerate, and Conservation-minded.

Den Meeting Ideas for Call of the Wild Adventure:

• Use Licorice Knots activity to combine learning and snack.
• Play UnRavel game.
• The LNT Principles for Kids are listed in the back of the Wolf Handbook. Read details of the principles and implementing them at LNT.org and Outdoor Ethics.
• Sing some of the verses of I Met a Bear song.
• Perform Panther Tracks skit for the Pack.
• Tell Leave a Trace minute to the den.
• Conduct a short version of Hole In My Pack activity
• Learn more about LNT from Leave No Trace Dude.
• Remember to use this Wolf Call of the Wild adventure as a step towards each scout's Outdoor Ethics award.

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Comments:
 

Dec 29, 2017 - Amy Smith

What is the current Recognition? Are beads gone?

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Dec 30, 2017 - Jane

@Amy - The progress beads are gone.  Cub Scouts now earn belt loops after completing adventures.  Webelos Scouts earn adventure pins.

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