Tiger Requirements

Tiger Requirements:

Complete each of the six required Adventures.
- Bobcat (Tiger)
- Team Tiger
- Tiger Bites
- Tiger Circles
- Tigers in the Wild
- Tiger’s Roar
In addition to the six required adventures, complete at least one elective Adventure of your den’s or family’s choosing.
- Champions of 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-iffic!
- Tiger Tag
- Tigers in the Water

*Extra Adventures available only at District or Council Activities.

Archery
BB Guns
Slingshot

Required Adventures

1. Get to know the members of your Den.

Consider asking questions like; “What is your name?”. “Who brought you here today?”, “What is your favorite toy or game?”, “What is your favorite part of school?”, or “What is your favorite food?” Make sure to include the adults in the introduction to since they are such a big part of the Lion Den Meetings.

2. Recite the Scout Oath with your Den, including your Tiger adult partner.
3. Have your Tiger adult partner or Den Leader read the Scout Law to you. Demonstrate your understanding of being trustworthy, helpful, or friendly.

Consider discussing ways to show how to be trustworthy, helpful, and friendly with the Den. Then have the Cubs demonstrate one of those things to a fellow Den mate.

4. Demonstrate the Cub Scout sign, Cub Scout salute, and Cub Scout handshake. Show how each is used.

After a discussion of each of the different hand gestures, have the Tiger adult partners spread out around the meeting area and have the Cubs run to an adult partner. The adult will say one of the three gestures, and the Scout will demonstrate whichever one they were told. Repeat this multiple times having them go to a different adult each time.

5. 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”.
6. 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.”

1. With permission from your parent or legal guardian, watch Protect Yourself Rules for the Tiger rank.
2. With your Tiger adult partner, demonstrate Shout, Run, Tell as explained in the Protect Yourself Rules video.
3. 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 seperated.

1. 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.
2. With your Tiger adult partner, choose a job that will help your team. Follow through by doing that job at least once.
3. 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 and what makes a good team member.

Think about combinint requirements 1 and 3 by having a Den Game Night.

4. Participate as a team in a service project.

Consider doing something helpful for your Chartering Organization. Cleaning litter from your local park. One favorite is making pictures and homemade cards to take to a local hospital or nursing home facility.

1. Identify the five different food groups.

Print out pictures of multiple items from each food group. have sections for each food group and have the Tigers do this as a picture sort. Have an active Den? Consider putting the food group sections on one end of a hallway and all of the printed pictures on the other end and have the Tigers do this as a relay race,

2. Practice hand washing. Point out when you should wash your hands.

3. Be active for 30 minutes.
4. Practice methods that help you sleep.

NOTE: This Adventure may be earned by completing the requirements below OR by completing a religious emblem of the Cub Scout’s family’s choosing.

Religious Emblems can be found here.

1. With your parent or legal guardian talk about your family’s faith traditions. Identify three holidays or celebrations that are a part of your family faith traditions. Draw a picture of your favorite family faith tradition holiday or celebration.

Consider having the Tigers do this requirement at home or individually with their adult partner at a Den Meeting. Then they can all share out. This can be a fun way for the Tigers to learn about different cultures and customs. Make sure though that all families feel comfortable sharing before you do that.

2. With your family, attend a religious service or other gathering that shows how your family expresses reverence.
3. Carry out an act of kindness.

If your Pack is chartered through a religious institution it may be likely that all the Scouts share that faith. This can make talking about these requirements much more simple. If you have a diverse group with different beliefs, this can be challenging. Some Dens opt to have the Scouts work on this at home with their family, and let the Den Leader know when it is complicated. Another option that can be interesting is to have the families just talk about the requirements at home, and have Scout’s return to share their information.

1. Identify the Cub Scout Six Essentials. Show what you do with each of them.

Pack a backpack for yourself. Include in your pack the 6 Cub Scout Essentials; First Aid Kit, Water Bottle, Flashlight, Sun Protection, a Trail Snack, and a Whistle. Also pack 6 or 7 silly things such as; Pokemon Cards, Action Figures, Art Supplies, Measuring Cup, etc. Then ask the Cubs if it is something they NEED or not. A lot of fun conversations can be had about the items, as some of the things that are silly the Scouts may come up with surprising uses for. In the end go over the real Essentials and have the Tigers describe how they are used.

2. With your Den Leader or Tiger adult partner learn about The Outdoor Code.

3. With your Den, Pack, or family take a walk outside spending at least 20 minutes 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 man made.
4. 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.
5. Look for a tree where you live. Describe how this tree is helpful.

There are a lot of great apps that can be put on your smart device that can help with identification of plants and critters. Here are some that are easy to use.

Elective Adventures

1. Discover the difference between renewable natural resources and non-renewable natural resources.
2. Learn about the 3 R’s: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.
3. Discover what happens to the garbage in your community.
4. Participate in a conservation project.

Easy ideas could include; planing trees, trash pick up, making posters to promote recycling in your school, place of worship, or meeting place.

1. Learn a magic trick. Practice the trick. Share the trick with your den or family members.
2. Demonstrate how a magic trick works to your Den, family, or Tiger adult partner.
3. Write your name using a secret code you created.
4. Write a message with the code. Challenge your Den, family, or Tiger adult partner to read your coded message.

1. Think about something that you would like to build. Draw a picture of what the final project should look like.
2. Using your drawing as a guide, build the project.
3. When completed, discuss with your Tiger adult partner what could be done to improve your project.
4. Make the improvement to your project.
5. Make a drawing of your final project.

The Adventure “Race Time” deals with making and racing either a Raingutter Regatta Boat or Pinewood Derby Car. If your Pack does both events use the more simple Raingutter Regatta boat for “Race Time” and the Pinewood Derby car for this adventure. Outside of these kits using; LEGO, craft sticks, Tinker Toys, Erector Sets, or Lincoln Logs are all great options that Scouts will love!

1. With your Den or Tiger adult partner, identify the body of water where you will go fishing.
2. With your Tiger adult partner, learn the rules of fishing safety.

Be cautious when casting and make sure that you are not too close to someone else. Make sure that your hook is secured and not freely swinging around when walking with your fishing pole. Be careful around the water’s edge and do not go into water without adult permission. Make sure not to leave hooks or other sharp objects out an unattended where someone could step on them and get injured.

3. Draw a picture of the type of fish you think lives in the water where you are going fishing.
4. Go fishing with your Tiger adult patner.

1. Identify five different types of boats.

2. Identify five things that float and five things that do not float.
3. Build or create a model boat and float it on the water. This can be made from recycled materials or other items.

1. 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.
2. Create a shield that can be for your Den or a personal shield.

Use a sheet of paper or this is another great time for a paper plate craft. If you are feeling extra brave consider newspaper or wrapping paper swords. Roll them in a tube if you add a domed cup lid from a fast food place it holds the sword together and makes an amazing pummel for hand protection.

3. Using recycled and other materials, design and build a small castle in your Den or at home.
4. Do a Good Turn

1. Learn about the buddy system and how it works in the outdoors.
2. Before going on the overnight campout, discuss what type of weather is expected and what type of clothes you should wear.
3. Pack up your Cub Scout Six Essentials for the campout.
4. Learn a camping skill.

Sorting out wood for fire building into piles for Tinder (shavings and toothpick size), Kindling (pencil to thumb sized) and Fuel (Wrist size and larger). Possibly setting up a tent, of helping to make a meal at the campout.

5. Attend a Council of District Cub Scout overnight camp or attend a campout with your Pack.

1. With your Tiger adult partner, assemble and decorate either a Pinewood Derby car or a Raingutter Regatta boat.
2. Learn the rules of the race for the vehicle chosen in requirement 1.
3. Before the race, discuss with your Tiger adult partner how you will demonstrate good sportsmanship during the race.
4. With your Tiger adult partner, participate in a Pinewood Derby of a Raingutter Regatta.

1. Learn the ABC’s of bike gear (air, breaks and, chain.
2. With your Den or Tiger adult partner, learn about the safety gear you should use while riding a bicycle. Show how to properly wear a bike helmet.
3. With your Den or Tiger adult partner, learn the safety rules to follow when riding a bicycle.
4. With your Den or Tiger adult partner, demonstrate proper hand signals.

5. With your Tiger adult partner or family, ride a bicycle or begin learning how to ride a bike.

1. Observe the night sky with your Den or Tiger adult partner. Talk about the items you see or might see.
2. Look at distant objects through a telescope, binoculars, or camera. Show how to focus the device you choose.
3. 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 you Den or Tiger adult partner, find out the constellation name and how to identify them. Create a picture of one of the constellations.
4. Create a homemade model of the constellation.

1. Explore art in your community.
2. 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.
3. Create a piece of art using shapes.

4. Learn how to spell your name in Braille and Sign Language

1. Anytime during May through August participate in a total of three Cub Scout activities.

1. Discover technology around your home, meeting place, or neighborhood.
2. Discover ways that digital technology can make life easier.

Talk about digital technology that you use to make things easier such as weather apps, electronic banking, or maybe getting great ideas for Den Meetings from websites like Scoutsfun.com

3. Identify an item of digital technology you use at home. Demonstrate to your Tiger adult partner how you use it safely.
4. With your parent or legal guardian, set up a policy for digital devices.

1. Play at least two different games by yourself; one may be a video game.
2. Play a board game or another inside game with one or more members of your den or family.
3. With other members of your Den or family, invent a game, or change the rules of a game you know, and play the game.
4. Play a team game with your Den or family.

Consider having a “Family Game Night” hosted by one of the families, drinks, snacks, and lots of games to choose from.

1. Memorize your address, recite it to your Tiger adult partner or Den Leader
2. Memorize an emergency contact’s phone number, recite it to your Tiger adult partner or Den Leader.
3. Show you can Stop, Drop, and Roll.

Make a “Simon Says” or a “Tiger Says” game out of the steps to make it silly and fun for the Cubs.

4. With your Tiger adult partner, 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.
5. With your Tiger adult partner, find the location of the smoke detectors in your home or Den Meeting place. Confirm they are working properly.
6. With your Tiger adult partner or Den Leader, learn why matches and lighters are only for adults.
7. With your parent, guardian, or other caring adult, try a practice fire drill at home.. Visit an emergency responder station, or have an emergency responder visit you.

Going to a station or firehouse is an amazingly exciting event that the cubs love!

1. Play an active game with your Den. Share with your Tiger adult partner or your Den why you like this game.
2. Play a relay game with your Den. Share with your Tiger adult partner or your Den why you like this game.
3. Discuss what it means to be a good sport in a game with your Tiger adult partner or other Tigers.
4. Attend a sporting event.

1. Learn about the swimming safety rules that you need to follow.

Have qualified supervision, someone over 21 years of age who knows the 8 points of the BSA Safe Swim Defense.
Only healthy swimmers, never swim if you feel sick, swimmers should be physically fit enough for the activity.
A safe area must be used. If not in an appropriately cared for pool, a responsible adult must inspect and clear the area before any Scouts enter the water.
Have Lifeguards that are appropriately trained for water safety to respond to potential emergencies.
Have a Lookout, someone who is constantly watching the swimmers and monitoring their safety closely.
Have ability groupings. In the BSA we use; Nonswimmers, Beginners, and Swimmers. The requirements for each group at this link.
Use the Buddy System and stay near your buddy in the water at all times.
Have discipline and rules established so that things do not get out of hand.

2. Demonstrate how to enter the swimming area properly.
3. With your Tiger adult partner as your buddy, be active in water depths matching your ability for 20 minutes.
4. Place your face in the water and blow bubbles.
5. Demonstrate the flutter kick.
5. Demonstrate how to exit the swimming area properly.

The following Adventures can be earned at District or Council events, as Shoot Sports are not able to be done at Pack and Den events.

1. With your Tiger adult partner, identify and wear the appropriate safety gear.
2. With your Tiger adult partner, recite the archery range safety rules and whistle commands.
3. With your Tiger adult partner, demonstrate proper range commands.
4. With your Tiger adult partner, identify the main parts of your shooting equipment and how to
properly use them.
5. With your Tiger adult partner, demonstrate proper stance and shooting techniques.
6. Shoot 3 arrows at your target. Repeat and do your best to improve your score. Shoot at least 6 arrows.
7. Demonstrate how to safety retrieve your target arrows.

1. With your Tiger adult partner, identify and wear the appropriate safety gear.
2. With your Tiger adult partner, recite the four safety reminders.
3. With your Tiger adult partner, demonstrate proper range commands.
4. With your Tiger adult partner, show how to use the safety mechanism.
5. With your Tiger adult partner, demonstrate how to properly load, fire, and secure your BB gun.
6. With your Tiger adult partner, demonstrate one of the positions for shooting a BB gun.
7. 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.
8. Demonstrate how to put away & properly store your BB gun and shooting equipment after use.

1. With your Tiger adult partner, identify and wear the appropriate safety gear.
2. With your Tiger adult partner, recite the safety rules for using a slingshot.
3. With your Tiger adult partner, demonstrate proper range commands.
4. With your Tiger adult partner, explore the parts of a slingshot and their usage.
5. With your Tiger adult partner, discover the types of ammunition that may be used and types that may not be used.
6. Shoot 5 shots at a target. Repeat and do your best to improve your score. Shoot at least 10 shots.
7. Demonstrate how to put away and properly store your slingshot and shooting equipment after use.