Webelos Requirements

Requirements for this badge are listed in bold and suggestions on activities will be listed below that in a typical font.

Webelos Requirements:

  1. Complete each of the six required Adventures.
    • Bobcat (Webelos)
    • My Community
    • My Safety
    • My Family
    • Stronger, Faster, Higher
    • Webelos Walkabout
  2. In addition to the six required adventures listed above, complete at least two elective Adventures.
    • Aquanaut
    • Art Explosion
    • Aware and Care
    • Build It
    • Catch the Big One
    • Champions for Nature
    • Chef’s Knife
    • Earth Rocks!
    • Let’s Camp
    • Math on the Trail
    • Modular Design
    • Paddle Onward
    • Pedal Away
    • Race Time
    • Summertime Fun
    • Tech on the Trail
    • Yo-yo

Additional Adventures that can be earned at District and Council events.

  • Slingshot
  • Archery
  • BBs

Required Adventures

Bobcat (Webelos)

 

  • 1. Get to know the members of your Den.
  • 2. Recite the Scout Oath and Scout Law with your Den and Den Leader. Describe the three points of the Scout Oath.
  • 3. Learn about the Scout Law.
  • 4. With your Den create a Den code of conduct.
  • 5. Learn about the Denner position and responsibilities.

The Denner position is a leader among the Scouts that acts as an assistant to the Den Leader. This position starts to teach the Scouts leadership, which will be an increasing part of their Scouting journey. While the Denner assists with leadership, they are never to be “in charge” of other Cubs. Things they will do include.

  • Arriving early to help ready the meeting space.
  • Great the rest of the Den as tehy arrive.
  • Help with the opening ceremony (Pledge of Allegiance, Scout Oath, and Scout Law).
  • Pick out a game or activity for the opening of the meeting.
  • Help pass out materials for the Den Leader that are needed throughout the meeting.
  • Stay after the meeting and make sure the meeting space is cleaned up.

 

  • 6. Demonstrate the Cub Scout sign, Cub Scout salute, and Cub Scout handshake. Show how each is used.
  • 7. 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.
Webelos Walkabout
  • 1. Prepare for a 2-mile walk outside. Gather your Cub Scout Six Essentials and Weather appropriate clothing and shoes.
  • 2 Plan a 2-mile route for your walk.

Remember that hiking trails in the wilderness are always fantastic places for hikes. However, if you are in a city and have trouble getting into the wilderness, then consider and urban hike.

  • 3. Check the weather forecast for the time of your planned 2-mile walk.
  • 4. Review the four points of BSA SAFE Checklist and how you will apply them on your 2-mile walk.
Click on the photo for a printable copy
  • 5. Demonstrate first aid for each of the following events that could occur on your 2-mile walk:
      • Blister
      • Sprained Ankle
      • Sunburn
      • Dehydration and heat-related illness
  • 6. With your Den, Pack, or family go on your 2-mile walk while practicing the Leave No Trace Principles and  the Outdoor Code.
  • 7. After your 2-mile walk, discuss with your Den what went well and what you would do differently next time.
Stronger, Faster, Higher

 

  • 1. With your Den or family, plan, cook, and eat a balanced meal.
  • 2. Be active for 30 minutes with your Den or at least one other person in a way that includes both stretching and moving.
  • 3. Be active for 15 minutes doing personal exercises that boost your heart rate, use your muscles, and work on flexibility.
  • 4. Do a relaxing activity for 10 minutes.
  • 5. Review your BSA Annual Health and Medical Record with your parent or legal guardian. Discuss your ability to participate in Den and Pack activities.
My Commuinity

 

  • 1. Learn about majority and plurality types of voting.
  • 2. Speak with someone who is elected to their position. Discover the type of voting that was used to elect them and why.
  • 3. Choose a federal law and create a timeline of the history of the law. Include the involvement of the three branches of government.
  • 4. Participate in a service project.
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My Safety

 

  • 1. With permission from your parent or legal guardian, watch the Protect Yourself Rules video for the Webelos rank.
  • 2. 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 accidentally exposed to the product.
  • 3. Identify ways you and your family keep your home or your meeting place safe.
  • 4. Complete a “Be Prepared for Natural Events” worksheet for at least two natural events most likely to happen near where you live.

This worksheet is found in the Webelos Handbook.

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My Family

You may earn this Adventure by either completing the requirements below or earning the religious emblem of your choosing.

You can find information on all Religious Emblems here.

  • 1. With your parent or legal guardian, talks 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 food item that is part of your favorite family faith tradition holiday or celebration.
  • 2. Carry out an act of kindness.
  • 3. 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.
  • 4. Discuss with your parent or legal guardian what it means to be reverent. Tell how you practice being reverent in your daily life.

Elective Adventures

Aquanaut

 

  • 1. State the safety precautions you need to take before doing any activity.
  • 2. Explain the meaning of “order of rescue” and demonstrate the reach and throw rescue techniques from land.
  • 3. Learn how to prevent and treat hypothermia.

Hypothermia is often thought of as a cold weather concern, but even in warmer months cold water in aquatic activities can bring on hypothermia.

The picture above applies more to winter conditions. In aquatic activities be sure to be aware of the temperature of the water and the air temperature. Make sure the water temperature is reasonable and that the air temperature is warm enough to take a break from the water and warm up if a Scout gets too cold in the water.
  • 4. Attempt to tread water.
  • 5. Attempt the BSA swimmer test.
The BSA uses "buddy tags" to make sure that everyone is accounted for. The all white tags means that a Scout is a "non-swimmer", the red half is a "beginner", and the red and blue are for "swimmers".
  • 6. 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.
Art Exlosion

 

  • 1. Create a piece of art by exploring drawing techniques using pencils.
  • 2. Using a digital image, explore the effects of filters by changing an image using different editing or in-camera techniques.
  • 3. Create a piece of art using paint as your medium.
  • 4. Create a piece of art combining at least two media.
Aware and Care

 

  • 1. Do an activity that shows the challenges of being visually impaired.
Try doing a "Blind Nature Trail", tie a rope at chest to shoulder height that goes for 50-75 yards through the woods. Have Scouts wait off where they can't see the rope and trail. Blindfold the Scouts and help guide them to the trail until they can grab the rope and walk independently. Have them really pay attention to their other senses since they cannot see. This will show what going for a hike might be like with a visual impairment, but also how people with an impairment often use other senses more to compinsate for the loss or diminished use of one sense.
  • 2. Do an activity that shows the challenges of being hearing impaired.

Check out the YouTube Channel Art for Kids Hub and try a guided drawing, but only give the verbal instructions, no visual support, as a Den activity. Spread your Scouts around the room at your meeting space and only give the directions as a whisper.

  • 3. Explore barriers to access.

If someone in your Den or Pack has access to a wheelchair or set of crutches bring them to the meeting and have your Scouts try getting from the parking lot into the meeting space and maybe multiple places inside the space.

  • 4. Meet someone who has a disability or someone who works with people with disabilities about what obstacles they must overcome and how they do it.
Build It

 

  • 1. 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.
A hammer is a classic tool and comes in a variety of sizes that can be used for Cubs.
Screwdrivers are important tools. A variety pack like this will give you all the variety you need.
A crescent wrench is useful if having only a handful of tools. Since it is adjustable it can stand in for many other wrenches alone.
A handsaw is crucial for virtually all Cub building projects.
Coping saws are great for when you need to cut something with a curved line.
  • 2. Demonstrate how to check for plumb, level, and square when building.

Below are some tools that can be used to test these things.

Speed Square
Plumb Bob
Level
  • 3. 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.
Click on the picture for a link to a website with directions.
Click on the picture for a link to a website with directions.
  • 4. Build your carpentry project.
Catch the Big One

 

  • 1. 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.
  • 2. Use the BSA SAFE Checklist to plan what you need for your fishing experience.
  • 3. Describe the environment where the fish might be found.
  • 4. Make a list of the equipment and materials you will need to fish.
  • 5. Determine the best type of knot to tie your hook to your line.
  • 6. Choose the appropriate type of fishing rod and tackle you will be using. Have an adult review your gear.
  • 7. Using what you have learned about fish and fishing equipment, spend at least one hour fishing following local guidelines and regulations.
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Champions for Nature
  • 1. Explore the four components that make up a habitat: food, water, shelter, and space.
  • 2. Pick an animal that is currently threatened or endangered to complete requirements 3, 4, and 5.
  • 3. Identify the characteristics that classify an animal as a threatened or endangered.
  • 4. Explore what caused this animal to be threatened or endangered.
  • 5. Research what is currently being done to protect this animal.
  • 6. Participate in a conservation project.

Perhaps pick a conservation project that directly effects one of the animals that the Scouts researched.

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Cher's Knife

 

  • 1. Read, understand, and promise to follow the “Cub Scout Knife Safety Rules.”

Stop– make sure no one else is within arm’s reach by making a knife safety circle

Away– always cut away from your finger or other body parts

Sharp– a sharp, clean knife is a safe knife

Store– knives closed, in a sheath or a knife block

  • 2. Demonstrate the Knife safety circle.

Hold the closed knife in your hand and outstretch your arm. Make a circle all around your body. No one should be in your circle. If you are too close then move to a place where you have the space that you need.

  • 3. Demonstrate that you know how to care for a kitchen knife safely.
  • 4. Choose the correct cooking knife, and demonstrate how to properly slice, dice, and mince.
Earth Rock!

 

  • 1. Examine the three types of rocks: sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic.
  • 2. Find a rock and safely break it apart, and examine it.
  • 3. Make a mineral test kit and test minerals according to the Mohs Scale of 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.
  • 4. Grow a crystal.
Click on the photo to go to a website with simple crystals growing instructions.
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Let's Camp

 

  • 1. With your Den, Pack, of family, plan and participate in a campout.
  • 2. Upon arrival at the campground, determine where to set up a tent.

Remember to avoid the 3 Ws; Wind, Water, and Widow Makers (large limbs that could fall and injury someone camping beneath the tree.)

  • 3. Set up a tent without help from an adult.
  • 4. 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.
  • 5. Show how to tie a bowline. Explain when this knot should be used and why.
  • 6. Know the fire safety rules. Using those rules, locate a safe area to build a campfire.
  • 7. 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.
  • 8. Recite the Outdoor Code and Leave No Trace Principles for Kids from memory.
  • 9. 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.
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Math on the Trail

 

  • 1. Determine your walking pace by walking 1/4 mile. Make a projection of how long it would take you to walk 2 miles.
  • 2. Walk to miles and record the time it took you to complete them.
  • 3. Make a projection of how long it would take you to hike a 20-mile trail over two days. List all the factors to consider for your projection.
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Modular Design

 

  • 1. Learn what modular design is and identify three things that use modular design in their construction.

Modular design is merely designing smaller parts of a projects in pieces and then assembling them together.

  • 2. Using modular-based building pieces, build a model without a set of instructions.

LEGO, Lincoln Logs, Tinker Toys, and Pipe Cleaners all will work to satisfy this requirement.

  • 3. Using the model  made in requirement 2, create a set of step-by-step instructions on how to make your model.
  • 4. Have someone make your model using your instructions.
  • 5. Using the same modular pieces used in requirements 2, build another model of something different.
  • 6. With your parent or legal guardian’s permission, watch a video demonstrating how something was built using modular design.
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Paddle Onward
  • 1. Before attempting requirements 5, 6, 7, and 8 for this Adventure, you must pass the BSA Swimmer test.
  • 2. Pick a paddle craft you’ll use to complete all requirements: canoe, kayak, or stand-up paddleboard.
  • 3. Review Safety Afloat
  • 4. Demonstrate how to choose and properly wear a life jacket that is the correct size.
  • 5. Jump feet first into water over your head while wearing a life jacket. Then swim 25 feet wearing the life jacket.
  • 6. Demonstrate how to enter and exit a canoe, kayak, or stand-up paddle board safely.
  • 7. Discuss what to do if your canoe or kayak tips over, or you fall off your stand-up paddle board.
  • 8. Learn how to pick a paddle that is the right size for you. Explore how the paddle craft responds to moving the paddle.
  • 9. Have 30 minutes or more of canoe, kayak, or stand-up paddle board paddle time.
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Pedal Away

 

  • 1. Decide on gear and supplies you should bring along for a long bike ride.

Cub Scout Essentials are a good start, if it is a long ride you may want to think about some simple bike/tire repair tools as well.

  • 2. Discover how multigear bicycles work and how they benefit a rider.
  • 3. Practice how to lubricate a bike chain.
  • 4. Pick a bike 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.
  • 5. With your Den, Pack, or family, use a map and plan a bicycle ride that is at least 5 miles.
  • 6. With your Den, Pack, or family and using the Buddy System, go on a bicycle ride that is a minimum of 5 miles.
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Race Time
  • 1. With an adult, build 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. Explore the properties of friction and how it impacts your chosen vehicle.
  • 4. Before the race, discuss with your Den how you will demonstrate good sportsmanship during the race.
  • 5. Participate in a Pinewood Derby of a Raingutter Regatta.
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Summertime Fun

 

  • 1. Anytime during Math through August, participate in a total of three Cub Scout activities.
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Tech on the Trail
  • 1. Discuss how technology can help keep you safe in the outdoors.
  • 2. Explore Global Positioning System (GPS) devices and how to use them.

There is no need to find an expensive GPS device. You can download a number of free apps on your smart phone or other smart device.

  • 3. With an adult choose an online mapping program tool and plan a two mile hike.

Below are two free apps that can be downloaded to your smart phone or other smart device that offer thousands of trails across the country, along with great info about elevation and other info.

AllTrails
The Hiking Project
  • 4. Take your 2-mile trek.
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Yo-Yo

 

  • 1. Learn the safety rules of using a yo-yo and always follow them.
  • 2. Discover how to find the proper yo-yo string length for you.

The length of a yo-yo string should be from the user’s bellybutton to the floor.

  • 3. Explain why it is important to have the correct string length and to be in the right location before throwing a yo-yo.
  • 4. Demonstrate how to properly string a yo-yo using a slip knot.
  • 5. Conduct the pendulum experiment with a yo-yo. Explain what happens to the yo-yo when the string is longer.
  • 6. Show that you can properly wind a yo-yo.
  • 7. Attempt each of the following: gravity pull, sleeper, and breakaway.

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.

 
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Slingshot

 

  • 1. Identify and wear the appropriate safety gear.
  • 2. Recite the safety rules for using a slingshot.
  • 3. Demonstrate proper range commands and explain them to an adult or another scout.
  • 4. Explore the parts of a slingshot and their usage.
  • 5. Discover the types of ammunition that may be used and types that may not be used.
  • 6. Discover the types of targets that may be used and types that may not be used.
  • 7. Shoot 5 shots at a target. Repeat twice and do your best to improve your score each time. Shoot at least 15 shots.
  • 8. Demonstrate how to put away and properly store your slingshot and shooting equipment after use.
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Archery

 

  • 1. Identify and wear the appropriate safety gear.
  • 2. Recite the safety rules for using a slingshot.
  • 3. Demonstrate proper range commands and explain them to an adult or another scout.
  • 4. Explore the parts of a slingshot and their usage.
  • 5. Discover the types of ammunition that may be used and types that may not be used.
  • 6. Discover the types of targets that may be used and types that may not be used.
  • 7. Shoot 5 shots at a target. Repeat twice and do your best to improve your score each time. Shoot at least 15 shots.
  • 8. Demonstrate how to put away and properly store your slingshot and shooting equipment after use.
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BBs

 

  • 1. Identify and wear the appropriate safety gear.
  • 2. Recite the four safety reminders.
  • 3. Demonstrate proper range commands and explain them to an adult or another scout.
  • 4. Show how to use the safety mechanism.
  • 5. Demonstrate how to properly load, fire, and secure your BB gun.
  • 6. Demonstrate the prone, bench, and sitting positions for shooting a BB gun.
  • 7. Fire 5 BBs at the target and score your target. Repeat three times and do your best to improve your score. Fire at least 20 BBs.
  • 8. Demonstrate how to put away and properly store your BB gun and shooting equipment after use.