There are “Electives” this year as well. These are activities that enable scouts to win arrows. More information can be found in the Bear Cub Handbook on pages 180 and 181.
Here is the list of ten achievements that you need to complete at home with your scout
Achievement #1 Ways We Worship
- 1a -- Faith
- 1b - Worship
Achievement #2 Earn the Religious Emblem of your Faith (Optional if you want to complete 1a and 1b)
This is obviously a personal one but one that this achievement covers. This one is one that we trust that you will work out with or without the emblem. This one is optional because these programs should be presented to scouts and their families to complete through your religious organization. It’s the all around feeling that religious instruction should always come from the religious organization, not from the den or pack.
Achievement #3: What Makes America Special
Here, item (a) and (j) are requirements. The scout only has to do two others
One must note, that at our last campout, the scouts did attend/participate in a flag ceremony (3i)
The others are
- 3a What Makes America Special To You
- 3b Find out and talk about two special Americans (more in the book)
- 3c Find out something about the old homes near where you live -- see two of them
- 3d - Find historical places near your home or town -- visit them
- 3e - Investigate a State and some key things about the state (see the book)
- 3f -- Be a member of a color guard
- 3g - Display a US Flag; fly it on three national holidays
- 3h - learn how to raise and lower a US flag properly
- 3i -- Participate in a flag ceremony
- 3j - Reflective Citizenship discussion with parents
This is about recycling and energy conservation; studying it and understanding how it impacts your world and your home.
Three of these requirements (out of seven) need to be completed by your scout.
Achievement #9 – What’s Cooking?
Here the scout has to accomplish four things to complete this achievement
- 9a - Bake Cookies
- 9b - Make Snacks for the next den meeting (bring them to whatever meeting you like)
- 9c - With an adult, prepare one part of your breakfast, one part of your lunch, and one part of your dinner
- 9d - Make a list of the "junk foods" you eat -- discuss it with a parent
Achievement #10 Family Fun
These two achievements are simple
10a Go on a day trip or an evening out with your family - and think about behavior before, during and after the even (the book goes into more detail)
10b Have a family night at home or make something with your family
Achievement #12. Family Outdoor Adventures
We're out with the scouts all the time -events, picnics and the like. This event is really about the scout helping lead one of those events with your family. This achievement includes
12a Go Camping with your family -- because the scouts need to go to our campouts with a parent, for all scouts who plan on going to one of the events with their parents (past and upcoming) this meets muster for "12a"
For the rest of these items -- this could just be one outdoor event now or in the spring.
- 12b - Go hiking with your family -- if you went hiking on that trip with a family member during that last camping trip -- this counts as well)
- 12c - Have a picnic with your family
- 12d - Attend an outdoor event with your family
- 12e - Plan your outdoor family day -- this can be wrapped into the previous activities.
Achievement #13. Saving Well, Spending Well
Some of these, our scouts have done with us at least once. There are seven here, your scout only needs to complete four.
Achievement #17. Information Please
We are going to see if we can complete 17c through a parent activity but we still must complete
- 17a (REQUIRED); with an adult in your family, choose a TV show and watch it together
- 17b play a game of charades with your family
- 17d Use a computer to get information. Write, spell-check, proofread, and print out a report on what you've learned.
- 17e this can be combined to complete 17d -- write a letter to a company that makes something that your scout uses (the scout does this), use email or the US Postal Service
- 17f talk with a parent of other family member about how getting and giving facts fits into his or her job
We need to do achievement 18h and four other requirements for a total of five requirements out of eight possible.
- 18a - Make a To Do List
- 18b - write two letters to relatives or friends (emails more than an instant messages will do)
- 18c - keep a record of daily activity for two weeks
- 18d - write an invitation to someone (email counts as well)
- 18e - write a thank-you note
- 18f - write a story about something you have done with your family
- 18g - write about the activities in your den
- 18h - complete the character section for honesty (required)
Achievement #21 (Part Two): Build a Model
By now, the scout will have built their pinewood derby car. Now they can complete achievement 21g and one other requirement
Options include:
- 21b - Build a Display for one of your models
- 21c - Draw a Layout and Plan to Move Furniture in one room in your house (on paper)
- 21d - Make a Model of a Mountain, Meadow, Canyon or a River
- 21e -Go to see a model of some architectural thing that's to be built (a paraphrase from the book)
- 21f - Make a Model of a Boat, Plane, or Car using whatever you want to build it
- 21g - (required) Thinking and Contemplating about Achievement #21 (can be done aloud)
While 23a and 23b can be accomplished via a den event, the remaining events can be fulfilled at home with parents or the family. Those are
- 23c Take part in an individual or team sport
- 23d Watch a sports even on television
- 23e Attend a sporting event
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