Achievements & Electives

Den Activities
1D
With adult partner, assemble and decorate your family scrapbook.
2D
Practice the Pledge of Allegiance with your den, and participate in a den or pack flag ceremony.
3D
Have each adult partner and Tiger Cub draw a food pyramid on poster board.
4D
Play “Tell It Like It Isn’t”
5D
While on your hike, collect fallen leaves and make a leaf rubbing.
Family Activities
1F
Ask Cub Scouts to think of one chore they can do with their adult partner.
2F
Look at the map of your community and find your home and three places you would like to go.
3Fa
Have each adult partner and Tiger Cub plan a family fire drill. Remind them to practice it at home.
3Fb
Have each family plan what to do if the Tiger Cub ever becomes lost or separated from his family.
4F
Ask boys to share how they practiced listening and talking during a family meal.
5F
Go outside and watch the weather.
Go See Its
1G
Take a Go See It to a library, historical society, museum, old farm, or historical building, or visit an older person.
2G
Go See It at the police station or fire station.
3G
Attend a local football, soccer, or volleyball game, or any amateur or professional game or sporting event.
4G
Find out how people at the newspaper office, or radio or TV station communicate to others.
5G
Take a hike with your den.
Electives
1
Think of a time when your family celebrated something, and tell the den about it and how it made your feel.
2
Make a decoration with your family or your den. Display it or give it to someone as a gift.
3
Fun and Games: Play bingo (or your other game).
4
Make a frame for a family picture.
5
Make a family mobile.
6
Along with your adult partner, teach a song to your family or to your den and sing it together.
7
Make a musical instrument and play it with others. The others can sing or have instruments of their own.
8
Invite a religious leader or teacher from your place of worship to your home or to your den meeting.
9
Help a new boy or girl get to know other people.
10
Along with your adult partner, help an elderly or shut-in person with a chore.
11
Help collect food, clothing or toys for needy families with your pack or den.
12
Make at least two cards or decorations and take them to a hospital or long-term care facility.
13
Using U.S. pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters, choose the correct coins to make the following amounts. . .
14
Together with your adult partner, read a short story or magazine article.
15
Mix the primary colors to make orange, green and purple.
16
With your den, show or tell about something you like to collect, OR tell your den about a favorite hobby or activity.
17
Make a model: Build pinewood derby cars with each Tiger Cub.
18
Sew a button onto fabric.
19
Learn a magic trick and show it to your family or den.
20
With your den, make up a PSA (public service announcement) skit to tell people about Tiger Cubs.
21
Make a Puppet.
22
With your family or with your den, have a picnic—indoors or outdoors.
23
Find out what kind of milk your family drinks and why.
24
Help the adult who is preparing a family meal to set the table and clean up afterward.
25
Make a snack and share it with your family or den.
26
Talk to your adult partner about what to do if these things happened.
27
With a toy phone, or a disconnected phone, practice making phone calls and answering the telephone.
28
With your adult partner, check the batteries in the smoke detector in your home or another building.
29
Safety in the Sun
30
Plant a seed, pit, or greens from something you have eaten.
31
Learn about an animal.
32
Make a bird feeder and then hang it outdoors.
33
Cleanup Treasure Hunt
34
With your adult partner, think of a way to conserve water or electricity and do it for one week.
35
Play a game outdoors with your family or den.
36
With your family or your den, go see a play or musical performance in your community.
37
Take a bike ride with your adult partner.
38
Visit a bike repair shop.
39
Visit the place where your adult partner or another adult works.
40
Together with your adult partner, go swimming or take part in an activity on water.
41
Visit a train station, bus station, airport or boat dock.
42
Visit a zoo or aquarium.
43
Take a field trip to a veterinarian’s or animal groomer’s office.
44
Visit a dairy, a milk-processing plant, or a cheese factory.
45
Visit a bakery.
46
Visit a dentist or dental hygienist.
47
Learn about what you can recycle in your community and how you can recycle at home.
48
Take a ride on public transportation, such as a bus or train.
49
Visit a government office such as the mayor's office, the state capitol building, or a courthouse.
50
Visit a Bank.