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The Cub Pack is currently working on the following badges:
 
Navigator

Complete the following:

  1. With other Cub Scouts, go for a walk with a Leader(s) around the local area. Take it in turns to use one or more of the following methods of navigation:

    1. Written instructions

    2. Taped instructions

    3. Road signs

    4. Tracking signs

    5. Maps.

  2. By drawing a simple map, direct someone from your meeting place to a local railway station, bus stop, hospital, doctor, Post Office, etc.

  3. Using a local street map, find certain roads and places of interest as requested by a Leader.

  4. Help plan, or take part in, a treasure hunt using clues, directions and signs to reach an unknown destination.

Chef

Complete the following:

  1. Know the basic rules of safety and hygiene in the kitchen and the reasons for them.

  2. Discuss with your Leader the advantages and disadvantages of different methods of preparing and cooking food.

  3. Discuss the importance of a balanced diet.

  4. Under adult supervision plan, cook, serve and clear away a two-course meal for at least two people. Discuss their menu with the people you are cooking for. It should include preparing and cooking vegetables.

    The following dishes are given as suggestions.

    Main Courses

    • Shepherd's pie,

    • Curry and Rice,

    • Ham salad,

    • Vegetable lasagne.

    Deserts

    • Fruit crumble,

    • Fresh fruit salad.

  5. Make scones, small cakes, biscuits or tarts.

 

Community Challenge

Cub Scouts should complete three of the following:

  1. Find out about a place of worship (preferably different from their own) in their local community. Find out what happens there and tell other Cub Scouts about it. If possible they should visit a place of worship or meet a religious leader.
  2.  
    Organise a fundraising event for a charity of their choice.
  3. Over a period of a month take good care of a pet. Make a record of how they have cared for their pet, for example, food, exercise, and cleaning/grooming.
  4. Meet or visit someone who helps their local community, for example, a police officer, a fire fighter or lifeboat crewmember. Explain to others what they have learned and how we can help them to do their job.
  5. Find out what hazards there could be in the home or Meeting Place or on a campsite. Help other Cub Scouts to be aware of any dangers.
  6. Learn the following basic First Aid: controlling bleeding, burns and scalds, airway protection and how and when to get help.

 

Creative Challenge

Cub Scouts should complete three of the following:

  1. Create and then read or perform a prayer, reading or sketch for a service, about their Promise. This should include why the Promise is important to them or how they have used the Promise to help other people. This could be done individually or in a small group.

  2. Plan and perform a musical performance, play or sketch.

  3. Create two new games for the Pack.

  4. Design and make something, for example, a birdhouse, model or kite.

  5. Create something using information technology, for example, a birthday card, party invitation, or a poster.

  6. Make a creative presentation about an aspect of Cub Scouting. This could be in the form of a video, photos or posters. It could show the activities they enjoy doing, a Cub camp or be used for recruiting new members.

  7. Write a poem or short story on a subject of their choice.

  8. Design and make something using pioneering skills, this could be a raft or a scaled down model of a bridge.

  9. Take part in a problem solving activity that requires creative thinking. This could be an incident hike or a code breaking activity at camp.

 

Outdoor Challenge

Cub Scouts should complete all of the following:

  1. Take part in at least one residential experience (preferably camping) with a minimum of two nights away. The two nights do not need to be consecutive.

  2. Explain to other Cub Scouts what activity they enjoyed most whilst on the residential experience and what activity they found hardest. This could be in the form of a poster, story, photographs or similar.

  3. Learn two new skills and use them, for example: tracking, fire lighting or some basic knots.

  4. Take part in three new outdoor activities that you have not done before, for example, shelter building, pioneering, archery, skiing, abseiling, a wide game or kite flying

 

Where the Badges Go on your Uniform