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Do you have a hobby? Maybe you love building model boats or, perhaps going fishing. Almost everyone has some activity they like to do best.

Interest badges are great fun to earn because you choose the ones that interest you most. By the time you gain the badge you will be quite expert at whatever you have chosen. Your mother and father will be able to help you with some of the badges and when they see the great things you can do, they'll look forward to helping you with future projects.

Read carefully what you have to do to earn each badge and practice it until you know how to do it well. When you think you are ready to gain your badge, tell Akela, who will arrange for someone to test you. Akela will also tell you what to do next.

And remember - DO YOUR BEST. You will be proud to wear a badge
for which you have worked so hard. There are almost fifty badges to
choose from.
AIRCRAFT ANIMALS AQUANAUT ARTIST
ATHLETE BIRDS BOATING CITIZEN
CIVIL EMERGENCY SIGNALLING COLLECTOR CONSERVATION
COOKING CRAFTSMAN CYCLING DRAWING
ENGINEER ENTERTAINING FAMILY CAMPING FIRST AID
FISHING FLYING MODELS GARDENING GEOLOGIST
HANDICRAFT HOMECRAFT LANDSCAPING LINGUIST
MACHINES MASKS MODEL BOATS NATURALIST
NATURE CRAFT OUTDOORSMAN PETS PHOTOGRAPHY
PROJECTS RELIGION AND LIFE REPAIRS SCHOLAR
SECRET CODES SHOWMAN SINGING SKIES
SPORTSMAN SWIMMER TRAVELLER WORKING TOYS
WORLD CONSERVATION CHESS COMPUTER FOOD FOR LIFE
 RECYCLING  WORLD FRIENDSHIP  
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Leaping Wolf (Updated)LW

Leaping wolf requirements >> Download the new requirements...
The important change is that you are required to do three badges, two of which are prescribed and the third your choice from a given list.
The compulsory badges are:

Additionally earn ONE of the following interest badges. NB: Regardless of which one you choose, NONE of these badges may be earned BEFORE your tenth birthday.

AIRCRAFT (Updated)aircraft

Do any FOUR of the following:

  1. Identify FIVE different aircraft in flight or from models or photographs OR attend'an air show and list 5 planes seen at the air show
  2. Makeandflyamodelaircraft(notnecessarilyenginedriven)
  3. Make a sketch of a favourite model aircraft and name the parts of the aircraft.
  4. List the basic emergency procedures of an aircraft (This is the information that passengert on"*V'fligfiire required to read at commencement of their flight)
  5. List six items that are not allowed to be taken on board an aircraft
  6. Explain the location and use of the following places at an airfield:

ANIMALS (DELETED) animal
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AQUANAUT (updated)aqua
  1. Swim 200 m freestyle.
  2. Do any THREE of the following:
ARTISTartist
Do any FIVE of the following:
  1. Draw, paint or sketch an original picture using water-colour, crayons, coloured pencils or oil paints. Frame it to hang on a wall.
  2. Know the primary and secondary colours and how to combine them to produce other colours.
  3. Produce six different designs using straight lines, curved lines, or a combination of both.
  4. Draw a profile of a member of your family or a friend.
  5. Make a mobile and hang it.
  6. Make a greetings card of your own des ign and send it to another person, preferably the examiner. Decorate or illus trate the outside and letter s uitable wording inside. (Size not less than 125 mm x 200 mm when folded.)
  7. Use clay or other plastic material to sculpture a simple object.
NOTES:
  1. Paper size except where otherwise indicated should not be less than 275mm x 373mm in order to encourage imagination and free movement of the wrist and hand.
  2. Except where otherwise indic ated, pencils, pen-and-ink, watercolours, felt pen crayon, and Cray-pas are acceptable. In No 6 coloured gummed paper may be used
  3. It is important that the standard called for is one that encourages the best of the Cub, rather than one that adheres rigidly to academic rules.
ATHLETE (updated)athlete
Do any SIX of the following:
  1. Run 50 m in 9.5 seconds.
  2. Long jump (standing) 1.5m.
  3. Throw a cricket ball 27m.
  4. High jump 0.85 m.
  5. Long jump (running) 2.5m.
  6. Run 200m in 40 seconds.
  7. Lie on your back. Hold your feet under something heavy and do 40 sit-ups.
  8. Do 3 pull-ups on a bar and 10 push-ups from the ground or floor.
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BIRDSbird
Do any THREE of the following:
  1. Identify (in nature or from photographs) FIVE different k inds of birds that live in Southern Africa.
  2. Show the examiner that you know three birds by their call or song.
  3. Feed birds that are not in captivity, and tell the examiner whic h birds you attract
  4. Draw and colour a bird which belongs to your locality.
BOATINGboat
  1. Know the rules of safe boating.
  2. Know how to wear an approved life jacket and demonstrate the correct method of floating while wearing it
  3. Swim 50 m using any stroke OR hold the Swimmer Badge.
  4. Do any TWO of the following:
(Note: A letter from the adult must be produced.)
CHESS (new)chess
  1. Show the examiner that you know how to set up a chess board correctly.
  2. Know all the names of the pieces and their moves.
  3. Explain to the examiner what the terms stale mate and check mate mean.
  4. Know the two ways to castle and when to castle.
  5. Play three games of chess, one of which must be against the examiner.
  6. Use your knowledge of the game to teach someone how to play chess.
CITIZENcitizen
  1. Know the names of your President, Member of Parliament and local Council Member. List them in your notebook. Put in pictures of your national capital.
  2. Know the background of two historical places (monuments, buildings, battlefields etc) in your area.
  3. Explain why we have laws and why you think it is important to obey the law.
    4. Do THREE of the following:
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CIVIL EMERGENCY (UPDATED)civil

You must have past your 10th birthday to do this badge

Do any FOUR of the following:

  1. Show that you know the location of main cut-off points for water, gas and electricity in your home.
  2. Show that you know the importance of pure water and demonstrate how to purify water.
  3. Show that you k now the telephone numbers of the nearest fire station, police station, doctor and ambulance. Write them on a card and place the card near your telephone.
  4. With your parents, check or prepare the family first aid kit, and know where it is kept and how to use the materials contained in it.
  5. Explain what to do in the event of a civil emergency such as a fire, veld fire, flood or gale. Explain the need for emergency food supplies and clothing.
  6. Be able to give clear and concise directions to a stranger in your area asking his way to the nearest fire station, police station, doctor, ambulance station or hospital.
(Note: A letter must be produced from a parent or another adult for No 1 and 4).
SIGNALLING (UPDATED) codes
Do any TWO of the following:
  1. Make a set of paper, cardboard, or cloth flags of the international alphabet in colour. By using this set, or by making a s eries of drawings, spell out a simple message of about six words.
  2. Know the alphabet in semaphore, using small flags, and send correctly a message of no fewer than eight words.
  3. Know the deaf alphabet and use it to carry out simple dialogue.
COLLECTORcollect
  1. Make a collection of one group of items over a period of six months. The collection is to be classified (or grouped), labelled and neatly presented.
  2. Be able to explain the classification or grouping used in your collection and point out important items.
  3. Talk about the value of making collections.
  4. Read and talk about a book dealing with the subject of your collection OR a book written about collecting.
COMPUTER (new)computer
  1. Know the various parts of a computer and demonstrate what they are used for:
    • Hard drive and cd rom
    • Keyboard
    • Screen
    • Printer
    • Mouse
    • Speakers
    • Modem
  2. Show a basic knowledge of a computer keyboard and its functions.
  3. Explain how to care for a computer and compact disks.
  4. List five uses of a computer in your school and/or home.
  5. Show a person who has never used a computer before how to start a computer, open an application, save work, exit an application and turn off the computer.
  6. Explain the functions of five commands (ie cut & paste) in any application.
  7. Choose (a) or (b):
    a. Write an article for your Pack Log book using a word processing application on the computer. Print a draft article then the final report explaining the changes you made.
    b. Using a computer design one of the following:
    • A flyer/poster advertising Cubs
    • A new Cub badge
  8. Under supervision, search for information on the internet and show how to send and receive e-mail.
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CONSERVATIONconserve
Do any THREE of the following:
  1. Name an animal in Southern Africa that is in danger of extinction and explain why.
  2. Draw and explain a simple picture that shows how water that falls as rain gets to your water tap.
  3. Carry out an experiment that shows how soil may be lost or ruined and how grass or other plants help protect soil.
  4. Visit a fauna or flora reserve and report how these reserves conserve animals and plants.
COOKING (UPDATED)cook
  1. Know why you should wash your hands before preparing food.
  2. Know the correct way to dispose of rubbish both at home and in the bushveld.
  3. Braai meat and potatoes properly over an open fire.
  4. Prepare and cook the main meal and a hot drink for the family. Wash up and put away the dishes and utensils.
  5. Do any TWO of the following:
CRAFTSMANcraft
Do the following:
  1. Using hand tools, make two wooden toys.
  2. Make any FOUR of the following items using appropriate tools:
    Bookrack; shelf; notepad holder; toolbox; towel rack; bulletin board; recipe holder; tie rack; lamp stand; letter holder.
    Finish the articles by painting, staining or varnishing them.
  3. Do any ONE of the following:
CYCLINGcycle
  1. Be able to
  2. Show that you understand the need for keeping the bicycle in a roadworthy condition.
  3. Learn to ride a bike. Ride a bike 100 m and do 90° right and left turns, U-turns and an emergency stop. Ride for 2 km observing all traffic rules.
  4. Under the examiner's observation, go for a short ride on a specified course, showing the proper use of signals and a knowledge of the local traffic rules applicable to cyclists. The examiner may ask you further questions about the rules, if necessary.
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DRAWINGcraw
Do any THREE of the following:
  1. Draw a freehand sketch in the presence of the examiner.
  2. Make a comic strip of at least six frames.
  3. Make a stencil pattern.
  4. Make a poster advertising a Cub Pack activity.
ENGINEERengineer
Do any FIVE of the following:
  1. List ten different things that engineers do.
  2. Visit a construction job (e.g. a building or a bridge). Look at the plans and explain in detail what you found out about the job (e.g. house being built). Get permission before your visit.
  3. Measure the size of the block of land on which your house is built and draw a sketch plan of your block to scale, showing the location of all buildings.
  4. Draw sketches of three different types of bridges and explain the sketches.
  5. Build and demonstrate how a block and tackle works.
  6. Draw a floor plan of you house including doors, windows and stairs.
  7. Make a drawing of how electricity gets to your house.
  8. Make a model of a famous dam or reservoir and find out as much as you can about it.
ENTERTAININGentertain
Do any THREE of the following:
  1. Learn and present to the Pack three different magician's tricks.
  2. Make and play a home-made musical treatment.
  3. Play two tunes on any musical instrument.
  4. Sing three songs.
  5. Dance three items of not les s than three minutes each.
  6. Organise a band within the Pack using any instruments. Including home-made instruments, and play at a Pack meeting.
  7. Demonstrate three rope tricks to your Pack.
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FAMILY CAMPINGcamp
Do the following:
  1. Attend a camp under canvas or go an a caravan holiday with your family.
  2. Pitch a tent with the help of one other person for a family camp.
  3. List all the equipment necessary for a family camp.
  4. Cook at least three meals at a family camp.
  5. Help pack the car for a family camp.
  6. Know the precautions to take when pitching a tent for camp.
  7. Know the veld fire regulations for the locality in which you are camping.
(Note: a letter from your parents is necessary for Nos. 1, 2, 4 and 5)
FIRST AID AND HEALTH (UPDATED)firstAid
(You must have passed your 10th birthday before you start this badge)
  1. Show that you clearly understand:
  2. Demonstrate how to control bleeding by direct pressure with the finger or hand using a rubber glove of plastic bag.
  3. Demonstrate how to stop a nose bleed.
  4. Demonstrate what to do if your clothes or another person's clothes catch fire.
  5. Demonstrate how to use your scarf for an arm sling and knee or elbow bandage.
  6. Using a one-way valve, explain and show what you would do if an accident victim has
    stopped breathing. This includes knowing how to help someone who is choking on
    inhaled food.
  7. Explain two dangers to health of each of the following: smoking; drinking alcohol.
  8. Explain how to help a child who appears to have drowned.
FISHINGfish
Do No 5 and THREE from the remaining five.
  1. Identify five fish caught in the rivers of Southern Africa.
  2. Rig a fishing line with hook and sink er and use it for fishing.
  3. Go fishing with an adult; bait a hook and catch a fish.
  4. Demonstrate how to cast with a rod and reel.
  5. Describe the safety rules for fishing and boating and list the simple rules of fishing courtesy.
  6. Make a list of fishing laws concerning:
(Note: A letter must be produced from a parent or adult for No 3.)
FLYING MODELSflying
  1. Explain the safety rules for kite flying.
  2. Do any TWO of the following:
FOOD FOR LIFE (NEW) flying
  1. Explain what the best place and size for a food garden is.
  2. Obtain or make garden tools and explain how to use and look after them (rake, spade and watering can)
  3. Prepare the soil, including mulching.
  4. Sow seeds or plant seedlings.
  5. Explain how to use water sparingly
  6. Harvest one vegetable or fruit
  7. Explain why vegetables and fruit should be eaten.
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GARDENINGgarden
Do any THREE of the following:
  1. Grow a plant indoors.
  2. Plant and grow at least two vegetables for use by your family.
  3. Plant and grow a bed of flowers.
  4. Grow some flowers in a window box , or some seeds in a box for transplanting.
  5. Grow some flowers or vegetables in a solution of chemicals.
(Note: A letter must be produced from a parent or adult).
GEOLOGISTgeologist
Do any FOUR of the following:
  1. Give me an example of rock or mineral that is used in the production or manufacture of the following: a metal, glass, jewellery, material for road building and a fertiliser.
  2. Collect five geological specimens that have important uses for man.
  3. Make a scale of mineral hardness using things found at home. Show how to use the scale by finding the relative hardness of these samples.
  4. List same of the geological materials used in the construction of your home, your town hall, or your school.
  5. Make a drawing to show the causes of a volcano, a geyser and an earthquake.
  6. Find in your locality a dyke, or a nek, or a fault or rock platform, or a tied island.
  7. Explain one way in which mountains are formed.
  8. Make a collection of ten small pieces of different semi-previous stones found in Southern Africa. Label them with their correct names.
HANDICRAFThandicraft
  1. Make an article which would be useful at home.
  2. Make a gift or toy and give it to someone.
HOMECRAFT (UPDATED) home
  1. Lay a table correctly.
  2. Make a bed.
  3. Wash and dry dishes after a meal.
  4. Clean windows, silver or brasswork.
  5. Sew on a badge or button.
  6. Wash and iron your group scarf.
  7. Show that you know how to be useful at home.
PDF Note: Download the Homecraft signature checklist that must be used.
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LANDSCAPINGlandscape
Do any THREE of the following:
  1. Help take care of your lawn or help tak e care of the lawn of your school, public building, or church, for one season. Seed or replant bare spots. Get rid of weeds. Pick up litter. Agree ahead of time what you will do.
  2. Make a sketch of a landscape plan for the area right around your home or for same other building, showing the trees, shrubs and flowers you could plant to make it look better.
  3. Take part in a project with your family, Pack , or others to make your neighbourhood look more beautiful. This might be through clean-up parties, painting, planting, cleaning and painting rubbish bins and removing weeds.
  4. Start a compost heap in your yard using leaves, grass, clippings, and similar plant materials and explain how you will use this compost in a garden.
  5. Point out and name four problem plants in your area; in addition point out three common enemies and three common friends of the garden.
(Note: a letter must be produced from a parent or adult for No 1).
LINGUISTlinguist

(You must have passed your 10th birthday before you start this badge)

Carry out the following requirements in any language (including English, Afrikaans and German) other than your home language.

  1. Hold a conversation for ten minutes.
  2. Write a letter of at least 100 words.
  3. Translate in your own time and with the help of a dictionary, an eas y passage from a book or magazine.
MACHINESmachines
  1. Name and explain the use of ten different kinds of machines such as trucks, construction machinery or farm machinery / implements.
  2. Use a lever, pulley, a wheel and an axle. Explain how they make work easier.
  3. Make and use a model windlass.
MASKSmasks
Do any THREE of the following:
  1. Make a simple papier-mâché mask.
  2. Make an animal mask.
  3. Make an African mask.
  4. Draw, paint or crayon three designs of primitive ceremonial masks.
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MODEL BOATSboat
  1. Make a model boat with a rubber band propeller.
  2. Make, or put together, a model of a famous boat.
  3. Draw a picture of a rowing boat and oars. Name the parts of each.
NATURALISTnature
Do any FOUR of the following:
  1. Keep a 'zoo' of insects such as ants, grasshoppers, crickets or praying mantises for four weeks.
  2. Set up an aquarium or terrarium and keep It for four weeks using plants you have collected.
  3. Make a migration chart s howing the pathways followed by migratory birds that visit Southern Africa.
  4. Observe six animals (birds, fish, reptiles, amphibians or mammals) in their natural habitat. Describe the place where they were seen and what they were doing.
  5. Visit a museum of natural history or zoo and find out the purpose of the place visited and the things collected.
  6. Know the names of important game reserves and explain why they ex ist. Name some of the animals found in the game reserves.
  7. Draw (or trace) and colour three animals which are not found in any continent but Africa.
NATURE CRAFTnatCraft
Do any FOUR of the following:
  1. Make plaster cas ts of three kinds of leaves.
  2. Make plas ter cas ts of three bird or animal tracks.
  3. Collect, pres s and label ten kinds of leaves.
  4. Collect, mount and label ten kinds of insects.
  5. Collect eight kinds of seeds and label them.
  6. Collect, mount and label five kinds of roc ks or shells.
OUTDOORSMANoutdoor
Do any FIVE of the following:
  1. Make a back yard tent and s leep in it for at least two nights in summer, in your own or a friend's backyard.
  2. With your Pack, plan and participate in an outdoor evening activity which includes a campfire.
  3. Cook some meat over an open fire with no other equipment than a knife and a box of matches.
  4. Describe to the examiner the preparations required for a one-day hike, eg arranging transport, cost, adequate and suitable clothing, footwear, food, firs t-aid kit, etc.
  5. Explain the danger of fire in the bush or veld, and demonstrate how to construct a safe cooking fire.
  6. Know the regulations relating to making fires out in the open and in Forestry Reserves, Wilderness Areas, and so on.
  7. Find and identify the track s or an animal or bind.
  8. Explain how to find your way in the bush or veld without a compass.
  9. Demonstrate how to purify water and make if fit for drinking.
(Note: A letter from your parent or another responsible adult in necessary for No 1.)
PETS (UPDATED) pets
  1. Care for an animal or pet for one month and plan with your parents or another adult, how best to feed and care for the animal or pet
  2. Find out about two diseases that could affect your animal or pet and how to prevent them
  3. Identify six kinds of animals and explain the purpose for which each is raised.
  4. Learn something about an animal or pet and explain what you have learnt.
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PHOTOGRAPHY (UPDATED)photo
    FILM CAMERA
  1. Know how to care for a camera
  2. Show how to load, hold, and trigger a camera and how to use the view-finder.
  3. Learn the light limitations of a camera and film by taking one subject in any three of the following conditions.
    • a. in direct sun with direct light
    • in direct sun with side light
    • in direct sun with back light
    • on a sunny day, the subject in the shade
    • on a cloudy day.
  4. Take three clear photographs in each of two of the following groups: animals, birds, flowers, landscapes, people, buildings. Neatly mount and title the photographs in an album or on a card.
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    Take at least SiX photographs of a Cub event that can be displayed to advertise Cubbing.'Neatly mount and title the photographs in an album or on a card.

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    DIGITAL CAMERA
  1. Know how to care for a camera.
  2. Know how to load a memory card, hold and trigger a camera and how to frame a picture in the viewfinder/display screen
  3. Learn to take photographs in the following lighting conditions:
    • in direct sun with direct light
    • in direct sun with side light
    • in direct sun with back light
    • on a sunny day, the subject
    • in the shade
    • on a cloudy day.
  4. Take three clear photographs in each of four of the following groups:
    animals, birds, flowers, landscapes, people, buildings.
    Print, mount and title the photographs in an album or on a card.

    OR

    Take at least 25 photographs of a Cub event and make a slide show or neatly
    mount the photograph. Use your presentation to advertise Cubbing
PROJECTS (UPDATED) project
Do any THREE of the following:
  1. Wire a buzzer or a doorbell.
  2. Make a simple bar or horseshoe electromagnet.
  3. Make a model crane with an electromagnet lift.
  4. Make an electric buzzer game.
  5. Make and use a crystal set.
  6. Make and use a steam-propelled boat.
RECYCLING (NEW) recycle
    Do any FOUR of the following:
  1. Choose something that you currently throw away and come up with a new idea on how to reuse it.
  2. Show your Pack three products that are made with recycled materials.
  3. With your Pack participate in a recycling project such as a glass, tin, plastic or paper drive.
  4. Visit or learn about a company that is involved in recycling
  5. lvlake a list of ten items that display the recycling symbol
  6. Using old newspaper, make your own firelighters.
RELIGION AND LIFE religion
(You must have passed your 10th birthday before you start this badge.) The requirements for this badge can be obtained from Akela.
REPAIRSrepair
  1. Use glue to repair a brok en article.
  2. Demonstrate to the examiner how to replace a washer in a leaking tap
    OR
    know how to repair a fence.
  3. Refinish or repaint something.
  4. Show that you know how to use and take care of any FOUR of the following: screwdriver, hammer, vice, wood plane, brace and bit, pliers, adjustable wrench, saw or G-clamp.
SCHOLARscholar
Do any FOUR of the following:
  1. Produce a list of at least six books, varied in their subject matter, you have read in the prev ious year, and name the authors. Satisfy the examiner that you have read them all and tell the examiner in your own words, the stories of three of them chosen by yourself.
    (The books must be of a reasonable standard taking the Cub's age into consideration.)
  2. Show that you can use a dictionary, encyclopaedia and other reference books.
  3. Read aloud a piece of prose chosen by the examiner.
    (The reading must be of a reasonable standard taking the Cub's age into consideration.)
  4. Show that you can find a book in a library using the library catalogue.
  5. Show that you understand how to care for books, make repairs to loose covers, loose pages and torn pages.
  6. Explain how book s in a library are classified.
  7. Visit a library, meet the librarian and find out how books in the library are classified.
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SECRET CODES (UPDATED) codes
Do any THREE of the following:
  1. Think up and use a secret code.
  2. Demonstrate the deaf alphabet.
  3. Write a message in invisible ink.
  4. Decipher a message of not less than twelve words which has been written in a simple code.
  5. Make a cipher wheel and use it to write a message of no less than 10 words.
SHOWMANshowman
Do satisfactorily FOUR activities in ONE of FOUR entertainment fields offered:
  1. PUPPETRY
    2. OR
  2. MUSIC
    3. OR
  3. DRAMA
    4. OR
  4. TRADITIONAL ENTERTAINMENT
SINGING sing
Do any THREE of the following:
  1. Learn and sing the first verse of your national anthem.
  2. Learn and sing three verses of a folk or national song of your country.
  3. Learn and sing three Scouting songs.
  4. Learn and sing the first verse of three hymns.
SKIESskies
  1. Identify TWO constellations and the Southern Cross.
  2. Make a pinhole planetarium, and show THREE constellations.
  3. Identify FOUR cloud types.
  4. Visit a planetarium OR spot a satellite and record the time of sighting and its path across the sky.
SPORTSMAN (UPDATED) sport
  1. Show reasonable proficiency and tak e an active part in at least one team sport and one individual sport.
  2. Know the rules and how to score.
  3. Know the equipment used and how to care for it.
  4. Know the safety rules.
  5. Show a good sportsmanlike spirit in all Cub activities.
  6. Know the importance of taking a shower after games, if possible, or at least changing out of the clothes worn during the game. Know the importance of good care of the feet.
(Note: A letter must be produced from the sports master, coach, Akela or other adult for No 1, and from Akela for No 5.)
TEAM SPORTS INDIVIDUAL SPORTS
Baseball Archery Ice Skating Surfing
Softball Badminton Jukskei Swimming
Cricket Cross Country Martial arts Table Tennis
Basketball Diving Roller skating Tennis
Soccer Fishing Sailing Water skiing
Rugby Golf Skate Boarding  
Hockey Gymnastics Skiing  
Volleyball Horse riding Squash  
SWIMMERswimmer
  1. Do a racing dive and swim 50 m using a racing stroke.
  2. Swim 50 m using a different stroke.
  3. Be able to tread water for TWO minutes in salt water or ONE minute in fresh water.
  4. Be able to float on your back for 60 seconds in salt water or 30 seconds in fresh water.
  5. Be able to "duck dive" (dive while s tanding in the water or swimming).
  6. Explain the "buddy system" and basic rules for safe swimming.
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TRAVELLERtravel
Do any FIVE of the following:
  1. Obtain a map or timetable from the railway or bus company or airline serving your town or city and discover some places they go to.
  2. Use timetables to plan a trip from your home to another city or town by train, bus, aircraft, boat or a combination of these.
  3. Find out what it c osts per kilometre to travel by bus, train, airline, or boat to another city or town.
  4. List four short trips you would like to take with your parents. Plan and lay out the trips on a road map. Using the map, act as navigator on one of these trips at least 40 km.
  5. Pack a suitcas e for a three-day trip away from home
  6. Check the first aid kit in the family car.
(Note: A letter must be produced from the driver for No 4.)
WORKING TOYStoys
Do any THREE of the following:
  1. Make a scooter or a simple soapbox cart.
  2. Make a windmill.
  3. Make a water mill
  4. Make an invention of your own design that goes.
WORLD FRIENDSHIP (NEW) toys
(You must have passed your 10th birthday before you start this badge).
    Do any FOUR of the following:
  1. Be a pen friend to a Cub from another country.
  2. Recognise the flags from 10 countries around the world.
  3. Collect 3 coins, stamps and postcards from 3 different countries around the world.
  4. Write a prayer about world peace and friendship.
  5. Mark a world map to show where all the World Jamborees have been held.

WORLD CONSERVATION BADGEworld
There are 4 sections to this badge (A, B, C and D). All you have to do is to complete ONE part from EACH section. Section A
  1. Visit a zoo, botanical garden, game or nature reserve, or a natural history museum; or see a film about wild animals. Tell your examiner what you saw.
  2. Take part in a nature clean-up lasting half a day. Report the result to the examiner.
  3. Take part in a expedition or outing, lasting at least half a day, with nature study as its main theme. Keep an account of what you see and report it to the examiner.
Section B This section involves maintenance, observation and making notes about the project over a period of at least one month; and reporting your results to the examiner.
  1. Make and set up a bird feeder and note which birds use it.
  2. Make and set up a bird bath or a drinking place for birds and note the behaviour of the birds.
  3. Make and set up a bird nesting place and note which birds use it.
  4. Make a compost heap in your back yard or garden (first check whether municipal regulations allow compost heaps in your area.) Make notes on the progress of the compost and explain how you expect your garden to benefit from it.
Section C
  1. Carry out an experiment which s hows how plants give off water to the atmosphere.
  2. Determine air pollution by any method you know.
  3. Carry out an experiment which shows capillary action (how water rises in the ground and soaks top soil.
  4. Carry out an experiment which shows the danger of soil eros ion.
Section D Together with the examiner, choose and carry out a project that is different from any of the other projects you have done for this Badge.
  1. Improve your environment by planting a tree or shrub, lawn or any other plant out-of doors (preferably in a place which carries no vegetation), or in a box on a balcony, or indoors in flower pots. Maintain the project for a period of at least two months and make notes of your observations. Show your plants to the examiner and report what you have noted during their growth.
  2. Keep a scrapbook about any FIVE animals, not native to your country, kept in a zoo. Note their countries of origin, feeding habits and details of the special care they need in a zoo. Be prepared to tell your examiner about these animals.
  3. Together with a friend, arrange a nature trail or competition (with about ten points that need to be observed) for members of your Pack. Report on the project to the examiner.
  4. Choose one wild animal, fish, bird, or tree native to your country. Find out all you can about it by personal observation and from books. Report your findings to your examiner.
  5. Select any three vertebrates (creatures having spines) and any three invertebrates (creatures having no spines) found in the garden. Observe them and read about them and report to the examiner about their appearance and habits.
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