The Bear Achievements are as follows:
Do ONE of the following:
- WAYS WE WORSHIP
Practice your religion as you are taught in your home, church, synagogue, mosque, or other
religious community.
- EMBLEMS OF FAITH
Earn the religious emblem of your faith.
Do THREE of the following:
- WHAT MAKES AMERICA SPECIAL?
Do requirement "a" and 3 of the following:
- Write or tell what makes America special to you.
- With the help of your family or den leader, find out about two
Americans. Tell the things they did or are doing to improve our way of life.
- Find out something about the old homes near the place where you live.
Go and see two of them.
- Find out where places of historical interest in or near your town are
located. Go and visit one of them with your family or den.
- Pick your favorite state or home state. Name the state bird, tree,
and flower. Describe its flag. Give the date it was admitted to the union.
- Be a member of the color guard in a flag ceremony for your den or
pack.
- Display the U.S. flag in your home or fly it on three national
holidays.
- TALL TALES
Do ALL 3 requirements:
- Tell in your own words what folklore is. List some folklore stories,
folksongs, or historical legends from your own state or part of the country.
- Name at least five stories about American folklore. Point out on a
United States map where they took place.
- Read two folklore stories and tell your favorite on to your den.
- SHARING YOUR WORLD WITH WILDLIFE
Do 4 of the following:
- Choose a bird or animal that you like and find out how it lives. Make
a poster showing what you have learned.
- Build or make a bird feeder or bird house.
- Explain what a wildlife conservation officer does.
- Visit one of the following: Zoo, Nature center, Wildlife refuge, Game
preserve.
- Name one animal that has become extinct in the last 100 years. Tell
why animals become extinct.
- TAKE CARE OF YOUR PLANET
Do 3 of the following:
- Save 5 pounds of glass or aluminum, or 1 month of newspapers, and
turn them in at a recycling center.
- Plant a tree in your yard, or on the grounds of the group that
operates your Cub Scout pack, or in a park. Be sure to get permission first.
- Call city or county officials or your trash hauling company and find
out what happens to your trash after it is hauled away.
- Do a water usage survey in your home. Note the ways water is used.
Look for any dripping faucets.
- Discuss with one of your parents the ways your family uses energy.
- Find out more about your family's use of electricity.
- LAW ENFORCEMENT IS A BIG JOB
Do 4 of the following:
- Make a set of your own fingerprints.
- Make a plaster cast of a shoeprint in the mud.
- Check the doors and windows of your home.
- Visit your local sheriff's office or police station.
- Be sure you know where to get help in your neighborhood.
- Be sure fire and police numbers are listed by the phone at your home.
- Know what you can do to help law enforcement.
- THE PAST IS EXCITING AND IMPORTANT
Do 3 of the following:
- Visit your library or newspaper office. Ask to see back issues of
newspapers. (What were headlines on: Date you were born, July 21, 1969, Day you were 5
years old?)
- Find someone who was a Cub Scout a long time ago. Talk with him about
what Cub Scouting was like then. (What did they do at den mtgs., pack mtgs., what kind of
uniform did they wear?)
- Start a pack scrapbook and give something to it.
- Trace your family back through your grandparents or great
grandparents; or, talk to your grandparents about what it was like when they were younger.
- Find out some history about your community.
- Keep a diary for 2 weeks.
- WHAT'S COOKING?
Do 4 of the following:
- Bake cookies.
- If your parent or guardian says it is all right, volunteer to make
snacks for the next den meeting
- Prepare one part of your breakfast, one part of your lunch, and one
part of your supper.
- Make a list of the 'junk' foods you eat. Discuss "junk"
food with your parent or teacher.
- Make some healthful after-school snacks or some snacks for watching
television.
- Make a dessert for your family.
- FAMILY FUN
Do BOTH of these requirements:
- Go on a trip with members of your family.
- Have a "family-make-and-do-night".
- BE READY!
Do the first 4 (the last one is recommended, but not required).
- Tell what to do in case of accident in the home. Parent needs help.
Clothes catch on fire.
- Tell what to do in case of a water accident.
- Tell what to do in case of a school bus accident.
- Tell what to do in case of a car accident.
- Have a health checkup by a physician (optional).
- FAMILY OUTDOOR ADVENTURE
Do 3 of the following:
- Go camping with your family.
- Go on a hike with your family.
- Have a picnic with your family.
- Attend an outdoor event with your family.
- Plan your outdoor family day.
- SAVING WELL, SPENDING WELL
Do 4 of the following:
- Go grocery shopping with a parent. Compare prices of different brands
of the same item. Check the prices at different stores. Read the ads in your newspaper.
- Set up a savings account.
- Keep a record of how you spend money for 2 weeks.
- Make believe you are shopping for a car for your family.
- Discuss family finances with one of your parents.
- Play a board game with your family that involves the use of
make-believe money.
- Figure out how much it costs for each person in your home to eat one
meal.
Do FOUR of the following:
- RIDE RIGHT
Do requirement "a" and THREE more.
- Know the rules for bike safety. If your town requires a bicycle
license, be sure to get one.
- Learn to ride a bike, if you haven't by now. Show that you can follow
a winding course for 60 feet doing sharp left and right turns, a U-turn, and an emergency
stop.
- Keep your bike in good shape. Identify the parts of a bike that
should be checked often.
- Change a tire on a bicycle.
- Protect your bike from theft. Use a bicycle lock.
- Ride a bike for 1 mile without rest, and be sure to obey all traffic
rules.
- Plan and take a family bike hike.
- GAMES, GAMES, GAMES!
Do 2 of the following:
- Set up the equipment and play any two of these outdoor games with
your family or friends.
- Play two organized games with your den.
- Select a game your den has never played. Explain the rules. Tell them
how it is played, then play it with them.
- BUILDING MUSCLES
Do ALL of the following:
- Do physical fitness stretching exercises. Then do sit-ups, push-ups,
the standing long jump, and softball throw.
- With a friend, compete in at least six different two-person contests.
- Compete with your den or pack in the crab relay, gorilla relay,
30-yard dash, and kangaroo relay.
- INFORMATION, PLEASE
Do requirement "a" and THREE moreof the following:
- With an adult in your family, select a TV show. Watch it together.
- Visit a newspaper office, or TV or radio station and talk to a news
reporter.
- Play a game of charades at your den meeting or with your family at
home.
- Visit a place where computers are used.
- Write a letter to a company that makes something you use.
- Talk with one of your parents or another family member about how
getting and giving facts fits into his or her job.
- JOT IT DOWN
Do 5 of the following:
- Make a list of the things you want to do today. Check them off when
you have done them.
- Write two letters to relatives.
- Keep a daily record of your activities for 2 weeks.
- Write an invitation to someone.
- Write a story about something you have done with your family.
- Write a thank-you note.
- Write about the doings of your den.
- SHAVINGS AND CHIPS
Do ALL of the following:
- Know the safety rules for handling a knife.
- Show that you know how to take care of and use a pocketknife.
- Make a carving with a pocketknife. Work with your parent or den
leader in doing this.
- Earn the Whittling Chip card.
- SAWDUST AND NAILS
Do ALL of the following:
- Show how to use and take care of four of these tools.
- Build your own tool box.
- Use at least two tools listed in requirement a to fix something.
- BUILD A MODEL
Do 3 of the following:
- Build a model from a kit.
- Build a display for one of your models.
- Make believe you are planning to change the furniture in one of the
rooms in your home.
- Make a model of a mountain, a meadow, a canyon, or river.
- Look at a model of a shopping center or new building that is on
display somewhere.
- Make a model of anything - a rocket, boat, car, or plane.
- TYING IT ALL UP
Do 5 of the following:
- Whip the ends of a rope.
- Tie a square know, bowline, sheet bend, two half hitches, and a slip
knot. Tell how each knot is used.
- Learn how to keep a rope from tangling.
- Coil a rope. Throw it, hitting a 2-foot square marker 20 feet away.
- Learn a magic rope trick.
- Make your own rope.
- SPORTS, SPORTS, SPORTS
Do ALL of the following:
- Learn the rules and how to play three team sports.
- Learn the rules and how to play two sports in which only one person
is on each side.
- Take part in one team and one individual sport.
- Watch a sport on TV with a parent or some other member of your
family.
- Attend a high school, college, or professional sporting event with
your family or your den.
- BE A LEADER
Do 3 of the following:
- Help a boy join the Cub Scouts, or help a new Cub Scout through the
Bobcat trail.
- Serve as a denner or assistant denner.
- Plan and conduct a den activity with the approval of your den leader.
- Tell two people they have done a good job.
- Leadership means choosing a way even when your choice is not liked by
all.
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