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Required: Bobcat, Bear Habitat, Bear Strong, Paws for Action, Standing Tall, Fellowship

Electives: A Bear Goes Fishing, Balancing Bears, Baloo the Builder, Bears Afloat, Bears on Bikes, Champions for Nature, Chef Tech, Critter Care, Forensics, Let's Camp, Marble Madness, Race Time, Roaring Laughter, Salmon Run Summertime Fun, Super Science, Whittling,

Retired Adventures: Bear Claws, Bear Necessities, Bear Picnic Basket, Beat of the Drum, Fellowship and Duty to God, Fur, Feathers, and Ferns, Grin and Bear It, Make It Move, Robotics, A World of Sound

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Bobcat

1. Get to know members of your den.
2. Recite the Scout Oath and Law with your den and den leader.
3. Learn about the Scout Oath. Identify the three points of the Scout Oath.
4. With your den create a den Code of Conduct.
5. Learn about the denner position and responsibilities.
6. Demonstrate the Cub Scout sign, Cub Scout salute and Cub Scout handshake. Show how each is used.
7. Share with your den, or family, a time when you demonstrated the Cub Scout motto "Do Your Best." Explain why it is important to do your best.
8. At home, with your parent or legal guardian do the activities in the booklet How to Protect Your Children From Child Abuse: A Parent's Guide

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Bear Habitat

1. Prepare for a one-mile walk by gathering the Cub Scout Six Essentials and weather-appropriate clothing and shoes.
2. Know Before You Go - Identify the location of your walk on a map & confirm your 1-mile route.
3. Choose the Right Path - Learn about the path and surrounding area you will be walking on.
4. Trash your Trash - Make a plan for what you will do with your personal trash or trash you find along the trail.
5. Leave What You Find - Take pictures along your walk or bring a sketchbook to draw five things that you want to remember on your walk.
6. Be Careful with Fire - Determine the fire danger rating along your path.
7. Respect Wildlife - From a safe distance, identify as you look up, down, and around you, six signs of any mammals, birds, insects, reptiles.
8. Be Kind to Other Visitors - Identify what you need to do to be kind to others on the path.
9. With your den, pack, or family, go on your 1-mile walk while practicing your Leave No Trace Principles for Kids.

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Bear Strong

1. Sample food from 3 of the following food groups: protein, vegetables, fruits, dairy, and grains.
2. Be active for 30 minutes with your den or at least one other person that includes both stretching and moving.
3. Be active for 15 minutes doing personal exercises that boost your heart rate, use your muscles, and work on flexibility.
4. Do a relaxing activity for 10 minutes.
5. Review your Scouting America Annual Health and Medical record with your parent or legal guardian. Discuss your ability to participate in den and pack activities.

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Paws for Action

1. Familiarize yourself with the flag of the United States of America including the history, demonstrating how to raise and lower the flag, how to properly fold and display, and the United States etiquette.
2. Identify three symbols that represent the United States. Pick your favorite and make a model, work of art, or other craft that depicts the symbol.
3. Learn about the mission of any non-profit. Find out how they fund their activities and how volunteers are used to help.
4. Participate in a service project.

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Standing Tall

1. With permission from your parent or legal guardian, watch the Protect Yourself Rules video for the Bear rank.
2. Complete the Personal Space Bubble worksheet that is part of the Protect Yourself Rules resources.
3. With your parent or legal guardian, set up a family policy for digital devices.
4. Identify common personal safety gear for your head, eyes, mouth and nose, hands, and feet. List how each of these items protect you. Demonstrate the proper use of personal safety gear for an activity.

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Fellowship

1. With your parent or legal guardian talk about your family's faith traditions. Identify three holidays or celebrations that are part of your family's faith traditions. Make a craft, work of art, or a food item that is part of your favorite family's faith tradition holiday or celebration.
2. With your family, attend a religious service OR other gathering that shows how your family expresses reverence.
3. Carry out an act of kindness.
4. With your parent or legal guardian identify a religion or faith that is different from your own. Determine two things that it has in common with your family's beliefs.

(* Scouts may earn this adventure by completing the requirements above OR earning the religious emblem of their choosing)

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Electives

Scouts choose at least two of these elective adventures to complete:

 

A Bear Goes Fishing

1. Learn about three types of fish in your area.
2. Learn about your local fishing regulations with your den leader or an adult.
3. List three of the regulations you learned about, and one reason each regulation exists.
4. Become familiar with the safe use of the fishing equipment you will be using on your outing.
5. Learn the proper way to attach the hook, lure, or fly to the line.
6. Go on a fishing adventure, and for 30 minutes or more, put into practice the things you learned about fish and fishing equipment.

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Balancing Bears

1. Make trail mix using trail mix math.
2. Identify an animal that has a pattern to its physical appearance. Investigate how the animal uses its pattern.
3. Find examples of bilateral symmetry in nature.
4. Find examples of radial symmetry in nature.

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Baloo the Builder

1. Learn about some basic tools and the proper use of each tool. Learn about and understand the need for safety when you work with tools.
2. Practice using four of the tools you learned about in requirement 1.
3. Choose a project to build.
4. Determine the tools and materials needed to build your project in requirement 3.
5. Build your project.

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Bears Afloat

1. Before attempting requirements 6 & 7 for this Adventure, you must pass the Scouting America swimmer test.
2. Pick a paddle craft you’ll use to complete all requirements: canoe, kayak, or stand-up paddleboard.
3. With your den/adult, discuss the role of qualified adult supervision at a paddle craft activity.
4. Explain the safety rules to follow when safely using a paddle craft.
5. Discover how to tell if a life jacket is the correct size and approved for your paddle craft activity. Demonstrate how to wear it.
6. Explore how your paddle craft responds as you move your paddle through the water from different places.
7. Have 30 minutes, or more, of canoe, kayak, or stand-up paddleboard paddle time.

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Bears on Bikes

1. Show how to properly wear a bicycle helmet.
2. Decide what you should wear when riding a bike.
3. Demonstrate proper hand signals.
4. Demonstrate how to adjust saddle height.
5. Demonstrate how to operate brakes.
6. Learn how to use a pump to inflate your tires. Discuss why riding with low-pressure or flat tires is unsafe and can cause damage to your bike.
7. With your family, den, or pack, follow the buddy system and go on a 30-minute bike ride.

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Champions for Nature

1. Discover natural resources.
2. Discover what happens to the wastewater in your community.
3. Investigate soil.
4. Investigate air pollution.
5. Participate in a conservation project.

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Chef Tech

1. Pick a kitchen appliance that uses technology to complete the following requirements.
2. With an adult, review the safety guidelines in the owner's manual.
3. With adult supervision, download a cooking app or search online to find a recipe.
4. With adult supervision, follow the selected recipe and make the recipe.
5. Think of a way technology can improve the appliance used to make your recipe.

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Critter Care

1. Identify an animal that would be a good pet for your family.
2. Choose two animals that are allowed as pets in your community. Compare and contrast why these pets may be a good choice for you.
3. Based on your choice in requirement 1, investigate how to properly care for your chosen animal.
4. Discover three ways a pet can help people.

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Forensics

1. Explore the term "forensics" and how it is used to help solve crimes.
2. Analyze your fingerprints.
3. Make a shoe imprint.
4. Do an analysis of four different substances: salt, sugar, baking soda and cornstarch.
5. Learn about chromatography and how it is used in solving crimes.
6. Find out how officers collect evidence.

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Let's Camp

1. Review the buddy system and how it works in the outdoors.
2. Pack your Cub Scout Six Essentials for the campout.
3. In addition to your Cub Scout Six Essentials, show the personal items you need for your campout.
4. Help set up a tent. Determine a good spot for the tent. Explain why you picked the spot.
5. Attend a council or district Cub Scout overnight camp or attend a campout with your pack.

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Marble Madness

1. Make a marble bag.
2. Learn five words that are used when talking about marbles.
3. Play three different marble games.
4. Build a marble racetrack with at least two lanes.
5. Build a marble maze.

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Race Time

1. With an adult, build either a Pinewood Derby car or a Raingutter Regatta boat.
2. Learn the rules of the race for the vehicle chosen in requirement 1.
3. Identify how you could increase the speed of your chosen vehicle.
4. Before the race, discuss with your den how you will demonstrate good sportsmanship during the race.
5. Participate in a Pinewood Derby or a Raingutter Regatta.

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Roaring Laughter

1. Think about what makes you laugh. Discuss these with your den or family.
2. Practice reading tongue twisters.
3. Play charades with your den or family.
4. Have a "funniest joke contest" with your den or family.
5. Practice "run-ons" with your den or family.

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Salmon Run

Complete requirements 1-4 plus two others.

1. With your den or an adult, identify the attributes of qualified adult supervision at a swimming activity.
2. Learn the three swimming ability groups for the Boy Scouts of America and water depths appropriate for each.
3. Go swimming with your den, pack, or family for 30 minutes using the buddy system.
4. Demonstrate the use the buddy system, buddy checks, and ability groups with your den or an adult.
5. Attempt the Scouting America beginner swim test.
6. Demonstrate both a reach rescue and a throw rescue

(*This adventure may be earned by completing the requirements above OR passing the Scouting America swimmer test OR taking swim lessons)

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Summertime Fun

1. Anytime during May through August participate in a total of three Cub Scout activities.

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Super Science

1. Conduct static electricity investigation.
2. Conduct the sink-or-float investigation.
3. Conduct the color-morphing investigation.
4. Conduct the color-layering investigation.

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Whittling

1. Read, understand, and promise to abide by the "Cub Scout Knife Safety Rules."
2. Demonstrate the knife safety circle.
3. Demonstrate that you know how to care for and use your pocketknife safely.
4. Make two carvings with a pocketknife.

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Retired Electives

These electives can no longer be earned.

 

(Retired) Bear Claws

Complete the following requirements.

1. Learn about three common designs of pocketknives.
2. Learn knife safety and earn your Whittling Chip.*
3. Do one of the following:
   1. Using a pocketknife, carve two items.
   2. With a pocket knife, safely perform each of these tasks:
      (1) Demonstrate how to cut a piece of rope, twine or fishing line; (2) Open a sealed box without damaging the contents; (3) Open a can with a can opener tool on a pocket knife; (4) Remove and replace the screws on an object with the screw driver tool on a pocket knife; (5) Open a letter.

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(Retired) Bear Necessities

Complete Requirements 1-4. Requirements 5 and 6 are optional.

1. While working on your Bear badge, attend one of the following:
   1. A daytime or overnight campout with your pack or family
   2. An outdoor activity with your den or pack
   3. Day camp
   4. Resident camp
2. Make a list of items you should take along on the activity selected in Requirement 1.
3. Make a list of equipment that the group should bring along in addition to each Scout's personal gear for the activity selected in Requirement 1.
4. Help set up a tent. Determine a good spot for the tent, and explain to your den leader why you picked it.
5. Demonstrate how to tie two half hitches and explain what the hitch is used for.
6. Learn how to read a thermometer and a barometer. Keep track of the temperature and barometric pressure readings and the actual weather at the same time every day for seven days.

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(Retired) Bear Picnic Basket

Complete at least three of the following.

1. Create your own Bear cookbook using at least five recipes you might cook or prepare either on your own or with some adult help. Include at least one recipe each for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and a nutritious snack.
2. With a family member or den leader, prepare for cooking by explaining the importance of planning, tool selection, sanitation, and cooking safety.
3. Select and prepare two nutritious snacks for yourself, your family, or your den.
4. With the help of an adult, select a recipe to prepare in a kitchen for your den or your family. Help to select the needed ingredients, perhaps from a garden, grocery store, or farmers' market. Cook and serve your planned meal. Clean up after the preparation and cooking.
5. With the help of an adult, select a recipe to prepare in the outdoors for your family or den. Help to select the needed ingredients, perhaps from a garden, grocery store, or farmers' market. Cook and serve your planned meal. Clean up after the preparation and cooking.

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(Retired) Beat of the Drum

Complete requirement 1 plus two others from requirements 2-4.

1. Learn about the history and culture of American Indians or other indigenous people who lived in your area long ago.
2. Create a legend by building a diorama, writing a story, or presenting a skit.
3. Complete one of the following:
   1. Make a dream catcher.
   2. Make a craft similar to one made by American Indians or indigenous people.
   3. Make a drum. Once your drum is complete, create a ceremonial song.
4. Complete one of the following:
   1. Visit an Order of the Arrow dance ceremony.
   2. Visit an American Indian event or an event presented by other indigenous people.
   3. Learn and demonstrate ceremonial dance steps.
   4. Create a ceremonial dance.

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(Retired) Fellowship and Duty to God

Complete the following requirements.

1. Discuss with your parent, guardian, den leader, or other caring adult what it means to do your duty to God. Tell how you do your duty to God in your daily life.
2. Complete at least one of the following:
   1. Identify a person whose faith you admire, and discuss this person with your family.
   2. With a family member, provide service to a place of worship or a spiritual community, school, or community organization that puts into practice your ideals of duty to God and strengthens your fellowship with others.
3. Complete at least one of the following:
   1. Earn the religious emblem of your faith that is appropriate for your age, if you have not already done so.
   2. Make a list of things you can do to practice your duty to God as you are taught in your home or place of worship or spiritual community. Select two of the items and practice them for two weeks.

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(Retired) Fur, Feathers, and Ferns

Complete Requirement 1 and three others.

1. While hiking or walking for one mile, identify six signs that any mammals, birds, insects, reptiles, or plants are living near the place where you choose to hike or walk.
2. Visit one of the following: zoo, wildlife refuge, nature center, aviary, game preserve, local conservation area, wildlife rescue group, or fish hatchery. Describe what you learned during your visit.
3. Name one animal that has become extinct in the last 100 years and one animal that is currently endangered. Explain what caused their declines.
4. Observe wildlife from a distance. Describe what you saw.
5. Use a magnifying glass to examine plants more closely. Describe what you saw through the magnifying glass that you could not see without it.
6. Learn about composting and how vegetable waste can be turned into fertilizer for plants.
7. Plant a vegetable or herb garden.

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(Retired) Grin and Bear It

Complete at least four of the following.

1. Play a challenge game or initiative game with the members of your den. Take part in a reflection after the game.
2. Working with the members of your den, organize a Cub Scout carnival and lead it at a special event.
3. Help younger Cub Scouts take part in one of the events at the Cub Scout carnival.
4. After the Cub Scout carnival, discuss with the members of your den and your den leader what went well, what could be done better, and how everyone worked together to make the event a success.
5. With your den, develop a thank-you cheer to recognize those who helped organize the Cub Scout carnival.

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(Retired) Make It Move

Complete all of the following.

1. Create an "exploding" craft stick reaction.
2. Make two simple pulleys, and use them to move objects.
3. Make a lever by creating a seesaw using a spool and a wooden paint stirrer. Explore the way it balances by placing different objects on each end.
4. Complete one of the following:
   1. Draw a Rube Goldberg-type machine. Include at least six steps to complete your action.
   2. Construct a real Rube Goldberg-type machine to complete a task assigned by your den leader. Use at least two simple machines and include at least four steps.

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(Retired) Robotics

Complete at least four of the following.

1. Identify six tasks performed by robots.
2. Learn about some instances where a robot could be used in place of a human for work. Research one robot that does this type of work, and present what you learn to your den.
3. Build a robot hand. Show how it works like a human hand and how it is different from a human hand.
4. Build your own robot.
5. Visit a place that uses robots.

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(Retired) A World of Sound

Complete all of the following.

1. Make an mbira.
2. Make a sistrum.
3. Make a rain stick.

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More Bear Scout Information to Use in 2026:
  Bear Scout Core Adventures - Do six for the Bear rank
  Bear Scout Elective Adventures - Do two for the Bear rank
  Bear Scout Activities - great den meeting and pack activity ideas
  Bear Scout Awards - see what awards are available to Bear scouts
  Bear Scout Ceremonies - a few ceremonies
  Cub Scout Games - den or pack games just right for 3rd graders
  Bear Scout Graces - fun meal graces
  Bear Scout Jokes - funny, gross, and silly jokes for scouts
  Bear Scout Projects - community or conservation projects for your Bear den
  Bear Scout Recipes - easy recipes you can make with your scouts for fun snacks or on family campouts
  Cub Scout Skits - skits that Bear Scouts like to do
  Cub Scout Songs - songs for Bears
  Bear Scout Stories - choose stories that Bear scouts will enjoy and understand
  Bear Scout Uniform - make sure you put all those badges and patches in the right spots in 2026