1. Identify five different kinds of aircraft, in flight if possible, or from models or photos.
2. Ride in a commercial airplane.
3. Explain how a hot air balloon works.
4. Explain how a hot air balloon works.
5. Build and fly a model airplane. (You may use a kit. Every time you do this differently, it counts as a completed project.)
6. Sketch and label an airplane showing the direction of forces acting on it (lift, drag, and load).
7. Make a list of some of the things a helicopter can do that other kinds of airplanes can't. Draw or cut out a picture of a helicopter and label the parts.
8. Build and display a scale airplane model. You may use a kit or build it from plans.

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1. With an adult's help, make a scooter or a Cubmobile. Know the safety rules.
2. With an adult's help, make a windmill.
3. With an adult's help, make a waterwheel.
4. Make an invention of your own design that goes.

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1. Make and play a homemade musical instrument - cigar-box banjo, washtub bull fiddle, a drum or rhythm set, tambourine. etc.
2. Learn to play two familiar tunes on any musical instrument.
3. Play in a den band using homemade or regular musical instruments. Play at a pack meeting.
4. Play two tunes on any recognized band or orchestra instrument.

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1. Do an original art project and show it at a pack meeting. Every project you do counts as one requirement

   Here are some ideas for art projects: Mobile or wire sculpture, Silhouette, Acrylic painting, Watercolor painting, Collage, Mosaic, Clay sculpture, Silk screen picture.

2. Visit an art museum or picture gallery with your den or family.
3. Find a favorite outdoor location and draw or paint it.

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1. Make a simple papier-mâché mask.
2. Make an animal mask.
3. Make a clown mask.

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1. Practice holding a camera still in one position. Learn to push the shutter button without moving the camera. Do this without film in the camera until you have learned how. Look through the viewfinder and see what your picture will look like. Make sure that everything you want in your picture is in the frame of your viewfinder.
2. Take five pictures of the same subject in different kinds of light.
1. Subject in direct sun with direct light.
2. Subject in direct sun with side light.
3. Subject in direct sun with back light.
4. Subject in shade on a sunny day.
5. Subject on a cloudy day.
3. Put your pictures to use.
1. Mount a picture on cardboard for display.
2. Mount on cardboard and give it to a friend.
3. Make three pictures that show how something happened (tell a story) and write a one sentence explanation for each.
4. Take a picture in your house.
1. With available light.
2. Using a flash attachment or photoflood (bright light).

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1. Make solar prints of three kinds of leaves.
2. Make a display of eight different animal tracks with an eraser print.
3. Collect, press, and label ten kinds of leaves.
4. Build a waterscope and identify five types of water life.
5. Collect eight kinds of plant seeds and label them.
6. Collect, mount, and label ten kinds of rocks or minerals.
7. Collect, mount, and label five kinds of shells.
8. Build and use a bird caller

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1. Learn and show three magic tricks.
2. With your den, put on a magic show for someone else.
3. Learn and show four puzzles.
4. Learn and show three rope tricks.

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1. With an adult, help take care of your lawn or flower beds or help take care of the lawn or flower beds of a public building, school, or church. Seed bare spots. Get rid of weeds. Pick up litter. Agree ahead of time on what you will do.
2. Make a sketch of a landscape plan for the area right around your home. Talk it over with a parent or den leader. Show which trees, shrubs and flowers you could plant to make the area look better.
3. Take part in a project with your family, den, or pack to make your neighborhood or community more beautiful. These might be having a cleanup party, painting, cleaning and painting trash barrels, and removing weeds. (Each time you do this differently, it counts as a completed project.)
4. Build a greenhouse and grow twenty plants from seed. You can use a package of garden seeds, or use beans, pumpkin seeds, or watermelon seeds.

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1. Dig a hole or find an excavation project and describe the different layers of soil you see and feel. (Do not enter an excavation area alone or without permission.)
2. Explore three kinds of earth by conducting a soil experiment.
3. Visit a burned-out forest or prairie area, or a slide area, with your den or your family. Talk to a soil and water conservation officer or forest ranger about how the area will be planted and cared for so that it will grow to be the way it was before the fire or slide
4. What is erosion? Find out the kinds of grasses, trees, or ground cover you should plant in your area to help limit erosion
5. As a den, visit a lake, stream, river, or ocean (whichever is nearest where you live). Plan and do a den project to help clean up this important source of water. Name four kinds of water pollution.

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1. Talk with your family about what you will do in an emergency.
2. In case of a bad storm or flood, know where you can get safe food and water in your home. Tell how to purify water. Show one way. Know where and how to shut off water, electricity, gas, or oil.
3. Make a list of your first aid supplies, or make a first aid kit. Know where the first aid things are kept.

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1. Learn to tie an overhand knot and a square knot.
2. Tie your shoelaces with a square bow knot.
3. Wrap and tie a package so that it is neat and tight.
4. Tie a stack of newspapers the right way.
5. Tie two cords together with an overhand knot.
6. Learn to tie a necktie.
7. Wrap the end of a rope with tape to keep it from unwinding.

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1. Help plan and hold a picnic with your family or den.
2. With an adult, help plan and run a family or den outing.
3. Help plan and lay out a treasure hunt something like this.
4. Help plan and lay out an obstacle race.
Use this idea or make up your own.
5. Help plan and lay out an adventure trail.
6. Take part in two summertime pack events with your den.
7. Point out poisonous plants. Tell what to do if you accidentally touch one of them.

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1. Identify five different kinds of fish.
2. Rig a pole with the right kind of line and hook. Attach a bobber and sinker, if you need them. Then go fishing.
3. Fish with members of your family or an adult. Bait your hook and do your best to catch a fish.
4. Know the rules of safe fishing.
5. Tell about some of the fishing laws where you live.
6. Show how to use a rod and reel.

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1. Play a game of tennis, table tennis, or badminton.
2. Know boating safety rules.
3. Earn the Cub Scouting shooting sportsArchery belt loop.
4. Understand the safety and courtesy code for skiing. Show walking and the kick turn. Do climbing with a side stop or herringbone. Show the snowplow or stem turn, and how to get up from a fall.
5. Know the safety rules for ice skating. Skate, without falling, as far as you can walk in 50 steps. Come to a stop. Turn from forward to backward.
6. In roller skating, know the safety rules. From a standing start, skate forward as far as you can walk in 50 steps. Come to a stop within 10 walking steps. Skate around a corner one way without coasting. Then do the same coming back. Turn from forward to backward.
7. Go bowling.
8. Show how to make a sprint start in track. See how far you can run in 10 seconds.
9. Do a standing long jump. Jump as far as you can.
10. Play a game of flag football.
11. Show how to dribble and kick a soccer ball.  Take part in a game.
12. Play a game of baseball or softball.
13. Show how to shoot, pass, and dribble a basketball. Take part in a game.
14. Earn the Cub Scouting shooting sports BB-gun shooting belt loop.
15. With your den, participate in four outdoor physical fitness-related activities.

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1. Visit a business where computers are used. Find out what the computers do.
2. Explain what a computer program does.  Use a program to write a report for school, to write a letter, or for something else.
3. Tell what a computer mouse is.  Describe how a CD-ROM is used.

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1. Say "hello" in a language other than English.
2. (Examples given in book.)
3. Count to ten in a language other than English.
4. Tell a short story to your den, your den leader, or an adult.
5. Tell how to get to a nearby fire station or police station from your home, your den meeting place, and school. Use directions and street names.
6. Invite a boy to join Cub Scouting or help a new Cub Scout through the Bobcat trail.

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1. Participate with your pack on an overnight campout.
2. Explain the basics of how to take care of yourself in the outdoors.
3. Tell what to do if you get lost.
4. Explain the buddy system.
5. Attend day camp in your area.
6. Attend resident camp in your area.
7. Participate with your den at a campfire in front of your pack.
8. With your den or pack or family, participate in a worship service outdoors.

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