The following is the Cub Scout Rank Program offered at the Children’s Museum of Acadiana. Many loop and pin requirements can be combined with the completion of the Rank Program. A minumim of six (6) scouts are required for a custom field trip.
Call us to schedule your custom field trip.
The Cub Scout Rank Program covers a wide variety of subjects earning each cub scout belt loops and pins. A 2-hour visit should be planned. Cost: $7.50 per scout (price includes museum admission, workshop fee, and certificate. One adult leader for every 5 scouts will be admitted for $3.00. Museum admission for families who accompany a scout is $5.00 per adult and $5.00 per sibling. Siblings cannot take part in the scouting workshop, A few programs will have additional fees for supplies.
The numbers below reflect the numbering in the Cub Scout Academics and Sports Program Guide. * Denotes items that can be completed on your own within the museum.
Tigers
Tiger Requirements:
*2F Look at a map of your community with your adult partner.
*3D Make a Food Guide Pyramid.
5D With a crayon or colored pencil and a piece of paper, make a leaf rubbing.
*4G Visit a television station, radio station, or newspaper office. Find out how people there communicate toothers.
Tiger Electives:
2) Make a decoration with your family or your den. Display it or give it to someone as a gift.
4) Make a frame for a family picture
5) Make a family mobile.
7) Make a musical instrument and play it with others. The others can sing or have instruments of their own.
12) Make at least two cards or decorations and take them to a hospital or long-term care facility.
13) Using U.S. pennies, dimes, nickels, and quarters, choose the correct coins to make different amounts.
15) Mix the primary colors to make orange, green, and purple.
17) Make a model.
18) Sew a button onto fabric.
19) Learn a magic trick and show it to your family or den.
21) Make a puppet.
25) Make a snack and share it with your family or den.
30) Plant a seed, pit, or green tops from something you have eaten.
32) Make a bird feeder and then hang it outdoors.
47) Learn about what you can recycle in your community and how you can recycle at home. Learn aboutthings that need to be recycled in special ways, such as paint and batteries.
Wolf
Wolf Requirements:
3a Make a chart and keep track of your health habits for two weeks.
*3b Tell four ways to stop the spread of colds.
*3c Show what to do for a small cut on your finger.
5a Point out and name seven tools. Do this at home, or go to a hardware store with an adult. Tell whateach tool does.
5b Show how to use pliers.
5c Identify a Philips head screwdriver and a standard screw. Then use the tool to drive in and then remove a standard screw from a board.
5d Show how to use a hammer.
5e Make a birdhouse, a set of bookends, or something else useful.
7a Complete the Character Connection for respect.
7b Land, air, and water can get dirty. Discuss with your family ways this can happen.
7f Besides recycling, there are other ways to save energy. List three ways you can save energy, and dothem.
*8a Study the Food Guide Pyramid. Name some foods from each of the food groups shown in the pyramid.
Plan the meals you and your family should have for one day. List things your family should have from the food groups shown in the Food Guide Pyramid. At each meal, you should have foods from at leastthree food groups.
Wolf Electives:
*1a Use a secret code.
1b Write to a friend using invisible "ink”.
1c "Write” your name using American Sign Language. People who are deaf use this language.
1d Use 12 American Indian signs to tell a story.
*2a Help to plan and put on a skit with costumes.
2b Make some scenery for a skit.
2c Make sound effects for a skit.
2e Make a paper-sack mask for a skit.
5a Explain safety rules for kite flying.
5b Make and fly a paper bag kite.
5c Make and fly a two-stick kite.
5d Make and fly a three-stick kite.
5e Make and use a reel for kite string.
5f Make a model boat with a rubber-band propeller.
5g-h-i Make or put together some kind of model boat, airplane, train, or car.
6c Books are important. Show that you know how to take care of them. Open a new book the right way.Make a paper or plastic cover for it or another book.
*8c Show how to use a pulley.
8d Make and use a windlass.
9b-c Make a gift or toy like one of these and give it to someone.
10a Read a book or tell a story about American Indians, past or present.
10b Make a musical instrument American Indians used.
10c Make traditional American Indian Clothing.
10d Make a traditional item or instrument that American Indians used to make their lives easier.
10e Make a model of a traditional American Indian house.
10f Learn 12 American Indian word pictures and write a story with them.
12a Make a freehand sketch of a person, place, or thing.
12b Tell a story in three steps by drawing three cartoons.
Wolf Electives Continued:
12c Mix yellow and blue paints, mix yellow and red, and mix red and blue. Tell what you get from eachmixture.
12d Help draw, paint, or color some scenery for a skit, play, or puppet show.
12e Make a stencil pattern.
12f Make a poster for a Cub Scout project or a pack meeting.
15a Plant and raise a box garden.
15b Plant and raise a flower bed.
15c Grow a plant indoors.
*17a Learn to tie an over hand knot and a square knot.
17b Tie your shoelaces with a square bow knot.
17c Wrap and tie a package so that it is neat and tight.
17d Tie a stack of newspapers the right way.
17e Tie two cords together with an overhand knot.
*17f Learn to tie a neck tie.
17g Wrap the end of a rope with tape to keep it from unwinding.
Bear
Bear Trail:
5b Build or make a bird feeder or birdhouse and hang it in a place where birds can visit safely.
*8e Find out some history about your community.
19a Know the safety rules for handling a knife.
19b Show that you know how to take care of and use a knife.
19c Make a carving with a pocketknife. Work with your den deader or other adult when doing this.
20a Show how to use and take care of four tools.
20b Build your own toolbox.
21a Build a model from a kit.
21b Build a display for one of your models.
21d Make a model of a mountain, a meadow, a canyon, or a river.
21f Make a model of a rocket, boat, car, or plane.
22a Whip the ends of a rope.
*22b Tie a square knot, bowline, sheet bend, two half hitches, and slip knot. Tell how each knot is used.
22c Learn how to keep a rope from tangling.
22d Coil a rope. Throw it, hitting a 2-foot-square marker 20 feet away.
22e Learn a magic rope trick.
22f Make your own rope.
Bear Arrow Point Trail:
2a Learn how to read an outdoor thermometer. Put one outdoors and read it at the same time every day fortwo weeks. Keep a record of each day's temperature and a description of the weather each day (fairskies, rain, fog, snow, etc).
2b Build a weather vane. Record wind direction every day at the same hour for two weeks. Keep a recordof the weather for each day.
2c Make a rain gauge.
2d Find out what a barometer is and how it works. Tell your den about it. Tell what relative humiditymeans.
2e Learn to identify three different kinds of clouds. Estimate their heights.
8a Make and play a homemade musical instrument—cigar-box banjo, washtub bull fiddle, a drum orrhythm set, tambourine, etc.
9a Do an original art project and show it at a pack meeting. Every project you do counts as onerequirement. Here are some ideas for art projects: Mobile or wire sculpture, Collage, Silhouette, Mosaic, Acrylic painting, Clay
sculpture, Watercolor painting, Silk screen picture.
Bear Arrow Point Trail Continued:
9c Find a favorite outdoor location and draw or paint it.
10a Make a simple papier-mâché mask.
10b Make an animal mask.
10c Make a clown mask.
23a Look up your state on a U.S. map. What other states touch its borders?
23b Find your city or town on a map of your state. How far do you live from the state capital?
23c In which time zone do you live? How many time zones are there in the United States?
23d Make a map showing the route from your home to your school or den meeting place.
23e Mark a map showing the way to a place you would like to visit that is at least 50 miles from your home.
24a American Indian people live in every part of what is now the continental United States. Find the name of the American Indian nation that lives orhas lived where you live now. Learn about these people.
24b Learn, make equipment for, and play two AmericanIndian or other native American games withmembers of your den. Be able to tell the rules, who won, and what the score was.
24c Learn what the American Indian people in your area (or another area) used for shelter before contactwith the Europeans. Learn what AmericanIndian people in that area use for shelter today. Make amodel of one of these shelters, historic or modern. Compare the kind of shelter you madewith theothers made in your den.
Webelos
Webelos Artist Requirements:
1 Talk to an artist in your area or to your art teacher about the different occupations in the art field. Makea list of them.
2 Create a scrapbook (portfolio) of your Artist activity badge projects and show it to your den leader.
4 List the primary and secondary colors. Explain what happens when you combine colors.
8 Make a mobile, using your choice of materials.
7 Use clay to sculpt a simple subject.
9 Make an art construction, using your choice of materials.
10 Create a collage that expresses something about you.
11 While you are a Webelos Scout, earn the Cub Scout Academics belt loop for Art.
Webelos Communicator Requirements:
15 While you are a Webelos Scout, earn the Academics belt loop for Communicating.
Webelos Craftsman Requirements:
1 Explain how to safely handle the tools that you will use for this activity badge.
2 With adult supervision and using hand tools, construct two different wooden objects you and yourWebelos den leader agree on, such as the items listed below. Use a copying saw or jigsaw for theseprojects. Put them together with glue, nails, or screws. Paint or stain them.
| Book rack |
Napkin holder |
| Shelf |
Animal cutouts |
| Weather vane |
Lid holder |
| Tie rack |
Letter holder |
| Birdhouse |
Notepad Holder |
| DeskNameplate |
Toolbox |
| Towel Rack |
Bread Box |
| Recipe Holder |
Garden Tool Rack |
| Kitchen Knife Rack |
Kitchen Utensil Rack |
| Measuring Cup Rack |
Measuring Spoon Rack |
| Bulletin board |
Lamp stand |
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Letter, bill and pencil holder. |
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3 Make a display stand or box to be used to display a model or an award. Or make a frame fora photo orpainting. Use suitable material.
4 Make four useful items using materials other than wood that you and your Webelos den leaderagree on, such as clay, plastic, leather, metal, paper, rubber, or rope.
They should be challenging items and must involve several operations.
Webelos Engineer Requirements:
1 Talk to an engineer, surveyor, or architect in your area about the different occupations inengineering.Create a list that tells what they do.
2 Draw a floor plan of your home. Include doors, windows, and stairways.
5 Tell about how electricity is generated and then gets to your home.
7 Make drawings of three kinds of bridges and explain their differences. Construct a modelbridge ofyour choice.
8 Make a simple crane using a block and tackle and explain how the block and tackle is used ineveryday life.
9 Build a catapult and show how it works.
Webelos Outdoorsman Requirements:
10 Demonstrate how to whip and fuse the ends of a rope.
Webelos Showman Requirements:
Puppetry:
3 Make a set of puppet or marionettes for the play you have written or for another play.
6 Make a set of four paper bag puppets for a singing group. With the help of three other denmemberssing a song with the puppets as the performers.
7 There are sock, stick, and finger puppets. There are paper bag puppets and marionettes.
Explain their differences and show any puppets you have made for this badge.
Music:
9 Sing one song indoors and one song outdoors, either alone or with a group. Tell what you needto do differently when singing outdoors.
10 Make a collection of three or more records, tapes, or music CD's. Tell what you like abouteach one.
11 Tell what folk music is, hum, sing, or play a folk tune on amusical instrument.
12 Name three American composers. Name a famous work by each.
Drama:
20 Make a list of stage directions. Tell what they mean.
21 Describe a theatre-in-the-round. What are its good and bad points?
22 Explain the difference between grand opera and light opera. Explain the difference between amusical and a play.
Webelos Traveler Requirements:
1 Get a map or timetable from a railroad, bus line, airline, subway, or light rail. The line shouldserve theplace where you live or near where you live. Look up some places it goes.
3 With the help of your parent, guardian, teacher, or librarian, use a map site on the Internet toplan a trip from your home to a nearby place of interest. Download and/or print the directionsand a street mapshowing how to go from your home to the place you chose.
9 Look at the map legend on a road map of your area. Learn what the symbols mean. Showyour denmembers what you have learned.
10 On a road map of your area, find a place of interest and draw two different routes between itand your home. Use the map legend to determine which route is shorter in miles.
11 Make a list of safety precautions you, as a traveler, should take for travel by each of thefollowing: car, bus, plane, boat, train.
