Boy Scout Eagle Rank

1. Be active in your troop, team, crew, or ship for a period of at least 6 months after you have achieved the rank of Life Scout.
2. Demonstrate that you live by the principles of the Scout Oath and Law in your daily life. List the names of individuals who know you personally and would be willing to provide a recommendation on your behalf, including parents/guardians, religious, educational, and employer references.

Boy Scout Star Rank

1. Be active in your unit (and patrol if you are in one) for at least four months as a First Class Scout.
2. Demonstrate Scout spirit by living the Scout Oath and Scout Law in you everyday life.

Boy Scout Life Rank

1. 
   Be active in your unit (and patrol if you are in one) for at least 6 months as a Star Scout.
2. Demonstrate Scout spirit by living the Scout Oath (Promise) and Scout Law in your everyday life.
3. Earn 5 more merit badges (so that you have 11 in all), including any 3 more from the required list for Eagle.

Cub Scouts Art Pin

Art Academics Pin

Earn the Art belt loop and complete six of the following requirements:

1. Visit an art museum, gallery, or exhibit. Discuss with an adult the art you saw.
2. Create two self-portraits using two different art techniques, such as drawing, painting, printmaking, sculpture, or computer illustration.
3. Demonstrate how to make paper. Make a sample at least 4 inches by 4 inches.
4. Make a simple silkscreen or stencil. Print a card or T-shirt.
5. Create a freestanding sculpture or mobile using wood, metal, soap, paper-mache, or found objects.
6. Create an object using clay that can be fired, baked in the oven, or hardened in water.
7. Photograph four subjects in one theme, such as landscapes, people, animals, sports, or buildings.
8. Make a collage using several different materials.
9. Use your artistic skills to create a postage stamp, book cover, or music CD cover.
10. Use a computer illustration or painting program to create a work of art.
11. Display your artwork in a pack, school, or community art show.

Cub Scouts Art Belt Loop

Art Belt Loop

Complete these three requirements:

1. Make a list of common materials used to create visual art compositions.
2. Demonstrate how six of the following elements of design are used in a drawing: lines, circles, dots, shapes, colors, patterns, textures, space, balance, or perspective.
3. Identify the three primary colors and the three secondary colors that can be made by mixing them. Show how this is done using paints or markers. Use the primary and secondary colors to create a painting.

Boy Scout First Class Rank

1. Demonstrate how to find directions during the day and at night without using a compass.
2. Using a map and compass, complete an orienteering course that covers at least one mile and requires measuring the height and/or width of designated items (tree, tower, canyon, ditch, etc.)
3. Since joining, have participated in ten separate troop/patrol activities (other than troop/patrol meetings), three of which included camping overnight. Demonstrate the principles of Leave No Trace on these outings.
4. 1. Help plan a patrol menu for one campout that includes at least one breakfast, one lunch, and one dinner and that requires cooking at least two of the meals. Tell how the menu includes the foods from the food pyramid and meets nutritional needs.
   2. Using the menu planned in requirement 4a, make a list showing the cost and food amounts needed to feed three or more boys and secure the ingredients.
   3. Tell which pans, utensils, and other gear will be needed to cook and serve these meals.
   4. Explain the procedures to follow in the safe handling and storage of fresh meats, dairy products, eggs, vegetables, and other perishable food products. Tell how to properly dispose of camp garbage, cans, plastic containers, and other rubbish.
   5. On one campout, serve as your patrol's cook. Supervise your assistant(s) in using a stove or building a cooking fire. Prepare the breakfast, lunch, and dinner planned in requirement 4a. Lead your patrol in saying grace at the meals and supervise cleanup.
5. Visit and discuss with a selected individual approved by your leader (elected official, judge, attorney, civil servant, principal, teacher) your constitutional rights and obligations as a U.S. citizen.
6. Identify or show evidence of at least ten kinds of native plants found in your community.
7. 1. Discuss when you should and should not use lashings. Then demonstrate tying the timber hitch and clove hitch and their use in square, shear, and diagonal lashings by joining two or more poles or staves together.
   2. Use lashing to make a useful camp gadget.
8. 1. Demonstrate tying the bowline knot and describe several ways it can be used.
   2. Demonstrate bandages for a sprained ankle. and for injuries on the head, the upper arm, and the collarbone.
   3. Show how to transport by yourself, and with one other person, a person:
      • from a smoke-filled room
      • with a sprained ankle, for at least 25 yards.
   4. Tell the five most common signals of a heart attack. Explain the steps (procedures) in cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR).
9. 1. Tell what precautions must be taken for a safe trip afloat.
   2. Successfully complete the BSA swimmer test.
   3. With a helper and a practice victim, show a line rescue both as tender and rescuer. (The practice victim should be approximately 30 feet from shore in deep water.)
10. Tell someone who is eligible to join Boy Scouts, or an inactive Boy Scout, about your troop's activities. Invite him to a troop outing, activity, service project or meeting. Tell him how to join, or encourage the inactive Boy Scout to become active.
11. Describe the three things you should avoid doing related to use of the Internet. Describe a cyberbully and how you should respond to one.
12. Demonstrate scout spirit by living the Scout Oath (Promise) and Scout Law in your everyday life. Discuss four specific examples (different from those used for Tenderfoot requirement 13 and Second Class requirement 11) of how you have lived the points of the Scout Law in your daily life.
13. Participate in a Scoutmaster conference.
14. Complete your board of review.

* Alternative Requirements for the First Class rank are available for Scouts with physical or mental disabilities if they meet the criteria listed.

Hiking Merit Badge

HIKING

1. Show that you know first aid for injuries or illnesses that could occur while hiking, including hypothermia, heatstroke, heat exhaustion, frostbite, dehydration, sunburn, sprained ankle, insect stings, tick bites, snakebite, blisters, hyperventilation, and altitude sickness.

The Law of the Pack

The Cub Scout follow Akela

The Cub Scout helps the Pack go

The Pack helps the Cub Scout grow

The Cub Scout gives goodwill.

Cub Scout Promise

I, [your name], promise to do my best
To do my duty to God and my country,
To help other people, and
To obey the Law of the Pack

Cub Scout Bobcat Rank

1. Learn and say the Cub Scout Promise.
2. Say the Law of the Pack. Tell what it Means
3. Tell What Webelos means
4. Show the Cub Scout sign. Tell what it means.
5. Show the Cub Scout Handshake. Tell what it means.
6. Say the Cub Scout Motto
7. Give the Cub Scout Salute. Tell what it means.
8. With Your Parent or guardian, complete the exercises in the the booklet How to Protect Your Children from Child Abuse.

Second Class Scout Rank

1. 1. Demonstrate how a compass works and how to orient a map. Explain what map symbols mean.
   2. Using a compass and a map together, take a 5-mile hike (or 10 miles by bike) approved by your adult leader and your parent or guardian.*
2. Discuss the principles of "Leave No Trace"
3. 1. Since joining, have participated in five separate troop/patrol activities (other than troop/patrol meetings), two of which included camping overnight.
   2. On one of these campouts, select your patrol site and sleep in a tent that you pitched. Explain what factors you should consider when choosing a patrol site and where to pitch a tent.
   3. Demonstrate proper care, sharpening, and use of the knife, saw, and ax, and describe when they should be used.
   4. Use the tools listed in requirement 3c to prepare tinder, kindling, and fuel for a cooking fire.
   5. Discuss when it is appropriate to use a cooking fire and a lightweight stove. Discuss the safety procedures for using both..
   6. In an approved place and at an approved time, demonstrate how to build a fire and set up a lightweight stove. Note: Lighting the fire is not required.
   7. On one campout, plan and cook one hot breakfast or lunch, selecting foods from the food pyramid. Explain the importance of good nutrition. Tell how to transport, store, and prepare the foods you selected.
4. Participate in a flag ceremony for your school, religious institution, chartered organization, community, or troop activity. Explain to your leader what respect is due the flag of the United States.
5. Participate in approved (minimum of one hour) service project(s).
6. Identify or show evidence of at least ten kinds of wild animals (birds, mammals, reptiles, fish, mollusks) found in your community.
7. 1. Show what to do for "hurry" cases of stopped breathing, serious bleeding, and ingested poisoning.
   2. Prepare a personal first aid kit to take with you on a hike.
   3. Demonstrate first aid for the following:
      • Object in the eye
      • Bite of a suspected rabid animal
      • Puncture wounds from a splinter, nail, and fishhook
      • Serious burns (partial thickness, or second degree)
      • Heat exhaustion
      • Shock
      • Heatstroke, dehydration, hypothermia, and hyperventilation
8. 1. Tell what precautions must be taken for a safe swim.
   2. Demonstrate your ability to jump feet first into water over your head in depth, level off and swim 25 feet on the surface, stop, turn sharply, resume swimming, then return to your starting place.
   3. Demonstrate water rescue methods by reaching with your arm or leg, by reaching with a suitable object, and by throwing lines and objects. Explain why swimming rescues should not be attempted when a reaching or throwing rescue is possible, and explain why and how a rescue swimmer should avoid contact with the victim.
9. 1. Participate in a school, community, or troop program on the dangers of using drugs, alcohol, and tobacco, and other practices that could be harmful to your health. Discuss your participation in the program with your family, and explain the dangers of substance addictions.
   2. Explain the three R's of personal safety and protection.
10. Earn an amount of money agreed upon by you and your parent, then save at least 50 percent of that money.
11. Demonstrate scout spirit by living the Scout Oath (Promise) and Scout Law in your everyday life. Discuss four specific examples (different from those used for Tenderfoot requirement 13) of how you have lived the points of the Scout Law in your daily life.
12. Participate in a Scoutmaster conference.
13. Complete your board of review.

* If you use a wheelchair or crutches, or if it is difficult for you to get around, you may substitute "trip" for "hike" in requirement 1b.

* Alternative Requirements for the Second Class rank are available for Scouts with physical or mental disabilities if they meet the criteria list.

TenderFoot

1.  Present yourself to your leader, properly dressed, before going on an overnight camping trip. Show the camping gear you will use. Show the right way to pack and carry it.

2.  Spend at least one night on a patrol or troop campout. Sleep in a tent you have helped pitch.

3.  On the campout, assist in preparing and cooking one of your patrol's meals. Tell why it is important for each patrol member to share in meal preparation and cleanup, and explain the importance of eating together.

4a.  Demonstrate how to whip and fuse the ends of a rope.

4b.  Demonstrate you know how to tie the following knots and tell what their uses are: two half hitches and the taut-line hitch.

4c.  Using the EDGE method, teach another person how to tie the square knot.

5.  Explain the rules of safe hiking, both on the highway and cross-country, during the day and at night. Explain what to do if you are lost.

6.  Demonstrate how to display, raise, lower, and fold the American flag.

7.  Repeat from memory and explain in your own words the Scout Oath, Law, motto, and slogan.

8.  Know your patrol name, give the patrol yell, and describe your patrol flag.

9.  Explain the importance of the buddy system as it relates to your personal safety on outings and in your neighborhood. Describe what a bully is and how you should respond to one.

10a.  Record your best in the following tests:
Push-ups
Pull-ups
Sit-ups
Standing long jump
1/4 mile walk/run

10b.  Show improvement in the activities listed in requirement 10a after practicing for 30 days.

11.  Identify local poisonous plants; tell how to treat for exposure to them.

12a.  Demonstrate how to care for someone who is choking.

12b.  Show first aid for the following:
Simple cuts and scrapes
Blisters on the hand and foot
Minor (thermal/heat) burns or scalds (superficial, or first degree)
Bites and stings of insects and ticks
Venomous snakebite
Nosebleed
Frostbite and sunburn

13. Demonstrate Scout spirit by living the Scout Oath (Promise) and Scout Law in your everyday life. Discuss four specific examples of how you have lived the points of the Scout Law in your daily life.

14. Participate in a Scoutmaster conference.

15. Complete your board of review.

Boy Scout Ranks

Joining Requirements	Tenderfoot Requirements	Second Class Requirements
First Class Requirements	Star Requirements	Life Requirements
Eagle Requirements	Eagle Palm Requirements

The Boy Scout Badge

Who knew that so much symbolism could be in one badge!

The Boy Scout Badge is in the shape of the fleur de lis (French for Iris Flower).  It is also in the shape of an old compass pointing north.  The top three points (same as the three fingers in the scout sign) represent Duty to God and Country, Duty to Others, and Duty to Self.  The stars on the badge are always constant like the North Star, bringing truth and knowledge. The Eagle with the shield represent the freedoms of America and the Eagle ready to defend those freedoms.  The goal of every Boy Scout is to become an Eagle.  The scroll and knot are to remind us to do our duty with a smile and to always do a Good Turn Daily.

The Outdoor Code

As an American, I will do my best to be clean in my outdoor manner, be careful with fire, be considerate in the outdoors, and be conservation-minded.

You will gain a great appreciation for the outdoors during you life as a scouter.  As you learn how to camp using the principles of Leave No Tace, you will not only preserve this great land for future campouts you will go on, but for future scouters that will follow in your footsteps.

I think I make a point to do at the close of every campsite is to have everyone fan out and comb the area by walking from one end of the campsite to the other picking up all trash... even if it was there before we camped.  When you leave a campsite, you should always strive to make it better than how you found it.

Boy Scout Joining Requirements

1. Meet the age requirements.
• Be a boy who is 11 years old, or one who has completed the fifth grade or earned the Arrow of Light Award and is at least 10 years old, but is not yet 18 years old.
2. Find a Scout troop near your home.
3. Complete a Boy Scout application and health history signed by your parent or guardian.
4. Repeat the Pledge of Allegiance
5. Demonstrate the Scout sign, salute, and handshake.
6. Demonstrate tying the square knot.
7. Understand and agree to live by the Scout Oath or Promise, Scout Law, Motto, and Slogan, and the Outdoor Code.
8. Describe the Scout badge.
9. Complete the pamphlet exercises.
• With your parent or guardian, complete the exercises in the pamphlet How to Protect Your Children From Child Abuse: A Parent's Guide.
10. Participate in a Scoutmasters conference
• Turn in your Boy Scout application and health history form signed by your parent or guardian, then participate in a Scoutmaster conference.

The Square Knot

Also known as the Joining Knot and Reef Knot, will be used many times during your scouting career and beyond.

This knot was used for centuries by sailors for reefing sails and tying things aboard ship.  It is important to not use this not for tying two ropes together.

The following is the steps for tying the Square Knot... Just remember right over left, and left over right:

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Step 1 - Hold your rope at the ends
Step 2 - Do an over hand knot with right over left
Step 3 - Do a second over hand knot now with left over right
Step 4 - Pull the ends tight

The Square Knot is used in many of the knot awards you may receive as a Boy Scout and as a Leader.



Boy Scout Handshake

The left-handed Scout handshake is a formal way of greeting other Scouts of both genders used by members of Scout and Guide organizations around the world when greeting other Scouts. The handshake is made with the hand nearest the heart and is offered as a token of friendship. In most situations, the handshake is made firmly and when both people are in uniform.

'When Colonel Baden-Powell entered the capital city of the Ashanti people in 1890 he was met by one of the Chiefs who came to him holding out his left hand. B.-P. held out his right in return but the Chief said: "No, in my country the bravest of the brave shake with the left hand." So began the "left handshake" of the world-wide brotherhood of Scouts.'

Boy Scout Salute

For the Boy Scout Salute, make the Scout Sign with your right hand and place your index finger onto the outer corner of your right eyebrow.  If wearing and official scout hat, place your index finger onto the brim of the hat.

When do you use the Scout Salute?... During flag ceremonies, salute the flag of the United States of America.  Also, you may salute the Flag as you pass by it, or when it passes you for any reason (parades are a good example).  You may also salute fellow Scouts and Scout Leaders as a respective greeting.

Remember... if at a scouting activity and not in your uniform during a flag ceremony, use the traditional method of placing your right hand over your heart and remove all hats unless it is part of your uniform.

Boy Scout Motto and Slogan

Motto: Be Prepared
Slogan: Do a Good Turn Daily

What does the Motto and Slogan mean to you?

Boy Scout Law

A Scout is:

• Trustworthy
• Loyal
• Helpful
• Friendly
• Courteous
• Kind
• Obedient
• Cheerful
• Thrifty
• Brave
• Clean
• and Reverent

What does the Scout Law mean?


"The boy is not governed by Don't, but is led on by Do.  The Scout Law, therefore, was devised as a guide to his actions rather than as repressive of his faults.  It merely states what is good form and expected of a Scout." Lessons from the Varsity of Life, Lord Baden-Powell

Boy Scout Oath or Promise

On my Honor I will do my best to do my duty to God and my country and to obey the Scout Law;
To help other people at all time;
To keep myself physically strong, mentally awake, and morally straight.

The Boys Scout Sign

You make the Boy Scout sign with your right hand by bending your little finger down and touching it with your thumb.  Raise you arm until your elbow makes a square (or right angle).  You should have your pointer, middle, and ring fingers all together and pointed upwards.

"The three fingers stand for the three parts of the Scout Oath:

• Duty to God and country
• Duty to others
• Duty to yourself

Your thumb and little finger represent the bond uniting Scouts throughout the world."

The Boy Scout Sign is used each time you recite the Scout Oath or Law.  It is also used to call the Patrol to order.  If your Scoutmaster, or other Scouter, is making the sign, all scouts should make the sign also to show that you are ready for silent attention.

What Does the Pledge Mean?

Many times we go through the motions and memorize and repeat items without having a knowledge of what we just said.  My memory is a little foggy now, but I remember standing in Elementary School and reciting the Pledge of Allegiance with my fellow classmates.  Later, I remember standing in a Den Meeting and saluting the small miniature American Flag while doing the Cub Scout Salute.  The next time you recite the Pledge of Allegiance, think a little on what you are saying and promising... Here are my thoughts on each line item.

• I pledge allegiance (I promise to be faithful and true)
• to the Flag (the symbol of our country)
• of the United States of America (50 states, each individual)
• and to the Republic (A state in which supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives, and which has an elected or nominated president)
• for which it stands (The flag also represents the government, which you also pledge your allegiance to)
• one Nation under God (These states are united under the divine providence of God..."God is our most powerful resource", President Eisenhower)
• indivisible (cannot be separated)
• with liberty and justice (freedoms and treated justly, fairly, and according to proper law)
• for all. (To EVERY American, regardless of race, religion, color, creed, or any other criteria.)

Pledge of Allegiance

You will recite the Pledge of Allegiance many times as a Boy Scout.  If in uniform during the Pledge of Allegiance, or if the Flag of the United States passes by during a parade, remove all un-official hats and use the scout salute.  If in everyday clothing, place your right hand over your heart.

I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, on Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

During a Troop or Pack meeting, hold your salute until the caller indicates the salute is over with the word "two".