Tiger Adventures
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Cub Scout Tiger Adventures
Tiger Elective Adventures: Tiger Theater
- With your den, discuss the following types of theater: puppet shows, reader’s theater, and pantomime.
- As a den, play a game of one-word charades with your adult partners.
- Make a puppet to show your den or display at a pack meeting.
- Perform a simple reader’s theater. Make a mask afterward to show what your character looks like.
- Watch a play or attend a story time at a library.
Tiger Elective Adventures: Tiger Tales
- Create a tall tale with your den.
- Create your own tall tale. Share your tall tale with your den.
- Read a tall tale with your adult partner.
- Create a piece of art from a scene in the tall tale you have read, using your choice of materials. Share it with your den.
- Play a game from the past.
- Sing two folk songs.
- Visit a historical museum or landmark with your adult partner.
Tiger Elective Adventure: Tiger Tag
1.
Choose one active game
you like, and tell your den about it.
2.
Do the following:
a.
Play two relay games with your den and your adult partner.
b.
Tell your partner or the other Tigers what you liked best about each game.
c.
Have your den choose a relay game that everyone would like to play, and play it
several times.
3.
With your adult partner,
select an active outside game that you could play with the members of your den.
Talk about your game at the den meeting. With your den, decide on a game to
play.
4.
Play the game that your
den has chosen. After the game, discuss with your den leader the meaning of
being a good sport.
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Tiger Elective Adventure: Tiger Safe and Smart
1.
Do the following:
a.
Memorize your address, and say it to your den leader or adult partner.
b.
Memorize an emergency contact’s phone number, and say it to your den leader or
adult partner.
c.
Take the 911 safety quiz.
2.
Do the following:
a.
Show you can “Stop, Drop, and Roll.”
b.
Show you know how to safely roll someone else in a blanket to put out a fire.
3.
Make a fire escape map
with your adult partner.
4.
Explain your map, and
try a practice fire drill at home.
5.
Find the smoke detectors
in your home. With the help of your adult partner, check the batteries.
6.
Visit an emergency
responder station, or have an emergency responder visit you.
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Tiger Elective Adventure: Tiger-iffic!
Complete
1–3 and one from 4–6.
1.
Play at least two
different games by yourself; one may be a video game.
2.
Play a board game or
another inside game with one or more members of your den.
3.
Play a problem-solving
game with your den.
4.
With your parent’s or
guardian’s permission:
a.
Play a video game with family members in a family tournament.
b. List at least
three tips that would help someone who was learning how to play your favorite
video game.
c. Play an appropriate video game with a friend for 30 minutes.
5.
With other members of
your den, invent a game, OR change the rules of a game you know, and play the
game.
Tiger Elective Adventures: Stories in Shapes
1.
Visit an art gallery or
a museum, explore an art website, or visit your library. Do each of the
following:
a.
Look at pictures of some abstract art with your den or family. Decide what you
like about the art, and share your ideas with the other Tigers.
b.
Create an art piece.
2.
Do the following:
a.
Draw or create an art piece using shapes.
Tiger Elective Adventures: Sky Is The Limit
- With your den or adult partner, go outside to observe the night sky. Talk about objects you see or might see.
- Look at a distant object through a telescope or binoculars. Show how to focus the device you chose.
- Observe in the sky or select from a book or chart two constellations that are easy to see in the night sky. With your adult partner, find out the names of the stars that make up the constellation and how the constellation got its name. Share what you found with your den.
- Create and name your own constellation. Share your constellation with your den.
- Create a homemade constellation.
- Find out about two different jobs related to astronomy. Share this information with your den.
- Find out about two astronauts who were Scouts when they were younger. Share what you learned with your den.
- With your den or family, visit a planetarium, observatory, science museum, astronomy club, or college or high school astronomy teacher. Before you go, write down questions you might want to ask. Share what you learned with your family.
Tiger Elective Adventure: Rolling Tigers
- With your den or adult partner, discuss two different types of bicycles and their uses.
- With your den or adult partner, try on safety gear you should use while riding your bike. Show how to wear a bicycle helmet properly.
- With your den or adult partner, learn and demonstrate safety tips to follow when riding your bicycle.
- Learn and demonstrate proper hand signals.
- With your den or adult partner, do a safety check on your bicycle.
- With your den or family, go on a bicycle hike wearing your safety equipment. Follow the bicycling safety and traffic laws.
- Learn about a famous bicycle race or famous cyclist. Share what you learn with your den.
- Visit your local or state police department to learn about bicycle-riding laws.
- Identify two jobs that use bicycles.
Tiger Elective Adventure: Good Knights
1.
Do the following:
a.
With your den or adult partner, say the Scout Law. Explain to your den one of
the 12 points of the law and why you think a knight would have the same
behavior.
b.
If you have not already done so, make a code of conduct with your den that will
describe how each person should act when you are all together. If your den has
a code of conduct, discuss with your den the updates it might need to help den
members become more chivalrous. Vote on which actions should go in your den
code of conduct.
2.
Create a den shield and
a personal shield.
3.
Using recycled
materials, design and build a small castle with your adult partner to display
at the pack meeting.
4.
Think of one physical
challenge that could be part of an obstacle course. Then help your den design a
Tiger knight obstacle course. With your adult partner, participate in the
course.
Tiger Elective Adventure: Floats and Boats
- Identify five different types of boats.
- Build a boat from recycled materials, and float it on the water.
- With your den, say the SCOUT water safety chant.
- Play the buddy game with your den.
- Show that you can put on and fasten a life jacket the correct way.
- Show how to safely help someone who needs assistance in the water, without having to enter the water yourself.
- Show how to enter the water safely, blow your breath out under the water, and do a prone glide.
Tiger Elective Adventure: Family Stories
- Discuss with your adult partner and/or family where your family originated. Discuss their history, traditions, and culture—your family heritage. Share a story or bring something to share with your den about yourself and your family.
- Make a family crest.
- Visit your public library to find out information about your heritage.
- Interview one of your grandparents or another family elder, and share with your den what you found.
- Make a family tree.
- Share with your den how you got your name.
- Share with your den your favorite snack or dessert that reflects your cultural heritage.
- Learn where your family came from, and locate it on a map. Share this information with your den. With the help of your adult partner, locate and write to a pen pal from that location.
Tiger Elective Adventure: Earning Your Stripes
- Bring in and share with your den five items that are the color orange.
- Demonstrate loyalty over the next week at school or in your community. Share at your next den meeting how you were loyal to others.
- With your adult partner, decide on one new task you can do to help your family, and do it.
- Talk with your den and adult partner about polite language. Include a discussion about the use of “please,” “thank you,” “you’re welcome,” “excuse me,” “yes, sir,” “no, ma’am,” and last names. Learn how to shake hands properly and introduce yourself.
- Play a game with your den. Then discuss how your den played politely.
- With your adult partner and den, work on a service project for your pack’s meeting place or chartered organization.
Tiger Elective Adventure: Curiosity, Intrigue, and Magical Mysteries
- Learn a magic trick. Practice your magic trick so you can perform it in front of an audience.
- Create an invitation to a magic show.
- With your den or with your family, put on a magic show for an audience.
- Create a secret code.
- With the other Scouts in your den or with your family, crack a code that you did not create.
- Spell your name using sign language, and spell your name in Braille.
- With the help of your adult partner, conduct a science demonstration that shows how magic works.
- Share what you learned from your science demonstration.
Pink Jellybean
Get your spooky voice on for this one! Keep the boys in suspense until the end. Don't worry, some of them will look at you as if your off your rocker at the end of the story.
At the end of a long, dark road is a long, dark path.
At the end of the long, dark path is a lone, dark house.
And the lone, dark house has a single, dark door.
Behind the single, dark door is a long, dark hall.
At the end of the long, dark hall are some tall, dark stairs.
At the top of the tall, dark stairs is a long dark balcony.
At the end of the long, dark balcony is a big dark room.
In the big, dark room is a big, dark closet.
In the big, dark closet is a big, dark door.
Behind the big, dark door are some steep, dark stairs.
At the top of the steep, dark stairs is a dark, dusty attic.
In the dark, dusty attic is a big, dark chest.
In the big, dark chest is a small, dark box.
And in the small, dark box is a pink jellybean...!
At the end of a long, dark road is a long, dark path.
At the end of the long, dark path is a lone, dark house.
And the lone, dark house has a single, dark door.
Behind the single, dark door is a long, dark hall.
At the end of the long, dark hall are some tall, dark stairs.
At the top of the tall, dark stairs is a long dark balcony.
At the end of the long, dark balcony is a big dark room.
In the big, dark room is a big, dark closet.
In the big, dark closet is a big, dark door.
Behind the big, dark door are some steep, dark stairs.
At the top of the steep, dark stairs is a dark, dusty attic.
In the dark, dusty attic is a big, dark chest.
In the big, dark chest is a small, dark box.
And in the small, dark box is a pink jellybean...!
Tiger Adventure - Tigers In The Wild
1.
With
your adult partner, name and collect the Cub
scout Six Essentials you need for a hike. Tell your den leader
what you would need to add to your list if it rains.
2.
Go
for a short hike with your den or family, and carry your own gear Show you know
how to get ready for this hike.
3.
Do
the following:
a. Listen while your leader reads the Outdoor Code. Talk about how you can be
clean in your outdoor manners.
b. Listen while your leader reads the Leave No Trace
Principles for Kids. Discuss why you should "Trash Your
Trash."
c. Apply the Outdoor code and Leave No Trace Principles
for Kids on your Tiger den and pack outings. After one outing, share what you
did to demonstrate the principles you discussed.
4.
While
on the hike, find three different kinds of plants, animals, or signs that
animals have been on the trail. List what you saw in your Tiger handbook.
5.
Participate
in an outdoor pack meeting or pack campout campfire. Sing a song and act out a
skit with your Tiger den as part of the program.
6.
Find
two different trees and two different types of plants that grow in your area.
Write their names in your Tiger handbook.
7.
Visit
a nearby nature center, zoo, or another outside place with your family or den.
Learn more about two animals, and write down two interesting things about them
in your Tiger handbook.
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Tiger Adventure - Tiger Bites
- Identify three good food choices and three foods that would not be good choices.
- Show that you know the difference between a fruit and a vegetable. Eat one of each.
- With your adult partner, pick a job to help your family at mealtime. Do it every day for one week.
- Show you can keep yourself and your personal area clean.
- Talk with your adult partner about what foods you can eat with your fingers. Practice your manners when eating them.
- With your adult partner, plan and make a good snack choice or other nutritious food to share with your den.
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