Things You Can Do As A Parent To Help Your Cub Scout

As a parent, especially if it is your first time experiencing Cub Scouts, the question always come up... "What do I need to do?" There are a ton of things involved with Cub Scouts. From all the requirements for Bobcat, Tiger, Wolf, Bear, Webelos, Activity Badges, Arrow of Light, and not to mention Sports and Academic belt loops and pins... it can get a little overwhelming.  Just remember the Cub Scout Motto - "DO YOUR BEST!"

The following are some items that you as a parent can do to "help the pack go"

How To Make A Leaf Rubbing

#HowToTuesday

Items needed:
- Paper
- Leaf
- Crayon with the paper taken off

Place the leaf upside down under the paper. Place the crayon flat on top of the paper and rub over the top of the leaf. With the leaf upside down you will create a great rubbing with a lot of detail.

Tiger Cub Electives

After completing the fifteen Achievements required for the Tiger Cub Rank Badge, the Tiger Cub can be awarded Tiger Track Beads, which are YELLOW disks attached to the Totem. One bead is awarded for each group of TEN Electives the Tiger Cub completes. A boy can work on both Achievements and electives concurrently, but he can't receive Tiger Track beads until he has earned the Tiger Cub Badge.

1. Think of a time when your family celebrated something, and tell the den about it and
   how it made your feel.
2. Make a decoration with your family or your den. Display it or give it to someone as a gift.
3. With your family, play a card or board game, or put a jigsaw puzzle together.
4. Make a frame for a family picture.
5. Make a family mobile.
6. Along with your adult partner, teach a song to your family or to your den and sing it together.
7. Make a musical instrument and play it with others. The others can sing or have instruments of their own.
8. Invite a religious leader from your place of worship to your home or to your den meeting.
9. Help a new boy or girl get to know other people.
10. Along with your adult partner, help an elderly or shut-in person with a chore.
11. Help collect food, clothing or toys for needy families with your den or pack.
12. Make at least two cards or decorations and take them to a hospital or long-term care facility.
13. Using US pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters, choose the correct coins to make the following amounts:
    15 cents, 50 cents, 29 cents, 60 cents, 35 cents, 59 cents.
14. Together with your adult partner, read a short story or a magazine article.
15. Mix the primary colors to make orange, green and purple.
16. With your den, show or tell about something you like to collect, OR tell your den about a favorite hobby or activity.
17. Make a model.
18. Sew a button onto fabric.
19. Learn a magic trick and show it to your family or den.
20. With your den, make up a PSA (Public Service Announcement) skit to tell people about Tiger Cubs.
21. Make a puppet.
22. With your family or with your den, have a picnic -- indoors or outdoors.
23. Find out what kind of milk your family drinks and why.
24. Help the adult who is preparing the family meal to set the table and clean up afterwards.
25. Make a snack and share it with your family or den.
26. With a toy phone, or a disconnected phone, practice making phone calls and answering the telephone.
27. Talk to your adult partner about what to do if these things happened:
    • The adult who is caring for you becomes ill.
    • You are alone with someone who makes you feel uncomfortable.
28. With your adult partner, check the batteries in the smoke detector in your home or
    another building.
29. Talk with your adult partner about when you should use sunscreen. Find out whether you have any in your home and where it is kept. With your adult partner, look at a container of sunscreen and find out whether it still protects you when you are wet. Also find out how long you are protected before you have to put on more. Look for the expiration date and make sure the sunscreen is not too old.
30. Plant a seed, pit, or greens from something you have eaten.
31. Learn about an animal.
32. Make a bird feeder and then hang it outdoors.
33. With your den or family, play Cleanup Treasure Hunt.
34. With your adult partner, think of a way to conserve water or electricity and do it for one week.
35. Play a game outdoors with your family or den.
36. With your family or your den, go see a play or musical performance in your community.
37. Take a bike ride with your adult partner.
38. Visit a bike repair shop.
39. Visit the place where your adult partner or another adult works.
40. Together with an adult partner, go swimming or take part in an activity on water.
41. Visit a train station, bus station, airport or boat dock.
42. Visit a zoo or aquarium.
43. Visit a veterinarian or animal groomer.
44. Visit a dairy, a milk-processing plant, or a cheese factory.
45. Visit a bakery.
46. Visit a dentist or dental hygienist.
47. Learn about what you can recycle in your community and how you can recycle at home. Learn about things that need to be recycled in special ways, such as paint and
    batteries.
48. Take a ride on public transportation, such as a bus or train.
49. Visit a government office such as the mayor's office, the state capitol building, or a courthouse.
50. Visit a bank.

Tiger Cub Achievements

1 Making My Family Special
2 Where I Live
3 Keeping Myself Healthy & Safe
4 How I Tell It
5 Lets Go Outdoors 

Tiger Cubs Elective 2

Elective 2 Making Decorations

Make a decoration with your family or your den. Display it or give it to someone as a gift.

For the snowflake activity you will need paper and scissors.

Step 1 - Fold your paper in half
Step 2 - Fold your paper in half again
Step 3 - Fold your paper for a third time
Step 4 - With scissors, cut out shapes all around the edges and middle of the folded paper
Step 5 - Unfold to reveal your snowflake
Step 6 - Display your snowflake or give it as a gift

Tiger Cubs: Elective 6

Along with your adult partner, teach a song to your family or to your den and sing it together.

 

Tiger Cub Songs:

• Iv'e Got That Tiger Cub Spirits
• The Tiger Went Over The Mountain
• Hail To Tigers
• Tiger Cub Song

Songs: I've Got That Tiger Cub Spirit

I’ve got that Tiger Cub spirit
Up in my head, up in my head, up in my head,
I’ve got that Tiger Cub spirit
Up in my head
Up in my head to stay.
Additional verses:
Replace “up in my head” with
 Deep in my heart
 Down in my feet
 All over me

Songs: The Tiger Went Over The Mountain

(Tune:  For He’s a Jolly good Fellow)

The Tiger went over the mountain,
The Tiger went over the mountain,
The Tiger went over the mountain
To see what he could see.
And all that he could see,
And all that he could see,
Was the other side of the mountain,
The other side of the mountain,
The other side of the mountain
Was all that he could see.

Songs: Hail To Tigers

(Tune:  On Wisconsin)

Hail to Tigers!  Hail to tigers!
Best game of them all.
We’re a band of jolly Tiger Cubs.
Listen to our call--
Rah!  Rah!  Rah!
Ever onward, ever forward
Bring fun to all!
Here’s to the game of Tiger Cubs,
Best of all!

Songs: Tiger Cub Song

(Tune:  Frere Jacques)

Tiger Cubs have fun,
Tiger Cubs have fun,
Search and Discover,
Discover and Share,
Always on the go,
Helping us to grow,
Tiger Cubs
Tiger Cubs.

Tiger Cub: Elective 15: Colors

Elective 15: Mix the Primary Colors To Make Orange, Green, and Purple.

To start... what are the Primary Colors?

Tiger Cub: Requirement 3D: Make a Food Guide Pyramid

Have your adult partner draw a Food Guide Pyramid on a big piece of paper or posterboard. Cut out pictures of food from old magazines and glue them in the right places on the pyramid. You could also draw pictures of different foods on your Food Guide Pyramid. You could display your Food Guide Pyramid at the next pack meeting.

Tiger Cub Immediate Recognition

When you have colored all three of the tiger tracks in the back of your Tiger Cub Handbook (pg 161), you will have earned your Tiger Cub Immediate Recognition Emblem.

• I know the Cub Scout motto. ___________
• I know the Cub Scout sign. ____________
• I know the Cub Scout salute. ___________

Once your Cub Scout earns the Totem, he should then proceed to complete the other requirements for the Bobcat Badge.

Tiger Cubs - Making My Family Special: 1F

Family Activity:
1F: Think of one chore you can do with your adult partner. Complete it together.

Take a second and think of a few of the chores around your house.... The following are some around my house.

• Dishes
• Vacuuming
• Sweeping
• Feeding the Dog and Cat
• Washing the Windows
• Taking Out the Trash

We can lighten the load of work when each member of the family helps out with the chores around the house.  The same is in your Dens and Packs.  When each scout does his duty, it helps the pack go.

Character Connection: Responsibility