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Tiger Cub Program
The Tiger Cub Program
Tiger Cubs BSA gives parents an opportunity to provide their children with a safe, structured, and nurturing environment. Tiger Cubs and their adult partners have fun together while developing closer family relationships. Scouting can provide positive, enriching experiences and activities to complement a child's formal classroom education. Scouting and education share the common goal of helping young people grow into self-reliant, dependable, and caring adults.
Tiger Cubs BSA is a simple, fun, easy-to-operate program that helps a boy and his adult partner gain a better understanding of and an appreciation for the community environment in which they live, and even the world at large.
Tiger Cubs BSA offers an opportunity for boys to enter the Scouting family at an important age. Research has shown that early involvement in values-based programs is vital to strong character development. The longer a boy stays in Scouting, the more likely he is to develop the values and skills needed to become an ethical and productive citizen.
The Tiger Cub dens are a part of the Pack. Tiger Cub dens meet twice a month as a den, plus once a month for a "Go See It" activity, and they attend all pack meetings. There are Tiger Cub resource books and program helps available for the Tiger Cub Den Leaders, and a Tiger Cub Handbook for each Tiger Cub. Tiger Cubs BSA introduces boys and their adult partners to the excitement of Cub Scouting as they "Search, Discover, and Share" together.
The Tiger Cub program is designed for First Grade boys and the ideas are geared to their level. They are also arranged to help the boy and his adult partner interact together in a positive way.
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After earning the Bobcat Badge, to begin his path to the Tiger Cub Rank, a boy must do the following to earn the Tiger Cub Totem:
- Learn the Cub Scout Motto: Do Your Best
- Learn the Cub Scout Sign
- Learn the Cub Scout Salute
Once he earns the Totem, to earn the Tiger Cub rank the Tiger Cub Scout must complete a Family Activity, a Den Activity, and a "Go See It" Activity in each of five Achievement Areas:
- Making My Family Special
- Where I Live
- Keeping Myself Healthy and Safe
- How I Tell It
- Let's Go Outdoors
As he completes each Achievement, he is awarded a bead which is hung from the Totem.
- He earns a WHITE bead for each required FAMILY Activity.
- He earns an ORANGE bead for each required DEN Activity.
- He earns a BLACK bead for each required GO SEE IT Activity.
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Remember, there are NO performance requirements for a boy. Simply participating and doing one's best in an activity constitutes completion.
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- Making My Family Special
- 1F - Family Activity
Think of one chore you can do with your adult partner. Complete it together.
- Character Connection: Responsibility
- 1D - Den Activity
Make a family scrapbook
- 1G - Go See It Activity
Go to a library, historical society, museum, old farm, or historical building, or visit an older person in your community. Discover how family life was the same and how it was different many years ago.
- Where I Live
- 2F - Family Activity
Look at a map of your community with your adult partner.
- 2D - Den Activity
Practice the Pledge of Allegiance with your den, and participate in a den or pack flag ceremony.
- Character Connection: Citizenship
- 2G - Go See It Activity
Visit a police station or a fire station. Ask someone who works there how he or she helps people in your community.
- Keeping Myself Healthy and Safe
- 3F - Family Activity
a. With your family, plan a fire drill then practice it in your home.
b. With your adult partner, plan what to do if you became lost or separated from your family in a strange place.
- 3D - Den Activity
Make a Food Guide Pyramid
- Character Connection: Health and Fitness
- 3G - Go See It Activity
Learn the rules of a game or sport. Then, go watch an amateur or professional game or sporting event.
- How I Tell It
- 4F - Family Activity
At a family meal, have each family member take turns telling the others one thing that happened to him or her that day. Remember to practice being a good listener while you wait for your turn to talk.
- Character Connection: Respect
- 4D - Den Activity
Play "Tell It Like It Isn't"
- 4G - Go See It Activity
Visit a television station, radio station, or newspaper office. Find out how people there communicate with others.
- Let's Go Outdoors
This achievement is also part of Cub Scouting's Leave No Trace Award.
- 5F - Family Activity
Go outside and watch the weather
- Character Connection: Faith
- 5D - Den Activity
With a crayon or colored pencil and a piece of paper, make a leaf rubbing.
- 5G - Go See It Activity
Take a hike with your den.
After completing the fifteen Achievements, the Tiger Cub is awarded the Tiger Cub Patch.
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Cub Scout 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.
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Remember, there are NO performance requirements for a boy. Simply participating and doing one's best in an activity constitutes completion.
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- Think of a time when your family celebrated something, and tell the den about it and
how it made your feel.
- Make a decoration with your family or your den. Display it or give it to someone as a gift.
- With your family, play a card or board game, or put a jigsaw puzzle together.
- Make a frame for a family picture.
- Make a family mobile.
- Along with your adult partner, teach a song to your family or to your den and sing it together.
- Make a musical instrument and play it with others. The others can sing or have instruments of their own.
- Invite a religious leader from your place of worship to your home or to your den meeting.
- Help a new boy or girl get to know other people.
- Along with your adult partner, help an elderly or shut-in person with a chore.
- Help collect food, clothing or toys for needy families with your den or pack.
- Make at least two cards or decorations and take them to a hospital or long-term care facility.
- 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.
- Together with your adult partner, read a short story or a magazine article.
- Mix the primary colors to make orange, green and purple.
- With your den, show or tell about something you like to collect, OR tell your den about a favorite hobby or activity.
- Make a model.
- Sew a button onto fabric.
- Learn a magic trick and show it to your family or den.
- With your den, make up a PSA (Public Service Announcement) kit to tell people about Tiger Cubs.
- Make a puppet.
- With your family or with your den, have a picnic -- indoors or outdoors.
- Find out what kind of milk your family drinks and why.
- Help the adult who is preparing the family meal to set the table and clean up afterwards.
- Make a snack and share it with your family or den.
- With a toy phone, or a disconnected phone, practice making phone calls and answering the telephone.
- 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.
- With your adult partner, check the batteries in the smoke detector in your home or
another building.
- 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.
- Plant a seed, pit, or greens from something you have eaten.
- Learn about an animal.
- Make a bird feeder and then hang it outdoors.
- With your den or family, play Cleanup Treasure Hunt.
- With your adult partner, think of a way to conserve water or electricity and do it for one week.
- Play a game outdoors with your family or den.
- With your family or your den, go see a play or musical performance in your community.
- Take a bike ride with your adult partner.
- Visit a bike repair shop.
- Visit the place where your adult partner or another adult works.
- Together with an adult partner, go swimming or take part in an activity on water.
- Visit a train station, bus station, airport or boat dock.
- Visit a zoo or aquarium.
- Visit a veterinarian or animal groomer.
- Visit a dairy, a milk-processing plant, or a cheese factory.
- Visit a bakery.
- Visit a dentist or dental hygienist.
- 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.
- Take a ride on public transportation, such as a bus or train.
- Visit a government office such as the mayor's office, the state capitol building, or a courthouse.
- Visit a bank.
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