Bear Badge
The requirements for the Bear Badge were revised in the 1998
edition of the Bear Cub Scout Book.
GOD
(DO ONE OF THE FOLLOWING)
- WAYS WE WORSHIP
Practice your religion as you are taught in your home,
church, synagogue, mosque, or other religious community.
- EMBLEMS OF FAITH
Earn the religious emblem of your faith.
COUNTRY
(DO THREE OF THE FOLLOWING)
- WHAT MAKES AMERICA SPECIAL?
Do requirement a and any three of the other six
requirements:
- Write or tell what makes America special to you.
- With the help of your family or den leader, find out
about two Americans. Tell the things they did or
are doing to improve our way of life.
- Find out something about the old homes near the
place where you live. Go and see two of them.
- Find out where places of historical interest in or
near your town are located. Go and visit one of
them with your family or den.
- Pick your favorite state or home state. Name the
state bird, tree, and flower. Describe its flag.
Give the date it was admitted to the union.
- Be a member of the color guard in a flag ceremony
for your den or pack.
- Display the U.S. flag in your home or fly it on
three national holidays.
- TALL TALES
Do all three requirements:
- Tell in your own words what folklore is. List some
folklore stories, folksongs, or historical legends
from your own state or part of the country.
- Name at least five stories about American folklore.
Point out on a United States map where they took place.
- Read two folklore stories and tell your favorite on
to your den.
- SHARING YOUR WORLD WITH WILDLIFE
Do four of the following requirements:
- Choose a bird or animal that you like and find out
how it lives. Make a poster showing what you have
learned.
- Build or make a bird feeder or bird house.
- Explain what a wildlife conservation offier does.
- Visit one of the following: Zoo, Nature center,
Wildlife refuge, Game preserve.
- Name one animal that has become extinct in the last
100 years. Tell why animals become extinct.
- TAKE CARE OF YOUR PLANET
Do three of the following requirements:
- Save 5 pounds of glass or aluminum, or 1 month of
newspapers, and turn them in at a recycling center.
- Plant a tree in your yard, or on the grounds of the
group that operates your Cub Scout pack, or in a
park. Be sure to get permission first.
- Call city or county officials or your trash hauling
company and find out what happens to your trash
after it is hauled away.
- Do a water usage survey in your home. Note the ways
water is used. Look for any dripping faucets.
- Discuss with one of your parents the ways your
family uses energy.
- Find out more about your family's use of electricity.
- LAW ENFORCEMENT IS A BIG JOB
Do four of the following requirements:
- Make a set of your own fingerprints.
- Make a plaster cast of a shoeprint in the mud.
- Check the doors and windows of your home.
- Visit your local sheriff's office or police station.
- Be sure you know where to get help in your
neighborhood.
- Be sure fire and police numbers are listed by the
phone at your home.
- Know what you can do to help law enforcement.
FAMILY
(DO 4 OF THE FOLLOWING)
- THE PAST IS EXCITING AND IMPORTANT
Do three of the following requirements:
- Visit your library or newspaper office. Ask to see
back issues of newspapers.
- Find someone who was a Cub Scout a long time ago.
Talk with him about what Cub Scouting was like
then.
- Start a pack scrapbook and give something to it.
- Trace your family back through your grandparents or
great grandparents; or, talk to your grandparents
about what it was like when they were younger.
- Find out some history about your community.
- Keep a diary for 2 weeks.
- WHAT'S COOKING?
Do four of the following requirements:
- Bake cookies.
- If your parent or guardian says it is all right,
volunteer to make snacks for the next den meeting
- Prepare one part of your breakfast, one part of your
lunch, and one part of your supper.
- Make a list of the 'junk' foods you eat. Discuss
"junk" food with your parent or teacher.
- Make some healthful after-school snacks or some
snacks for watching television.
- Make a dessert for your family.
- FAMILY FUN
Do both of these requirements:
- Go on a trip with members of your family.
- Have a "family-make-and-do-night."
- BE READY!
Do the first four; the last one is recommended, but not required.
- Tell what to do in case of accident in the home.
Parent needs help. Clothes catch on fire.
- Tell what to do in case of a water accident.
- Tell what to do in case of a school bus accident.
- Tell what to do in case of a car accident.
- Have a health checkup by a physician (optional).
- FAMILY OUTDOOR ADVENTURE
Do three of the following requirements:
- Go camping with your family.
- Go on a hike with your family.
- Have a picnic with your family.
- Attend an outdoor event with your family.
- Plan your outdoor family day.
- SAVING WELL, SPENDING WELL
Do four of the following requirements:
- Go grocery shopping with a parent. Compare prices
of different brands of the same item. Check the
prices at different stores. Read the ads in your
newspaper.
- Set up a savings account.
- Keep a record of how you spend money for 2 weeks.
- Make believe you are shopping for a car for your
family.
- Discuss family finances with one of your parents.
- Play a board game with your family that involves the
use of make-believe money.
- Figure out how much it costs for each person in your
home to eat one meal.
SELF
(DO 4 OF THE FOLLOWING.)
- RIDE RIGHT
Do requirement a and three more:
- Know the rules for bike safety. If your town
requires a bicycle license, be sure to get one.
- Learn to ride a bike, if you haven't by now. Show
that you can follow a winding course for 60 feet
doing sharp left and right turns, a U-turn, and an
emergency stop.
- Keep your bike in good shape. Identify the parts of
a bike that should be checked often.
- Change a tire on a bicycle.
- Protect your bike from theft. Use a bicycle lock.
- Ride a bike for 1 mile without rest, and be sure to
obey all traffic rules.
- Plan and take a family bike hike.
- GAMES, GAMES, GAMES!
Do two of the following requirements:
- Set up the equipment and play any two of these
outdoor games with your family or friends.
- Play two organized games with your den.
- Select a game your den has never played. Explain
the rules. Tell them how it is played, then play
it with them.
- BUILDING MUSCLES
Do all of the following requirements:
- Do physical fitness stretching exercises. Then do
sit-ups, push-ups, the standing long jump, and
softball throw.
- With a friend, compete in at least six different
two-person contests.
- Compete with your den or pack in the crab relay,
gorilla relay, 30-yard dash, and kangaroo relay.
- INFORMATION, PLEASE
Do requirement a and three more of the following requirements:
- With an adult in your family, select a TV show.
Watch it together.
- Visit a newspaper office, or TV or radio station and
talk to a news reporter.
- Play a game of charades at your den meeting or with
your family at home.
- Visit a place where computers are used.
- Write a letter to a company that makes something you use.
- Talk with one of your parents or another family
member about how getting and giving facts fits
into his or her job.
- JOT IT DOWN
Do five of the following requirements:
- Make a list of the things you want to do today.
Check them off when you have done them.
- Write two letters to relatives.
- Keep a daily record of your activities for 2 weeks.
- Write an invitation to someone.
- Write a story about something you have done with
your family.
- Write a thank-you note.
- Write about the doings of your den.
- SHAVINGS AND CHIPS
Do all of the following requirements:
- Know the safety rules for handling a knife.
- Show that you know how to take care of and use a pocketknife.
- Make a carving with a pocketknife. Work with your
parent or den leader in doing this.
- Earn the Whittling Chip card.
- SAWDUST AND NAILS
Do all of the following requirements:
- Show how to use and take care of four of these tools.
(Tools listed in book.)
- Build your own tool box.
- Use at least two tools listed in requirement a to
fix something.
- BUILD A MODEL
Do three of the following requirements:
- Build a model from a kit.
- Build a display for one of your models.
- Make believe you are planning to change the
furniture in one of the rooms in your home.
- Make a model of a mountain, a meadow, a canyon, or river.
- Look at a model of a shopping center or new building
that is on display somewhere.
- Make a model of anything - a rocket, boat, car, or plane.
- TYING IT ALL UP
Do five of the following requirements:
- Whip the ends of a rope.
- Tie a square knot, bowline, sheet bend, two half
hitches, and a slip knot. Tell how each knot is used.
- Learn how to keep a rope from tangling.
- Coil a rope. Throw it, hitting a 2-foot square
marker 20 feet away.
- Learn a magic rope trick.
- Make your own rope.
- SPORTS, SPORTS, SPORTS
Do all of the following requirements:
- Learn the rules and how to play three team sports.
- Learn the rules and how to play two sports in which
only one person is on each side.
- Take part in one team and one individual sport.
- Watch a sport on TV with a parent or some other
member of your family.
- Attend a high school, college, or professional
sporting event with your family or your den.
- BE A LEADER
Do three of the following requirements:
- Help a boy join the Cub Scouts, or help a new Cub
Scout through the Bobcat trail.
- Serve as a denner or assistant denner.
- Plan and conduct a den activity with the approval of
your den leader.
- Tell two people they have done a good job.
- Leadership means choosing a way even when your
choice is not liked by all.