The Tiger Trail

The Tiger Trail (getting started)

The first step on the Tiger Trail is to complete the requirements for the Bobcat Badge. The Bobcat Trail is outlined at the beginning of every handbook in Cub Scouts. Once completed and reported to your Den Leader, the Bobcat Badge will be awarded at the next Monthly Pack Meeting.

Note: There are no performance requirements for completing tasks. Simply participating and doing one's best in an activity constitutes completion.

Note: Once a Bobcat, always a Bobcat... Once (s)he earns the Bobcat Badge they can skip it in other handbooks as they advance through the ranks.

The Tiger Trail (the program)

First graders work toward the Tiger rank. The Tiger rank is earned by completing seven adventures as described below. Although participation with an adult partner is required for all Tiger awards, recognition items are for the Scouts only.

1. Complete each of the six required adventures:

• Games Tigers Play

• My Tiger Jungle

• Team Tiger

• Tiger Bites

• Tiger Circles: Duty to God

• Tigers in the Wild

2. In addition to the six required adventures, complete at least one elective adventure of your den’s or family’s choosing.

3. With your parent, guardian, or other caring adult, complete the exercises in the pamphlet entitled How to Protect Your Children From Child Abuse: A Parent’s Guide.

4. Earn the Cyber Chip award for your age. (The Cyber Chip portion of this requirement may be waived by your parent or guardian if you do not have access to the internet.) OR Earn the Protect Yourself Rules Preview Adventure for Tiger.

Once an adventure is completed and reported to your Den Leader, the Cub Scout is awarded the adventure's belt loop at the next Pack meeting.

After completing these requirements, the Tiger Cub is awarded his Tiger Cub Badge at a Pack meeting.

Note: If your family does not have Internet access at home AND you do not have ready Internet access at school or another public place or via a mobile device, the Cyber Chip portion of requirement 3 may be waived by the Cub Scout's parent or adult partner.

Note: Some of these activities are done at home and signed off by the parent after the boy has completed the task. The handbook should be shown to the Den Leader - who records and tracks his progress..

Required Tiger Adventures

Games Tigers Play

1. Do the following:

   1. Play two initiative or team-building games with the members of your den.

   2. Listen carefully to your leader while the rules are being explained, and follow directions when playing.

   3. At the end of the game, talk with the leader about what you learned when you played the game. Tell how you helped the den by playing your part.

2. Make up a game with the members of your den and play it with den members. Talk with your den about the experience.

3. Talk with your den or family about why good nutrition helps you be strong and active. Bring a nutritious snack to a den meeting.

4. Make up a new game, and play it with your family or members of your den or pack.

5. Attend a sporting event with your den or family. Talk with a coach or athlete about hwat it is like to participate in the sport.

My Tiger Jungle

1. With an adult, go for a walk outside and pick two or more sights or sounds of nature around you. Discuss with your adults or den.

2. Take a 1-foot hike. Make a list of the living things you find on your 1-foot hike.

3. Point out two different kinds of birds that live in your area

4. Be helpful to plants and animals by planting a tree or other plant in your neighborhood.

5. Build and hang a birdhouse.

Team Tiger

1. Talk about what it means to be part of a team. list some of the teams you are on and explain how you can help each one.

2. Talk about your Tiger team. Make a chart showing all the different ways team members can help the den. Volunteer to take your turn doing at least two different jobs, one of which is leading the Pledge of Allegiance.

3. Talk with your family about how family members each have a role in the family team.

4. Participate as a team in a service project that helps our country or your community.

5. Make a chart or picture showing how you and your teammates make a better team because you are alike in some ways but different in others.

Tiger Bites

1. Discuss good food choices with your den or family. Identify three good food choices and three foods that would not be good choices.

2. Explain the importance of hand-washing before a meal and cleanup after a meal.

3. Show that you know the difference between a fruit and a vegetable. Eat one of each.

4. With your adult partner, pick a job to help your family at mealtime. Do it every day for one week.

5. Talk with your adult partner about what foods you can eat with your fingers. Practice your manners when eating them.

6. With your adult partner, plan and make a good snack choice or other nutritious food to share with your den.

Tiger Circles: Duty to God

1. With your adult partner, find out what duty to God means to your family.

2. With a family member, attend a religious service or or other activity that shows how your family expresses reverence to God.

3. Earn the religious emblem of your faith that is appropriate for your age or grade.

4. Help with a local service project and talk with your den about how helping others is part of our duty to God.

5. Think of and carry out an act of kindness or respect.

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. 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.

2. Go for a short hike with your den or family and carry your own gear.

3. Do the following:

   1. Listen while your leader reads the Outdoor Code. Talk about how you can be clean in your outdoor manners.

   2. Listen while your leader reads the Leave No Trace Principles for Kids. Discuss why you should “Trash Your Trash.”

   3. 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 camp out 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.