| THE BEAR ACHIEVEMENTS (CONTINUED) 13. SAVING WELL, SPENDING WELL - Do 4 of the following. a. Go grocery shopping with a parent or other adult member of your family. Compare prices of different brands of the same item. Check the prices at different stores. Read the ads in your newspaper. b. Set up a savings account. c. Keep a record of how you spend money for 2 weeks. d. Pretend you are shopping for a car for your family. e. Discuss family finances with a parent or guardian. f. Play a board game with your family that involves the use of make-believe money. g. With an adult, figure out how much it costs for each person in your home to eat one meal. SELF (do FOUR of the following) 14. RIDE RIGHT - Do requirement a and THREE more. (Total of 4) a. Know the rules for bike safety. If your town requires a bicycle license, be sure to get one. (See handbook for rules.) b. 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. c. Keep your bike in good shape. Identify the parts of a bike that should be checked often. d. Change a tire on a bicycle. e. Protect your bike from theft. Use a bicycle lock. f. Ride a bike for 1 mile without rest, and be sure to obey all traffic rules. g. Plan and take a family bike hike. 15. GAMES, GAMES, GAMES! - Do 2 of the following. a. Set up the equipment and play any two of these outdoor games with your family or friends. Backyard Golf Kickball Badminton Softball Croquet Tetherball Sidewalk Shuffleboard Horseshoes Volleyball b. Play two organized games with your den. c. Select a game your den has never played. Explain the rules. Tell them how it is played, then play it with them. 16. BUILDING MUSCLES - Do ALL of the following. a. Do physical fitness stretching exercises. Then do sit-ups, push-ups, the standing long jump, and softball throw. b. With a friend, compete in at least six different two-person contests. (See handbook for examples.) c. Compete with your den or pack in the crab relay, gorilla relay, 30-yard dash, and kangaroo relay. 17. INFORMATION, PLEASE - Do requirement a and THREE more of the following. a. With an adult in your family, select a TV show. Watch it together. b. Play a game of charades at your Den meeting or with your family at home. c. Visit a newspaper office, or TV or radio station and talk to a news reporter. d. Use a computer to get information. Write, spell check, and print out a report on what you learned. e. Write a letter to a company that makes something you use. Use E-mail or the US Postal Service. f. Talk with one of your parents or another family member about how getting and giving facts fits into his or her job. 18. JOT IT DOWN - Do 5 of the following. a. Make a list of the things you want to do today. Check them off when you have done them. b. Write two letters to relatives or friends. c. Keep a daily record of your activities for 2 weeks. d. Write an invitation to someone. e. Write a story about something you have done with your family. f. Write a thank-you note. g. Write about the activities of your den. 19. SHAVINGS AND CHIPS - Do ALL of the following. a. Know the safety rules for handling a knife. b. Show that you know how to take care of and use a pocketknife. c. Make a carving with a pocketknife. Work with your parent or den leader in doing this. d. Earn the "Whittling Chip" card. 20. SAWDUST AND NAILS - Do ALL of the following. a. Show how to use and take care of four of these tools. (See handbook.) b. Build your own tool box. c. Use at least two tools listed in requirement 'a' to fix something. 21. BUILD A MODEL - Do 3 of the following. a. Build a model from a kit. b. Build a display for one of your models. c. Pretend you are planning to change the furniture layout in one of the rooms in your home. d. Make a model of a mountain, a meadow, a canyon, or river. e. Go see a model of a shopping center or new building that is on display somewhere. f. Make a model of anything - a rocket, boat, car, or plane. 22. TYING IT ALL UP - Do 5 of the following. a. Whip the ends of a rope. b. Tie a square know, bowline, sheet bend, two half hitches, and a slip knot. Tell how each knot is used. c. Learn how to keep a rope from tangling. d. Coil a rope. Throw it, hitting a 2-foot square marker 20 feet away. e. Learn a magic rope trick. f. Make your own rope. (Se handbook for ideas!) 23. SPORTS, SPORTS, SPORTS - Do ALL of the following. a. Learn the rules and how to play three team sports. b. Learn the rules and how to play two sports in which only one person is on each side. c. Take part in one team and one individual sport. d. Watch a sport on TV with a parent or some other member of your family. e. Attend a high school, college, or professional sporting event with your family or your den. 24. BE A LEADER - Do 3 of the following. 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. When a boy has completed twelve of these twenty-four achievements through all four parts of the Bear trail, he has earned the right to wear the Bear badge. After earning his Bear badge, a boy can begin working on his Bear electives to earn his gold and silver Arrow Points. |
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