WEBELOS REQUIREMENTS

  1. Have an adult member of your family read the Webelos Scout Parent Guide that comes with this book (Webelos Handbook, Pages 1-22) and sign here.
  2. Be an active member of your Webelos den for 3 months (Active means having good attendance, paying den dues, working on den projects).
  3. Know and explain the meaning of the Webelos badge.
  4. Point out the three special parts of the Webelos Scout uniform. Tell when to wear the uniform and when not to wear it.
  5. Earn the Fitness and Citizen activity badges and one other activity badge from a different activity badge group.
  6. Plan and lead a flag ceremony in your den that includes the U.S. flag.
  7. Show that you know and understand the requirements to be a Boy Scout.
    1. Demonstrate the Scout salute, Scout sign, and Scout handshake. Explain when you would use them.
    2. Explain the Scout Oath, Scout Law, Scout motto, and Scout slogan
    3. Explain and agree to follow the Outdoor Code.
  8. Faith
    After completing the rest of requirement 8,     do these (a, b, and c):
    1. Know: Tell what you have learned about faith.
    2. Commit: Tell how these faith experiences help you live your duty to God. Name one faith practice that you will continue to do in the future.
    3. Practice: After doing these requirements, tell what you have learned about your beliefs.

And do one of these (d OR e):

    1. Earn the religious emblem of your faith*
    2. Do two of these:
      • Attend the mosque, church, synagogue, temple, or other religious organization of your choice, talk with your religious leader about your beliefs. Tell your family and your Webelos den leader what you learned.
      • Discuss with your family and Webelos den leader how your religious beliefs fit in with the Scout Oath and Scout Law, and what character-building traits your religious beliefs have in common with the Scout Oath and Scout Law.
      • With your religious leader, discuss and make a plan to do two things you think will help you draw nearer to God. Do these things for a month.
      • For at least a month, pray or meditate reverently each day as taught by your family, and by your church, temple, mosque, synagogue, or religious group.
      • Under the direction of your religious leader, do an act of service for someone else. Talk about your service with your family and Webelos den leader. Tell them how it made you feel.
      • List at least two ways you believe you have lived according to your religious beliefs.

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AQUANAUT

Do these:

  1. Jump into water over your head. Come to the surface and swim 100 feet, at least half of this using a backstroke.
  2. Stay in the water after the swim and float on your back and your front, and demonstrate survival floating.
  3. Put on a personal floatation device (PFD) that is the right size for you. Make sure it is properly fastened. Wearing the PFD, jump into water over your head. Show how the PFD keeps your head above water by swimming 25 feet. Get out of the water, remove the PFD, and hang it where it will dry.

And do three of these:

  1. Do a front surface dive and swim under water for four strokes before returning to the surface.
  2. Explain the four basic water rescue methods. Demonstrate reaching and throwing rescues.
  3. With an adult on board, show that you know how to handle a rowboat.
  4. Pass the BSA "Swimmer" test:
    • Swim 75 yards in a strong manner using one or more of the following strokes: sidestroke, breaststroke, trudgen, or crawl.
    • After completing the swim, rest by floating.
      The 100 yards must be completed in one swin without stops and must include at least one sharp turn
  1. While you are a Webelos Scout, earn the Cub Scout Sports belt loop for swimming.

IMPORTANT NOTE! Regarding requirement 8. You must also earn the swimming belt loop while you are a Webelos Scout. If you have earned it earlier in Cub Scouts, you must earn it again. (see Webelos Handbook, page 85.)

REQUIREMENTS FOR THE SWIMMING SPORTS BELT LOOP

Complete these three requirements:

  1. Explain the rules of Safe Swim Defense. Emphasize the buddy system.
  2. Play a recreational game in the water with your den, pack, or family.
  3. While holding a kick board, propel yourself 25 feet using a flutter kick across the shallow end of the swimming area.

REQUIREMENTS FOR THE SWIMMING SPORTS PIN

Earn the Swimming belt loop, and complete five of the following requirements:

  1. Practice the breathing motion of the crawl stroke while standing in shallow water. Take a breath, place your head in the water, exhale, and turn your head to the side to take a breath. Repeat.
  2. Learn two of the following strokes: crawl, backstroke, elementary backstroke, sidestroke, or breaststroke.
  3. Learn two of the following floating skills: jellyfish float, turtle float, canoe (prone) float.
  4. Using a kickboard, demonstrate three kinds of kicks.
  5. Pass the "beginner" or "swimmer" swim level test.
  6. Visit with a lifeguard and talk about swimming safety in various situations (pool, lake, river, ocean). Learn about the training a lifeguard needs for his or her job.
  7. Explain the four rescue techniques: Reach, Throw, Row, and Go (with support).
  8. Take swimming lessons.
  9. Attend a swim meet at a school or community pool.
  10. Tread water for 30 seconds.
  11. .Learn about a U.S. swimmer who has earned a medal in the Olympics.
  12. Demonstrate the proper use of a mask and snorkel in a swimming area where your feet can touch the bottom.

ATHLETE

Do these:

  1. With your parent, guardian, or Webelos den leader, complete the Perseverance Character Connection.
    1. Know: Review the requirements and decide which ones might be more difficult for you to do. Make a plan to complete one of the harder requirements.
    2. Commit: When doing the harder requirement, did you ever feel frustrated or angry? What did perseverance have to do with that? Name another type of task for which you will need to persevere.
    3. Practice: Practice perseverance by following your plan to do that requirement for the Athlete activity badge.
  1. Explain what it means to be physically and mentally healthy.
  2. Explain what you as a Webelos Scout can do to stay physically and mentally healthy.
  3. Every time you work on requirement 5 below, start with at least 5 minutes of stretching warm-up activities.
  4. Do as many as you can of the following and record your results. Show improvement in all of the activities after 30 days.
    1. Have another person hold your feet down while you do as many curl-ups as you can.
    2. Do as many pull-ups from a bar as you can.
    3. Do as many push-ups from the ground or floor as you can.
    4. Do a standing long jump as far as you can.
    5. Do a quarter-mile run or walk.

And do two of these:

  1. Do a vertical jump and improve your reach in 30 days.
  2. Do a 50 yard dash as fast as you can, and show a decrease in time over a 30 day period.
  3. Ride a bike 1 mile as fast as you can, and show a decrease in time over a 30 day period.
  4. Swim a quarter mile in a pool or lake as fast as you can, show a decrease in time over a 30 day period.

IMPORTANT NOTE! In addition to the above requirements, you must also earn the Physical Fitness Sports Pin while you are a Webelos Scout. If you have earned it earlier in Cub Scouts, you must earn it again. (see Webelos Handbook, page 126.)

REQUIREMENTS FOR THE PHYSICAL FITNESS SPORTS BELT LOOP

Complete these three requirements:

  1. Give a short report to your den or family on the dangers of drugs and alcohol.
  2. Practice finding your pulse and counting your heartbeats per minute. Determine your target heart rate.
  3. Practice five physical fitness skills regularly. Improve performance in each skill over a month. Skills could include pull-ups, curl-ups, the standing long jump, the 50-yard dash, and the softball throw

REQUIREMENTS FOR THE PHYSICAL FITNESS SPORTS PIN

Earn the Physical Fitness belt loop, and complete five of the following requirements:

  1. Make a diagram of the Food Guide Pyramid. List foods you ate in a week and show where they fit in the pyramid.
  2. Choose a form of exercise, bring your heart rate up to target, and keep it there for 15 minutes. Don't forget to warm up and cool down.
  3. Set up a four-step exercise program. Chart progress for five days a week for two weeks.
  4. Explain the reason for warming up & cooling down before & after each exercise session.
  5. Visit a local gym and talk to a trainer about exercises and programs for young people.
  6. Participate in some aerobic exercises at least three times a week for four weeks.
  7. Build an obstacle course that could include some exercises with jumping, crawling, and hurdles. Time yourself three times to see whether you can improve your time.
  8. Swim for a total of an hour, charting your time as you go.
  9. Participate for at least three months in an organized team sport or organized athletic activity.

SPORTSMAN

Do these:

  1. Show the signals used by officials in one of these sports: football, basketball, baseball, soccer, or hockey.
  2. Explain what good sportsmanship means.
  3. While you are a Webelos Scout, earn Cub Scouting Sports belt loops for two individual sports (badminton, bicycling, bowling, fishing, golf, gymnastics, marbles, physical fitness, ice skating, roller skating, snow ski and board sports, swimming, table tennis, or tennis).
  4. While you are a Webelos Scout, earn Cub Scouting Sports belt loops for two team sports (baseball, basketball, soccer, softball, volleyball, flag football, or ultimate).

 

REQUIREMENTS FOR THE BICYCLING SPORTS BELT LOOP

Complete these three requirements:

  1. Explain the rules of safe bicycling to your den leader or adult partner.
  2. Demonstrate how to wear the proper safety equipment for bicycling.
  3. Show how to ride a bike safely. Ride for at least half an hour with an adult partner, family, or den

REQUIREMENTS FOR THE GOLF SPORTS BELT LOOP

Complete these three requirements:

  1. Explain the rules of golf to your leader or adult partner. Explain the need for caution concerning golf clubs and golf balls.
  2. Spend at least 30 minutes practicing golfing skills.
  3. Participate in a round of golf (nine holes).

REQUIREMENTS FOR THE ICE SKATING SPORTS BELT LOOP

Complete these three requirements:

  1. Explain ways to protect yourself while ice skating, and the need for proper safety equipment.
  2. Spend at least 30 minutes practicing the skills of skating.
  3. Go ice skating with a family member or den for at least three hours. Chart your time.

 

REQUIREMENTS FOR THE BADMINTON SPORTS BELT LOOP

Complete these three requirements:

  1. Explain the rules of badminton to your leader or adult partner.
  2. Spend at least 30 minutes practicing badminton skills.
  3. Participate in a badminton game.

 

 

REQUIREMENTS FOR THE BASEBALL SPORTS BELT LOOP

Complete these three requirements:

  1. Explain the rules of baseball to your leader or adult partaer.
  2. Spend at least 30 minutes practicing baseball skills.
  3. Participate in a baseball game.

REQUIREMENTS FOR THE BASKETBALL SPORTS BELT LOOP

Complete these three requirements:

  1. Explain the rules of basketball to your leader or adult partner.
  2. Spend at least 30 minutes practicing basketball skills.
  3. Participate in a basketball game.

 

 

 

FITNESS (Required for Webelos Badge)

Do this:

  1. With your parent, guardian, or Webelos den leader, complete the Health and Fitness Character Connection.
    1. Know: Tell why it is important to be healthy, clean, and fit.
    2. Commit: Tell when it is difficult for you to stick with good health habits. Tell where you can go to be with others who encourage you to be healthy, clean, and fit.
    3. Practice: Practice good health habits while doing the requirements for this activity badge.

And do six of these:

  1. With a parent or other adult family member complete a safety notebook, which is discussed in the booklet "How to Protect Your Children from Child Abuse " that comes with this book.
  2. Read the meal planning information in this chapter. With a parent or other family member, plan a week of meals. Explain what kinds of meals are best for you and why.
  3. Keep a record of your daily meals and snacks for a week. Decide whether you have been eating foods that are good for you.
  4. Tell an adult member of your family about the bad effects smoking or chewing tobacco would have on your body.
  5. Tell an adult member of your family four reasons why you should not use alcohol and how it could affect you.
  6. Tell an adult member of your family what drugs could do to your body and how they would affect your ability to think clearly.
  7. Read the booklet Take A Stand Against Drugs! Discuss it with an adult and show that you understand the material.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CITIZEN (Required for Webelos Badge)

Do this

  1. With your parent, guardian, or Webelos den leader, complete the Citizenship Character Connection.
    1. Know: List some of your rights as a citizen of the United States of America. Tell ways you can show respect for the rights of others.
    2. Commit: Name some ways a boy your age can be a good citizen. Tell how you plan to be a good citizen and how you plan to influence others to be good citizens.
    3. Practice: Choose one of the requirements for this activity badge that helps you be a good citizen. Complete the requirement and tell why completing it helped you be a good citizen.

Do All of these:

  1. Know the names of the President and Vice-President of the United States, elected Governor of your state and the head of your local government.
  2. Describe the flag of the United States and give a short history of it. With another Webelos Scout helping you, show how to hoist and lower the flag, how to hang it horizontally and vertically on a wall, and how to fold it. Tell how to retire a worn or tattered flag properly.
  3. Explain why you should respect your country's flag. Tell some of the special days we fly it. Tell when to salute the flag and show how to do it.
  4. Repeat the Pledge of Allegiance from memory. Explain its meaning in your own words.
  5. Tell how our National Anthem was written.
  6. Explain the rights and duties of a citizen of the United States. Explain what a citizen should do to save our natural resources.
  7. As a Webelos Scout, earn the Cub Scout Academics belt loop for Citizenship. At a Webelos den meeting, talk about the service project Good Turn that you did.

And do two of these:

  1. Tell about two things you can do that will help law enforcement agencies.
  2. With your Webelos den or your family, visit a community leader. Learn about the duties of the job or office and tell what you have learned.
  3. Write a short story of not less than 50 words about a former U.S. president or some other great American. Give a report on this to your Webelos den.
  4. Tell about another boy you think is a good citizen. Tell what he does that makes you think he is a good citizen.
  5. List the names of three people you think are good citizens. (They can be from any country.) Tell why you chose each of them.
  6. Tell why we have laws. Tell why you think it is important to obey the law. Tell about three laws you obeyed this week.
  7. Tell why we have government. Explain some ways your family helps pay for government.
  8. List four ways in which your country helps or works with other nations.
  9. Name three organizations, not churches or other religious organizations, in your area that help people. Tell something about what one of these organizations does.

REQUIREMENTS FOR THE CITIZENSHIP ACADEMICS BELT LOOP

Complete these three requirements:

  1. Develop a list of jobs you can do around the home. Chart your progress for one week.
  2. Make a poster showing things that you can do to be a good citizen.
  3. Participate in a family, den, or school service project.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

COMMUNICATOR

Do seven of these

  1. Play the Body Language Game with your den.
  2. Prepare and give a three-minute talk to your den on a subject of your choice.
  3. Invent a sign language or a picture writing language and use it to tell someone a story.
  4. Identify and discuss with your den as many different methods of communication as you can (at least six different methods).
  5. Invent your own den secret code and send one of your den members a secret message.
  6. With your den or your family, visit a library and talk to a librarian. Learn how books are catalogued to make them easy to find. Sign up for a library card , if you don't already have one.
  7. Visit the newsroom of a newspaper or a radio or television station and find out how they receive information.
  8. Write an article about a den activity for your pack newsletter or web site, your local newspaper, or your school newsletter, newspaper, or Web site.
  9. Invite a person with a visual, speaking, or hearing impairment to visit your den. Ask about the special ways he or she communicates. Discover how well you can communicate with him or her.
  10. With your parent or guardian, or your Webelos den leader, invite a person who speaks another language (such as Spanish, French, Arabic, Hebrew, etc.) as well as English to visit your den. Ask questions about the other language (its background, where it is spoken, etc.), discuss words in that language that den members are already familiar with, or ask about ways to learn another language.
  11. Use a personal computer to write a letter to a friend or relative. Create your letter, check it for grammar and spelling, and save it to a disk. Print it.
  12. search the Internet and connect to five Web sites that interest you.
  13. Under the supervision of a parent or other trusted adult, exchange e-mail with a friend or relative.
  14. While you are a Webelos Scout, earn the Academics belt loop for Computers.
  15. While you are a Webelos Scout, earn the Academics belt loop for Communicating.
  16. Find out about jobs in communications. Tell your den what you learn.

 

REQUIREMENTS FOR THE COMPUTERS ACADEMICS BELT LOOP

Complete these three requirements:

  1. Explain the parts of a personal computer: central processing unit (CPU), monitor, keyboard, mouse, modem, and printer.
  2. Demonstrate how to start up and shut down a personal computer properly.
  3. Use your computer to prepare and print a document.

 

 

REQUIREMENTS FOR THE COMMUNICATING ACADEMICS BELT LOOP

Complete these three requirements:

  1. Tell a story or relate an incident to a group of people, such as your family, den, or members of your class.
  2. Write a letter to a friend or relative.
  3. Make a poster about something that interests you. Explain the poster to your den.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

FAMILY MEMBER

Do all of these:

  1. Tell what is meant by family, duty to family, and family meetings.
  2. Make a chart showing the jobs you and other family members have at home. Talk with your family about other jobs you can do for the next two months.
  3. Make a list of some things for which your family spends money. Tell how you can help your family save money.
  4. Plan your own budget for 30 days. Keep track of your daily expenses for seven days.
  5. Take part in at least four family meetings and help make decisions. The meetings might involve plans for family activities, or they might be about serious topics that your parent wants you to know about.
  6. With the help of an adult inspect your home and surroundings. Make a list of hazards or lack of security that you find. Correct one problem that you found and tell what you did.

And do two of these:

  1. With the help of an adult prepare a family energy-saving plan. Explain what you did to carry it out.
  2. Tell what your family does for fun. Make a list of fun things your family might do for little or no cost. Plan a family fun night.
  3. Learn how to clean your home properly. With adult supervision, help do it for one month.
  4. Show that you know how to take care of your clothes. With adult supervision, help at least twice with the family laundry.
  5. With adult supervision, help plan the meals for your family for one week. Help buy the food and help prepare three meals for your family.
  6. While you are a Webelos Scout, earn the Academics belt loop for Heritages.
  7. Explain why garbage and trash must be disposed of properly

 

REQUIREMENTS FOR THE HERITAGES ACADEMICS BELT LOOP

Complete these three requirements:

  1. Talk with members of your family about your family heritage: its history, traditions, and culture.
  2. Make a poster that shows the origins of your ancestors. Share it with your den or other group.
  3. Draw a family tree showing members of your family for three generations.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

READYMAN (Required for Arrow of Light)

Do all of these:

  1. With your parent, guardian, or Webelos den leader, complete the Courage Character Connection.
    1. Know: Define the importance of each courage step: Be strong; Be calm; Be clear; Be careful. Explain how memorizing the courage steps helps you to be ready.
    2. Commit: Explain why it is hard to follow the courage steps in an emergency. Tell when you can use the courage steps in other situations (such as standing up to a bully, avoiding fights, being fair, not stealing or cheating when tempted, etc.)
    3. Practice: Act out one of the requirements using these courage steps: Be strong; Be calm; Be clear; Be careful.
  1. Explain what first aid is. Tell what you should do after an accident.
  2. Explain how you can get help quickly if there is an emergency in your home. Make a "help list" of people or agencies that can help you if you need it. Post it near a phone or another place with easy access.
  3. Demonstrate the Heimlich maneuver and tell when it is used.
  4. Show what to do for these "hurry cases":
    1. Serious bleeding
    2. Stopped breathing
    3. Internal poisoning
    4. Heart attack
  1. Show how to treat shock.
  2. Show first aid for the following:
    1. Cuts and scratches
    2. Burns and scalds
    3. Choking
    4. Blisters on the hand and foot
    5. Tick bites