Cub Badge Testing Form

How to Earn a Badge

Hey Cubs ... (and parents). We are introducing a new Cub Badge Testing Form.

When a Cub has completed the requirements for a badge, they need to:

• fill in the requirements completed in their Cub Handbook
• fill in the Cub Badge testing Form
• bring their Cub handbook and Cub Badge testing Form to the next regular meeting and hand them into their Sixer during inspection

Each Sixer will hand in Cub Handbooks and Forms to the leaders table. One of the leaders will review the badge work with the Cub sometime throughout the evening ... and if all is well, a badge will be presented at the end of the night.

Cub Badges and Awards

Cub Badges and Awards are sorted into categories according to the Cub Stars:

Black Star Activities - The Natural World

Baden Powell always said that one of the most interesting things you can do is explore the world. You don't even have to travel to a far country. Baden Powell taught us that the best and easiest way to explore is to keep our eyes and ears open and notice what's going on around us. If you are interested in learning about nature, here's a good place to start. Black Star Activities will introduce you to the natural world and how it works.

Green Star Activities - The Outdoors

The Green Star provides a variety of basic and simple introductory activities for children who have only limited experience with outdoor pursuits like camping, hiking and canoeing. Safety, and being prepared, from two key elements when building Cub self-confidence in outdoor activities. The Green Star deals with first aid kits, how to avoid getting lost, how to dress for the outdoors and other skills.

Blue Star Activities - Home and Community

To create in a Cub a positive feeling of family and community responsibility, as well as personeal self-reliance through opportunities to develop home care skills and knowledge about various community services. The Home and Community Activity Area has three goals:

• To provide support to the Cub's family by teaching skills related to home care, safety and maintenance.
• To explore and appreciate the challenges facing disabled people in the community.
• To explore what services are needed to support a community, and how a person would gain access to these services if required.

Tawney Star Activities - Creative Expression

To get Cubs to creatively explore and express themselves through activities which use imagination and innovation. The Creative Expression Activity Area has four goals:

• To develop a creative outlet for youth interests through the use of music, arts and crafts in the Cub program.
• To enhance youth awareness how they can use modern technology for creative expression.
• To stimulate and foster Cub literacy through activities which promote or require reading skills.
• To provide opportunities for Cubs to pursue a project from start to finish, thereby producing a sense of accomplishment.

Red Star Activities - Health and Fitness

To encourage Cubs to lead active and healthy lives, and to have a positive image of themselves. The Health and Fitness Activity Area has five goals:

• To encourage Cubs to have healthy lifestyle attitudes through developing active living habits.
• To promote the positive benefits of being involved in physical activities.
• To educate Cubs about health risks associated with tobacco products have on the environment.
• To educate Cubs about health risks associated with drug and alcohol abuse.
• To encourage good hygiene habits for maintaining personal health and promoting self-reliance.

Purple Star Activities - Canada and the World

To provide opportunities for Cubs to understand better how to actively participate in Canadian society and the world we live in. The Canada and the World Activity area stresses four goals:

• To learn about and appreciate Canadian society through active participation in community service projects.
• To discover and learn about their own faith and various world religions.
• To participate in programs which highlight people and their cultures.
• To demonstrate the interrelationships Canadians have with people from other countries.

Cub Specialty Badges

To provide opportunities for Cubs as individuals, or as a group to undertake initiatives of their own recognizance and develop a program of their own design and obligations.