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Achievements and Electives
A look at the Tiger Year

The Tiger Cub Scout Year is based on Search, Discover, Share. With that motto, our Tiger Cubs will be taking their first steps into Scouting and a Larger world.
Step 1: The Tiger Totem
After earning the Bobcat Badge, you will be working on earning their Tiger Totem. There are three requirements for this:
  • Learn the Tiger Cub Motto:
    Search, Discover, Share
  • Learn the Cub Scout Sign
  • Learn the Cub Scout Salute
The last two of those requirements are also part of the Bobcat Badge, so this will be an easy one. Your Tiger Totem is worn on the button of your uniform's right shirt pocket. The beads that are attached are added when you complete the Achievements (to the right).
  • You earn a WHITE bead for each required FAMILY Activity.
  • You earn an ORANGE bead for each required DEN Activity.
  • You earn a BLACK bead for each required GO SEE IT Activity.
The YELLOW disks are earned AFTER your earn the Tiger Badge. You earn one yellow disk for each 10 of the 50 Electives you do (see below). You can earn and keep track of all of the electives you do, but the disks won't be awarded until you earn your Tiger Badge.
Step 2: Achievements
The Tiger Achievements are the areas where we'll be working as a den and as families on specific items that will earn our Tiger Rank Badge. These will be done over the course of the year with our Den Meetings, our "Go See It!" activities, and through work at home with your family.

The Tiger Book is broken into five Achievement Areas. We won't be going through the book in order, but we will complete all of the items. Unless the requirement states "with your den", it is NOT required that you do them together as a Den. But it IS required that you have done the activity in the Tiger Scout year.

For example, you may have visited a Fire Station in Kindergarten, but you need to visit a Fire Station in your Tiger Year. If you can't make the scheduled time that we'll be meeting as a Den to visit the Fire Station, you can go with your family.
Achievement Areas “F” - Family “D” - Den “G” - Go See It!
1: Making My Family Special Pick a chore and do it Make a family scrapbook Go to a historical society, living museum...
2: Where I Live Study a Map of your Town Practice the Pledge of Allegiance Visit a police station or a fire station
3: Keeping Myself Healthy and Safe Practice a Fire Drill, plan what to do if you became lost or separated Make a Food Guide Pyramid Learn rules of a sport, then go watch it
4: How I Tell It At a family dinner have everyone tell about their day Play “Tell It Like It Isn't” Visit a TV or Radio station, or newspaper
5: Let's Go Outdoors Watch the Weather Make a leaf rubbing Take a hike


Tiger Electives
There are 50 possible Electives. You can do these any time during your Tiger year and keep track of them. After you earn your Tiger Badge by completing the Achievements, you'll earn one yellow disk for each 10 electives you complete.
  1. Think of a time when your family celebrated something, and tell the den about it and how it made your feel.
  2. Make a decoration with your family or your den. Display it or give it to someone as a gift.
  3. With your family, play a card or board game, or put a jigsaw puzzle together.
  4. Make a frame for a family picture.
  5. Make a family mobile.
  6. Along with your adult partner, teach a song to your family or to your den and sing it together.
  7. Make a musical instrument and play it with others. The others can sing or have instruments of their own.
  8. Invite a religious leader from your place of worship to your home or to your den meeting.
  9. Help a new boy or girl get to know other people.
  10. Along with your adult partner, help an elderly or shut-in person with a chore.
  11. Help collect food, clothing or toys for needy families with your den or pack.
  12. Make at least two cards or decorations and take them to a hospital or long-term care facility.
  13. Using US pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters, choose the correct coins to make the following amounts.
  14. Together with your adult partner, read a short story or a magazine article.
  15. Mix the primary colors to make orange, green and purple.
  16. With your den, show or tell about something you like to collect, OR tell your den about a favorite hobby or activity.
  17. Make a model.
  18. Sew a button onto fabric.
  19. Learn a magic trick and show it to your family or den.
  20. With your den, make up a PSA (Public Service Announcement) kit to tell people about Tiger Cubs.
  21. Make a puppet.
  22. With your family or with your den, have a picnic -- indoors or outdoors.
  23. Find out what kind of milk your family drinks and why.
  24. Help the adult who is preparing the family meal to set the table and clean up afterwards.
  25. Make a snack and share it with your family or den.
  26. With a toy phone, or a disconnected phone, practice making phone calls and answering the telephone.
  1. Talk to your adult partner about what to do if these things happened:
    1. The adult who is caring for you becomes ill.
    2. You are alone with someone who makes you feel uncomfortable.
  2. With your adult partner, check the batteries in the smoke detector in your home or another building.
  3. Talk with your adult partner about when you should use sunscreen. Find out whether you have any in your home and where it is kept. With your adult partner, look at a container of sunscreen and find out whether it still protects you when you are wet. Also find out how long you are protected before you have to put on more. Look for the expiration date and make sure the sunscreen is not too old.
  4. Plant a seed, pit, or greens from something you have eaten.
  5. Learn about an animal.
  6. Make a bird feeder and then hang it outdoors.
  7. With your den or family, play Cleanup Treasure Hunt.
  8. With your adult partner, think of a way to conserve water or electricity and do it for one week.
  9. Play a game outdoors with your family or den.
  10. With your family or your den, go see a play or musical performance in your community.
  11. Take a bike ride with your adult partner.
  12. Visit a bike repair shop.
  13. Visit the place where your adult partner or another adult works.
  14. Together with an adult partner, go swimming or take part in an activity on water.
  15. Visit a train station, bus station, airport or boat dock.
  16. Visit a zoo or aquarium.
  17. Visit a veterinarian or animal groomer.
  18. Visit a dairy, a milk-processing plant, or a cheese factory.
  19. Visit a bakery.
  20. Visit a dentist or dental hygienist.
  21. Learn about what you can recycle in your community and how you can recycle at home. Learn about things that need to be recycled in special ways, such as paint and batteries.
  22. Take a ride on public transportation, such as a bus or train.
  23. Visit a government office such as the mayor's office, the state capitol building, or a courthouse.
  24. Visit a bank.

Other Things We'll Work On
There's a whole bunch of fun activities we'll work on together, beyond just the Achievements and Electives. Together either as a den or a pack, we'll work on...
Tiger Partners' Corner

  • As a parent or guardian, you are a Tiger Cub Partner. Since the Boy Scouts of America is a family program, you will be working with your Tiger Cub to complete some of the achievements at home.
  • Bring your scout's Tiger Book to EVERY meeting!
  • If you have any questions regarding uniforms, or any problems finding how and where to get stuff, call the Markwells (439-3538) or e-mail us at Kelly.Markwell@gmail.com

What's a Denner?
Your Den may use a Denner, a position where a scout has some added responsibility for the month.

When you are the Denner, you will have a special yellow cord to wear on your shoulder. These cords can be worn at ALL scouting functions when the scout is in full dress uniform. As a Denner, you could have some special duties:
  • The Denner could gather the books for Den Leader to review and record the information.
  • The Denner could also be the person that starts the Pledge of Allegiance for the meeting (all they have to say is "I Pledge...").
  • Depending on your den, the Denner's family could also be providing the snacks and/or drinks for the evening.









Updated: Sep 28 2007