Tigers and adult partners will take a walk to explore the outdoors. Along the way, they can learn about domesticated and wild animals.
Safety MomentPrior to any activity, use the BSA SAFE Checklist to ensure the safety of all those involved.
All participants in official BSA Scouting activities should become familiar with the Guide to Safe Scouting and applicable program literature or manuals.
Be aware of state or local government regulations that supersede BSA practices, policies, and guidelines.
To assist in the safe delivery of the program you may find specific safety items that are related to requirements for the Adventure.
Before conducting a craft activity, review the Craft Tips video (2 minutes 34 seconds.)
Before starting this Adventure complete the following:
If there is someone in the den, youth, or adults, who carries an EpiPen due to severe allergies make sure that at least one other adult knows how to administer the EpiPen. To learn more, review this Safety Moment on anaphylaxis. During the Adventure:
Identify the Cub Scout Six Essentials. Show what you do with each item.
With your den leader or Tiger adult partner, learn about the Outdoor Code.
With your den, pack, or family, take a walk outside spending for at least 20 minutes exploring the outdoors with your Cub Scout Six Essentials. While outside, identify things that you see with your Tiger adult partner that are natural and things that are manmade.
Identify common animals that are found where you live. Learn which of those animals is domesticated and which animal is wild. Draw a picture of your favorite animal.
Look for a tree where you live. Describe how this tree is helpful.
Identify the Cub Scout Six Essentials. Show what you do with each item.
Relay race for Cub Scouts to identify the Cub Scout Six Essentials.
Cub Scouts pick out the Cub Scout six essentials from mix of outdoor equipment.
Flash card activity to introduce Cub Scouts to the Outdoor Code.
With your den leader or Tiger adult partner, learn about the Outdoor Code.
Cub Scouts use their Tiger handbook to create an Outdoor Code puzzle.
The four C’s is a method of introducing the Outdoor Code.
With your den, pack, or family, take a walk outside spending for at least 20 minutes exploring the outdoors with your Cub Scout Six Essentials. While outside, identify things that you see with your Tiger adult partner that are natural and things that are manmade.
Adult partners give a clue to something they see outside as Cub Scouts guess what it is and if it is natural or manmade.
A game of I Spy that includes objects that are natural or manmade.
Cub Scouts and adult partners work together to identify as many things they can that are natural and manmade.
Identify common animals that are found where you live. Learn which of those animals is domesticated and which animal is wild. Draw a picture of your favorite animal.
Cub Scouts draw their favorite domesticated and wild animal.
Using stuffed animals Cub Scouts identify if the animal is wild or domesticated.
Look for a tree where you live. Describe how this tree is helpful.
Make a leaf and bark rubbing of a tree.
Make a pinecone bird feeder and place it in a tree.
Director, Global Security Innovative
Strategies
Bray Barnes is a recipient of the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award, Silver
Beaver, Silver Antelope, Silver Buffalo, and Learning for Life Distinguished
Service Award. He received the Messengers of Peace Hero award from
the royal family of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and he’s a life member of
the 101st Airborne Association and Vietnam Veterans Association. Barnes
serves as a senior fellow for the Global Federation of Competitiveness
Councils, a nonpartisan network of corporate CEOs, university presidents, and
national laboratory directors. He has also served as a senior executive for the
U.S. Department of Homeland Security, leading the first-responder program
and has two U.S. presidential appointments
Managing Member Calje
David Alexander is a Baden-Powell Fellow, Summit Bechtel Reserve philanthropist, and recipient of the Silver Buffalo and Distinguished Eagle Scout Award. He is the founder of Caljet, one of the largest independent motor fuels terminals in the U.S. He has served the Arizona Petroleum Marketers Association, Teen Lifeline, and American Heart Association. A triathlete who has completed hundreds of races, Alexander has also mentored the women’s triathlon team at Arizona State University.
President, CEO & Managing Director
Stonetex Oil Corp.
Glenn Adams is a recipient of the Silver Beaver, Silver Antelope, Silver Buffalo, and Distinguished Eagle Scout Award. He is the former president of the National Eagle Scout Association and established the Glenn A. and Melinda W. Adams National Eagle Scout Service Project of the Year Award. He has more than 40 years of experience in the oil, gas, and energy fields, including serving as a president, owner, and CEO. Adams has also received multiple service awards from the Texas Alliance of Energy Producers.
