Cub Scouting is all about adventure!  To earn their rank badge, Cub Scouts complete seven “adventures,” which are collections of themed, multidisciplinary activities.  They also complete safety exercises.  Below, you’ll find the exact requirements.

For your convenience, this page also has the activities to be completed for each adventure. Look for them further down the page.

Wolf Rank Requirements

1. Complete each of the following Wolf required adventures with your den or family:

• Bobcat
• Paws on the Path
• Running With the Pack
• Council Fire
• Safety in Numbers
• Footsteps

2. Complete one Wolf elective adventure of your den or family’s choosing.

3. With your parent or adult partner, complete the exercises in the pamphlet How to Protect Your Children From Child Abuse: A Parent’s Guide, and watch the Protect Yourself Rules video for your grade.

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Below, you'll find the activities for the adventure and a link to a page with the articles I've written to help you and your Cub Scout complete them.

Wolf Required Adventures

Your Cub Scout must complete all six of these adventures to earn his or her Wolf badge.

Wolf Adventure: Bobcat

1. Get to know the members of your den.
2. Recite the Scout Oath and the Scout Law with your den and den leader.
3. Learn about the Scout Law.
4. With your den, create a den code of conduct.
5. Demonstrate the Cub Scout sign, Cub Scout salute, and Cub Scout handshake. Show how each is used.
6. Share with your den, or family, a time when you demonstrated the Cub Scout motto “Do Your Best.”

At home, with your parent or legal guardian, do the activities in the booklet “How to Protect Your Children From Child Abuse: A Parent’s Guide.”

Wolf Adventure: Paws on the Path

Paws on the Path activity recommendations

1. Identify the Cub Scout Six Essentials. Show what you do with each item.
2. Learn about the buddy system and how it works in the outdoors. Pick a buddy for your walk.
3. Identify appropriate clothes and shoes for your walk outside. Do your best to wear them on your walk.
4. Learn about the Outdoor Code and Leave No Trace Principles for Kids.
5. With your den, pack, or family, take a walk outside for at least 30 minutes to explore nature in your surroundings. Describe four different animals, domestic or wild, that you could see on your walk.

Wolf Adventure: Running With the Pack

Running with the Pack fun activities

Complete the following Requirements.

1.  Play catch with someone in your den or family who is standing 5 steps away from you. Play until you can throw and catch successfully at this distance. Take a step back and see if you can improve your throwing and catching skills.
2. Practice balancing as you walk forward, backward, and sideways.
3. Practice flexibility and balance by doing a front roll, a back roll, and a frog stand.
4. Play a sport or game with your den or family, and show good sportsmanship.
5. Do at least two of the following: frog leap, inchworm walk, kangaroo hop, or crab walk.
6. Demonstrate what it means to eat a balanced diet by helping to plan a healthy menu for a meal for your den or family. Make a shopping list of the food used to prepare the meal.

Wolf Adventure: Council Fire (Duty to Country)

Council Fire adventure suggestions

1. Learn how to properly care for and fold the United States flag. With your den or pack, participate in a flag ceremony.
2. Identify three points of the Scout Law that are important to being a good neighbor.
3. Build a model of your home.
4. Using the same materials from requirement 3, create a model of a building that you visit.
5. Using the models built in requirements 3 and 4, create a neighborhood.
6. Participate in a service project. Explain how your volunteering is helpful to your neighborhood. 

Wolf Adventure: Safety in Numbers

1. With permission from your parent or legal guardian, watch the “Protect Yourself Rules” video for the Wolf rank.
2. Discuss “safe touch” as seen in the “Protect Yourself Rules” video. 
3. Learn about the buddy system and demonstrate how it works.
4. Review common safety rules and demonstrate the proper use of playground equipment.

Wolf Adventure: Duty to God Footsteps

1. With your parent or legal guardian, talk about your family's faith traditions. Identify three holidays or celebrations that are part of your family’s faith traditions. Make a craft or work of art of your favorite family faith tradition, holiday, or celebration.
2. With your family, attend a religious service or other gathering that shows how your family expresses reverence.
3. Carry out an act of kindness.
4. Listen to or read Aesop’s fable “The Boy Who Cried Wolf.” With your den or family, discuss why being truthful is important.

Wolf Elective Adventures

Your Wolf must complete ONE of these adventures to earn his Wolf rank badge.  But you aren't limited to just one–your family or your den may choose to do as many of these as you would like.

Wolf Elective Adventure: A Wolf Goes Fishing

1. Identify the type of water you will be fishing in and what type of fish live in the water.
2. Learn about the different types of bait used to attract fish. 
3. Demonstrate a proper cast for the pole or rod you are using.
4. Learn the rules of fishing safely. 
5. With your den, pack, or family, go fishing.

Wolf Elective Adventure: Adventures in Coins

Fun ideas for Adventures in Coins

1. Identify different parts of a coin.
2. Find the mint mark on a coin and identify the mint facility where it was made and the year it was made.
3. Play a coin game.
4. Choose a coin that interests you and make a coin rubbing. List information next to the coin detailing the pictures on it, the year it was made, and the mint where it was made.

Wolf Elective Adventure: Air of the Wolf

Air of the Wolf suggestions

1. Make a paper airplane and fly it five times. Record the flight distance and time.
2. Make a paper airplane of a different design and fly it five times. Record the flight distance and time.
3. Compare and contrast the two paper airplanes by distance and flight times.
4. Build a flying machine that is not a paper airplane.

Wolf Elective Adventure: Code of the Wolf

Ideas for the Code of the Wolf adventure

1. Create a secret code. Send a message to a member of your den or family. Have that person send a message back to you using the same secret code.
2. Build and play a game that requires the use of codes or patterns.
3. Select a single shape. Observe the environment around you. Write down where you see that shape and how it is being used.
4. Using a package that contains a number of different colored items, discover the most common color.

Wolf Elective Adventure: Champions of Nature Conservation

1. Discover the difference between renewable natural resources and nonrenewable natural resources. 
2. Learn about the three R’s: reduce, reuse, recycle.
3. Discover what happens to the recyclables in your community.
4. Participate in a conservation project.

Wolf Elective Adventure: Computing Wolves

1. Discover the basic components of a computer.
2. Determine how to properly dispose of computer components.
3. Using a digital device application of your choice, create a story that you can share with others.
4. With your parent or legal guardian, set up a policy for safely using digital devices.

Wolf Elective Adventure: Cubs Who Care

Fun ideas for the Cubs Who Care adventure

1. Explore what it is to have a physical disability.
2. Explore what it is to have a visual impairment.
3. Explore what it is to have hearing loss.
4. Explore barriers to getting around.

Wolf Elective Adventure: Digging in the Past

Activities for the Digging in the Past adventure

1. Play a dinosaur game that shows what you know about them.
2. Create an imaginary dinosaur. Share with your den or family its name, what it eats, its size, and where it lives. 
3. Be a paleontologist and dig through a dinosaur dig. 
4. Build a fossil layer.

Wolf Elective Adventure: Finding Your Way

Recommendations for the Finding Your Way adventure

1. Using a map, locate where you live.
2. Draw a map for a friend to locate your home or school. Create a key for your map.
3. Find the directions north, east, south, and west and the compass rose on a map. 
4. Find the directions north, east, south, and west using a compass.
5. Practice using both a map and a compass.

Wolf Elective Adventures: Germs Alive!

Germs Alive adventure ideas

1. Wash your hands with soap and water while singing the “Happy Birthday” song two times.
2. Play Germ Magnet with your den or your family. Wash your hands afterward.
3. Conduct the sneeze demonstration.
4. Conduct the mucus demonstration.
5. Grow a mold culture. Show what formed at a den or pack meeting.

Wolf Elective Adventure: Let's Camp

1. Learn about the buddy system and how it works in the outdoors.  
2. Know the Cub Scout Six Essentials.
3. In addition to the Cub Scout Six Essentials, list the personal items you need for your campout.
4. Learn a camping skill.
5. Attend a council or district Cub Scout overnight camp or attend an overnight campout with your pack.

Wolf Elective Adventure: Paws for Water

1. Learn about the swimming safety rules that you need to follow.
2. Demonstrate how to enter the swimming area properly.
3. Using the buddy system and staying within your ability group, go swimming with your den or family for 30 minutes.
4. Attempt at least one swimming stroke: front crawl, restful backstroke, or breaststroke.
5. Jump feet first into water that is chest high or deeper.

Demonstrate how to exit the swimming area properly.

Wolf Elective Adventures: Paws of Skill

Suggestions for the Paws of Skill adventure

1. With your den, talk about sportsmanship and what it means to be a good sport. Make the connection between sportsmanship and the Scout Oath and the Scout Law. 
2. Learn the rules of a team sport that you can play with your den, pack, family, or friends. After learning the rules, play the game for 30 minutes. 
3. Visit or watch a team sporting event with your family or den. Look for ways the team works together and share with your family or den.

Wolf Elective Adventure: Pedal with the Pack

1. Show how to properly wear a bicycle helmet. Show you can take it off and put it on without help.
2. Decide what you should wear when riding a bike.
3. Learn about different types of bikes and when/where you might ride these different bikes.
4. Demonstrate you can start and stop your bicycle without help.
5. Demonstrate proper hand signals. 
6. With your den, pack, or family, following the buddy system, take a bike ride.

Wolf Elective Adventure: Race Time

1. With an adult, build either a Pinewood Derby car or a Raingutter Regatta boat.
2. Learn the rules of the race for the vehicle chosen in requirement 1.
3. Identify how you could increase the speed of your chosen vehicle.
4. Before the race, discuss with your den how you will demonstrate good sportsmanship during the race.
5. Participate in a Pinewood Derby or a Raingutter Regatta.

Wolf Elective Adventures: Spirit of the Water

Fun ideas for this adventure coming soon!

1. Discover where the water in your home comes from.
2. Discuss how water can become polluted. 
3. Share some ways you can conserve water in your home. 
4. Discover how water in your community is treated to become safe to drink.

Wolf Elective Adventure: Summertime Fun

Anytime during May through August participate in a total of three Cub Scout activities.