Tiger Adventures & Requirements

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.

Tiger Rank Requirements

1. Complete each of the following Tiger Required Adventures with your den or family:

a. Bobcat
b. Tigers in the Wild
c. Tiger Bites
d. Team Tiger
e. Tiger’s Roar
f. Tiger Circles

2. Complete one Tiger Elective Adventures of your den or family’s choosing.

and watch the Protect Yourself Rules video for your grade.

Tiger Required Adventures

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

Bobcat

  1. Get to know the members of your den.
  2. Recite the Scout Oath with your den, including your Tiger adult partner.
  3. Have your Tiger adult partner or den leader read the Scout Law to you. Demonstrate your understanding of being trustworthy, helpful, or friendly.
  4. Demonstrate the Cub Scout sign, Cub Scout salute and Cub Scout handshake. Show how each are used.
  5. Share with your Tiger adult partner, at a den meeting or at home, a time when you have demonstrated the Cub Scout motto “Do Your Best.”
  6. 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.”

Tiger Adventure: Tigers in the Wild

Cub Scout Tigers Tiger in the Wild

Ideas for the Tiger in the Wild adventure

  1. Identify the Cub Scout Six Essentials. Show what you do with each item.
  2. With your den leader or Tiger adult partner learn about the Outdoor Code.
  3. With your den, pack, or family, take a walk outside spending 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.
  4. 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.
  5. Look for a tree where where you live. Describe how this tree is helpful.

Tiger Adventure: Tiger Bites

Cub Scout Tigers Tiger Bites

Tiger Bites activity suggestions

  1. Identify the five different food groups.
  2. Practice hand washing. Point out when you should wash your hands.
  3. Be active for 30 minutes.
  4. Practice methods that help you sleep.

Tiger Adventure: Team Tiger

Cub Scout Tiger Team Tiger

Suggestions for Team Tiger activity ideas

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  2. Play a game with your den, or family members, that has a set of rules. Discuss why rules are important to the game you are playing.
  3. With your Tiger adult partner, choose a job that will help your team. Follow through by doing that job at least once.
  4. Play a game that requires at least two teams with your den, or two other family members. Afterwards discuss what it means to be part of a team and what makes a good team member.
  5. Participate in a service project.

Tiger Adventure: Tigers Roar

  1. With permission from your parent or legal guardian, watch Protect Yourself Rules for the Tiger rank.
  2. With your Tiger adult partner, demonstrate Shout, Run, Tell as explained in the Protect Yourself Rules video.
  3. With your Tiger adult partner, demonstrate how to access emergency services.
  4. With your Tiger adult partner, demonstrate that you know what to do if you get lost or separated.

Tiger Adventure: Tiger Circles: Duty to God

Cub Scout Tiger Circle Duty to God

Fun ideas for this adventure coming soon!

  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 faith traditions. Draw a picture 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.

Tiger Elective Adventures

Your Tiger must complete ONE of these adventures to earn his Tiger 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.

Tiger Elective Adventure: Champions for Nature

  1. Discover the difference between renewable natural resources and non-renewable natural resources.
  2. Learn about the 3 R's Reduce. Reuse, Recycle.
  3. Discover what happens to the garbage in your community.
  4. Participate in a conservation project.

Tiger Elective Adventure: Curiosity, Intrigue, and Magical Mysteries

Cub Scout Tigers Curiosity, Intrigue, and Magical Mysteries

Ideas for the Curiosity, Intrigue, and Magical Mysteries adventure

  1. Learn a magic trick Practice the trick Share the trick with your den or family members.
  2. Demonstrate how a magic trick works to your den, family, or Tiger adult partner.
  3. Write your name using a secret code you created.
  4. Write a message with the code. Challenge your den, family, or Tiger adult partner to read your coded message.

Tiger Elective Adventure: Designed by Tiger

  1. Think about something that you would like to build. Draw a picture of what the final project should look like.
  2. Using your drawing as a guide, build the project.
  3. When completed, discuss with your Tiger adult partner what could be done to improve your project.
  4. Make the improvement to your project.
  5. Make a drawing of your final project.

Tiger Elective Adventure: Fish On

  1. With your den or Tiger adult partner, identify the body of water where you will go fishing
  2. With your Tiger adult partner, learn the rules of fishing safely.
  3. Draw a picture of the type of fish you think lives in the water where you are going fishing.
  4. Go fishing with your Tiger adult partner.

Tiger Elective Adventure: Floats and Boats

Cub Scout Tiger Floats and Boats

Ideas for the Tiger adventure, Floats and Boats

  1. Identify five different types of boats.
  2. Identify five things that float and five things that do not float.
  3. Build or create a model boat and float it on the water This can be made from recycled materials or other items.

Tiger Elective Adventure: Good Knights

Cub Scout Tiger Good Knights

Activity ideas for the Good Knights adventure

  1. Discuss with your den or Tiger adult partner what It means to have courteous behavior, how a knight behaves.Tell another Tiger which points of the Scout Law help you to have the same knightly behavior.
  2. Create a shield that can be for your den or a personal shield.
  3. Using recycled and other materials, design and build a small castle In your den or at home.
  4. Do a Good Turn.

Tiger Elective Adventure: Let’s Camp

  1. Learn about the buddy system and how it works in the outdoors
  2. Before going on the overnight campout, discuss what type of weather is expected and what type of clothes you should wear.
  3. Pack up your Cub Scout Six Essentials for the campout.
  4. Learn a camping skill.
  5. Attend a council or district Cub Scout overnight camp or attend a campout with your pack.

Tiger Elective Adventure: Race Time

  1. With your Tiger adult partner, assemble and decorate either a Pinewood Derby® car or a Raingutter RegattaTM boat.
  2. Learn the rules of the race for the vehicle chosen in requirement 1.
  3. Before the race, discuss with your Tiger adult partner how you will demonstrate good sportsmanship during the race
  4. With your Tiger adult partner, participate in a Pinewood Derby or a Raingutter Regatta.

Tiger Elective Adventure: Rolling Tigers

Cub Scout Tiger Rolling Tigers

Rolling Tigers adventure ideas

  1. Learn the ABC's of bike gear (air, brakes, chain.).
  2. With your den or Tiger adult partner, learn about the safety gear you should use while riding a bicycle. Show how to properly wear a bicycle helmet.
  3. With your den or Tiger adult partner, learn the safety rules to follow when riding a bicycle.
  4. With your den or Tiger adult partner, demonstrate proper hand signals.
  5. With your Tiger adult partner or family, ride a bicycle or begin learning how to ride a bike.

Tiger Elective Adventure: Tiger: Safe and Smart

Cub Scout Tigers Tiger Safe and Smart

Fun ideas for Tiger Safe and Smart

  1. Memorize your address. Recite it to your Tiger adult partner or den leader.
  2. Memorize an emergency contact's phone number Recite it to your Tiger adult partner or den leader.
  3. Show you can Stop, Drop, and Roll.
  4. With your Tiger adult partner, create a fire escape plan for your home or den meeting place, include your outside meet-up spot. Practice the escape route you would take.
  5. With your Tiger adult partner, find the location of the smoke detectors in your home or den meeting place. Confirm they are working properly.
  6. With your Tiger adult partner or den leader, learn why matches and lighters are only for adults.
  7. Visit an emergency responder station or have an emergency responder visit your den.

Tiger Elective Adventure: Sky Is the Limit

Cub Scout Tiger Sky is the Limit

Suggestions for the Tiger adventure, Sky is the Limit

  1. Observe the night sky with your den or Tiger adult partner. Talk about the items you see or might see there.
  2. Look at distant objects through a telescope, binoculars, or camera. Show how to focus the device you choose.
  3. Observe in the sky or select from a book, chart, computer, or electronic device two constellations that are easy to see in the night sky. With your den or Tiger adult partner, find out the constellation name and how to identify them. Create a picture of one of the constellations.
  4. Create a homemade model of a constellation.

Tiger Elective Adventure: Stories in Shapes

Cub Scout Tiger Stories in Shapes

Activities for Stories in Shapes

  1. Explore art in your community.
  2. Look closely at art or a picture of art with your den or Tiger adult partner. Decide what you like about the art, and share your ideas with your den, family, or Tiger adult partner.
  3. Create a piece of art using shapes.
  4. Learn how to spell your name in Braille and sign language.

Tiger Elective Adventure: Summertime Fun

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

Tiger Elective Adventure: Tech All Around

  1. Discover technology around your home, meeting place. Or neighborhood.
  2. Discover ways that digital technology can make life easier.
  3. Identify an item of digital technology you use at home.Demonstrate to your Tiger adult partner how you use it safely
  4. With your parent or legal guardian, set up a policy for digital devices.

Tiger Elective Adventure: Tiger Tag

Cub Scout Tigers Tiger Tag

Tiger Tag adventure activities

  1. Play an active game with your den. Share with your Tiger adu!t partner or your den why you like this game.
  2. Play a relay game with your den. Share with your Tiger adult partner or your den why you like this game.
  3. Discuss what it means to be a good sport in a game with your Tiger adult partner or other Tigers.
  4. Attend a sporting event.

Tiger Elective Adventure: Tiger-iffic!

Cub Scout Tigers Tiger-Iffic

Suggestions for the Tiger-Iffic adventure

  1. Play at least two different games by yourself; one may be a video game.
  2. Play a board game or another inside game with one or more members of your den or family.
  3. With other members of your den or family, invent a game or change the rules of a game you know. and play the game.
  4. Play a team game with your den or family.

Tiger Elective Adventure: Tiger in the Water

  1. Learn about the swimming safety rules that you need to follow.
  2. Demonstrate how to enter the swimming area properly.
  3. With your Tiger adult partner as your buddy, be active in water depths matching your ability for 20 minutes.
  4. Place your face in the water and blow bubbles.
  5. Demonstrate the flutter kick.
  6. Demonstrate how to exit the swimming area properly.