Cub Scouting is all about adventure!  To earn their rank badge, Arrows of Light complete five “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.

Arrow of Light Rank Requirements

1. Be active in your Webelos den for at least six months since completing the fourth grade or for at least six months since becoming 10 years old.

2. Complete each of the following Arrow of Light required adventures with your den or family:

• Bobcat
• Outdoor Adventurer
• Personal Fitness Adventure
• Citizenship Adventure
• First Aid Adventures
• Duty to God Adventure

3. Complete one Webelos/Arrow of Light elective adventure of your den or family’s choosing.

4. 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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Arrow of Light Required Adventures

Your Cub Scout must complete all four of these adventures to earn his Arrow of Light badge.

Bobcat Adventures

1. Demonstrate the patrol method by choosing a patrol name and electing a patrol leader. Discuss the benefits of using the patrol method.
2. Get to know the members of your patrol.
3. Recite the Scout Oath and the Scout Law with your patrol.
4. With your patrol, create a Code of Conduct.
5. Demonstrate the Scouts BSA sign, Scouts BSA salute, and Scouts BSA handshake. Show how each is used.
6. Learn the Scouts BSA slogan and motto.
7. With your patrol, or with your parent or legal guardian, visit a Scouts BSA troop.
8. 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.”

Fun ideas for the Outdoor Adventurer

1. Learn about the Scout Basic Essentials.
2. Determine what you will bring on an overnight campout — including a tent and sleeping bag/gear — and how you will carry your gear.
3. Review the four points of the BSA SAFE Checklist and how you will apply them on the campout.
4. Locate the camp and campsite on a map.
5. With your patrol, participate in a campout.
6. Upon arrival at the campout, determine where to set up your campsite: kitchen, eating area, tents, and firepit. Help the patrol set up the patrol gear before setting up your own tent.
7. Explain how to keep food safe and the kitchen area sanitary at the campsite. Demonstrate your knowledge during the campout.
8. After your campout, discuss with your patrol what went well and what you would do differently next time. Include how you followed the Outdoor Code and Leave No Trace Principles for Kids.

Arrow of Light Adventure: Personal Fitness

1. Plan a balanced meal that you would eat when camping. Prepare that meal using the gear you would use on a campout.
2. Examine what it is to be physically fit and how you incorporate this in your life. Track the number of times you are active for 30 minutes or longer over a 14-day period. Share with your patrol or family what you enjoyed and if you feel you are living up to the Scout Oath of being physically fit.
3. Be active for 30 minutes with your patrol, a younger den, or at least one other person in a way that includes both stretching and moving.
4. Review your BSA Annual Health and Medical Record with your parent or legal guardian. Discuss your ability to participate in Arrow of Light patrol and pack activities.

Arrow of Light Adventure: Citizenship Adventure

1. Identify a community service project that your patrol or pack could accomplish. Use the BSA SAFE Checklist and develop a plan to conduct the service project safely.
2. Participate in a service project for a minimum of two hours or multiple service projects for a total of two hours.

Arrow of Light Adventure: First Aid

1. With permission from your parent or legal guardian, watch the “Protect Yourself Rules” video for the Arrow of Light rank.
2. Explain what you should do if you encounter someone in need of first aid.
3. Demonstrate what to do for hurry cases of first aid: serious bleeding, heart attack or sudden cardiac arrest, stopped breathing, stroke, and poisoning.
4. Demonstrate how to help a choking victim.
5. Demonstrate how to treat shock.
6. Demonstrate how to treat the following: cuts and scratches, burns and scalds, bites and stings of insects and animals, and nosebleeds.
7. Make a personal first-aid kit. Demonstrate the proper use of each item in your first-aid kit.

Fun ideas for this adventure coming soon!

1. Discuss with your parent or legal guardian your family’s faith traditions or one of your choosing. Choose a view or value of that faith tradition that is related to the Scout Law. Discuss with your family how each family member demonstrates this value.
2. Meet with a representative of a faith-based organization in your local community who provides a service that assists people in crisis regardless of their faith. Identify who they help and how.
3. Discuss with your parent, legal guardian, or an adult leader what “Duty to God” means to you. Tell how you practice your Duty to God in your daily life.

Arrow of Light Elective Adventures

Your Arrow of Light must complete ONE of these adventures to earn his Arrow of Light 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.
This list also serves as the Webelos elective adventures.

Arrow of Light Elective Adventure: Cycling

1. Decide on gear and supplies you should bring for a long bike ride.
2. Discover how multi-gear bicycles work and how they benefit a rider.
3. Show how to lubricate a chain.
4. Pick a bicycle lock that you will use. Demonstrate how it locks and unlocks, how it secures your bicycle, and how you carry it while you are riding your bicycle.
5. Repair a flat tire.
6. With your patrol, pack, or family, use a map and plan a bicycle ride that is at least 10 miles.
7. With your patrol, pack, or family and using the buddy system, go on a bicycle ride that is a minimum of 10 miles.

Recommendations for the Engineer adventure

Webelos/AOL Elective Adventure: Engineer

1. Learn the focus, related sciences, and products of civil, electrical, and mechanical engineers.
2. Pick one of the engineering fields from requirement 1 to complete the following requirements.
3. Examine a set of blueprints or specifications used by your choice of engineer.
4. Identify a project that you would like to build.
5. Using the engineering process, build your project.

Arrow of Light Adventure: Estimations

1. Estimate food measurements.
2. Estimate the time of day.
3. Estimate the height of a distant object.
4. Estimate the distance between two points.

Arrow of Light Adventure: Fishing

1. Make a plan to go fishing. Determine where you will go and what type of fish you plan to catch. All of the following requirements are to be completed based on your choice.
2. Use the BSA SAFE Checklist to plan what you need for your fishing experience.
3. Describe the environment where the fish might be found.
4. Make a list of the equipment and materials you will need to fish.
5. Determine the best type of knot to tie your hook to your line and tie it.
6. On your own, choose the appropriate type of fishing rod and tackle you will be using. Have an adult review your gear.
7. Using what you have learned about fish and fishing equipment, spend at least one hour fishing following local guidelines and regulations.

Arrow of Light Adventure: High-Tech Outdoor Adventure

1. With an adult, use a weather app or website to see the forecast for an outdoor activity and discuss any preparation needed to accommodate the weather.
2. With an adult, find a knot-tying app. Select one knot to learn, and tie it using the app.
3. Discuss how technology has improved camping gear.
4. Think of a way technology can improve camping gear used on one of your outdoor activities.

Ideas for the Into the Wild adventure

Webelos/AOL Elective Adventure: Into the Wild

1. Visit a place with a variety of wild animals. Select one of the animals and observe its behavior. Use your selected animal to complete the remaining requirements.
2. Create a model of your animal’s ecosystem.
3. Investigate how your animal coexists with other animals in the wild.
4. Describe how humans interact with your chosen animal’s ecosystem.
5. Discover how wildlife management benefits your animal.

Recommendations for the Into the Woods adventure

Webelos/AOL Elective Adventure: Into the Woods

1. Visit an area with trees and plants and conduct a tree inventory. Select one tree and complete the remaining requirements based on that tree.
2. Determine if your tree is deciduous or evergreen.
3. Determine if your tree is native or was introduced to your area.
4. Find out how your tree deals with wildfire.
5. Learn how wildlife uses your tree.

Arrow of Light Adventure: Knife Safety

1. Read, understand, and promise to follow the Cub Scout Knife Safety Rules.
2. Demonstrate the knife safety circle.
3. Demonstrate that you know how to care for and use a knife safely.
4. Demonstrate the proper use of a pocketknife to make a useful object on a campout.
5. Choose the correct cooking knife, and demonstrate how to properly slice, chop, and mince.

Arrow of Light Adventure: Paddle Craft

1. Before attempting requirements 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 for this Adventure, you must pass the BSA swimmer test.
2. Pick a paddle craft you’ll use to complete all requirements: canoe, kayak, or stand-up paddleboard.
3. Review Safety Afloat.
4. Demonstrate how to identify and properly wear a life jacket that is the correct size.
5. Jump feet first into water over your head while wearing a life jacket. Then swim 25 feet wearing the life jacket.
6. Discuss how to enter and exit a canoe, kayak, or stand-up paddleboard safely.
7. Discuss what to do if your canoe or kayak tips over or you fall off your stand-up paddleboard.
8. Learn two paddle strokes: power stroke and sweep.
9. Have 30 minutes or more of canoe, kayak, or stand-up paddleboard paddle time.

Arrow of Light Adventure: Race Time

1. With adult supervision, 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. Mentor a younger den to prepare for the race.
4. Before the race, discuss with your patrol how you will demonstrate good sportsmanship during the race.
5. Participate in a Pinewood Derby or a Raingutter Regatta.

Arrow of Light Adventure: Summertime Fun

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

Arrow of Light Adventure: Swimming

1. Review Safe Swim Defense.
2. Explain the meaning of “order of rescue” and demonstrate the reach and throw rescue techniques from land.
3. Attempt the BSA swimmer test.
4. Have 30 minutes or more of free swim time during which you practice the buddy system and stay within your ability group. The qualified adult supervision should conduct at least three buddy checks per half hour of swimming.

Arrow of Light Adventure: Champions of Nature

1. Identify foods grown or processed in your state.
2. Determine the benefits of purchasing food that is locally grown or processed.
3. Explore the concept of a food desert.
4. Explore the concept of a food oasis.
5. Learn how individuals can reduce food waste.
6. Participate in a conservation service project.