Lion Requirements and adventures

The Lion Cub Scout program is for the youngest members–those who are in kindergarten. Here, you'll find the requirements for the six required adventures and the twenty elective adventures.

Cub Scouting is all about adventure!  To earn their rank badge, Lion Cub Scouts complete a total of eight “adventures,” which are collections of themed, multidisciplinary activities. They may also complete fun elective adventures. Below, you'll find the exact requirements for each Lion Cub Scout adventure.

Lion Cub Scout Requirements

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

2. Complete two Lion Elective Adventures with your den or family.

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Lion Cub Scout Required Adventures

Your Cub Scout must complete all five of these adventures to earn his Lion badge.

Bobcat Requirements

  1. Get to know the members of your den. 
  2. Have your Lion adult partner or den leader read the Scout Law to you. Demonstrate your understanding of being friendly.
  3. Share with your Lion adult partner, during a den meeting or at home, a time when you have demonstrated the Cub Scout motto “Do Your Best.” 
  4. 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.”

Mountain Lion Requirements

  1. Identify the Cub Scout Six Essentials.  Show what you do with each item.
  2. 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 Lion adult partner that are natural and things that are manmade.  
  3. Describe what S.A.W means. 
  4. Identify common animals that are found where you live.  Separate those animals into domesticated and wild. 

Fun on the Run Requirements

  1. Identify the five different food groups.
  2. Practice hand washing. Point out when you should wash your hands.
  3. Be active for 20 minutes.
  4. Practice methods that help you rest.

King of the Jungle Requirements

  1. Draw a picture of the people you live with.
  2. With your Lion adult partner, choose a job that will help your family. Follow through by doing that job at least once.
  3. Talk with a grandparent or other older adult about what citizenship means to them.
  4. Participate in a service project.

Lion's Roar Requirements

  1. With permission from your parent or legal guardian, watch Protect Yourself Rules for the Lion rank.
  2. With your Lion adult partner, demonstrate Shout, Run, Tell as described in Protect Yourself Rules.
  3. With your Lion adult partner, demonstrate how to access emergency services.
  4. With your Lion Adult Partner, demonstrate how to safely cross a street or walk in a parking lot.

Lion's Pride Requirements

  1. With your parent or legal guardian talk about your family's faith traditions. What are the major holidays or celebrations your family participates in on an annual basis? 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. Make a cheerful card or a drawing for someone you love and give it to them.

Lion Cub Scout Elective Adventures

Build It Up, Knock It Down Requirements

  1. With your Lion adult partner, build a structure.
  2. With your den or family, build a structure.
  3. Build something that is designed to be knocked down.

Champions for Nature

  1. Discover the difference between natural resources and man-made items.
  2. Discover the difference between organic, paper, and glass waste.
  3. Discover recycling.
  4. Participate in a conservation project.

Count on Me

  1. Make a Lion using only squares, triangles, and circles.
  2. Play a game with your Lion adult partner or den that Is based on counting or numbers.
  3. Organize a group of items based on shape, then based on color, and one other category. Count how many shapes are in each category After organizing them build anything using only one category.

Everyday Tech

  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 Lion adult partner how you use it safely.

Gizmos and Gadgets Requirements

  1. Explore properties of motion.
  2. Explore properties of force.
  3. Use household materials to create a useful object.

Go Fish

  1. With your Lion adult partner, learn the rules of fishing safely.
  2. Draw a picture of the type of fish you think lives in the water where you are going fishing.
  3. Go fishing with your Lion adult partner.

I'll Do It Myself Requirements

  1. Make and use a “lion bag· for personal Scouting gear.
  2. Construct a personal care checklist.
  3. Put on your shoes without help. Take them off and put them away.

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. Attend a council or district Cub Scout overnight camp or attend a campout with your pack.

On a Roll

  1. With your den or Lion adult partner, learn about the safety gear you should use while riding a bicycle.
  2. With your den or Lion adult partner, learn the safety rules to follow when riding a bicycle.
  3. With your Lion adult partner or family, ride a bicycle wearing appropriate safety gear and follow safety rules.

Pick My Path Requirements

  1. Explain that choices have consequences.
  2. Perform a Good Turn for another person.
  3. Teach a game to another person. This requirement may be accomplished at home or at the outing.

On Your Mark Requirements

  1. Play a game with your den.
  2. Participate In an obstacle course relay.
  3. Build a box derby and participate in a race.

Race Time

  1. With your Lion 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 Lion adult partner how you will demonstrate good sportsmanship during the race.
  4. With your Lion adult partner, participate in a Pinewood Derby or a Raingutter Regatta.

Ready, Set, Grow Requirements

  1. Discover where the food we eat comes from.
  2. Plant a small garden outside or in a container.
  3. Visit with an individual who can demonstrate different ways to garden (outside, greenhouse, container, etc.) and the basic skills needed to garden.

Time to Swim Requirements

  1. Learn about the swimming safety rules that you need to follow.
  2. Demonstrate how to enter the swimming area properly.
  3. With your Lion 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 how to exit the swimming area properly.