Bear Adventure: Bear Necessities

Bear Adventure: Bear Necessities

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1. While working on your Bear badge, camp overnight with your pack. If your chartered

organization does not permit Cub Scout camping, you may substitute a family

campout or a daylong outdoor activity with your den or pack.

2. Attend a campfire show, and participate by performing a song or skit with your den.

• Skits on Boy Scout Trail
• Songs on Boy Scout Trail

3. Make a list of items you should take along on your campout.

•       Camping List 
•       BSA Handbook, Warm/Cold Weather Clothing
  
•       BSA Handbook, Personal Camping Checklist 

Here is a game I made to make this activity more fun!


4. Make a list of equipment that the group should bring along in addition to each Scout’s personal gear.

• BSA Handbook, Group Camping Checklist

5. With your den, plan a cooked lunch or dinner that is nutritious and balanced. Make a shoppinglist, and help shop for the food. On a campout or at another outdoor event, help cook the meal and help clean up afterward.

6. Help your leader or another adult cook a different meal from the one you helped prepare for

requirement 5. Cook this meal outdoors.

7. Help set up a tent. Pick a good spot for the tent, and explain to your den leader why you

picked it.

8. Demonstrate how to tie two half hitches. Explain what they are used for.

• The 6 boy scout Knots...

9. Learn how to read a thermometer and a barometer. Keep track of the temperature and

barometric pressure readings and the actual weather at the same time every day for seven days.

Here is a handout i made for the boys to keep thermometer barometer and weather readings on.
 

Notes: Campouts, Organize camping meals into teams, team plan menu with parents of each kid help cook a whole meal

Required: Thermometer and Barometer (build?)

• Cub Scout build project a Barometer

• Another easier one (I''ll probably print out these instructions)

• Supplies:
• Rubber band
• These may be wider than needed, I'm getting them in hope of being useful for more projects.
• Orange Straws (add on)
• These are bendy, you can get non bendy ones. These are orange, clear straws are used below, if you sharpy the end of the clear straw you can use clear for both this and the home made thermometer(which is optional, thus why I'm listing orange straws here).
• 12 Pint Mason Jars with lids (quart is $2 more, same page)
• You don't have to use mason jars, but the side need to be rigid (no plastic) and rubber needs to easily make an air right seal. If the jar is too small the air volume will not move to diaphragm (balloon) as much, same for a smaller diameter opening... I'll probably get pint anyway, so the left over jars are more useful to me...but that's your call.

• Cub scout build a thermometer

• Clear Straws
• 90% rubbing alcohol
• You might need 2 based on size of den
• You can use mason jars and drill a a hole in the lid, or use clear soda/beer bottles.
• Clay to seal neck $5
• Note: it's waaaaay cheaper just to buy a thermometer than to make one, and you don t' NEED to make one, I just think it's cool.
• Cheap pocket camping  Thermometer at Amazon(@2.32 each+free non prime shipping)
• Academy cheaper one