Requirements for the rank of Tenderfoot



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1.Present yourself to your leader, properly dressed, before going on an overnight camping trip. Show the camping gear you will use. Show the right way to pack and carry it (Handbook pages 27-39). ___/___ ________
2. Spend at least one night on a patrol or troop campout. Sleep in a tent you have helped pitch on a ground bed you have prepared (Handbook pages 42-43, 33-34). ___/___ ________
3a. Demonstrate how to whip and fuse the ends of a rope (Handbook pages129-130). ___/___ ________
3b. Demonstrate tying two half hitches and a taughtline hitch by using these knots to pitch a tent (Handbook pages 137-138, 43). ___/___ ________
4. Explain the rules of safe hiking , both on the highway and cross country, during the day and night. Explain what to do if you are lost (Handbook pages 175-177, 209-211). ___/___ ________
5. Demonstrate how to display, raise, lower, and fold the American flag (Handbook pages 473-475, 477-478). ___/___ ________
6. Repeat from memory and explain in your own words the Scout Oath, Law, motto, and slogan (Handbook pages 5-9). ___/___ ________
7. Know your patrol name, give the patrol yell, and describe your patrol flag. ___/___ ________
8.Explain why we use the buddy system in Scouting (Handbook pages 229-230, 598). ___/___ ________
9a. Record your best in the following tests: (Handbook pages 27-39).


Pushups _______
Pullups _______
Situps _______
Standing Long Jump _______ft _______in.
Run/Walk 500 yards _______

___/___ ________
9b. Show improvement in the activities listed above after practicing for 30 days. ___/___ ________
10. Identify local poisonus plants; tell how to treat exposure to them (Handbook pages 428-429). ___/___ ________
11a. Demonstrate the Heimlich maneuver and tell when it is used (Handbook pages 416-417). ___/___ ________
11b.Show first aid for the following:
  • Simple cuts and scratches (page 419)
  • Blisters on the hand and foot (page 422)
  • Minor burns or scalds (first degree) (page 420)
  • Bites or stings of insects and ticks (pages 423-424)
  • Poisonus snakebite (pages 426-427)
  • Nosebleed (page 420)
___/___ ________
12.Take part in a Scoutmaster conference. ___/___ ________
13. Board of review completed ___/___ ________