Home and Community - Blue Star Activities
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Learning how to take care of your home and getting around your community are part of becoming a responsible grownup. These activities win get you started on exploring where you live.
BLUE
STAR
DISABILITY
AWARENESS BADGE
FAMILY
HELPER BADGE
FAMILY
SAFETY BADGE
FIRST
AIDER BADGE
GUIDE
BADGE
HOME
REPAIR BADGE
LAW
AWARENESS BADGE
PET
CARE BADGE
CANADIAN
FAMILY CARE AWARD
BLUE
STAR 
1. Accept and carry out a home chore for one month,
such as washing dishes, cleaning your room or caring for the family pet. 2. With an adult, show how to make simple repairs
around your home. 3. Discuss with your leader some safety rules when
home alone and in dealing with strangers. 4. Show how to use a home telephone, a public telephone, and a telephone book. Show you know your
own home telephone number and can find emergency numbers in a telephone book. 5. Send and receive a simple message in Bliss symbols, Braille,
American Sign Language, or another form of
communication used by some disabled people. 6. Demonstrate basic first aid
skills. 7. Make use of two community resources such as a
library, museum, playground, recreation centre, skating rink, swimming pool, etc., and tell other Cubs
how they can use them. 8. On a map of your community, point out the location
of your home and three other interesting places,
such as your school, the library, your place of worship, your Cub meeting hall, etc. 9. Describe the highway codes for pedestrians and
cyclists and explain why we have these codes. 10. Plan and prepare a party for a family, pack, six or
other group.
1.
Visit a national, provincial or local government building such as a courthouse or city hall. Tell about or
make a scrapbook of your visit. 2. Visit a municipal service such as the police or fire station, water works, sewage treatment plant, etc.
Tell
about or make a scrapbook of your visit. 3. Visit a communications service, such as a newspaper
plant, telephone exchange, printing press, radio or TV. station, etc. Tell about or make a scrapbook of
your visit. 4. Visit a transportation centre, such as an airport, a railway station, bus depot, taxi dispatcher, etc. Tell
about or make a scrapbook of your visit. 5. Carry out out an accident and fire prevention check of
your home, garage, Cub meeting place; or community. With your family, draw an emergency escape plan
for your home. 6. Make a list or point out in your meeting place and
community what services are available for disabled
people.
BADGE ACTIVITIES
DISABILITY
AWARENESS BADGE
1. Recognize the International Symbol of Accessibility
and point out places where this sign is found.
2. Discuss with your leader how building entrances,
water fountains, elevators, public telephones and
washrooms, and sidewalk corner curbs can be made
more accessible to persons in wheelchairs.
3.
Visit your library and find out how books are made
available for visually impaired people.
4.
Meet with a social worker, agency representative or knowledgeable adult as to what services are available in
your community to people with various disabilities.
5.
Talk to your gym teacher, Parks and Recreation
department or leader about how disabled persons participate and compete in various sports.
6.
Talk to a representative from the phone company; TV
station or other knowledgeable adult about what services are available for the hearing
impaired.
7.
Find out what American Sign Language (ASI) is. Learn
some sign language and how to sign your name. 8.
Where possible, meet with a disabled person and talk
about that person's personal interests and activities.
FAMILY
HELPER BADGE
With the help of an adult, do any seven of the
following:
1. Show how to use the kitchen stove or microwave
oven safely, and then make tea, coffee, cocoa, soup
or cook an egg.
2. Set a table for a two course meal for your family.
3. Know how to load and operate a dishwasher,
of
show the proper way to wash dishes by hand.
4.
Clean windows and mop a floor.
5.
Make a bed and clean and tidy a room.
6. Vacuum a rug.
7. Show the correct way to answer callers at the door
and on the telephone, and show how to pass on a
message.
8. Wash and dry a load of laundry and iron your neckerchief.
9.
Show how to recycle, compost and dispose of household garbage.
10. Sew on a badge and a button.
11. Discuss how to properly dispose of household toxic
waste such as paint, oil, paint thinner, old medicine,
cleaners and batteries.
12. Wash an automobile.
13.
Keep an entrance to a home clear of snow for one month.
14. Water a lawn or garden for one month.
FAMILY
SAFETY BADGE
With the help of an adult, complete the following:
1. Help reduce the risk of fire and burns in the home by checking that:
a) Matches and flammable liquids are stored properly and out of reach of small
children
b) Paint, paper and rags are away from heat
c) Pot handles are turned toward the back of the
stove to prevent the pots being knocked or grab
bed by small children
d) Your hot water tank is set below 54 degrees C (130 degrees F) to
help prevent scalding
2. Show how to test and care for a smoke alarm.
3. Help reduce the risk of poisoning in the home by
checking that:
a) Poisons, cleaners and medicines are out of reach
of children. Show how to find poison information
on household products labeled as poison,
b) Food containers such as pop bottles are not being
used to store poisonous products
c) Food is stored safely and handled properly
4. Know and draw the following hazardous products
symbols for poison, flammable, explosive and corrosive. Find some products that are
labeled this way.
5. Show how to lock and secure all windows, doors
and other entry ways into your home.
6. Tell or demonstrate what to do if:
a) The lights go out in your home
b) A fuse blows or circuit breaker trips
c) There is a broken water pipe
d) There is a smell of natural gas
e) The drains back up
7. Help reduce the risk of falls in the home by checking
that halls, stairs, and walkways are clear of objects.
8. Do one of the following projects:
a) Make a poster or display that show the dangers of
playing on or near train tracks, trestles,
crossings
and/or train yards
b) Make a poster or display that shows the dangers
of touching power lines with a stick or ladder,
climbing on electrical power poles, towers and
substations, poking electrical outlets and/or
pulling toast out of a toaster with a knife or fork
c) Make a poster or display that shows the dangers
of playing around storm sewers, construction
sites, garbage dumps or dumpsters, ice covered
water or water areas, vacant buildings, farm
machinery, quarries, old wells and/or unfriendly animals
9. Make a list of emergency numbers, such as: police,
fire, ambulance, etc., and post it by a phone in your
home.
FIRST
AIDER BADGE 1. Explain: 2. Do the following:
GUIDE
BADGE
1. Show that you can politely give clear, simple directions to someone asking his or her way. Describe
what you would do if a stranger offered you a ride
of
asked you to come along to show him or her how to
get to a place.
2. Describe how to call for fire fighters, police or ambulance.
3.
Show on a map the route of your local bus, or school
bus or a direct route from your home to the centre
of your community.
4. Describe how to get to the main highways around
your community.
5. Describe or point out on a map the location of as
many of the following as are found in your community:
a) nearest mail box or post office
b) police station
c) hospital/doctor
d) school
e) drug store
f) public telephone
g) fire station or alarm box
h) railway or bus station
i) gas station
j) hotel or
motel
k) block parent
HOME
REPAIR BADGE
1. Show how to turn on and off the electric power supply and the water supply in your home. Explain how
to turn off the gas supply if your home uses gas.
2. Replace a light bulb in a socket. 3. Replace a tap washer. 4. Lubricate a door hinge and/or lock. 5. Finish a wood surface and stain. 6. Properly prepare and paint a piece of wood or metal. 7. Help keep work areas, such as garage or basement,
clean and tidy for one month. 8. Re-sod or reseed a worn out part of a lawn. 9. Tell or show how to clear a stopped up sink or toilet. 10. Replace a doorknob or install any kind of door or
window lock.
LAW
AWARENESS BADGE
1. Talk to your six about the laws of the Wolf Cub Pack and
what they mean. What rules should you have in your six
so that everyone can enjoy Cubs more? What might happen if your pack or six did not have rules?
2. Talk to one of your leaders about who makes the laws
in our country and why these laws are important to us.
Who is responsible for making sure our laws are followed? Who can you ask for help if you see a law
being broken?
3. For any Our of the following situations, explain to your
six what the laws are and why we have them:
a) Crossing private property
b) Burning or damaging private property
c) Traffic laws for bicycles, pedestrians
and automobiles
d) Littering
e) Hurting other people
f) Taking what doesn't belong to you
g) Polluting or damaging the environment
h) Drinking and driving
i) Taking illegal drugs.
Talk about what would happen in your neighbourhood if you didn't have these laws
4. Talk with your parents or guardian about the following situations and decide what you would do
for any four of them:
a) Someone breaks into or damages your house
b) Someone steals your bicycle
c) A stranger asks questions about your parents,
neighbours, or yourself
d) You see someone hurting or bullying another person
e) Someone asks you to break open a school locker
f) Someone offers you drugs, alcohol, or cigarettes
g) Someone dares you to shoplift
PET
CARE BADGE
1. Keep and take care of a pet for three months or, if
this is not possible, help take care of another persons pet for three months.
2. Explain and obey local regulations for keeping an animal as a pet.
3.
Read a book about your pet.
4.
Explain the care of the pet: shelter, feeding, common
illnesses and inoculations, cleanliness, exercise, and
training.
5.
Describe how to be careful around a strange animal
and what to do if you suspect it might have a dangerous disease such as rabies.
6. Explain how and why the pet became domesticated.
Hint: Requirement 6 works for animals like cats, horses, and dogs. For some
animals (like snakes), it will be hard to learn when they became domesticated, if they ever did. If, for any reason, you can't care for a pet at
home, ask one of your leaders how you can arrange to care for a pet elsewhere. Check the library in your community or at school for books
on pets.
AWARDS
CANADIAN
FAMILY CARE AWARD 1. Earn the Blue Star. 2. Earn the following Home and Community related badges: 3. Earn one other Home and Community related badge. 4. Help show other Cubs how to do a family care skill
of your choice.
April 25, 2005
