Green Star Activities will help you get started
in learning the basic outdoor skills. If you're interested in how to camp and
take care of yourself in the outdoors, try starting with these
activities.
GREEN
STAR
CAMPING
BADGE
COOKING
BADGE
FISHING
BADGE
HIKING
BADGE
TRAILCRAFT
BADGE
WATERCRAFT
BADGE
WINTER
CUBBING BADGE
CANADIAN
CAMPER AWARD
CANADIAN
HERITAGE TRAILS AWARD
GREEN
STAR:
To earn the Green Star, choose and do any five of the A requirements
and any three of the B requirements:
A. Requirements
1. Estimate three distances and measuring things by using your body, such
as the length your foot, your pace or the top of your thumb.
2. Tie and show a practical use for any five
knots such as reef, sheet bend, taut-line, bowline, fisherman's knot,
round turn and two half hitches, clove hitch.
3. Make a Cub First
Aid/Survival kit.
4. Make or put together a camp
gadget for outdoor use.
5. Know
what to do if lost.
6. Recognize
or describe the signs for different types of weather.
7. Lay, light and safely put out a fire in the outdoors.
8. Show how to use a road or topographical
map.
9. Tell or demonstrate how to dress for different weather
conditions to reduce the risk of hypothermia
and reduce your exposure to the sun's ultraviolet rays.
10. Know and explain some rules for protecting nature while on an
outing.
B. Requirements
1. Take part in three pack hikes.
2. Help prepare and cook a hot meal on a family, six or pack
outing.
3. Tell or show how the sun, moon and North Star can help you
find directions.
4. Make or follow
a trail of not more than 300 meters using clues, trail signs, a map,
compass directions or any combination of these.
5. Draw a simple sketch map of a campsite or your Cub meeting
place using compass
and paces.
6. Without harming nature, put up and take down an emergency
shelter of your own design.
BADGE ACTIVITIES
CAMPING
BADGE
1. Do one of the following:
a) Complete 4 days of family camping
(they don't need to be all together)
b) Take part in two Cub camps
2. Make a list of some safety and hygiene rules for camping and
discuss these with your leader.
3. Make a list of personal camping gear needed for sleeping,
eating, clothing and first aid at an overnight camp. Discuss this list with
your leader.
4. Describe
what to do if lost.
5. In any season, do any 5 of the following:
a) Put up and take down a simple shelter
or tent
b) Cook a simple meal
over an open fire or portable stove
c) Show how to use a compass
d) Help in doing two different camp
chores or duties
e) Show how to properly dispose of camp
garbage or waste while camping
f) Show how to purify
drinking water at camp
g) Using appropriate knots,
erect a pole or line on which hang your gear
h) Show how to keep food safe from
insects and animals
i) Show how to safely handle a pocket
knife or camp saw
6. Be aware of and explain no-trace camping.
COOKING
BADGE
With the help of an adult, describe some safety rules for cooking
on a stove, microwave, or around an open fire. Then, do any five of the
following:
1. Make some hot oatmeal.
2. Cook a hotdog or hamburger.
3. Use a tinfoil cup or orange half and bake, a muffin in
it.
4. Wrap a potato in tinfoil and bake it in a fire.
5. Boil water and cook some pasta of your choice.
6. Make pancakes or French toast.
7. Make biscuit or bannock
dough and cook it on a stick or in a cup.
8. Cook a baked apple, banana, or a tinfoil dessert of your
choice.
9. Make a campfire treat, such as SMOR's or popcorn.
10. Cook a
meal of your choice while at camp.
11. Make a shish-ka-bob of meat and vegetables and cook over a
fire.
12. Cook an egg.
FISHING
BADGE
1. Describe some safety rules for being in or around water; and know how
to prevent and treat injuries caused by fish hooks and fish knives.
2. Show how to put together and toe an angling outfit, a handline
outfit, or an ice fishing outfit.
3. Name and identify some major sport fish in your area.
4. Describe the most suitable
way to catch one sport fish of your choice.
5. Discuss the rules and regulations for fishing in your area,
how to unhook and release a fish with-out harming it, and the benefits of
using barbless hooks.
6. Do either (a) or (b):
a) Without help (except for the actual
landing), catch three separate species of local fish. Name them correctly and
describe what family they belong to and their place in fishing (game fish,
minnow, coarse, etc.)
b) Discuss water pollution in your area
- how it can affect fishing and what can be done to reduce or eliminate
pollution
HIKING
BADGE
1. Know how to take care of your feet for everyday walking, through
washing, toenail clipping, wearing clean, dry socks and having proper fitting
shoes.
2. Know how to treat a blister on the foot, insect bites,
hypothermia, overheating and discuss the importance of getting adequate rest
while hiking.
3. Discuss
some safety rules for hiking,
such as:
a) staying with the group and using a
buddy system
b) keeping to designated trails
c) keeping the group together
d) having enough drinking water and food
e) carrying a first aid kit, whistle and
spare clothes
4. Describe
what to do if lost.
5. Know some rules for protecting nature when hiking.
6. Go on four hikes of one to two hours long, some of which could
be in a conservation area or park, around your camp, around your community, or
at night.
7. Prepare a nutritional trail mix to eat and share.
TRAILCRAFT
BADGE
1. In preparing for a trip, know how to do the following:
a) Tell an adult where you are going and
include arrival time, route and any phone numbers
b) Wear clothes and shoes suitable for
where you will be and the weather
c) Make a "footprint" by
placing a sheet of tinfoil on a towel and then stepping on it with your shoes
on. Mark the foil with your name and leave with an adult so searchers can
identify your footprint if needed
d) Understand and use the buddy system
when on trips
e) List some rules for preventing
getting lost, such as staying on trails and with your group
2. Discuss and demonstrate
how to do the following if lost:
a) Stay calm and slow down to save
energy and body heat
b) Keep your head and body warm and dry
to avoid hypothermia
c) Find a friendly place near a clearing
and stay put to help searchers find you
d) Make a survival shelter or bed to
keep off the cold ground and stay dry
e) Avoid eating strange berries and
drinking unpurified water
f) Put out something bright for people
to see
g) Make a pattern of three signals
h) Look big to airplanes by lying down
in a clearing and wearing bright clothing or a coloured garbage bag
i) How to be careful around bodies of
water
j) Yell back at any scary night
noises
3. Make a survival/first
aid kit
that includes among the items a high energy snack, several brightly coloured
garbage bags, reflector or hand mirror and a whistle.
WATERCRAFT
BADGE (Updated November 1999)
1. Describe six different types of watercraft.
2. Correctly name and point out six different parts of a
watercraft.
3. Explain and show the correct way to choose and wear a
lifejacket or Personal
Flotation Device (PFD).
4. Demonstrate how to safely enter, change places in and exit a
boat, showing how to move calmly and keep your weight low and centered. Know
how to behave in a boat.
5. Describe the signs of dangerous weather
and water conditions for boating, and what to do when you see them.
6. Demonstrate the following:
a) Identify three examples of good
throwing assists.
b) Be able to throw a throwing assist
(without a line) to a person at least two meters away.
7. Demonstrate the following:
a) While wearing your PFD, curl up in a
ball to form the Heat
Escape Lessening Position (HELP) to stay warm in the water.
b) With a small group who are all
wearing PFDs, huddle together to make the HUDDLE position to keep you and
others warm in the water.
8. Know the importance of staying with your boat if you fall out
or tip over.
9. With a buddy or adult, launch a boat and row, paddle
or sail in a straight line for 50 meters; turn and come back.
WINTER
CUBBING BADGE
1. Describe how to prevent and treat:
a) Frost-bite
b) Skin on cold metal
c) Snow blindness
d) Breaking through ice
e) Hypothermia
2. Show that you are properly dressed for a winter outing or
describe how to dress for winter weather. Know the importance of staying
dry.
3. Recognize and identify in winter conditions three common birds
and three common trees or shrubs.
4. Point out the North Star and three night sky features, such as
stars,
constellations, and planets.
5. Take part in two of the following:
a) a winter
camp
b) a winter hike
c) two winter outdoor meetings
d) lighting a fire and cooking a simple
meal under winter conditions
e) a hike on snowshoes
or skis
f) an ice
fishing trip
AWARDS
CANADIAN
CAMPER AWARD
1. Earn the Green
Star.
2. Earn the First
Aider Badge.
3. Earn the Camping
Badge.
4. Participate in at least three Cub camps.
5. With a buddy and help from your leader, choose a campsite and
complete the following:
a) Set up a shelter of your own design
or a tent. Weather permitting, spend a whole night sleeping in your shelter
b) Where permitted, build a fire and
boil a cup of water
c) Scout the area and discover what you
can about the terrain, kinds of plants and habits of local wildlife
d) Locate the direction of North
and predict possible changes in weather
6. Help show other Cubs how to do a camping skill of your
choice.
7. Where possible, visit a Scout troop camp and learn about their
camping program.
CANADIAN
HERITAGE TRAILS AWARD
1. Earn the Green
Star.
2. Earn the Hiking
or Watercraft
Badge.
3. Locate a trail or waterway and learn about its heritage
importance.
4. Travel on this route, and list some of the significant natural or heritage
features along the way.
5. While traveling on this route, participate in a project that
helps restore, clean or preserve the section you are on.
