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| Black Star |
To earn the Black Star, choose and do any five of the A requirements and any two of the B requirements:
A. Requirements
1. Care for a lawn or garden for a month
2. Without harming nature, mount and label a display of natural things, such as leaves, weeds, rocks, or seeds and tell about your collection
3. Grow a plant indoor and describe how it grew
4. Grow a sugar or salt crystal on a string
5. Plant a tree or shrub; describe how trees grow and why they are important to nature
6. Point out or describe some sources of pollution in your neighbourhood and describe possible solutions
7. Make a rain guage and use it to record rain or snowfall for a month
8. Make and set up a birdbath, birdhouse, or bird feeding station, and look after it for a season
9. Show how to use and take care of common garden tools
10. Using the water cycle, show the route water takes to your home or show how acid rain is formed and how it affects nature
11. Point out the North Star and three constellations
B. Requirements
1. Visit a natural area of your choice and point out some of different ways the local plants and animals depend on one another for life
2. Go on a ramble and identify six different kinds of birds, or keep a record of birds using a birdbath or bird feeder for a season. Know which birds are protected in your area
3. Visit one of the following places: conservation area, weather station, fish hatchery, observatory, tree farm, fire ranger tower, farm, greenhouse, park, zoo, forestry station, dam. Learn about how this place helps the environment.
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| Blue Star |
To earn the Blue Star; choose and do any five of the A requirements and any four of the B requirements:
A. Requirements
1. Accept and carry out a home chore for one month, such as washing the 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 you 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 recieve a simple message in Bliss symbols, Braille, American Sign Language, or other form of communicaiton used by some disabled people
6. Demonstrate basic first aid skills
7. Make use of 2 community resources such as a lubrary, 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 3 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
B. Requirements
1. Visit a national, provincial or local government building, such as a courthouse of 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 plane, 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 an accident and fire prevention check of your home, garage, Cub meeting place, or community. With your family, draw an emergency excape plan for your home
6. Make a list or point out in your meeting place and community what services are available for disabled people
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| 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 3 distances and measuring things by using your body, such as the length of your foot, your pace or the top of your thumb.
2. Tie and show practical use for any five knots, such as reef, sheet bend, taut-line, bowline, fisherman's knot, round turn and two half hitchs, 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 3 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 then 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
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| Purple Star |
To earn the Purple Star, choose and do any six of the A requirements and a minimum of five of the B requirements:
A. Requirements
1. Give the history and draw a picture of the Canadian flag. Also draw the flags of two other countries.
2. Recite or sing "O Canada", our national anthem.
3. Draw or trace a map of Canada and include such features as provincial and territorial boundaries, capital cities, your home location, occupations common to the various regions and natural features.
4. Make a simple scrapbook describing the life of one or more important Canadians of your choice.
5. Discuss with your leader the benefits you and your community receive from doing community service projects.
6. Discuss with an adult what some of our Rights and Freedoms are as Canadians. Also discuss what freedom and prejudice mean to you.
7. Make a chart of your pack or six and see how many cultures are represented.
8. Participate in an activity which explores the traditions of your own faith.
9. Participate in an activity which explores the traditions of a religion other than your own.
10. Participate in an activity where you explore the traditions of a culture or country other than your own.
11. Look through a catalogue, newspaper or magazine for products which are made in another country and sold in Canada. Find products made in Canada that are sold in other countries.
12. Make a presentation describing Canadian technology and travel.
B. Requirements
1. Participate in a local food bank drive.
2. Participate in a project to collect items for the needy, such as clothes or toys.
3. Assist a Service Agency in a service project. (e.g. Red Cross, Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, etc.)
4. Participate in providing service for your place of worship.
5. Participate in any environmental cleanup or beautification project.
6. Participate in an Adopt-a-Friend project for a special person, group, community or environment.
7. Participate in providing service to your Sponsor or assist your Sponsor in any community service project.
8. Make a gift and donate it to a worthy cause.
9. Participate in any project which improves access for or awareness of the disabled.
10. Participate in providing service to your school.
11. Assist a Colony as a Keeo for three months
12. Participate in a project that supports the Canadian Scout Brotherhood Fund or Community Development Projects.
13. Participate in a community service project not listed above.
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| Red Star |
Choose and do any five of the A Requirements and any two of the B Requirements.
A. Requirements
1. Choose and do any 5 fo the atheletic activities illustrated in this chapter (front roll, back roll, etc)
2. Develop and follow your own personal active living program, with at least 15 minutes per day of activity for a 2-week period
3. Describe some safety rules for water activities
4. Lead a group in an active games, and explain why good sportsmanship is important
5. Discuss how to protect your body from injury in different sports (e.g. using eye protectors, mouth gaurd, helmets, or padding)
6. Show the porper way to sit, stand, walk, and run. Learn how to take your pulse rate before and after exercise
7. Plan balanced meals for home or camp
8. describe the dangers of the common cold, and explain 3 ways to prevent it from spreading
9. Describe how to take care of your own clothing and belongings, and explain why such care is important
10. Describe how to take care of your hair, ears, eyes, teeth, nose, nails, and feet, and explain why. Explain the importance of washing your hands before handling food, before eating, and after using the washroom
B. Requirements
1. Meet with a health worker or other knowleadgeable adult to discuss, or make a display showing the effects tobacco use has on your body
2. Meet with a health worker, police officer or other knowleadgeable adult to discuss, or make a display showing the effects alcohol and drug abuse have on your body
3. Design, build and use a simple gym or an outdoor obstacle course
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| Tawny Star |
To earn the Tawny Star, choose and do any six of the A requirements and any three of B requirements:
A. Requirements
1. Show how to safely use simple tools, include a pocket knife
2. Make a simple article such as a puppet, toy or game, papier-mache item, woggle, etc.
3. Type a simple message, letter, story or poem
4. Make a working model and demonstrate its operation
5. Build and fly a model airplane or kite
6. Make and play a simple musical instrument
7. Make and use a periscope
8. Write a short story, skit, poem, or limerick
9. Produce an original and imaginative piece of art such as a moblie, sculpture, driftwood article, display of sketches, or photographs, picture puzzle, or collage
10. Send and recieve a message in code, such as morse code, semaphore or a secret code you made up yourself
B. Requirements
1. Tell a story using photographs, slides, video tape, or puppets
2. Make and set up something related to the environment, such as a weather vane, nest box, bird feeder, or composter
3. Paint a mural or do a poster for an event such as Fire Prevention Week, Scoutrees for Canada, National Wildlife Week, Scout-Guide Week or any other special occasion
4. From scrap material, make equipment for games: tetherball equipment, bean bags, rope rings, a slide, swing, trapeze, etc.
5. Without harming nature, make a decorative piece such as a wall plaque, framed picture, lamp shade or lamp stand from a collection of natural articles.
6. Recite, sing, or perform a skit from a story you have read or written, such as the life of Baden-Powell.
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