14. RIDE RIGHT (Do "a" and 3 more)
    1. Know the rules for bike safety. If your town requires a bicycle license, be sure to get one. (See handbook for rules)
    2. Learn to ride a bike, if you haven't by now. Show that you can follow a winding course for 60 feet doing sharp left and right turns, a U-turn, and an emergency stop.
    3. Keep your bike in good shape. Identify the parts of a bike that should be checked often.
    4. Change a tire on a bicycle.
    5. Protect your bike from theft. Use a bicycle lock.
    6. Ride a bike for 1 mile without rest, and be sure to obey all traffic rules.
    7. Plan and take a family bike hike.
     
15. GAMES, GAMES, GAMES! (Do any 2)
    1. Set up the equipment and play any two of these outdoor games with your family or friends.

       Backyard Golf Badminton Croquet Sidewalk Shuffleboard

       Kickball Softball Tetherball Horseshoes Volleyball

    2. Play two organized games with your den.
    3. Select a game your den has never played. Explain the rules. Tell them how it is played, then play it with them.
     
16. BUILDING MUSCLES (Do all 3)
    1. Do physical fitness stretching exercises. Then do sit-ups, push-ups, the standing long jump, and softball throw.
    2. With a friend, compete in at least six different two-person contests. (See handbook for examples)
    3. Compete with your den or pack in the crab relay, gorilla relay, 30-yard dash, and kangaroo relay.
     
17. INFORMATION, PLEASE (Do "a" and 3 more)
    1. With an adult in your family, select a TV show. Watch it together.
    2. Play a game of charades at your Den meeting or with your family at home.
    3. Visit a newspaper office, or TV or radio station and talk to a news reporter.
    4. Use a computer to get information. Write, spell check, and print out a report on what you learned. 
    5. Write a letter to a company that makes something you use. Use E-mail or the US Postal Service. 
    6. Talk with one of your parents or another family member about how getting and giving facts fits into his or her job.
     
18. JOT IT DOWN (Do any 5)
    1. Make a list of the things you want to do today. Check them off when you have done them.
    2. Write two letters to relatives or friends.
    3. Keep a daily record of your activities for 2 weeks.
    4. Write an invitation to someone.
    5. Write a story about something you have done with your family.
    6. Write a thank-you note.
    7. Write about the activities of your den.
     
19. SHAVINGS AND CHIPS (Do all 4)
    1. Know the safety rules for handling a knife.
    2. Show that you know how to take care of and use a pocketknife.
    3. Make a carving with a pocketknife. Work with your parent or den leader in doing this.
    4. Earn the "Whittling Chip" card.
     
20. SAWDUST AND NAILS (Do all 3)
    1. Show how to use and take care of four of these tools. (See handbook.)
    2. Build your own tool box.
    3. Use at least two tools listed in requirement 'a' to fix something.
     
21. BUILD A MODEL (Do any 3)
    1. Build a model from a kit.
    2. Build a display for one of your models.
    3. Pretend you are planning to change the furniture layout in one of the rooms in your home.
    4. Make a model of a mountain, a meadow, a canyon, or river.
    5. Go see a model of a shopping center or new building that is on display somewhere.
    6. Make a model of anything - a rocket, boat, car, or plane.
     
22. TYING IT ALL UP (Do any 5)
    1. Whip the ends of a rope.
    2. Tie a square know, bowline, sheet bend, two half hitches, and a slip knot. Tell how each knot is used.
    3. Learn how to keep a rope from tangling.
    4. Coil a rope. Throw it, hitting a 2-foot square marker 20 feet away.
    5. Learn a magic rope trick.
    6. Make your own rope. (Se handbook for ideas!)
     
23. SPORTS, SPORTS, SPORTS (Do all 5)
    1. Learn the rules and how to play three team sports.
    2. Learn the rules and how to play two sports in which only one person is on each side.
    3. Take part in one team and one individual sport.
    4. Watch a sport on TV with a parent or some other member of your family.
    5. Attend a high school, college, or professional sporting event with your family or your den.
     
24. BE A LEADER (Do any 3)
    1. Help a boy join the Cub Scouts, or help a new Cub Scout through the Bobcat trail.
    2. Serve as a Den chief or assistant Den chief.
    3. Plan and conduct a den activity with the approval of your den leader.
    4. Tell two people they have done a good job.
    5. Leadership means choosing a way even when your choice is not liked by all.

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Duluth, Ga.

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