TENDERFOOT REQUIRMENTS

· 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.

· Spend at least one night on a patrol or troop campout. Sleep in a tent you have helped pitch.

· On a campout, assist in preparing and cooking one of your patrol’s meals. Tell why it is important for each patrol member to share in meal preparation and clean up, and explain the importance of eating together.

· Demonstrate how to whip and fuse the ends of a rope.

· Demonstrate that you know how to tie the following knots and what their uses are: two half hitches and the taut-line hitch.

· 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.

· Demonstrate how to rise, lower, and fold the American flag.

· Repeat from memory and explain in your own words the Scout Oath, Law, and slogan.

· Know your patrol name, give the patrol yell, and descried your patrol flag.

· Explain why we use the buddy system in Scouting.

· Record your best in the following tests

Current results

Push-ups

Pull-ups

Sit-ups

Standing long jump

¼ -mile walk/run

· 30 days later

Push-ups

Pull-ups

Sit-ups

Standing long jump

¼ -mile walk/run

· Show improvement in the activities listed in requirements above after practicing for thirty days.

· Identify local poisonous plants; tell how to treat for exposure to them.

· Demonstrate the Heimlich maneuver and tell when it is used.

· Show first aide for the following:

o Simple cuts and scratches

o Blisters on the hand and foot

o Minor cuts burns or scalds

o Bites or stings of insects and and tics

o Poisonous snakebite

o Nosebleed

o Frostbite and sunburn

· Participate in a Scoutmaster conference.

· Complete your board of review.