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ARTIST
Do Five of These:
- Draw or paint an original picture,
using the art material you prefer. Frame
the picture
for your room or home.
- List the primary and secondary colors.
Explain what happens
when you combine colors.
- Using a
computer, make six
original
designs using straight lines, curved lines, or both.
- Draw a
profile of a member of your family.
- Use clay to
sculpt a simple object.
- Make a mobile,
using your choice of materials.
- Create a collage
that expresses something about yourself.
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SCHOLAR
Do
Three of These:
- Have a good record in attendance, behavior, and grades at school.
- Take an active part in a school activity or service.
- Discuss with your teacher or principal the value of having an
education.
- List in writing some important things you can do now because
of what you've
learned in school.
And Do Three of These:
- Trace through history the different kinds of schools. Tell how our
present public school system grew out of these early schools.
- Make a chart showing how your school system is run.
- Ask a parent
and five other grown-ups these questions:
- What do you think are the best things about my school?
- What are its main problems?
What do you think were the best answers? Why?
- List and explain some of the full-time positions in the education
field.
- Help another student with schoolwork. Tell what you did to help.
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SHOWMAN
Choose one set of requirements for this badge:
PUPPETRY, MUSIC, OR
DRAMA
PUPPETRY
Do Four of These:
- Write a puppet play about one of your Webelos den activities
or a subject of your
choice.
- Make a set of puppets or marionettes for the play you have written
or for another play.
- Build a simple stage for puppets or marionettes.
- Alone or with the help of others, put on a
puppet show
for your den or pack.
- Make a set of
four paper bag puppets for a
singing group.
With the help of three
other den members,
sing a song with the puppets as the performers.
- There are sock,
stick and finger puppets. There are paper bag puppets, and
marionettes. Explain
their differences
and show any puppets you have made
for this badge.
MUSIC
Do Four of These:
- Play four tunes on any band or orchestra instrument. Read these from
music.
- Sing two songs alone or with a group.
- Make a collection of three or more records,
tapes, or compact
discs. Tell what you like about each one.
- Tell what folk music is. Hum, sing, or play a folk tune on a musical
instrument.
- Name three American composers. Name
a famous work
by each.
- Draw a staff. Draw on it a clef, sharp, flat, natural, note, and rest.
Tell what each is used for.
- Show the difference between 2/4, 3/4, and 4/4 time
by beating time or
playing an instrument.
DRAMA
Do Four of These:
- Give a monologue
(a talk) on a patriotic, humorous, or holiday subject,
or another subject of your choice.
- Attend a play. Describe the story. Tell what you liked about it.
- Read a play. Make a model stage setting for one of the acts.
- Write, put on, and take part in a one-act play.
- Make a list of stage directions. Tell what they mean.
- Describe a theater-in-the-round. What are its good and bad points?
- Explain
the difference between
a grand opera
and a light opera.
Explain the difference between a musical and a play.
- Read about
William Shakespeare. Draw a picture of his
Globe Theater.
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TRAVELER
Do Five of These:
- Get a map or timetable from a railroad, bus line, airline,
subway, or light
rail. The line should serve the place where you live
or where you live.
Look up some places it goes.
- Use a timetable
to plan a trip from your home to a city in another state by railroad, bus,
airline, or ferry.
- With your parent
or guardian, take a trip to
a place that
interests you. Go by
car, bus, boat, train, or plane.
- Figure out what
it costs per mile for the trip you have taken in requirement 3.
- List four nearby trips you would like to take with your parents or
guardian. Lay out the trips on a highway map. Using the map, act as
navigator on one of these trips. It should
start at your home,
be at least 25 miles long, and have six or more turns.
- Pack a suitcase for a trip.
- Check the first aid kit in the family car
to see if it
contains what it needs.
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