Family-Led Cub Scout Adventure Plan -- TIGER
This is a Family-Led Cub Scout Adventure Plan adapted from the Den Leader Guide for completion at or
from home, led by a parent or other caring adult – and then sharing what you did with the rest of the Den.
RATIONALE FOR ADVENTURE
This adventure will introduce or reinforce healthy eating habits, including making the right food choices and
practicing good hygiene. Activities will also focus on good manners at mealtime. In addition, the adventure will
give each Tiger an opportunity to perform a useful service for the Scout’s family.
NOTES TO PARENT LEADERS – Doing this Den Adventure as a Family
Tips and resources for this Adventure can be found at https://www.southfultonscouting.com/node/4309.
This Adventure can be completed entirely at home with the family.
Want to do this in Two Sessions instead of One Session? Divide up the discussion and eating over more
than one session – after all, you’ll aim to have three meals a day, and your Scout will also want snacks!
Adventure Requirements announced 11/30/2016 and found in the Tiger Handbook with the Orange Cover:
Tiger Required Adventure: Tiger Bites.
Complete requirements 1 and 2 plus at least two others.
1. With your parent, guardian, or other caring adult, or with your den, find out about good food choices and
not-so-good choices. Identify three foods that you think would be good choices and three foods that would
not be good choices.
2. Explain the importance of hand washing before a meal and cleanup after a meal. Then show how you
would do each.
3. Show that you know the difference between a fruit and a vegetable. Eat one of each.
4. With your parent, guardian, or other caring adult, pick a job to help your family at mealtime. Do it for at
least four meals.
5. Talk with your parent, guardian, or other caring adult about what foods you can eat with your fingers.
Practice your manners when eating them.
6. With your parent, guardian, or other caring adult, plan and make a good snack choice or other nutritious
food to share with your den.
PREPARATION AND MATERIALS NEEDED
Read the Team Bites adventure in the Tiger Handbook.
Requirements 1 & 2 are required. This plan uses 3 & 4 as the other 2, but 5 and 6 are easy and good.
Stock up as needed on an assortment of fruits and vegetables. Some families might visit a farmer’s market
or grocery store, to help open up ideas about good nutritious food to eat.
OPENING (doing a simple “Opening Ceremony” sets the tone – “Now We’re Scouting”)
Simple opening is to recite the Scout Oath and/or the Scout Law.
TALK TIME (explain what today’s activity is … )
Introduce the Tiger Bites adventure and describe the goals of the adventure and the activities.
“Talk Time” here blends into the Adventure Requirements, some of which are “talking” …
ACTIVITIES:
◆Activity 1: Food Choices (Requirement 1 “… find out about good food choices and not-so-good choices.
Identify three foods that you think would be good choices and three foods that would not be good choices”)
Discuss “foods that you think would be good choices and foods that would not be good choices”.
Be ready to suggest a few other foods, and ask them to categorize each suggestion as “nutritious” or “not
nutritious.” Here are some examples:
o Nutritious—a can of soup or beans, a bag of rice, dried fruit, tuna, or cheese.
o Not nutritious—chocolate syrup, french fries, cupcakes, candy, donuts, or fast-food burgers.
◆Activity 2: Hand Washing (Requirement 2: “Explain the importance of hand washing before a meal and
clean-up after a meal. Then show how you would do each”)
Pretty simple – and this can be a time to really improve your Scout’s hand washing “game”.
◆Activity 3 – Fruits and Veggies (Requirement 3 “Show that you know the difference between a fruit and
a vegetable. Eat one of each.”).
Discuss fruits and vegetables, and the difference between them. And eat one of each.
o (If you’ve been trying to introduce a new fruit or vegetable, and getting resistance, feel free to use this
requirement as a chance to get your Scout to try something new.)
◆Activity 4: Tiger Meal Helper (Requirement 4: “With your parent, guardian, or other caring adult, pick a
job to help your family at mealtime. Do it for at least four meals.”)
Again, pretty simple – and this can be a time to really improve your Scout’s helping out at mealtime.
Want more? Requirement 5 has a good manners element.
o See the Resources at the end of this plan for some “good manners” / “poor manners” cards.
CLOSING (doing a simple “Closing Ceremony” is a celebration and says “we’re done!”)
Congratulate your Scout for a job well done, and confirm that the Adventure Loops will be awarded soon.
Maybe recite the Scout Oath or Law, whichever one you didn’t do in the “Opening”.
AFTER THE ACTIVITY: Clean up as needed – it’s part of Requirement 4! Upon completion
of the Tiger Bites adventure, your Tiger will have earned the adventure loop shown. Contact
your Den Leader to report completion, so that your Scout can be recognized by receiving the
adventure loop as soon as possible according to your pack’s tradition.
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Tiger Bites Family-Led Adventure Plan
Table Manners Relay Game -- Materials: manners cards (see below)
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Tiger Bites Family-Led Adventure Plan
