Webelos Scout Activity Badges
Mental Skills Group
As revised in the 1998 edition of the
Webelos Scout Book.
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ARTIST, SCHOLAR,
SHOWMAN, TRAVELER
Do Five of These:
- Draw or paint an original picture, using the art
materials you prefer.
Use
watercolors, crayons, or acrylic paints. Frame
the picture it
for your room or home.
- List the primary and secondary colors.
Tell how to Explain what happens
when you combine colors.
- Using a computer, make
Make six original
designs using straight lines, curved lines, or both.
- Draw
Make
a profile of a member of your family.
- Use
plastic or
clay and
to sculpt a simple object.
- Make a mobile, using your choice of materials.
- Make an art construction, using your choice of materials.
Make a construction. Use your choice
of materials. Examples are dowels, screen wire, cellophane, and string.
- Create a collage that expresses something about yourself.
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
you are going to
school.
And Do Three of These:
- Trace
back
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
your parents 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.
Choose one set of requirements for this badge:
PUPPETRY(page 119), MUSIC(page
127), OR DRAMA(page 132)
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
fist
puppets or marionettes for the play you have written or for
another play.
- Build a simple stage for
fist
puppets, shadow 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
barbershop quartet. With the help of three
others, harmonize.
other den members, sing a song with the puppets as the
performers.
- There are
fist, shadow,
sock, stick and finger puppets. There are paper
bag puppets, stick puppets,
and marionettes. Show
Explain their differences and show
any puppets using ones
you have made for this badge.
MUSIC REQUIREMENTS
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
the most famous
work by of
each.
- Draw a staff. Draw on it a clef, sharp, flat, natural, note, and
rest. Tell what each is used for.
- Show
by beating or playing
the difference between 2/4, 3/4, and 4/4 time by beating time
or playing an instrument.
DRAMA REQUIREMENTS
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?
Tell
Explain the difference between
an a
grand opera and a light opera.
Tell how Explain the difference
between a musical and a
dramatic play are
different.
- Read
a story
about William Shakespeare. Draw a picture of his
Globe Theater.
theater.
Do Five of These:
- Get a map or timetable from a railroad, bus line,
or 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
timetables to plan a trip from your home to
a city in another state by railroad, bus,
or airline, or ferry.
Find out what it costs per mile to
travel by bus, railroad, or plane.
4. With your
parents parent or
guardian, take a trip to a place
someplace 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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