Tenderfoot
- Present yourself to your leader, properly dressed, before going on a overnight camping
trip. Show the camping gear you will use. Show the right way to pack and carry it.
- Spend at least 1 night on a patrol or troop camp out. Sleep in a tent you have helped
pitch on a ground bed you have prepared.
- On the 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 cleanup, and explain
the importance of eating together.
- Demonstrate how to whip and fuse the ends of a rope. Demonstrate tying two half hitches
and a tautline hitch by using these knots to pitch a tent.
- Explain the rules of safe hiking, both on the highway and cross-country, during day and
at night. Explain what to do if you are lost.
- Demonstrate how to display, raise, lower, and fold the American flag.
- Repeat from memory and explain in your own the Scout oath, law, motto, and slogan.
- Know your patrol name, give the patrol yell, and describe your patrol flag.
- Explain why we use the buddy system in Scouting.
- Record your best in the following tests and show improvement after practicing them for
30 days: Pushups, pull-ups, situps, standing long jump, and 500 yards.
- Identify local poisonous plants; tell how to treat exposure to them.
- Demonstrate the Heimlich maneuver and tell when it is used. Show first aid for simple
cuts and scratches, blisters on the hand and foot, minor burns or scalds (first degree),
bites or stings of insects and ticks, poisonous snake bite, nosebleed.
- Participate in a Scoutmaster conference.
- Be in a board of review.
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