Tiger Rank

The six required Tiger Adventures and their requirements, Bobcat first, then the seventeen electives under one choice that keeps only the ones your Tiger is doing.

10 steps (117 parts inside them). 94 parts depend on questions you have not answered yet. · Version 1, published 1 November 2026 · About Tiger Rank

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Stage 1 of 5

1 step

A Tiger year: first grade, with an adult partner Milestone

Tiger is the rank for youth who have finished kindergarten or are 6. Every Tiger Adventure is done together with a parent or other caring adult.

Every Tiger Adventure is done with a parent or other caring adult: Guide to Advancement 4.1.1.1 makes that participation a requirement for all Lion and Tiger Adventures. The belt loops and the badge are for the Cub Scout only.

Stage 2 of 5

1 step

Work to the Adventures as they stand this program year Document

Cub Scout Adventures are republished from time to time. Changes take effect at the start of the next program year, which begins June 1, unless a change says otherwise.

Usually comes after A Tiger year: first grade, with an adult partner.

Cub Scout Adventures are revised from time to time. Guide to Advancement 4.0.0.1 says a change to a badge of rank or an Adventure takes effect at the start of the next program year unless it says otherwise, and 4.1.0.1 puts the start of the program year at June 1. This page records the date its copy of each Adventure page was read. Check the Adventure page before relying on this one.

Stage 3 of 5

2 steps

Bobcat Tiger Requirement

The first required Adventure: the den, the Scout Oath and Law, the sign, salute and handshake, Do Your Best, and a parent's booklet done at home.

Usually comes after Work to the Adventures as they stand this program year.
6 parts
- Requirement 1. Get to know the den
- Requirement 2. Say the Scout Oath
- Requirement 3. Hear the Scout Law, and show one point of it
- Requirement 4. Sign, salute and handshake
- Requirement 5. A time you did your best
- Requirement 6. The Parent's Guide, at home Often forgotten This one is done at home, not at a den meeting: a parent or legal guardian works through the booklet "How to Protect Your Children from Child Abuse: A Parent's Guide" with the Cub Scout. It is the Bobcat requirement most often still open at the end of the year.
Any two elective Adventures Decision

Two of the seventeen, chosen by the family and den, and more if you like. Some need a pack event, a trip, water or the summer months.

Usually comes after Work to the Adventures as they stand this program year.
90 parts, 1 ticked
- Champions for Nature Tiger Optional May not apply
- Requirement 1. Renewable or non-renewable? Optional May not apply
- Requirement 2. Reduce, reuse, recycle Optional May not apply
- Requirement 3. Where your community's garbage goes Optional May not apply
- Requirement 4. A conservation project Optional May not apply
- Curiosity, Intrigue, and Magical Mysteries Optional May not apply
- Requirement 1. Learn a magic trick and perform it Optional May not apply
- Requirement 2. Explain the secret of a magic trick Optional May not apply
- Requirement 3. Your name in secret code Optional May not apply
- Requirement 4. A coded message Optional May not apply Usually comes after Requirement 3. Your name in secret code.
- Designed by Tiger Optional May not apply
- Requirement 1. Draw what you want to build Optional May not apply
- Requirement 2. Build it from your drawing Optional May not apply Usually comes after Requirement 1. Draw what you want to build.
- Requirement 3. How could it be better? Optional May not apply Usually comes after Requirement 2. Build it from your drawing.
- Requirement 4. Make the improvement Optional May not apply Usually comes after Requirement 3. How could it be better?.
- Requirement 5. Draw the final project Optional May not apply
- Fish On Optional May not apply
- Requirement 1. Where will you fish? Optional May not apply
- Requirement 2. Fishing safety rules Optional May not apply
- Requirement 3. Draw the fish you expect Optional May not apply
- Requirement 4. Go fishing Optional May not apply
- Floats and Boats Optional May not apply
- Requirement 1. Five kinds of boat Optional May not apply
- Requirement 2. Floats or sinks? Optional May not apply
- Requirement 3. Build a model boat and float it Optional May not apply
- Requirement 4. Put on a life jacket Optional May not apply
- Good Knights Optional May not apply
- Requirement 1. How a knight behaves Optional May not apply
- Requirement 2. Make a shield Optional May not apply
- Requirement 3. Build a small castle Optional May not apply
- Requirement 4. A Good Turn Optional May not apply
- Let’s Camp Tiger Optional May not apply Needs a campout. The page notes that for a pack overnighter at least one registered adult leader who will be there must have completed BALOO (Basic Adult Leader Outdoor Orientation) training.
- Requirement 1. The buddy system outdoors Optional May not apply
- Requirement 2. Weather and clothes for the campout Optional May not apply
- Requirement 3. Pack the Six Essentials Optional May not apply
- Requirement 4. A camping skill Optional May not apply
- Requirement 5. Go camping Optional May not apply Usually comes after Requirement 2. Weather and clothes for the campout.
- Race Time Tiger Optional May not apply
- Requirement 1. Build and decorate a car or a boat Optional May not apply
- Requirement 2. Learn the race rules Optional May not apply Usually comes after Requirement 1. Build and decorate a car or a boat.
- Requirement 3. Plan your sportsmanship Optional May not apply
- Requirement 4. Race Optional May not apply Usually comes after Requirement 3. Plan your sportsmanship.
- Rolling Tigers Optional May not apply
- Requirement 1. The ABCs of a bike Optional May not apply
- Requirement 2. Bike safety gear Optional May not apply
- Requirement 3. Bike safety rules Optional May not apply
- Requirement 4. Hand signals Optional May not apply
- Requirement 5. Ride, or start learning to Optional May not apply
- Safe and Smart Optional May not apply
- Requirement 1. Your address, from memory Optional May not apply
- Requirement 2. An emergency contact's number, from memory Optional May not apply
- Requirement 3. Stop, Drop and Roll Optional May not apply
- Requirement 4. A fire escape plan Optional May not apply
- Requirement 5. Smoke detectors Optional May not apply
- Requirement 6. Matches and lighters are for adults Optional May not apply
- Requirement 7. Meet emergency responders Optional May not apply
- Sky is the Limit Optional May not apply
- Requirement 1. Look at the night sky Optional May not apply
- Requirement 2. Focus on something far away Optional May not apply
- Requirement 3. Two easy constellations Optional May not apply
- Requirement 4. A constellation model Optional May not apply
- Stories in Shapes Optional May not apply
- Requirement 1. Art in your community Optional May not apply
- Requirement 2. What you like about a piece of art Optional May not apply
- Requirement 3. Art made of shapes Optional May not apply
- Requirement 4. Spell your name two new ways Optional May not apply
- Summertime Fun Tiger Optional May not apply The three Cub Scout activities must fall between May and August. Outside those months this elective cannot be worked on.
- Requirement 1. Three Cub Scout activities, May to August Optional May not apply
- Tech All Around Optional May not apply
- Requirement 1. Technology around you Optional May not apply
- Requirement 2. How digital technology helps Optional May not apply
- Requirement 3. Show safe use of a device Optional May not apply
- Requirement 4. A family policy for devices Optional May not apply
- Tiger Tag Optional May not apply
- Requirement 1. An active game Optional May not apply
- Requirement 2. A relay game Optional May not apply
- Requirement 3. Being a good sport Optional May not apply
- Requirement 4. Go to a sporting event Optional May not apply
- Tiger-iffic! Optional May not apply
- Requirement 1. Two games on your own Optional May not apply
- Requirement 2. A board game or other indoor game Optional May not apply
- Requirement 3. Invent a game, or change one Optional May not apply
- Requirement 4. A team game Optional May not apply
- Tigers in the Water Optional May not apply The page requires swimming to be supervised by a responsible adult aged 21 or older who is trained in Safe Swim Defense. Adults supervising should complete the Safe Swim Defense course on my.scouting before the swim.
- Requirement 1. Swimming safety rules Optional May not apply
- Requirement 2. Getting into the water properly Optional May not apply
- Requirement 3. Twenty minutes in the water Optional May not apply
- Requirement 4. Face in, blow bubbles Optional May not apply
- Requirement 5. A flutter kick Optional May not apply
- Requirement 6. Getting out properly Optional May not apply

Stage 4 of 5

5 steps

Tiger Bites Requirement

Food groups, clean hands, half an hour of activity, and sleep.
4 parts
Tiger’s Roar Requirement

Staying safe: the Protect Yourself Rules, getting help, and what to do if you get lost.
4 parts
Tiger Circles Requirement

Family and faith. Earned by its three requirements, or by a religious emblem of the family's choosing.
4 parts
- Requirement 1. Your family's faith traditions Optional May not apply
- Requirement 2. A service or gathering with the family Optional May not apply
- Requirement 3. An act of kindness Optional May not apply
- Or: complete a religious emblem Optional May not apply
Team Tiger Requirement

Rules, teams and helping: two games, a team job, and a service project.
4 parts
Tigers in the Wild Requirement

Outdoors: the Six Essentials, the Outdoor Code, a walk, local animals, and a tree.
5 parts

Stage 5 of 5

1 step

Tiger badge of rank, at the next pack meeting Milestone

Once all six required Adventures and two electives are done, the badge is presented at the next pack meeting. Belt loops are given out as each Adventure is earned.

Usually comes after Bobcat Tiger, Tiger Bites and 5 others.

This plan is a planning aid: the current Boy Scouts of America publication is always the authority, and the sources used here are listed in full. Each step names its own.

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