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Tenderfoot Requirements
Tenderfoot is one of the first ranks scouts acheive. But by no means
is it the simplest. Scouts are required to preform various tasks
showing their scouting skills.
Here are a list of the Tenderfoot requirements:
- Present yourself ot your leader, properly dressed, before going
on an overnight camping trip. Show the camping gear you will use.
Show the right way to pack and carry it.
- Spend at least one night on a partol or troop campout. 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.
- a) Demonstrate how to whip and fuse the ends of a rope.
b) Demonstrate that you know how to tie the following knots and tell what their uses are: two half hitches and the taut-line hitch.
- Explain the rules of safe hiking, both on the highway and cross-country, during the 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 words 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.
- a) Record your best in the following tests:
Current Results
Push-ups____
Pull-ups____
Sit-ups____
Standing long jump (___ft.___in.)
1/4-mile walk/run________
b) Show improvement in the activities listed above after practicing
for 30 days.
- Identify local poisonous plants; tell how to treat for exposure
to them.
- a) Demonstrate the Heimlich maneuver and tell when it is used.
b) Show first aid for the following:
- Simple cuts and scratches
- Blisters on the hand and foot
- Minor burns or scalds (first degree)
- Bites or stings of insects and ticks
- Poisonous snakebite
- Nosebleed
- Frostbite and sunburn
- Participate in a Scoutmaster conference.
- Board of review completed______________
NOTE: Alternate requirements for the Tenderfoot rank are available for Scouts with physical or mental disabilities if they meet the criteria.
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Last updated: Thursday, 18-Mar-2004 20:45:16 PST
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