How to Earn the Rank of Tenderfoot

Pages 32-33, 438-439 of the Boy Scout Handbook

• Present yourself to 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 1 night on a patrol or troop camp out. Sleep in a tent you have pitched on a ground bed you have prepared.
  
  
• Demonstrate the following:
  • How to whip and fuse the ends of a rope.
  • Tying two half hitches and a 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
  • The Scout Law
  • The Scout Motto
  • The Scout Slogan

• Know your patrol name, give the patrol yell and describe the patrol flag.
  
  
• Explain why we use the buddy system in scouting.
  
  
• Record your best in the following tests:
  • Push-ups
  • Pull-ups
  • Sit-ups
  • Standing long jump
  • Run/walk 500 yards
  
  
• After 30 Days show improvement in the above tests.
  
  
• Identify local poisonous plants; tell how to treat for exposure to them.
  
  
• Demonstrate the Heimlich maneuver and tell when it is used.
  
  
• Show first aid for the following:
  • Simple cuts and scratches
  • Blisters on the hand and foot
  • Minor burns and scalds (first degree)
  • Bites or stings of insects and ticks
  • Poisonous snakebite
  • Nosebleed
  • Frostbite and sunburn
  
  
• Participate in a Scoutmaster conference.
  
  
• Complete the board of review.