Tenderfoot Badge Requirements

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 tautline 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:
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 imporvement in the above tests.
Identify local poisonous plants; tell how to treat for exposure to them.
Demonstrate the Heimlich manuever 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
- Poisinous snakebite
- Nosebleed
- Frostbite and sunburn
Participate in a Scoutmaster conference.
Complete the board of review.