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Tiger – 1st Grade
Floats and Boats
Elective
Requirement 4

Life Jacket Relay

Tiger – 1st Grade
Floats and Boats
Elective
Requirement 4

Life Jacket Relay

Snapshot of Activity

Once Cub Scouts learn how to proper fit a life jacket conduct a relay race. 

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  • Properly fitted life jackets for Cub Scouts and adult partners

This requirement does not require Cub Scouts to be on the water.  If you plan on conducting a boating activity you must have an adult leader who has completed BSA’s Safety Afloat training. 

Before the meeting: 

  1. Review the How to Choose The Right Life Jacket brochure from the United States Coast Guard.  
  2. Review BSA content on Life Jackets / Personal Floatation Devices.  
  3. Prepare a location that is free of obstacle to conduct a relay race.  

During the meeting: 

  1. Share with the Cub Scouts and adult partners that anytime they are on a boat they are to have a lifejacket on and the only time they are to get on a boat is when there is a properly trained adult present.  
  2. Have Cub Scouts try on life jackets and check for the proper fit.   
  3. Have Cub Scouts and adult partners divide into two teams. 
  4. Take the life jackets and place them approximately twenty feet from the starting line. 
  5. Explain the rules of the relay race. 
  6. The first person on each team must run to the pile of life jackets and properly put it on and then run back to the start line, run back to the pile of life jackets and take the life jacket off and then run back to the start.  The next person in line now takes a turn.  The first team to finish wins.

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Tiger – 1st Grade

Proper Fit – Proper Safety

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Cub Scouts try on a properly fitted life jacket. 

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Bray Barnes

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Bray Barnes is a recipient of the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award, Silver
Beaver, Silver Antelope, Silver Buffalo, and Learning for Life Distinguished
Service Award. He received the Messengers of Peace Hero award from
the royal family of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and he’s a life member of
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