Scout Programs...

The WORLD BIRD SANCTUARY supports Scouting with exciting NEW badge programs!

Let World Bird Sanctuary Naturalists help you fulfill badge requirements with our unique resources:

What's Available?

Girl Scouts - (Brownie, Junior, Cadet/Senior)

Cub Scouts - (Tiger, Wolf. Bear, Weblos)


Girl Scouts

Brownie

Watching Wildlife Try-It

  • Requirement 1: Animal architects
  • Requirement 2: Animal talk
  • Requirement 3: A new wardrobe
  • Requirement 6: Outdoor shopping

Eco-Explorer Try-It

  • Requirement 1: Exploring nature
  • Requirement 2: What’s a habitat
  • Requirement 4: Food chain
  • Requirement 6: Helping wildlife

Animals Try-It

  • Requirement 1: Caring for pets
  • Requirement 2: Understanding animals
  • Requirement 4: Looks mean something
  • Requirement 5: Sounds charade

Junior

Plants and Animals Badge

  • Requirement 1: Plants, here, there and everywhere
  • Requirement 3: Creature teacher
  • Requirement 5: Creature clusters
  • Requirement 7: Seed art
  • Requirement 9: What a pest!
  • Requirement 10: Go on safari

Earth Connections Badge

  • Requirement 1: Be an ecologist
  • Requirement 3: Identify that tree
  • Requirement 4: Reading the rings
  • Requirement 6: Saving animals and plants
  • Requirement 8: Plants and people

Your Outdoor Surroundings Badge

  • Requirement 5: An outdoor hobby
  • Requirement 6: Classifying outdoor objects
  • Requirement 7: An outdoor career
  • Requirement 8: What do you see?
  • Requirement 9: Take a nature hike
  • Requirement 10: Outdoor fun and games

Cadet/Senior

All About Birds Interest Project

  • Skill Builder 2: Field identification
  • Skill Builder 5: Bird feeder stations
  • Skill Builder 6: Bird art
  • Technology 2: Bird banding
  • Technology 4: Captive breeding
  • Service Projects 5: Volunteer
  • Career Exploration 1: Wildlife Rehabilitation

Pets Interest Project

  • Skill Builder 3: Animal training
  • Skill Builder 4: Animal diet
  • Technology 1: Animal health maintenance
  • Technology 2: Environmental hazards
  • Service Projects 4: Volunteer

Wildlife Interest Project

  • Skill Builder 1: Ecology study
  • Skill Builder 2: Flora identification
  • Skill Builder 3: Fauna identification
  • Service Projects 2: Volunteer
  • Career Exploration 1: Interview a Naturalist

Cub Scouts

Tiger

1/2 Tiger Track Bead

  • Elective 31: Learn about animals
  • Elective 32: Feed the birds
  • Elective 34: Conservation
  • Elective 42: Fun at the Zoo
  • Elective 47: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

Achievement 5: Let’s Go Outdoors

  • Requirement 5F: Go outside and watch the weather
  • Requirement 5D: Make a Leaf Rubbing
  • Requirement 5G: Take a Hike

Bear

Achievement 5: Sharing Your World with Wildlife

  • 5b: Make a bird feeder or bird house
  • 5c: Explain what a wildlife conservation officer does
  • 5d: Visit a nature center
  • 5e: Name one animal that has become extinct in the past 100 years

Achievement 6: Take Care of Your Planet

  • Requirement 6d: Create a list of ways water is used at home
  • Requirement 6e: Discuss the kinds of energy you use
  • Requirement 6g: Pick up trash

Wolf

Elective 13: Birds

  • Requirement A: Make a bird journal
  • Requirement B: Put out nesting material and discuss which birds might use the different types
  • Requirement C: Read a book about birds
  • Requirement D: Bird identification/bird discovery hunt
  • Requirement E: Feed birds and tell which ones you fed
  • Requirement F: Make a bird house (DO NOT make a house here, we give them the plans to do so)

Achievement 7: Your Living World

  • Requirement 7a: Create lists of ways land, air and water can get dirty
  • Requirement 7b: Talk about what items can be recycled and locate closest recycling center
  • Requirement 7c: Pick up trash
  • Requirement 7d: Read three stories about people protecting the world
  • Requirement 7e: Create a list of ways to save energy besides recycling

Webelos

Naturalist Badge

  • Requirement 4: Visit a nature center
  • Requirement 6: Learn about flyways
  • Requirement 8: Watch six birds in the wild and describe their behavior
  • Requirement 9: Learn about the food chain and about the balance of nature
  • Requirement 10: Identify a plant, bird or wild animal found only in our area

Forester Badge

  • Requirement 1: Make a map of the US with types of trees labeled
  • Requirement 2: Draw a picture to show the plant and tree layers of the forest
  • Requirement 3: Identify six forest trees in the area
  • Requirement 6: Examine the growth rings of a tree stump
  • Requirement 9: Discuss wildfires

Call today to make reservations for your Scout group...
636-225-4390

Regular programs can be scheduled as well as badge programs.
All fees for these programs go directly to the feeding and care of our animals.

WBS congratulates all of the Eagle Scouts and Gold Award recipients
that have supported environmental conservation with WBS projects.