Fitness Activity Badge and Safety Notebook

The Fitness activity badge is best completed at home.  In fact, most must be done with a parent.  To facilitate this, I have sent home a packet with each Scout that has all the information they need to do it.  The packet includes:

-A letter to the parent explaining the requirements

-A copy of this Safety Notebook (see explanation below)

-Charts for meal planning, tracking, and evaluation (these came from our council’s Pow-Wow book, and they’ve worked pretty well)

I put together this safety notebook.  It will pass off quite a few requirements for both the Fitness and Readyman activity badges if a parent goes over each section with the Scout and they complete the necessary parts together (like the safety rule and emergency contact lists).  I print the file double-sided, and I usually print the first sheet on cardstock so it has a sort of a cover.  Fold the book in half and staple it.  (The pages seem out of order in the file but will work correctly once it’s put together.)

Alternately, you can have your Scouts do the meal planning requirement as a den activity using this file.  This activity does not require reading.