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My Safety

Cub Scouts · Adventure, Required

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My Safety helps you and your family be ready for whatever comes. You'll learn rules to protect yourself, find hidden hazards at home, and plan for weather or natural events. Being prepared helps everyone feel calmer.

Why it's worth it

Being prepared is the Cub Scout way, and this adventure shows what that means at home. You'll learn rules to protect yourself, find hidden hazards, and help your family plan for the kinds of storms or emergencies that really happen where you live. When something does happen, you'll know what to do and your family will too.

Start this week

  1. Watch the Protect Yourself Rules video with your parent or guardian and talk about one rule that stood out.
  2. Find every smoke alarm in your home and ask your adult when the batteries were last checked.
  3. Ask your family: what kinds of weather or natural events happen here?

Stay safe

  • On a hazard hunt, look but don't open or move chemicals. Let your adult handle anything you find.

Requirements · 4

Every official requirement and part, numbered to match Scouting America, in plain language. Sign off against the official wording (opens in a new tab).

  1. Requirement 1

    With permission from a parent or legal guardian, watch the Webelos Protect Yourself Rules video

    Tip: Watch the video with a parent or guardian, then talk about the rules together.

  2. Requirement 2

    Find hazardous items in your home and make sure they're stored safely; find where each package explains what to do after accidental exposure

    Tip: Go on a hazard hunt with an adult. Check that cleaners and medicines are stored safely and read the labels.

    For example: On a hazard hunt, look under the kitchen and bathroom sinks. Are cleaners closed and up high or locked? Find words like Caution or Danger on a label and the part that says what to do if someone swallows it or gets it in their eyes.

  3. Requirement 3

    Name ways your family and you keep your home or meeting place safe

    Tip: Look for smoke alarms, fire extinguishers, and locks. Ask your family about your escape plan.

    For example: Your family might keep your home safe with smoke alarms, a fire extinguisher, a meeting spot outside, locked doors, a flashlight by the bed, and a list of emergency numbers on the fridge.

  4. Requirement 4

    Fill out the Be Prepared for Natural Events worksheet for at least two natural events that are most likely where you live

    Tip: Ask an adult which events are likely where you live, like storms or floods, and fill out the worksheet together.

    For example: If you live where tornadoes and power outages happen, your worksheet might show: the safest room, what goes in your emergency kit (water, flashlight, batteries, snacks), and how your family will check in with each other.

Places to visit

Ask an adult to set it up, and go with your family, den, patrol, or crew.

  • A fire station

    Firefighters can show the gear they wear and explain how families can practice a home escape plan.

    How: Have your den leader call the station's non-emergency number and ask for a den visit or a short safety talk.

Talk about it together

  • Which Protect Yourself Rule do you think is the most important, and why?
  • What hazard at home surprised you?
  • Who are the trusted adults you can go to if something feels wrong?
  • How does having a plan change how you feel about storms or emergencies?
  • What would you teach a younger kid about staying safe?

Helpful reads

For leaders & parents

  • Send the video and hazard hunt home as family activities so parents are part of the conversation.
  • Invite a firefighter or emergency manager to talk about local natural events.

People & places that can help

Pairs well with

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Tips, examples, and questions are ideas from experienced leaders, not extra requirements. Your unit leader or counselor decides when a requirement is complete.