Tiger Bites

Cub Scouts · Adventure, Required

Tiger Bites is about fueling and caring for your body. You'll learn the food groups, practice handwashing, get moving, and find ways to sleep well. Healthy habits help you have energy for every adventure.

Why it's worth it

A tiger needs good food, clean paws, lots of play, and plenty of sleep, and so do you. In Tiger Bites you'll learn the five food groups, scrub away germs, move your body for 30 minutes, and find ways to fall asleep more easily. Strong habits help you have energy for school, sports, and every Scout adventure.

Start this week

Help make a snack tonight and name which food groups are in it.
Count how many times you wash your hands tomorrow, and when.
With your adult, write down what time you go to bed and what you do right before.

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).

Requirement 1
Name the five food groups
Tip: Help make a meal or snack and name the food groups you used.
For example: Build a rainbow snack plate: apple slices (fruit), carrot sticks (vegetable), whole-grain crackers (grains), cheese cubes (dairy), and hummus or turkey (protein). Name each group as you add it.
Requirement 2
Practice washing your hands and point out times when you should wash them
Tip: Scrub your hands while humming a short song, and list times to wash, like before eating.
Requirement 3
Be active for 30 minutes
Tip: Play outside, dance, or ride your bike for 30 minutes. Ask your family to join.
For example: Thirty minutes might be a family walk to the park, ten minutes on the swings and slide, then a race home. Or put on music and do a dance party with jumping, spinning, and freeze poses.
Requirement 4
Practice ways that help you sleep
Tip: Make a bedtime routine together, like a bath, a book, and lights out at the same time.
For example: A bedtime routine could be: bath, pajamas, brush teeth, one book with your adult, lights off at the same time each night. Try turning screens off before bath time.

Talk about it together

Which food group do you eat the most, and which one could you eat more of?
Where do you think germs hide in your house?
What kind of moving makes you feel the strongest?
How do you feel the day after a good night's sleep compared with a short one?
What healthy habit could your whole family try together?

Helpful reads

Cub Scouts: a guide for families, How Cub Scout ranks and adventures work from kindergarten through fifth grade, what an adult partner does, and how to keep it fun at meetings and at home., Families · Leaders · 4 min read

For leaders & parents

Add a quick active game to each meeting and a healthy snack that shows several food groups.
Have Tigers share their bedtime routines to swap ideas.

People & places that can help

MyPlate (USDA) (opens in a new tab) — Kid-friendly ideas about the food groups.
CDC (opens in a new tab) — Handwashing tips for families.
Your den leader — Can share den plans and help you sign off what you've done.
Tiger Bites adventure page (opens in a new tab) — Den activities for food groups, handwashing, moving, and sleep.
KidsHealth (opens in a new tab) — Kid-friendly articles about food, germs, exercise, and sleep from Nemours.
HealthyChildren.org (opens in a new tab) — Pediatricians' advice for families on sleep routines and healthy eating.

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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.