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Step 1
Help your Webelos Scout organize a list of all 20 activity badges in their five respective groups. Badges are split into physical, mental, community, technology and outdoor categories.
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Step 2
Start with badges that you or your son's den leader feels he can accomplish. Save harder achievements for the second year of Webelos or later in the first year.
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Step 3
Choose activity badges from each of the areas instead of working at one category at a time. For example, pick the Sportsman, Citizen and Outdoorsman badges to work on first, then choose a few different badges from the other categories to follow.
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Step 4
Ask your Webelos' Den Leader to help decide which badges should be worked on and when. He may already have a plan to help the den work on certain badges at the same time.
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Step 5
Assist your son by helping him organize materials to complete each badge activity. It's best to offer help but not actually do the activity for him since it is an achievement.
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Step 6
Pick activity badges that can be realistically completed at the time. Aquanaut may be easier and more fun to complete in the summer when your Webelos Scout can work at an outside pool or lake. The Traveler Badge is a great summer time family activity, and some of the Technology badges are good activities to work on indoors during the winter months.
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Step 7
Keep track of each activity badge. Help him organize his records so he knows what he has left to do to achieve the badge, and which activity badges he needs to work on yet.
