Scout Name ______________________________________________________________ Unit # ____________ Date ____________

Camping Merit Badge Worksheet

Requirement 1
Show your counselor and unit leader the following:
Preparing for camp: clothing and equipment and how to pack them.
Camp shelter and sanitation, including tent pitching.
Precautions to be taken on a Crew/Patrol/Outfit/Troop camp.

Requirement 2
Make a camp layout using the space below.

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Scout Name ______________________________________________________________ Unit # ____________ Date ____________

Plan for a weekend camp including a schedule of activities. Submit this to your counselor.

Friday __________________
Time

Description of Activity

In-Charge

Saturday __________________
Time

Description of Activity

In-Charge

Sunday __________________

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Scout Name ______________________________________________________________ Unit # ____________ Date ____________

Time

Description of Activity

In-Charge

Date Submitted to Counselor: __________________________

With the members of your Crew/Patrol/Outfit/Troop, discuss the plan in the presence of your Unit Leader and Counselor.
Date Discussed: __________________________
Carry out the camp plan.
Date Carried Out: __________________________

Requirement 3
While in camp, do the following:
Make a comfortable ground bed and sleep on it. Use ground cloth and padding of clothing, grass, leave, or straw.
Make a camp table, a tripod for suspending camp supplies, clothes line, OR other camp conveniences using proper
lashing techniques.
Dig a suitable garbage pit.
Indicate the following information:
Camp Description: __________________________________
Camp Date: ________________________________________
Camp Venue: ______________________________________
Adult Leader-in-Charge: ______________________________

Requirement 4

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Scout Name ______________________________________________________________ Unit # ____________ Date ____________

Explain the proper method of storing and protecting your food and equipment against small animals, insects, and wet weather:
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Requirement 5
How would you protect yourself against wet weather and cold while in camp?
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Requirement 6
List down camps you have participated in the out-of-doors. You may include week-end camp and summer camps.
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Start Date

End Date

Description and Venue

Days

Nights

Total Days and Nights (must equal or exceed 20 days and 20 nights to satisfy the requirement):

Requirement 7

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Complete the report on camps youve attended (totaling 15 days and 15 nights) to be submitted to your Unit Leader and Counselor.

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Scout Name ______________________________________________________________ Unit # ____________ Date ____________

Camp Number # _________

Inclusive Dates of Camp: __________ to __________

Total Days _______ Nights _______

Camp Description and Venue: ________________________________________________________

a.

Use the back portion of this paper to sketch the campsite.

b.

List schedule and details of activities in the camp.

c.

What you did or learned in camp: ______________________________________________________________

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d.

Experience in the camp which developed your character, your health, your self-reliance, and your harmonious
relationship with other Scouts: _________________________________________________________________
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