If you start Cubs when you're aged 7 or 8, you may start on the Bronze Boomerang and then continue on to Silver and Gold. If you're older when you start, you might start off on Silver or Gold. Each Boomerang takes around a year to complete and is done with the Cub Pack as part of our program.

	Bronze Boomerang	Silver Boomerang	Gold Boomerang
Tests 1-7 are mandatory
Test 1 - Health and First Aid (Responsibility for self)
Personal Health	Explain how to keep your hands and nails clean and why. Explain when you should wash your hands. Demonstrate how to look after your teeth.	Explain how to keep your feet in good condition and why. Discuss why sleep is important. Discuss the importance of a balanced diet. Prepare a healthy lunch for an outing.	Discuss personal hygiene such as showering and bathing regularly, changing clothes and using deodorants. Show you understand the different types of foods that will build a healthy body by preparing a menu for one day at a camp.
Basic First Aid	Put together a simple first aid kit and take it on bushwalks and outings with you. Show how to treat a graze or small cut.	Check and replenish or put together a simple first aid kit and take it on bushwalks and outings with you. Show how to treat a bleeding nose. Show how to treat stings and insect bites common to your region.	Check and replenish or put together a simple first aid kit and take it on bushwalks and outings with you. Tie a sling with a reef knot. Show how to treat burns and scalds. Show how to treat bleeding. Explain what to do in the case of fainting.
Infections	Show an understanding of how colds are spread and how to prevent them.	Show an understanding of how germs and head lice can pass to people by contact, and how to prevent this.	Show an understanding of what can happen if you eat food that has not been stored correctly. Discuss the ways to store food appropriately.
Adult Help	Explain why you need adult help in case of accidents. Pass a message, including an address, from one adult to another. Explain how to use a mobile phone and a public phone and discuss the steps you would take to make an emergency call.	Explain why you need adult help in case of accidents. Pass a message, including an address, from one adult to another. Explain how to use a mobile phone and a public phone and discuss the steps you would take to make an emergency call.	Explain why you need adult help in case of accidents. Pass a message, including an address, numbers and details of an accident, from one adult to another. Explain how to use a mobile phone and a public phone and discuss the steps you would take to make an emergency call.
Test 2 - Safety (Responsibility for self)
Buddy System	Explain the buddy system.	Define the buddy system and explain its benefits.	Explain the buddy system and teach it to a younger Cub.
Home	Discuss the causes of accidents in the home, especially in the kitchen, bathroom and on stairways.	Discuss the causes of accidents around the home and garden, including in sheds and around swimming pools.	Discuss the dangers of poisons at home. Discuss what to do at home in the case of an electrical storm.
Road	Take an adult for a walk and show that you know how to be safe on the roads.	Discuss the safety aspects of travelling in cars, buses and trains.	Demonstrate the safety rules you need to consider when riding a bike, scooter, skateboard or roller blading. Show you can use this equipment safely.
Water	Discuss the dangers of swimming in the type of water in your area. Explain the dangers of inflatable toys in open water.	Demonstrate an understanding of the dangers of swimming in: swimming pools rivers and lakes sea dams Identify safe areas for swimming.	Show three methods you could use to help someone who fell into deep water and could not swim.
Bush	Explain what you should do to make sure you don't get lost in the bush. Discuss what to do if you do get lost in the bush.	Explain what to do to make sure you don't get lost in the bush and what to do if something goes wrong. Demonstrate three ways of making distress signals.	Explain what to do to make sure you don't get lost in the bush and what to do if something goes wrong. Discuss the dangers in the bush that are appropriate to your area, e.g. weather, terrain and poisonous creatures.
Fire	Discuss the dangers that fire can cause in the home and the bush. Show what to do if you are in a fire at home.	Discuss the ways that fire can start in the home and in the bush. Show what to do if you are in a fire at home.	Discuss ways to reduce the dangers that cause fires in the home and the bush.
Personal	Discuss why you should not go places by yourself.	Discuss what to do if you do not feel safe somewhere.	Discuss what to do if you do not feel safe when with a particular person.
Test 3 - Ropes (Outdoor Scouting)
Tying knots	Tie a reef knot. Tie your shoelaces	Tie a sheet bend. Tie a clove hitch. Tie a reef knot.	Tie a bowline. Tie a sheet bend. Tie a clove hitch. Tie a reef knot. Make a gadget using at least one type of appropriate lashing. Teach another Cub Scout how to tie a reef knot.
Use of knots	Discuss how and when to use a reef knot.	Discuss how and when to use these knots.	Discuss how and when to use these knots.
Care of ropes	Show you know how to look after ropes correctly.	Name the parts of a rope.	Show how to hank or chain a rope correctly.
* More info on ropes can be found on our ropes page. Test 4 - Outdoor Scouting (Outdoor Scouting)
Compass and Navigation	Discuss how a compass works and show you know the four principal points. Make a simple compass.	Demonstrate an understanding of how many degrees there are in a compass and the eight principal points. Use a compass to follow a trail, which includes at least six compass points.	Use a compass to plan a bushwalk route on a map. Use a compass to set a simple trail, including six compass points, for the rest of your Pack to follow. Discuss the eight principal points and the associated degrees.
Maps and Hiking	Attend at least two outdoor outings with your Pack. Dress correctly and pack your own daypack for the outings.	Use a road map to work out the distances between two towns named by a Leader. Demonstrate five trail signs.	Explain scale and contour lines Explain at least eight map symbols and be able to find them on the map. Using at least five different trail signs, make a track for the rest of your Pack to follow.
Fire Lighting	Demonstrate the correct way to strike a match.	Discuss ways that fires can start in the home and the bush.	Explain about different types of cooking fires and demonstrate at least one.
Outdoor Cooking	Prepare and cook for yourself a damper/twist.	On a fire you prepare and light, cook a meal such as sausages or food in a foil pouch.	Using your cooking fire, prepare a meal for yourself and an adult, including meat, vegetable and a hot drink.
Test 5 - Our Cub Scout Traditions (Scouting Aims and Principles)
The Jungle Books	Talk about the main characters in the Jungle Books and what their names are. Tell the story of how Mowgli came to be in the Jungle.	Tell one of the stories in The Jungle Books that does not have Mowgli in it. Explain the significance of Baloo and Bagheera in Mowgli's life.	Explain how the laws and teachings in The Jungle Books are part of your life and your Pack's attitudes.
Scouting History	Tell who founded Scouting and where and when it began. Find out when Scouting started in Australia and in your Group. When is BP's birthday and what do we call this special day?	Find out when Scouting started in your local Group Find out and explain the meaning of your scarf and District/Region badge.	Explain how Scouting began and talk to your Leader about it. Draw the World Scout badge and describe the meaning of this. Find out when and where the next Australian Jamboree will be held.
Test 6 - Symbols of Australia (Growing Awareness of Local Community)
Flags	Show you know the composition of the Australian Flag.	Describe the flag of your State or Territory and show an understanding of the components of it.	Teach another Cub Scout to roll, hoist and break the Australian Flag in the correct manner. Show an understanding of the different ways of flying the flag, e.g. mourning, distress etc.
Emblems	Tell your Leader of two places where you would see the Australian Coat of Arms.	Describe the emblem of your State or Territory and show an understanding of what it means.	Reproduce the Australian Coat of Arms and explain the meaning of each emblem.
Flora and Fauna		Name and describe the flora and fauna emblems of your State or Territory.	Name and describe the floral emblem of Australia and explain why it was chosen.
Test 7 - Promise and Law (Values of Scouting)
Duty to Your God	Write a prayer and read it to your Pack.	Find out three things about your beliefs and explain them to your Leader	Help to plan and participate in a Scouts' Own.
Promise and Law	Talk to your Leader about how you do your best to live up to the Promise and Law: at school at home in the Pack.	Talk to your Leader about how you have tried to put your Promise and Law into practice in everything you have done.	Discuss with a Leader about how you try to put your Promise and Law into practice in everything you do. Explain the Promise and Law to a new Cub Scout when you are talking to them about being a Cub Scout.
Service	Do a good turn for someone at home and tell your Leader about it.	Do a good turn for your Cub Pack or Scout Group and tell your Leader about it.	Do a good turn by helping plan and taking part in, an activity which will assist an organisation that helps other people, and tell your Leader about it.
	Bronze Boomerang	Silver Boomerang	Gold Boomerang
Choose any 3 from Tests 8-14     (when added to Tests 1-7, you'll have finished 10 tests to complete your Boomerang)
Test 8 - Fitness (Pursuits and Interests & Responsibility for Self)
Ball Skills	Throw a ball 5 metres to someone else and catch it on return four times Dribble a ball for a distance of 10 metres.	Throw a ball a distance of 10 metres to someone else and catch it on return five times. Hit a ball with either a bat or racquet five times.	Kick a goal with either a place or drop kick or shoot a goal with a basketball or netball. Throw a ball over a distance of 20 metres to someone and catch it on return six times over a distance of 15 metres.
Athletic Skills	Run 100 metres as quickly as you can.	Perform a standing broad jump as far as you can.	Perform a hop, step and jump as far as you can.
Strength and Stamina	Skip 10 times without stopping.	Skip 20 times forwards and 10 times backwards	Skip continuously for two minutes.
Test 9 - People and Cultures (Growing Awareness of Wider World)
Indigenous Australians	Find out about one of the traditional owners in your area/State or Territory and something about how they lived before European settlement.	Explain some of the customs, traditions and crafts of the traditional owners of your area.	Visit a local site where you can learn more about the traditional owners of your area.
International Cultures	Make a list of the ethnic groups in your community, e.g. at school, church or in your Pack.	Learn to say "Hello", "Goodbye", "Please" and "Thank You" in a language other than your own, preferably from a native speaker of the language.	Find out about another country. Show where it is on the map in relation to Australia and discover how the people live, what they eat and the clothes they wear.
Scouting	Find out something about each of the five Sections in Scouts Australia, either in your own Group or in the District. Take part in an activity with a different Section	Take part in a Pack Council Take part in an activity with another Pack or one organised by District, Region or Branch.	Find out about Scouting in another country - the name of the Sections, whether boys and girls can be Cub Scouts, and something about their badges. Take part in an overnight activity organised at District, Region or Branch level.
Test 10 - Scientific Discovery (The World Around us)
Cub Scouts will be required to do any two of the following
Biology	Grow some seeds on cotton wool and observe what happens.	Observe how an animal, bird, reptile or insect develops and behaves. Report on your findings.	Explain what the major organs in the human body are and how they work.
Chemistry		Perform an experiment that shows the difference between gas, liquid and solid states.	Perform an experiment that shows a chemical reaction. Explain what has happened.
Geology	Identify five different rocks and tell where you found them.	Explain how volcanoes erupt and earthquakes occur. Show an experiment that illustrates one of these.	Explain what minerals and fossil fuels are and how they are formed. Talk about the minerals found in your area.
Physics	Explain the composition of air Perform an experiment that shows how oxygen can be used up.	Show you understand the weather forecast. Show how rain is formed.	Demonstrate how sound moves through air, water or a solid object.
Estimation	Measure your hand and foot. Using these measurements, estimate: the width of your Scout Hall the height of a Cub Scout.	Estimate the following: the distance from your Scout Hall door to the road the distance from one end of the Hall to the other the height of a flagpole or tree. Check how accurately you have estimated by measuring these.	Make a sundial and use it to tell the time. Measure the height of an object using the stick and shadow method. or Find North using a non-digital wrist watch. or Find South using the Southern Cross.
Test 11 - The Natural Environment (The World Around us)
Recycling	Name four things that can be recycled and how the recycling helps the environment. Make something using recycled materials.	Explain how you can recycle household waste. Make a system for recycling organic waste from your house, e.g. a worm farm, compost heap.	Find out what new things are made from three different sorts of waste, which are recycled. Explain the concept of the 3Rs: Reduce Reuse Recycle
Pollution	Help to clean up litter in your local area. Explain how litter can harm the natural environment.	Help to clean up litter in your local area. Discuss some of the effects of pollution on our rivers, lakes and seas. Show how you and your family can help to reduce water pollution.	Help to clean up litter in your local area. Show an understanding of the "Greenhouse Effect", including what causes it and how you can help to reduce it. State three other forms of air pollution, how they affect people and what can be done to reduce them.
Habitat Destruction	Find out what native creatures live in your local area. Discuss how their habitats can be destroyed.	On a bush walk find examples of five things that have damaged the environment, e.g. litter and pollution, salinity, erosion and man-made damage.	Discuss how we can conserve our local environment including water, land, air, forests and mineral and fossil fuels.
Test 12 - Self Expression (Creativity)
Cub Scouts will be required to do any two of the following
Performing Arts	Perform in a mime, skit or play with other members of your Pack.	Organise and perform in a mime, skit or play with other members of your Pack.	Perform a magic trick, juggling or a puppet show, alone or with the help of one or two other Cub Scouts.
Visual Arts	Create a poster, painting, drawing or collage.	Create a painting, drawing or three dimensional piece and have it ready to display.	Produce a series of preliminary sketches and a finished piece of work ready for display.
Creative Writing	Write a poem or a short story.	Write a poem or a short story, which may be fictional, or a report of an event.	Write a piece, which you contribute, to a group or local newsletter.
Music	Sing a song or play a musical instrument for your Pack.	Play two pieces on a musical instrument or sing two songs for the Pack.	Sing a song, which includes verses and chorus or Play your instrument at a higher standard to that demonstrated for your Bronze and Silver Boomerangs.
Test 13 - Handcraft (Creativity)
	Make an item from one of the following materials: wood metal fibres clay	Make something using a craft method which is new to you. Show the tools you used and explain how to care for them.	Design a practical item and produce it using any craft method. Show the design work and finished item together.
Test 14 - Your Community (Growing Awareness of Local Community)
Home	Show you know how to keep your clothes, toys and equipment tidy. Talk to your Leaders about how you do this.	Demonstrate that you know how to do cleaning around the home such as vacuuming, sweeping, washing up and cleaning the bathroom. Do some minor repairs to clothes and around the house.	Show you know how to wash and iron your clothes.
Local Community	Show you know where the main features are in your local area, such as: the nearest bus stop to home and the Scout Hall the safest route to the shops from home.	Find out how your town or suburb name originated. Where is the nearest: Police Station? Ambulance Station? Hospital?	Take part in a visit to a local place of interest and find out how it serves the community. or Meet or visit someone who lives or works in your area and find out what he or she does to help the community.
Local Organisations	Does your community have a local newspaper or Community Newsletter? If so, what is it called?	Name three essential service organisations that provide for your community and explain what they do.	Find out about two charitable organisations in your community and what they do to help other people.

  These Boomerangs can also be found on pages 16-60
of your yellow Australian Cub Scout Record Book.