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.

	Gold Boomerang
Tests 1-7 are mandatory
Test 1 - Health and First Aid (Responsibility for self)
Personal Health	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	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 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, 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 and teach it to a younger Cub.
Home	Discuss the dangers of poisons at home. Discuss what to do at home in the case of an electrical storm.
Road	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	Show three methods you could use to help someone who fell into deep water and could not swim.
Bush	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 ways to reduce the dangers that cause fires in the home and the bush.
Personal	Discuss what to do if you do not feel safe when with a particular person.
Test 3 - Ropes (Outdoor Scouting)
Tying knots	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 these knots.
Care of ropes	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	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	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	Explain about different types of cooking fires and demonstrate at least one.
Outdoor Cooking	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	Explain how the laws and teachings in The Jungle Books are part of your life and your Pack's attitudes.
Scouting History	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	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	Reproduce the Australian Coat of Arms and explain the meaning of each emblem.
Flora and Fauna	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	Help to plan and participate in a Scouts' Own.
Promise and Law	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 by helping plan and taking part in, an activity which will assist an organisation that helps other people, and tell your Leader about it.
	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	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	Perform a hop, step and jump as far as you can.
Strength and Stamina	Skip continuously for two minutes.
Test 9 - People and Cultures (Growing Awareness of Wider World)
Indigenous Australians	Visit a local site where you can learn more about the traditional owners of your area.
International Cultures	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 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	Explain what the major organs in the human body are and how they work.
Chemistry	Perform an experiment that shows a chemical reaction. Explain what has happened.
Geology	Explain what minerals and fossil fuels are and how they are formed. Talk about the minerals found in your area.
Physics	Demonstrate how sound moves through air, water or a solid object.
Estimation	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	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. 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	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 a magic trick, juggling or a puppet show, alone or with the help of one or two other Cub Scouts.
Visual Arts	Produce a series of preliminary sketches and a finished piece of work ready for display.
Creative Writing	Write a piece, which you contribute, to a group or local newsletter.
Music	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)
	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 wash and iron your clothes.
Local Community	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	Find out about two charitable organisations in your community and what they do to help other people.

  This Boomerang can also be found on pages 46-60
of your yellow Australian Cub Scout Record Book.