Animal Badge Info

Attention scouts and troop leaders: If you are working towards an animal-related, humane education, or career scout badge, contact our office at 304-725-0506 or education@nhes.org, to receive more information on issues like: 

• Respecting Our Animal Friends
• Pet Safety & Proper Handling
• Humane Treatment of Companion Animals
• Humane Education & Other Animal-Related Careers

If you live near the Briggs Animal Adoption Center in Charles Town, WV, and would like to schedule a scout troop educational tour of the facility, please click here for more information!

Animals Try-It Badge Activities:

Meeting an Animal

What are some of the differences between animals that are pets and animals that are wild?  What are the rules of conduct or behavior around such animals?  What dangers might there be in approaching wild or pet animals?

How They Look
Think of animals that match the following descriptions:

animals that have 2 legs, 4 legs, 6 legs, and 8 legs

animals with no legs

animals that have fur

animals that have lips

animals that live in water;

animals that have antennae;

animals that have soft squishy bodies

animals with feathers

animals with wings but no feathers

animals with scales

animals that have shells

animals with paws

animals with claws

animals with flippers

animals with hooves

How They Act
Think of animals that: eat meat; dig; fly; hop; crawl; live underground; live up in trees; swim; run; live in groups; live alone; travel long distances; stay close to home.

Shelter For All
The place where a plant or animal lives is called its habitat.  Think of a plant or animal in the outdoors.  What things are parts of its habitat?

Animal Sounds
Animals communicate in many different ways.  Here is a fun game to play with your troop!  Write down several types of animals on different slips of paper put slips in a bag.  Go around a circle and pull out one slip of paper from the bag.  Act out that particular animals sound.  Have your fellow troop members guess what animal you are imitating.

Animals In Danger
When a wild animal species loses many members of its group, it is often because there is not enough food, water, space or shelter, for that particular animal.  The animal species is said to be "endangered."  Think about an animal species that is endangered and what you can do to help.

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