PEM badge: Traditional Skills

Traditional Skills
instruction, regulation, insurance, safety, etc

Demonstrate the ability to work with natural materials to build tools and equipment for survival, pioneering or living very closely to nature.  Many skills and practices were developed by resourceful early inhabitants and pioneers to survive in the wilderness.  These projects can only use materials that existed 200 years ago. Tools and equipment can be modern if you want.

Otis  has a deep respect for the old ways.  Show him that you appreciate the ways things "used to be done".

Sand badge
Get 5 points

Spruce root – 1 point
Willows – ½ point
Adopt a willow bed - ½ point
Pine tar - 1 point
Pine pitch stick – ½ point
Make twine - 2 points
Make leather cordage - ½ point
Weave a small basket – 1 point
Make a snare – ½ point
Make wild clay for pottery –1 point
Make wild clay slip for pottery - 1 point
Pinch pot – 1 point
Start a fire with flint and steel - ½ point
Start a fire with a bow drill - ½ point
Move an ember to another site - ½ point
Dipped wax candles– 1 point
Rushlights – ½ point
Hide or sinew glue – 1 point
Cane pole – ½ point
Backpack frame - 1 point
Fish hook - 1 point
Writing ink - ½ point
Writing quill - ½ point
Make a whistle - ½ point
Pemmican - ½ point
Salted meat - ½ point
Hard tack - ½ point
Acorn flour - 1 point
Wild rice - 3 points

Straw badge
Get 35 points

Soap – 2 points
Sinew – 2 points
Tan a hide - 8 points
Tan a fur - 8 points
Snow cave – 4 points
Shell buttons – 2 points
Antler buttons – 2 points
Weave a tray – 1 point
Pine needle basket – 4 points
Weave a fish trap - 2 points
Weave a net – 4 points
Make a split wood basket – 2 points
Make a woven bark basket – 2 points
Make a bark basket – 2 points
Waterproof bark basket – 4 points
Horn spoon – 3 points
Horn comb - 3 points
Powder horn – 4 points
Horn mug with handle – 2 points
Fire bow drill – 3 points
Debris shelter – 3 points
Handle on a knife (antler or wood) – 2 points
Make a bow string – 3 points
Make an arrow – 3 points
Make an arrowhead - 3 points
Make an atlatl - 8 points
Canoe paddle – 4 points
Make a coil pot - 1 point
Fire a pot in a crude fire – 1 point
Throw a pot - 1 point
Make a pottery wheel - 4 points
Oil lamp – 2 points
Make a simple brick or earthen kiln – 3 points
Make an earthenware plate – 4 points
Oilcloth tarp (12x 14') - 5 points
Waterproof leather canteen - 3 points
Toboggan - 4 points
Sturdy sled - 4 points
Smoker - 4 points
Collect ice blocks - 2 points
Make paper - 2 points
Make a flute - 4 points
Make a train whistle - 1 point
Make a drum - 6 points
Bone needle - 3 points
Small millstone set - 8 points
Small grist mill - 8 points

Wood badge
Get 180 points

Make a bow – 20 points
Snow shoes – 20 points
Skis - 20 points
Birch bark canoe – 160 points
Large sled - 40 points
Bob sled - 80 points
Dog sled - 40 points
Yurt - 100 points
Wigwam – 40 points
Teepee - 50 points
Icehouse - 40 points
Canvas tent - 25 points

Iron badge