Fellowship and Duty to God/ Duty to God Footsteps

This badge is intended for families to do at home, even though you may cover requirements in den meeting, I would encourage families to have these discussions and do these activities at home as well.

Wolf
Complete Requirement 1 or 2 plus at least two others.

1. Discuss with your parent, guardian, den leader, or other caring adult what it means to do your duty to God. Tell how you do your duty to God in your daily life.
2. Earn the religious emblem of your faith that is appropriate for your age, if you have not already done so.
3. Offer a prayer, meditation, or reflection with your family, den, or pack.
4. Read a story about people or groups of people who came to America to enjoy religious freedom.
5. Learn and sing a song that could be sung in reverence before or after meals or one that gives encouragement, reminds you how to show reverence, or demonstrates your duty to God.
6. Visit a religious monument or site where people might show reverence. Create a visual display of your visit with your den or your family, and show how it made you feel reverent or helped you better understand your duty to God.

Bear
Complete the following requirements.

1. Same as Wolf requirement #1
2. Complete at least one of the following:

   A. Identify a person whose faith you admire, and discuss this person with your family.

   B. With a family member, provide service to a place of worship or a spiritual community, school, or community organization that puts into practice your ideals of duty to God and strengthens your fellowship with others. (HOMEWORK)

3. Complete at least one of the following:

   A. Earn the religious emblem of your faith that is appropriate for your age, if you have not already done so.

   B. Make a list of things you can do to practice your duty to God as you are taught in your home or place of worship or spiritual community. Select two of the items and practice them for two weeks.

   
   

Religious Emblem Requirements, LDS:(see Faith in God booklet for boys)

Learning and Living the Gospel	Serving Others	Developing Talents
#2 Give a family home evening lesson on Joseph Smith’s First Vision (see Joseph Smith—History 1:1–20). Discuss how Heavenly Father answers our sincere prayers. Paws for Action History Den Meeting (Choose Joseph Smith for one of the famous Americans, scouts must teach what they learned at home to family, I encourage them to do this the same day, it doesn’t have to be on a Monday)	#2 Write a letter to a teacher, your parents, or your grand- parents telling them what you appreciate and respect about them. Paws for Action service den meeting (Thanksgiving)	#3 Write a poem, story, or short play that teaches a principle of the gospel or is about Heavenly Father’s creations. Roaring Laughter/Howling at the moon/ Den Meeting
#5 Give an opening and a closing prayer in family home evening or at Primary. Share your feelings about how prayer protects us and helps us to stay close to Heavenly Father and the Savior. HOMEWORK with Duty to God Den Meeting #1	#8 Read the twelfth article of faith.  Discuss what it means to be a good citizen and how your actions can affect others. Paws for Action Flag Den Meeting
#6 Tell a story from the Book of Mormon that teaches about faith in Jesus Christ. Share your testimony of the Savior. Christmas Den Meeting, (the people have faith that he will come and they won’t be killed.)
#8 Prepare a pedigree chart with your name and your parents’ and grandparents’ names. Prepare a family group record for your family and share a family story. Discuss how performing temple work blesses families. Duty to God Den Meeting #2

Duty to God Den Meeting #1:

Gathering Activity: Make bread dough "footprints."

Bread Sculpture Recipe (aka pizza crust recipe)

2 cups warm water

2 packets yeast (I used SAF instant, my recipe doesn't specify)

5 cups flour (700g) add up to 1/4 cup more flour if dough is really sticky.

1/4 cup olive oil

2 tsp sugar

2 tsp salt

Preheat oven to 400 degrees.  Dissolve the yeast into the warm water.  Stir in the other ingredients, about 20 strokes.  Set aside for 5 minutes.  Shape dough, if you don't know what to make, start with a lot of balls and snakes and take it from there.  Bake for 12 minute or until nicely browned.  Very large shapes may need 2-3 extra minutes and very small ones may need a minute less.  Use a pastry brush to brush "pizza oil" over the top when they come out of the oven.  This recipe was perfect for 10 girls.

Pizza Oil Recipe

4 TBS butter melted

1 TBS parmesan cheese

garlic salt to taste, I sprinkle it over the butter like I would over pasta or bread.

a sprinkle of parsley flakes ground up between fingers adds some nice color

I start the bread about 15 minutes before the kids are due to arrive.  Then when the kids come (after washing their hands) give them a piece of dough that is ready to shape.  I tell them I need help making footprint treats because this is a footprints activity and that they can make a footprint and one other thing.  If the dough is too sticky, add a bit of flour to make it shapeable.

I had a greased cookie sheet in the center of the table and as they finished a sculpture they placed it on the tray.  When the first one was full I put it in to bake and then they filled up a second tray.  

these are way too big, you can make them quite a bit smaller!

Painting bread with pizza oil right after taking it out of the oven, optional

Opening Ceremony: Be sure to begin your den meeting with a prayer, remind the boys to say thanks for their bread that is in the oven!  Ask the boys how prayer protects us and helps us stay close to Heavenly Father and the Savior.

Talk Time:  We can do our duty to God by following in the footsteps of Jesus.  I really liked the Lesson for Younger Children at Danielle's Place "Follow in His Footsteps Bible Lesson". We didn't cut out footsteps and write though, we just had the boys discuss.

Next we quickly learned the song "Jesus Said Love Everyone" because it is a great example of following in the footprints of Jesus.

Jesus said 

love everyone

"treat"  them kindly too

when your heart 

is filled with love

others will love you!

To learn the song we had the boys hold up visual reminders.  I sang it once and they held up the reminders.  Then we repeated the words together one time, then we sang it together!

Activity: At this point you can eat your bread and play a game (see Danielle's game ideas).

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Alternate Activity:  Instead of bread you could do footprint shrinky drinks.  I think bread is an easier activity because sometimes shrinking the shrinky dinks is a pain, but I've done both activities several times and both are fun for the kids.

Follow in His Footsteps Zipper Pulls:

We used #6 plastic lids from disposable cake pans at Dollar Tree and zipper pull hooks from Walmart.  And we had 4x5" foot templates they could trace with permanent markers.  Definitely practice with the shrinking process before hand!  We found that 300 degrees for about 5 minutes worked best for us in my oven.  If we went hotter, the projects curled too fast to completely flatten at the end.   If you do shrinky dinks, you don't need to do bread dough because both have bake time, so pick one craft and then either do a game at this point or a game for the gathering activity.

Our Footprints all done!  The striped design was done by an 8 year old, pretty impressive!  We liked it so much we made a copy of it.

Don't forget a hole punch before shrinking!

You can see the templates we traced in the bottom left of this picture.

Duty to God Den Meeting #2 (working on LDS religious emblem)

LDS Faith in God-Learning and Living the Gospel #8

Prepare a pedigree chart with your name and your parents’ and grandparents’ names. Prepare a family group record for your family and share a family story. Discuss how performing temple work blesses families

Note: If possible, ask boys to bring the names of their grandparents to the activity.  Also have them prepare a family story to share (about a grandparent, parents, family tradition, ancestors, etc).  They need to be able to tell it, NOT read it.  If they would like they can bring a visual aide.  For example, my husband's grandma found hundreds of snakes in her house when she was a widow and living alone.  Her bravery in staying to fight the snakes got her on the national news.  I loved this grandma, she was an inspiration in lots of ways during her life, I'm always telling my kids about her.  If there isn't time for advance notice, you could always have the girls share a family story about a favorite tradition, vacation, a favorite grandparent, etc.  They could guess on the grandparents and correct it when they get home.


To start, have a lesson/discussion on how performing temple work and doing family history work blesses families.

Next help the boys fill in the first three rows of their pedigree chart, the great grandparents are a bonus if they know them!

 

Here is a pretty pedigree chart, there are lots to choose from online.

Print a family group record for each boy to begin filling in.

We finish this activity by giving the kids popcorn, twizzlers, and leftover halloween candy to munch on while everyone shares their stories.  If time permits the leaders can tell a story too.

Next Den Meeting:

Earning the LDS religious knot takes six more den meetings!  Because it takes so long that is why I choose to have "earn the religious knot" as a Bear elective requirement in our den instead of as a Wolf.  This way the Bears might have done all or some of the other six activities by the time we start working on this badge.  If not, we get to them over the next few months.