The
Official Whittling Chip wallet card
can be earned by Bear Cub Scouts by mastering the "Knife
Safety Rules" on this page. The object is to teach a boy
that:
"A Cub Scout knife is an important tool. You can
do many things with its blades. The cutting blade is
the one you will use most of the time. With it you
can make shavings and chips and carve all kinds of
things.
You must be very careful when you
whittle or carve. Take good care of your knife.
Always remember that a knife is a tool, not a toy.
Use it with care so that you don't hurt yourself or
ruin what you are carving."
Note from Settummanque! on the
USE OF THE WHITTLIN' CHIP PATCH
The "Whitlin' Chip" is NOT considered an "official" BSA
badge. The only BSA item that is issued in connection
with this skill is the pocket card which is carried by
the Cub Scout. That's why you cannot find it illustrated
in the official Insignia Guide nor in the Cub Scout
Leader Book.
Several local Councils, however, have either
purchased commericially or produced emblems (without the
BSA indicia) or have designed their own and had the
BSA's Supply Division to create them for their Council's
usage (with the BSA's indicia). In those Councils, if
the Council makes the patches available for resell to
units, then it is also considered an "official" patch.
In MOST of the local Councils that I'm aware of which
sells the patch, the patches are considered TEMPORARY
INSIGNIA and therefore goes centered on the right pocket
of the field uniform. It does NOT belong on the right
nor left pocket flap, because those locations are
reserved for other insignia: in the case of the Cub
Scout, the National Summertime Pack Award pin(s) belongs
there.
So....
*Check with YOUR COUNCIL to see if they allow the
Whitlin' Chip patch to be worn on the uniform. Just
because the patch is out there doesn't mean that you can
wear it on the BSA uniform anywhere EXCEPT on the right
pocket!
*Unless told by YOUR COUNCIL's SCOUT EXECUTIVE, I
would wear the Whitlin' Chip patch centered on the right
pocket of the Cub Scout uniform. It doesn't go in the
same place where over the span of next year, you'll have
to wear National Summertime Pack Award pins!!
Finally, the Whitlin' Chip Patch is NOT
"transferrable" to the Boy Scout uniform. Remember the
BSA considers both of those as "skills" which are used
in a step toward Cub Scout or Boy Scout advancement;
therefore, "steps" do not "rate a badge." For those whom
want to argue "instant recognition," the CARD provides
instant and continual recognition of the meeting of
those skills. |
