Requirements
- Earn the Road Safety Award.
- Demonstrate:
- How to keep the bike clean
- How to safely ride the bike
- Use turn signals while riding
- How to take care of the bike
- Participate in a bike activity.
- Do a five-mile bike ride.
- Make a map of where you went.
- With your family, use your map to retrace your route.
Answers
- Helps for number 2:
- Clean and polish the bikes, then decorate them and have an inspection.
- Set up a barrel race to practice.
- During the above race, use hand singles.
- Have small groups act out good and bad ways of caring for a bike. Have them wear plastic garbage bags and oil the chain.
- Hold a Bicycle Derby Day:
- Bike inspection by the police or fireman
- Have a “pit” area for preparing bikes for inspection.
- Plan a parade for decorated bikes. Give a prize.
- Play games using the bike: Fast race, slow race, relay race, paper boy throw, obstacle race, etc.
- Plan a five-mile bike hike. Decorate your bike, then go to a park with paved trails. After the ride, have a picnic or go swimming. Have a special reward for those who successfully complete the hike.
- Map-making is fun. Keep it simple. Use pencils and rulers.
