Merit Badge: Campfire Carols

campfire-carolsAround The Campfire every night, scouts are singing and cheering and stuffing themselves with s’mores. And since it’s the holiday season, it’s time for Christmas carols!

Here’s how to earn this badge:

Go to The Campfire, grab at least TWO scoutmates, and sing a Christmas Carol together. Why must there be at least three cats singing? Because Christmas carollers always go around in groups. And you need at least three for a group.

You will earn 10 Karma points for this badge. If you sing an original Cat Scouts Christmas song that you’ve written, you will get 25 Karma points. If you sing a song with another group of carollers, and subsequently gather a group of carollers to sing the song you’ve written, you can take points for both. You can get the full 25 songwriting points for re-writing and cat-ifying an existing Christmas carol.

Bobcat Mauricio gets 20 Karma points for suggesting this badge.


REDEMPTION CODES:

Sing a song: xmascarols
Sing a song you have written about Cat Scouts and Christmas: xmascarolwriter

17 comments

  1. I must have had too much nip or something. I don’t understand how we earn the karma points for this badge. If I sing an original Christmas song (including catifying an existing Christmas song), do I get 10 points or 25 points? And does my song have to include references to Cat Scouts? I have a song and it’s been catified, but I didn’t reference Cat Scouts. And how many points do I get for singing my song with other Cat Scouts? And do I get any points for singing other Cat Scouts songs with them?

    1. I too thought I understood this but after reading things and reading what you wrote I am not sure myself. I had a song but not a reference to Cat Scouts so I changed my song but I don’t like it as much. And when we sing with our other kitties do we sing three songs, one each that we wrote or all sing the same song????? I do have our outfits already to go. I will wait and ask the other members of my group.

    2. Your song does NOT need to contain references to Cat Scouts. To get 25 points for singing an original song, it must be “catified,” and you must sing it with at least 2 other Cat Scouts around the fire. They simply need to add their singing-related comments beneath your post.

      If you join some other Cat Scouts in song, singing their songs, you get 10 points.

      You can get a total of 35 points, by singing an original song you’ve written, and at another time, joining other Cat Scouts in singing songs they’ve written.

      At this time, you don’t get extra points for singing Cat Scouts songs with other cats, only because I was lame and didn’t think about that, and to be fair, I’d need to award points retroactively. But maybe we’ll have a sing-a-long night where everycat can get some extra points for singing. Thanks, @wally-islandcat ! [salutes]

      1. Thank you for explaining that, Denmaster. I changed my song and added Cat Scout references, and actually, I think it made it even better! A sing-a-long would be fun. We could all gather round the Campfire and sing all our Catmas carols. *salutes*

  4. I wrote a song and sang it…so I get the writing badge, right? But I don’t understand how we sing in a group on computers…and how can Angel and I both sing at the same time if we can only be logged on the computer one at a time..?

  7. Wow, Denmaster, you are the best. Thanks for releasing this badge. It is super cute! I did publish my 12 Days of Catmess last night and will get some to sing it with me another night so I can get my badge. My question is: Is that an original song since I rewrote it, or is it a 10 point song? If it is a ten point song, I will write another one. I cannot believe how much fun I am having. What a great place to spend my time. And thank you for posting our Anthem for the WWW on our page. Don’t know why we didn’t think of this. Purrs and a hug, Scout Mau

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