1. Determine what constitutes a ‘major achievement’ for your scouts and gather that information for each scout. There are many schools...

2. Using the career arrow information guide, determine the length of your longest ‘career’ (don’t forget to include room for addi...

3. Your total arrow length should be at least 10 inches longer than your measurement from step 2 to accommodate for fletching, sinew ties and arrow...

4. Embroidery floss in the following colors (1 skein makes about 4 arrows for all colors except brown, which makes 2 arrows) yellow #726 - Bobcat o...

5. Use the legal paper and ruler to measure out a guide for each arrow based on the career arrow information.  Center the guide on the arrow s...

6. Thread arrow through handles of basket.  This will help you keep the arrow in place while twisting it to apply the embroidery floss.  ...

7. Leaving a 3/8” tail, place your black embroidery floss on the left-most side of the superglue line.  Maintaining tension on the floss...

8. Trim ends of black floss to about 1/8-1/4”.  Select your next color, in this case, yellow for bobcat. Leaving a 3/8” tail, plac...

9. Repeat steps 7 and 8 until your have completed all required color bands. 

10. To finish off, I used a final black band with the tails trimmed very short and smoothed a dot of superglue over the ends to help them stay down.