** Important for all Merit Badges - Always get your councelors name, phone number and email address so your Unit can help you connect if you don't get it done or lose your blue card! Your unit needs to know who has the copies of your blue card.
An Introduction to all the Merit Badges offered by the BSA can be found at https://www.scouting.org/programs/scouts-bsa/advancement-and-awards/merit-badges
Merit Badge Worksheets can be found in both Microsoft Word (doc) or Adobe reader (PDF) at https://meritbadge.org/
BSA discourages — but doesn't ban — the use of these worksheets see Bryan on Scouting article why "Merit badge worksheets are "permitted only for fulfilling requirements where something is to be done in writing," he says. And merit badge counselors may never require the use of merit badge worksheets and may, if they choose, refuse to accept them, Hunt says."
Merit Badges for Eagle
Camping
Citizenship in the Community
Citizenship in the Nation
Citizenship in the World
Communications
Cooking
Environmental Science or Sustainability
Family Life
First Aid
Personal Fitness
Personal Management
Emergency Preparedness or Lifesaving
Cycling, Hiking or Swimming
What if you have a disability that prevents you from earning a merit badge?
APPLICATION FOR ALTERNATE EAGLE SCOUT RANK MERIT BADGES INSTRUCTIONS
This application includes the necessary information to properly apply for alternate merit badges on the route to Eagle Scout.
For the current 2019 Boy Scout Merit Badges graphics at the present moment, there are 135 Elective Merit Badges: (yellow italics are Eagle).
| American Business | Kayaking |
| American Cultures | Landscape Architecture |
| American Heritage | Law |
| American Labor | Leatherwork |
| Animal Science | Life Saving |
| Animation | Mammal Study |
| Archaeology | Medicine |
| Archery | Metalwork |
| Architecture and Landscape Architecture | Mining in Society |
| Art | Model Design & Building |
| Astronomy | Motorboating |
| Athletics | Movie Making |
| Automotive Maintenance | Music |
| Aviation | Nature |
| Backpacking | Nuclear Science |
| Basketry | Oceanography |
| Bird Study | Orienteering |
| Bugling | Painting |
| Camping | Personal Fitness |
| Canoeing | Person Management |
| Chemistry | Pets |
| Chess | Photography |
| Citizenship in the Community | Pioneering |
| Citizenship in the Nation | Plant Science |
| Citizenship in the World | Plumbing |
| Climbing | Pottery |
| Coin Collecting | Programming |
| Collections | Public Health |
| Communications | Public Speaking |
| Composite Materials | Pulp and Paper |
| Cooking | Radio |
| Crime Prevention | Railroading |
| Cycling | Reading |
| Dentistry | Reptile & Amphibian Study |
| Digital Technology | Rifle Shooting |
| Disabilities Awareness | Robotics |
| Dog Care | Rowing |
| Drafting | Safety |
| Electricity | Salesmanship |
| Electronics | Scholarship |
| Emergency Preparedness | Scouting Heritage |
| Energy | Scuba Diving |
| Engineering | Sculpture |
| Entrepreneurship | Search and Rescue |
| Enviromental Science | Shotgun Shooting |
| Family Life | Signs, Signals and Codes |
| Farm Mechanics | Skating |
| Fingerprinting | Small-Boat Sailing |
| Fire Safety | Snow Sports |
| First Aid | Soil & Water Conservation |
| Fish & Wildlife Management | Space Exploration |
| Fishing | Sports |
| Fly Fishing | Stamp Collecting |
| Forestry | Surveying |
| Game Design | Sustainability |
| Gardening | Swimming |
| Genealogy | Textile |
| Geocaching | Theater |
| Geology | Traffic Safety |
| Golf | Truck Transportation |
| Graphic Arts | Veterinary Medicine |
| Hiking | Water Sports |
| Home Repairs | Weather |
| Horsemanship | Welding |
| Indian Lore | Whitewater |
| Insect Study | Wilderness Survival |
| Inventing | Wood Carving |
| Journalism | Woodwork |
2010 Historic (a.k.a. "Centennial") merit badges could be earned through December 31, 2010: Carpentry – Pathfinding – Signaling – Tracking**