Cubs & Parents,
Today we had a wonderful presentation on the Underground Railroad:
(Original event promotion http://phillyscouts133.blogspot.com/2011/11/story-of-henry-box-brown-for-boy.html).
This is a great starting point for You (or your Scout) to earn the Heritage Belt Loop & Pin be completing the below requirements.
Cub Scout Academics
Heritages
The requirements listed below are taken from the
Cub Scout Academics and Sports Program Guide (34299) 2009 Printing
Requirements were revised since the previous edition - (34299B - 2006 Revision).
Click here to see the previous requirements
Webelos Scouts that earn the Heritages Belt Loop while a Webelos Scout
also satisfy requirement 12 for the Family Member Activity Badge.
Requirements
Tiger Cubs, Cub Scouts, and Webelos Scouts may complete requirements in a family, den, pack, school, or community environment. Tiger Cubs must work with their parents or adult partners. Parents and partners do not earn loops or pins.
Belt Loop
Complete these three requirements:
- Talk with members of your family about your family heritage: its history, traditions, and culture.
- Make a poster that shows the origins of your ancestors. Share it with your den or other group.
- Draw a family tree showing members of your family for three generations.
Academics Pin
Earn the Heritages belt loop, and complete five of the following requirements:
- Participate in a pack heritage celebration in which Cub Scouts give presentations about their family heritage.
- Attend a family reunion.
- With your parent's or adult partner's permission, find and correspond with a pen pal from another country. Find out how his or her heritage is different from yours.
- Learn 20 words in a language other than your native language.
- Interview a grandparent or other family elder about what it was like when he or she was growing up.
- Work with a parent or adult partner to organize family photographs in a photo album.
- Visit a genealogy library and talk with the librarian about how to trace family records. Variation: Access a genealogy Web site and learn how to use it to find out information about ancestors.
- Make an article of clothing, a toy, or a tool that your ancestors used. Show it to your den.
- Help your parent or adult partner prepare one of your family's traditional food dishes.
- Learn about the origin of your first, middle, or last name. Tell your den or an adult family member about what you learned
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