Cub Scout Activities

There are opportunities at every level of the Cub Scout program to learn and experience our American Heritage and your family history.   Do you want to learn more about joining or finding a Cub Scout Pack in your area? Visit the Joint Cub Scouting website or Joint Scouting website. Tiger Scouts Making My Family Special 1D - Den Activity Make a family scrapbook 1G - Go See It Activity Go to a library, historical society, museum, old farm, or historical building, or visit an older person in your community. Discover how family life was the same and how it was different many years ago. Wolf Scouts 4. Know Your Home and Community f. Visit an important place in your community, such as a historic or government location. Explain why it is important. Bear Scouts 3. What Makes America Special? c. Find out something about the old homes near where you live. Go and see two of them. d. Find out where places of historical interest are located in or near your town or city. Go and visit one of them with your family or den. 8. The Past is Exciting and Important d. Trace your family back through your grandparents or great-grandparents; or, talk to a grandparent about what it was like when he or she was younger. e. Find out some history about your community Heritages Belt Loop Complete these three requirements: 1. Talk with members of your family about your family heritage: its history, traditions, and culture. 2. Make a poster that shows the origins of your ancestors. Share it with your den or other group. 3. Draw a family tree showing members of your family for three generations. Heritages Academics Pin Earn the Heritages belt loop, and complete five of the following requirements: 1. Participate in a pack heritage celebration in which Cub Scouts give presentations about their family heritage. 2. Attend a family reunion. 3. Correspond with a pen pal from another country. Find out how his or her heritage is different from yours. 4. Learn 20 words in a language other than your native language. 5. Interview a grandparent or other family elder about what it was like when he or she was growing up. 6. Work with a parent or adult partner to organize family photographs in a photo album. 7. 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. 8. Make an article of clothing, a toy, or a tool that your ancestors used. Show it to your den. 9. Help your parent or adult partner prepare one of your family's traditional food dishes. 10. Learn about the origin of your first, middle, or last name. Logos and award images are ©2008 The Boy Scouts of America