 Heritages
Remember the belt loops are for the scout doing their best to learn about the sport or
academic activity, and by putting the new techniques to practice with fellow scouts, in
their community, or working with an adult.
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.
- 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.
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