Featured belt loops for June

Welcome to summer vacation, everyone!  With school over, be sure to read through the arrow point or compass point achievements and the belt loop choices - these will give your family some great ideas of things to do together over the summer, and provide ready solutions if a child complains that he is bored!  The featured belt loops for June are Geography and Bicycling.  There is always one featured academic belt loop and one featured sports belt loop.  This month, with the probability of family vacations in mind, we are adding an additional academic belt loop feature:  Family Travel.

Geography:  Boys can explore ahead of time the places their families may visit during summer vacation.
Bicycling:  The end of school brings free time for Cub Scouts and many hit the roads on a bicycle.  This is a good time to ensure that all boys learn the ins and outs of bicycle safety and traffic rules.  If your scout already earned the belt loop, check the link to the right to see what he needs to do to earn the Bicycling pin.

Cub Scout Geography requirements

Belt Loop Requirements Complete these three requirements: Draw a map of your neighborhood. Show natural and manmade features. Include a key or legend of map symbols. Learn about the physical geography of your community. Identify the major landforms within 100 miles. Discuss with an adult what you learned. Use a world globe or map to locate the continents, the oceans, the equator, and the northern and southern hemispheres. Learn how longitude and latitude lines are used to locate a site.

Cub Scout Bicycling requirements
Belt Loop Requirements Complete these three requirements: Explain the rules of safe bicycling to your den leader or adult partner. Demonstrate how to wear the proper safety equipment for bicycling. Show how to ride a bike safely. Ride for at least half an hour with an adult partner, your family, or den.

Cub Scout Family Travel requirements

Belt Loop Requirements Complete these three requirements: Make a list of things you would take on a threeday trip with your family, then pack these items in a bag or suitcase. With an adult’s help, figure out the cost and miles to complete a trip to a place of interest using the family car or public transportation. Research at least five places to visit during a trip to a place of interest. Explain what you learned to your family.

Featured belt loops for May

Check the link to the right to see details on the Academics and Sports belt loops and pins this month.  These are a fun way for your scout to earn achievements while he's working toward his next rank advancement.  These can also be earned before your scout has earned a rank advancement.  The Cub Scouts Academics and Sports program is a great way to help fulfill the aims of Scouting -- building character, developing citizenship, and encouraging mental and physical fitness.  Here is a summary of this month's featured belt loops and pins:

** Nutrition:  Eating a balanced diet means eating foods that are good for you and that give your body the vitamins and other nutrients it needs to stay healthy.

** Physical Fitness:  Being in good physical condition will serve boys well today and in their future.  Encourage your scout to earn the Physical Fitness belt loop and pin.

Sports & Academics - Belt Loops and Pins

 Here is a great link to worksheets for the Academic & Sports Belt Loops and Pins.  This will help you have a printed detail of what is needed for each belt loop/pin, and it will also help us to track your scout's achievements when you turn in a worksheet to show what your scout has completed.  If you're just working on the belt loop, you only need to print page 1.  If you're working on the pin, then print page 2.  Not all of the worksheet pages are needed to show what your scout has completed. 

This also is a good "all in one place" resource to see what the categories are for the belt loops and pins - you may be surprised to see that so many of them are things that your scout is already doing.  You can also plan ahead for summer and fall sports such as swimming and soccer, as well as academic areas such as reading/writing and computer games.  Check it all out here:

Belt loops and pins - Worksheets

Blue & Gold photos

Parent gifts, because everyone should get a present at a birthday party!  The Wolf den decorated the cans and each parent
got a ribbon lanyard for showing the parent pins they earned while helping their Cub Scout earn his awards

Balloons added to the party theme as we celebrated the birthday of Cub Scouting

What a great looking group of scouts!

The scouts (possibly with a little bit of parental help) decorated the birthday cupcakes

Luke and his lovely mom earn recognition for Luke receiving his Bobcat rank

It's hard to tell from my amazing photography angle, but Caden also earned his Bear award this night

Cubmaster Joe - His serious face

Let the games begin!  Pin the Badge on the Boy Scout

Extra balloons - The biggest hit of the night as far as something to play

For the younger siblings, they got to color on the tables!

Who doesn't love shooting Nerf darts at cute, defenseless little animal bowling pins?

The the Death Star piñata showed up to finish off the evening

Cubmaster Joe was a little afraid....

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