Advancement: Heritage

Every family has a story to two to tell, this learning opportunity could be used toward your Heritage belt loop or pin.

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.

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.
8. Variation: Access a genealogy Web site and learn how to use it to find out information about ancestors.
9. Make an article of clothing, a toy, or a tool that your ancestors used. Show it to your den.
10. Help your parent or adult partner prepare one of your family's traditional food dishes.
11. Learn about the origin of your first, middle, or last name.

Advancements do not need to be completed as part of den or pack activities, we as parents can sign off on the activites and let the den or pack leadership know. E-mail us at pack61easthartford@gmail.com with questions or to record your son's advancement.