The following are the Cub Scout Loop and Pin requirements offered at the Children's Museum of Acadiana. Many rank requirements and electives can be combined with the completion of the Loop and Pin Program. A minimum of six (6) scouts are required for a custom field trip.
Call us to schedule your custom field trip.
The Cub Scout Loop and Pin Program covers a wide variety of subjects earning each cub scout belt loops and pins. A 2-hour visit should be planned. Cost: $7.50 per scout (price includes museum admission, workshop fee, and certificate. One adult leader for every 5 scouts will be admitted for $3.00. Museum admission for families who accompany a scout is $5.00 per adult and $5.00 per sibling. Siblings cannot take part in the scouting workshop,
A few programs will have additional fees for supplies.
The numbers below reflect the numbering in the Cub Scout Academics and Sports Program Guide.
Art
Art Belt Loop Requirements offered by the CMA:
- Make a list of common materials used to create visual art compositions.
- Demonstrate how six of the following elements of design are used in drawing: lines, circles, dots, shapes, colors, patterns, textures, space, balance, or perspective.
- Identify the three primary colors and the three secondary colors that can be made by mixing them. Show how this is done using paints or markers. Use the primary and secondary colors to create a painting.
Art Pin Requirements offered by the CMA:
1. Visit an art museum, gallery, or exhibit.
2. Create two self-portraits using two different art techniques, such as drawing, painting, print making, sculpture, or computer illustration.
4. Make a simple silkscreen or stencil. Print a card or T-shirt.
5. Create a freestanding sculpture or mobile using wood, metal, soap, papier-mâché, or found objects.
8. Make a collage using several different materials.
9. Use your artistic skills to create a postage stamp, book cover, or music CD cover.
Communicating
Communicating Belt Loop Requirements offered by the CMA:
1. Tell a story or relate an incident to a group of people, such as your family, den or members of your class.
2. Write a letter to a friend or relative.
3. Make a poster about something that interests you. Explain the poster to your den.
Communication Pin Requirements offered by the CMA:
3. Listen to a news story on television or the radio. Discuss the information with an adult.
8. With an adult, use the Internet to search for information on a topic of interest to you.
11. Learn about "reading” materials for people who have poor vision or who are blind.
Computers
Computer Belt Loop Requirements offered by the CMA:
- Explain these parts of a personal computer; central processing unit (CPU), monitor, keyboard, mouse, modem, and printer.
- Demonstrate how to start up and shut down a personal computer properly.
- Use your computer to prepare and print a document.
Computer Pin Requirements offered by the CMA:
2. Make a list of 10 devices that can be found in the home that use a computer chip to function.
6. Use a computer to prepare a thank-you letter to someone.
8. Discuss personal safety rules you should pay attention to while using the Internet.
Geography
Geography Belt Loop Requirements offered by the CMA:
- 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.
Geography Pin Requirements offered by the CMA:
1. Make a three-dimensional model of an imaginary place. Include five different landforms, such as mountains, valleys, lakes, deltas, rivers, buttes, plateaus, basins, and plains.
2. List 10 cities around the world. Calculate the time it is in each city when it is noon in your town.
3. Find the company's location on the rapper or label of 10 products used in your home such as food, clothing, toys, and appliances. Use a world map or atlas to find each location.
5. On a United States or world map, mark where your family members and ancestors were born.
11. Draw or make a map of your state. Include rivers, mountain ranges, state parks, and cities. Include a key or legend of map symbols.
Language and Culture
Language and Culture Belt Loop Requirements offered by the CMA:
- Talk with someone who grew up in a different country than you did. Find out what it was like and how it is different from your experience.
- Learn 10 words that are in a different language than your own.
- Play two games that originated in another country or culture.
Language and Culture Pin Requirements offered by the CMA:
2. Write the numbers 1-10 in Chinese or another number system other than the one we normally use (we use the Arabic system).
7. Say five words in American Sign Language. One of these words could be your first name.
Mathematics
Mathematics Belt Loop Requirements offered by the CMA:
- Do five activities within your home or school that require the use of mathematics. Explain to your den how you used everyday math.
- Keep track of the money you earn and spend for three weeks.
- Measure five items using both metric and non-metric measures. Find out about the history of the metric system of measurement.
Mathematics Pin Requirements offered by the CMA:
I. Geometry is related to the measurement but also deals with objects and positions in space.
1. Many objects can be recognized by their distinctive shapes: a tree, apiece of broccoli, a violin. Collect 12 items that can be recognized, classified, and labeled by their distinctive shape or outline.
II. Calculating is adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing numbers.
1. Learn how an abacus or slide rule works and teach it to a friend or to your den or pack.
III. Statistics is collecting and organizing numerical information and studying patterns.
2. Conduct and opinion survey through which you collect data to answer a question, and then show your results with a chart or graph. For instance: What is the favorite food of the Cub Scouts in your pack (chart how many like pizza, how many like hamburgers, etc.).
IV. Probability helps us know the chance or likelihood of something happening.
2. Conduct and keep a record of a coin toss probability experiment.
V. Measuring is using a unit to express how long or how big something is, or how much of it there is. 2. Measure how tall someone is. Have them measure you.
Music
Music Belt Loop Requirements offered by the CMA:
- Explain why music is an important part of our culture.
- Pick a song with at least two verses and learn it by heart.
- Listen to four different types of music either recorded or live.
Music Pin Requirements offered by the CMA:
1. Make a musical instrument and play it for your family, den, or pack.
Science
Science Belt Loop Requirements offered by the CMA:
- Explain the scientific method to your adult partner.
- Use the scientific method in a simple science project. Explain the results to an adult.
- Visit a museum, a laboratory, an observatory, a zoo, an aquarium, or other facility that employs scientists. Talk to a scientist about his or her work.
Science Pin Requirements offered by the CMA:
3. Plant seeds. Grow a flower, garden vegetable or other plant.
8. Learn about a creature that lives in the ocean. Share what you have learned with your den or family.
9. Label a drawing or diagram of the bones of the human skeleton.
10. Make a model or poster of the solar system. Label the planets and the sun.
Weather
Weather Belt Loop Requirements offered by the CMA:
- Make a poster that shows and explains the water cycle.
- Set up a simple weather station to record rainfall, temperature, air pressure, or evaporation for one week.
- Watch the weather forecast on a local television station.
Weather Pin Requirements offered by the CMA:
2. Explain how clouds are made. Describe the different kinds of clouds – stratus, cumulus, cumulonimbus, and cirrus—and what kinds of weather can be associated with these clouds types. (Hint: Check out the Channel 10 TV Station)
3. Describe the climate in your state. Compare its climate with that in another state.
4. Describe a potentially dangerous weather condition in your community. Discuss safety precautions and procedures for dealing with this condition.
8. Explain the differences between tornadoes and hurricanes.
10. Explain how weather can affect agriculture and the growing of food.
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