Cub Scout Music

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Cub Scout Music Belt Loop & Pin resources include the Cub Scout Music Worksheet

with cross-references for related Cub Scout Tiger, Wolf, Bear, and Webelos requirements. Cub Scout Music is a fun meeting theme. ◄ Prev - Next ►

The Cub Scout Music Belt Loop is an option for the Webelos Showman Activity Badge.

The Cub Scout Music Belt Loop and Pin help prepare Scouts for the Boy Scout Music Merit Badge.

Music Belt Loop and Pin
Music Academics Belt Loop Music Academics Pin (line drawing, actual pins are color)

The Cub Scout Music Belt Loop and Pin are a part of the Cub Scout Academics and Sports Program. Tiger Cub, Wolf, Bear, and Webelos Scouts may earn this award in a Family, Den, Pack, school, or community setting. Tiger Cubs must be always accompanied by their Adult Partner.

1 Cub Scout Music Requirements
- 1.1 Belt Loop Requirements
- 1.2 Academics Pin Requirements
2 Notes
3 Requirement resources
4 Related awards
5 See also
6 External links

Cub Scout Music Requirements

Belt Loop Requirements

Complete these three requirements:

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.

Academics Pin Requirements

Earn the Music belt loop, and complete one from each of the five areas below:

Make a musical instrument and play it for your family, den, or pack.
Teach your den a song.
Play a song by yourself or in a group, in unison or in harmony.
Create an original melody and/or original words for a song.
Using a tape recorder, capture natural sounds of the environment or record songs you create, and use your recording as a soundtrack for a short skit. or as background for a movement activity.
Attend a live musical performance or concert.
Demonstrate conducting patterns for two songs using two different meters (two-, three-, or four-beat meter) while your adult partner or den members sing or play the songs you have selected.
Take voice or dance lessons or lessons to learn to play an instrument.
Create movements to a piece of music without words to demonstrate the moods of the music: happy, sad, calm, excited, playful, inspired.
Learn about a composer of some music that you enjoy.

The official source for the information shown in this article or section is:
Cub Scout Academics and Sports Program Guide, 2003 Edition (BSA Supply No. 34299)

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Notes

Details on earning a Cub Scout Sports or Academic pin or belt loop multiple times

Earning the Cub Scout Music Belt Loop while a Webelos Scout is requirement 15 of the Webelos Showman Activity Badge.

Requirement resources

A Free Workbook is Available!

with the maps, charts, links, and checklists you need!
There is also a printable requirements page.

Merit Badge & Rank Workbooks
Webelos Activity & Rank Workbooks
Cub Scout Belt Loop Workbooks

Belt Loop Requriements

2. See Scout Songs for great collections of songs.
3. Types of music: The Big Bands Database - The Blues Foundation Classical Music Archives - Country Music Assn

Int. Bluegrass Music Assn - Red Hot Jazz Archive - Rock and Roll Hall of Fame - Smithsonian
Pin Requriements

1. Make a traditional instrument - another site
2-4. See Scout Songs for great collections of songs.
8Lessons Videos: Singing - How to Play Music - Guitar - Piano
10. Links to Composers - Links to Songwriters

Related awards

Tiger Cub Scout

Tiger Cub Electives

Tiger Elective 6. Learn & teach a song in another language for Cub Scout Music Belt Loop requirement #2 and Pin requirement #2.
Tiger Elective 7. Make a musical instrucment and play it for Cub Scout Music Pin requirements #1 & #3.

Wolf Cub Scout

Wolf Electives

Elective 10b. could be met by completing Cub Scout Music Pin requirement 1
Elective 11a, 11b, 11c, 11d, 11e, or 11f. could be met by completing Cub Scout Music Belt Loop requirement 2

Bear Cub Scout

Bear Electives