Cub Scouts Sports Belt Loop - Kickball

Complete these three requirements:

1. Explain the rules of kickball to your leader or adult partner.
2. Spend 30 minutes practicing the skills of kickball (pitching, kicking, base running, catching, throwing). This may be over two different  practice periods.
3. Play a game of kickball.

Cub Scout Sports Pin - Ice Skating

Earn the Ice Skating belt loop and complete five of the following requirements:

1. Participate in a pack or community ice skating event.
2. Demonstrate how to sharpen your skates correctly.
3. Demonstrate how to lace, assemble, and dissemble your skates correctly.
4. On two different occasions, spend at least 15 minutes practicing warm-up exercises before 30 minutes of skating.
5. Play a skating game on the ice.
6. Learn and demonstrate two new figure-skating skills: forward swizzles, glides, backward swizzles, and backward wiggle.
7. Demonstrate how to “start” in a speed skating race.
8. Explain the difference between long-track and short-track speed skating.
9. Participate in a skating skill development clinic.
10. Tell about an Olympian athlete in figure skating or speed skating. What were some of his or her best traits?
11. Play a game of ice hockey.
12. Participate in a hockey skill development clinic.

Cub Scout Sports Belt Loop - Ice Skating

Complete these three requirements:

1. Explain ways to protect yourself while ice skating, and the need for proper safety equipment.
2. Spend at least 30 minutes practicing the skills of skating.
3. Go ice skating with a family member or den for at least three hours, in up to three one-hour outings. Chart your time.

Cub Scout Sports Pin - Horseback Riding

Earn the Horseback Riding belt loop and complete five of the following requirements:

1. Learn about three famous horses. Explain why these horses were well-known.
2. Using pictures of these different animals, explain to your den or family the difference between a horse, pony, mule, and donkey.
3. Explain how a horse is measured and what a “hand” equals when measuring a horse.
4. Using a picture, point out these main parts of a horse: forehead, muzzle, mane, withers, point of hip, knee, hoof, and root of tail.
5. Describe three different breeds of horses and explain what feature makes each breed special.
6. Using photos or pictures you have drawn,explain to your den or family at least three different ways that horses can help us.
7. Name five things healthy for a horse’s diet.
8. Tell why it is important to wear an approved riding helmet when you go horseback riding.
9. Photograph or draw a picture of the saddle you used for the ride you took to earn the belt loop.
10. With your parent or adult partner, visit a veterinarian who cares for horses. Write the answers to three questions you ask him or her.
11. Spend at least 15 minutes before and after your ride getting to know your horse by talking calmly to it and stroking it slowly.
12. Go on a supervised horseback ride for at least 30 minutes. Dress appropriately and show that you can safely mount and dismount the horse.

Cub Scouts Sports Belt Loop - Horseback Riding

Complete these three requirements:

1. Explain five safety precautions for when you are near a horse.
2. With help from an experienced horse handler, demonstrate how to safely mount and ride a horse and then how to safely dismount the horse.
3. Go on a supervised horseback ride for at least 20 minutes. Wear an approved helmet (such as one approved for horseback riding by the ASTM, or American Society for Testing and Materials).

Cub Scout Sports Pin - Hockey

Earn the Hockey belt loop and complete five of the following requirements:

1. Participate in a pack, school, or community hockey tournament or in a supervised hockey league.
2. Participate in a hockey skills development clinic.
3. Spend at least 30 minutes practicing the skills of hockey: skating, stick handling, passing, shooting, and checking. This may be over two different practice periods
4. Draw the layout of the playing surface for a hockey game including the starting positions of the goalie, three forwards (two wings and a center), and two defenders.
5. Demonstrate foul signals. Explain to your den or team why players should avoid fouls.
6. Attend a high school, college, or professional hockey game.
7. Demonstrate hockey terms (for example, assist, breakaway, deke, draw, pulling the goalie, and so on.) to another team member or adult.
8. Learn about a U.S. Olympic hockey team and report what you learn to your den or family.
9. Watch an ice resurfacing machine at an ice rink. Report to your den or family about the history of the machine commonly known as the Zamboni and how it is used.

Cub Scout Sports Belt Loop - Hockey

Belt Loop

Complete these three requirements:

1. Explain ways to protect yourself while skating. Demonstrate how to put on all necessary safety equipment. Explain why proper safety equipment is important.
2. Spend 30 minutes practicing the skills of hockey: skating, stick handling, passing, shooting, and checking. This may be over two different practice periods.
3. Play a game of hockey while on roller skates or hockey skates.