Before this activity Cub Scouts must complete requirements 1, 2, and 3. 

Before the meeting: 

1. Locate a swimming area.   
2. Review BSA Health and Medical Form for each Cub Scout. 
3. Review the Safe Swim Defense and secure the proper Qualified Adult Supervision for the activity. 
   All swimming activity must be supervised by a mature and conscientious adult age 21 or older who understands and knowingly accepts responsibility for the well-being and safety of those in their care, and who is trained in and committed to compliance with the eight points of BSA Safe Swim Defense. 

During the meeting while swimming: 

1. Demonstrate the front crawl. 
   • Legs do a flutter kick. To do this, move your legs up and down in the water, pressing down on the water with the top of your foot.  
   •  At the same time, reach out with your arms out as far as you can in front of you, one arm at a time. Cup each hand, and scoop water down and back toward your body as your arm goes around in a circle. 
2. Demonstrate the restful backstroke.   
   • Start by facing the pool wall, grabbing the poolside with both hands and putting your feet up against the wall, so your knees are bent up between your arm.   
   • You are poised and ready to spring away from the wall.  
   • Let go of the wall and push hard with both feet. Stretch out away from the wall keeping both arms by your sides. 
   • Glide across the water surface maintaining a horizontal position. 
   • Introduce using legs to kick. Push away from the poolside with one foot and with your head back, facing upwards. 
   • Begin to kick using a relaxed and alternating action, flicking your feet upwards to break the water surface.  
   • Your relaxed ankles should enable your feet to kick in a flipper-like action. 
   • Finally, introduce arms. Push gently away from the pool side holding a float across the chest with one arm and with the other arm by your side 
   • Extend your arm up and over the water with your thumb leading the movement 
   • Keeping your arm straight, rotate your hand so that your little finger enters the water in line with your shoulder and arm fully extended 
   • The arm pulls through the water to the hip with the forearm and the palm of the hand providing the propulsion. 
3. Demonstrate the breaststroke. 
   • Grab the poolside with both hands behind you.  Put your feet up against the wall, getting ready to spring away from the wall. 
   • Take a deep breast and submerge your face.  Immediately let go of the wall and stretch your arms and hands in front of you.  
   • Push hard with both feet and stretch out away from the wall. 
   • For your legs, Push away from the poolside with one foot, looking forward with your chin on the water surface. 
   • Draw your knees up underneath you keeping your legs and feet together and… 
   • …turn out your feet, exposing the soles to the water behind you. 
   • Kick your feet out, around and back together, keeping your knees as close together as you can.  
   • As you get used to the action, add more power and acceleration to the movement so that it becomes more of a whip action/ 
   • For your arms, Push gently away from the pool side with arms stretched out in front and together 
   • Keeping fingers together, pull the water around in a small circle, keeping your hands in front of you throughout the movement 
   • Allow your hands to scoop around and come together just under your chin 
   • Elbows tuck in (this part of the action is easier when practiced without the woggle) 
   • Both hands then stretch forwards, remaining together as they return to their starting position. 
4. Tell Cub Scouts to make sure they’re with the swim buddy within their same swim ability group that they selected in requirement 3. 
5. Call each buddy group, one at a time, to attempt one of the styles.