Hello and welcome to Middlesex North West County’s 100 years of Discovery and Adventure in 2010. Whether you are five or 105 you will enjoy participating in these challenges.
They may be completed on your own, as a family, with a friend or as a unit. In order to earn the badge you have to gain 100 stars. You must complete at least five challenges from each section.
Point scheme- 5 stars = Unit/Family,
3 stars = Friend, 2 stars = Individually
Each point must be witnessed by an adult. When you have gained 100 stars fill in the record page on the back cover and get your Guider to sign it. They will make a copy of your stars and send off the unit record sheet.
We hope you enjoy learning how much fun Guiding can be!
HAPPY CENTENARY FROM MIDDLESEX NORTH WEST COUNTY
Yours in Guiding,
Lynda & Emily Bowerman
(9th Hayes Guides)
Order Form on last page
- Explore how Guiding started in 1910 with Agnes Baden-Powell and how it has developed through the ages?
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- Make a display of Guiding Uniforms through the ages
Design a uniform that you think Rainbows/ Brownies/ Guides/ Senior Section/ Leaders/ Trefoil Guild will be wearing in 100 years
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- Visit Baden-Powell House. Get someone to take a photo you standing with Lord Baden-Powell’s statue.
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- Act out a scene from Guiding’s history. BONUS- Invite some old Guides/ Guiders to see your production (Trefoil Guild)
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- Collect five Guide badges from different countries or/and counties celebrating the centenary.
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- Make a scrapbook of Guiding history and memories
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- Make a scrapbook of the centenary year and the events you attend
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- Find out how Guiding helped the War Effort (WWI & WWII)
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- Find out about the S.O.S to build H.Q.
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- Find out about Guiding in another country not in the UK
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- Discover 100 Guiding facts
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- Ask the Trefoil Guild along to a meeting to share their Guiding memories with you.
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- Complete your units Traditions of Guiding Badge
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- Hold a Centenary party. BONUS- Invite an old Guiding Member
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- Cook a celebration meal
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- Attend Centenary celebration outside of your unit
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- Attend St. George’s day parade
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- Hold a 1910 theme evening
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- Make a thank-you/ celebration card for the Trefoil Guild. BONUS- For each member of the Trefoil Guild for each card you receive
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- Hold a celebration in an unusual place
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- Decorate a candle celebrating the centenary and use it in a celebration
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- Hold a safari supper. Go to a different location for each course
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- Hold a special centenary thinking day celebration
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- Make a bonnet to represent Guiding
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- ADULTS ONLY- Hold a wine tasting evening
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- Sleep under the stars
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- Hold an ‘old style’ District gang show
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- Trefoil Guild- Perform a play with 10 mistakes for audience to spot.
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- Go to the Big Gig
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- Complete your units Entertainment/ Performing Arts badge
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- Rainbows- sing camp fire songs
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- Take part in a carnival procession celebrating Guiding
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- Write a poem/rap about Guiding and read it to your unit
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- Record a Guiding jingle and try to get it played on the radio.
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- Visit a museum or castle
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- Hold a bring a friend night
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- Go to a fair
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- Go to the cinema/ theatre
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- Start your own book club
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- Make a collage about yourself (Guides working on B-P can count this towards their award)
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- Cook your favourite recipe and write out how to make it.
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- Complete the Healthy Lifestyles badge
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- Invite the Trefoil Guild to sports day and have special races for them. BONUS- If you are a member of the Trefoil Guild you can gain a bonus point for every race you participate in.
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- Grow a plant that can grow to be as tall as you and take a photo. BONUS- Send it in. HINT- plant catalogues help
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- Trace your family tree. See how far back you can go.
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- Identify a plant for year you’ve been alive that is growing near to where to live. If you are over 18 then just find 18. Draw or photograph them.
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- How many tent pegs can you bang in five minutes?
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- Try a new hobby or craft. If you continue this for 12 weeks you can gain your Hobbies Badge. (Counts towards B-P Award)
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- Send a friendship badge to someone involved in guiding abroad
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- Design a poster showing as many ways as you can on how to be environmentally friendly
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- Help a local conservation group with a project in your area
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- Plant a tree
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- Make a bird house. BONUS- If you are a Brownie complete one of the badges below to gain an extra point
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- Brownies complete your Seasons or Environment badge
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- Brownies complete your Wildlife Explorer badge
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- Find out about an extinct animal
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- Make a scarecrow
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- Do a litter pick around you local area outside of your usual meeting place
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- Make jam or mincemeat
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- Have an ‘Ugly Bug Ball’
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- Complete the Elements Challenges DOUBLE POINTS
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- Choose a Guiding country (not in Great Britain) to hold an international evening on. Include: traditional music and craft, food tasting and you must go dressed up in the colours of that country’s flag.
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- Hold a fashion show with a difference. You must make the clothing from recycled materials in only in the colours of another chosen Guiding country’s flag (not Great Britain).
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- Have a team games evening
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- Learn sign language
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- Find a story to illustrate your units promise or law.
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- Learn how to count to ten in five languages other than your own
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- Break a bad habit
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- Practise being ambidextrous until you can write your name neatly with both hands
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- Go on a plant treasure hunt and see if you can find the following:
a) a plant growing in the shade and in the sun
b) a plant growing in water and in a damp area
c) a plant with flowers all in one colour
d) find a plant that has flowers in two different colours and another that has three different colours
e) a plant that likes dry places
f) a perfumed plant
g) a flower that is smaller than 1p
h) a flower bigger than 50p
i) find a flower that represents a country
j) a plant that has a sticky stem
k) a fuzzy plant
l) a prickly plant
m) find a plant that has an interesting bug on it
n) an edible plant
o) a poisonous plant
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- Have a Tug of war
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- As a group work together to write a Guiding centenary song to the tune of The Saints Go Marching In. BONUS- Perform to parents.
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- Complete a Teamwork badge
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- Invent the following: a burglar alarm for a tent/ playhouse or bedroom. HINT- Think ‘Home Alone’ Movies
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- Make a useless gadget.
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- Make a weighing machine
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- Hold a town crier contest. Winner gets a gob-stopper
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- Ride on an open top bus
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- Ride on something unusual that you have never been on before
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- Complete the Adventure Out Badge
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- Complete an Outdoor badge
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- Pat a Cow or a horse if you have never done so before
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- Go on an a boat trip
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- Learn how to ride a unicycle
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- Go rock climbing
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- Bush craft with an expert
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- Try Raft Building
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- Try Water sports
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- Try an unusual fruit or vegetable that is new to you
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- As a unit visit a Nature Centre
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- Visit and ride on a miniature railway
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- Cook spaghetti and use it to tie as many different knots as you can
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- Join in a Division walk
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- Do 100 good turns
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- Invent an active game that someone in a wheelchair or on crutches could play safely. BONUS- Try it out
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- Ask DASH to come and run one of your meetings.
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- Complete the Community Action badge (If you do not already have it)
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- Hold a Race/ Quiz/ Bingo Night to fundraise for a charity. Invite all the parents.
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- Hold a District pram marathon. Charge per entry and donate the proceeds to a Children’s charity.
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- Help a member of the Trefoil Guild or someone that needs help with their gardening.
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- Help Mum and Dad around the house
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- Help wash-up
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Useful Sites/ Challenges
Trace your family tree:
http://www.ancestry.co.uk/
http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/default.asp
http://freecen.rootsweb.com/cgi/search.pl
CHOOSE FROM EITHER A OR B
Challenge A
Water is a very valuable resource in many countries; they often have to conserve water or carry it long distances.
You challenge is based around a village well.
Equipment:
Garden Canes
String
2 Buckets
2 Plastic Cups
Challenge:
1. You have two buckets that are spaced two metres apart.
2. There is water in bucket one.
3. You need to get the water from bucket one to bucket two.
4. In order to prevent contamination you must not use your hands to move the water or the cups.
5. Water must be moved using the cups.
6. You must build something to move the water using the rest of your equipment and any natural objects that you can find.
Challenge B
Rainbows/ Brownies
Make and/or decorate a candle
Guides/ Senior Section/ Guiders/ Trefoil Guild
Surprise, surprise it’s a cooking challenge! Complete this challenge in groups of 2 or 3.
You will need:
· A Candle
· Old Tin Can
· Matches
· Water
· Foil
· Wire coat hanger
· Hot dog and finger tea cake each
What to do:
Shape your coat hanger into a circular shape and bend foil over the frame. You might need to make this at least double thickness. Add the water and sausage to the pan; you might like to add hot water to make it quicker. Put this over a candle to cook it.
This is a crafty challenge to make a wind chime
CHOOSE FROM EITHER CHALLENGE A, B OR C
Challenge A
You will need: