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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?

Date: ........... Witness: ........... Points: ...

Make a display of Guiding Uniforms through the agesDesign a uniform that you think Rainbows/ Brownies/ Guides/ Senior Section/ Leaders/ Trefoil Guild will be wearing in 100 years


Visit Baden-Powell House. Get someone to take a photo you standing with Lord Baden-Powell’s statue.


Act out a scene from Guiding’s history. BONUS- Invite some old Guides/ Guiders to see your production (Trefoil Guild)


Collect five Guide badges from different countries or/and counties celebrating the centenary.


Make a scrapbook of Guiding history and memoriesDate: ........... Witness: ........... Points: ...

Discover

Make a scrapbook of the centenary year and the events you attend


Find out how Guiding helped the War Effort (WWI & WWII)


Find out about the S.O.S to build H.Q.


Find out about Guiding in another country not in the UK


Discover 100 Guiding facts


Ask the Trefoil Guild along to a meeting to share their Guiding memories with you.


Complete your units Traditions of Guiding Badge


Hold a Centenary party. BONUS- Invite an old Guiding Member


Cook a celebration meal


Attend Centenary celebration outside of your unit


Attend St. George’s day parade


Hold a 1910 theme evening


Celebrating

Make a thank-you/ celebration card for the Trefoil Guild. BONUS- For each member of the Trefoil Guild for each card you receive


Hold a celebration in an unusual place


Decorate a candle celebrating the centenary and use it in a celebration


Hold a safari supper. Go to a different location for each course


Hold a special centenary thinking day celebration


Make a bonnet to represent Guiding


ADULTS ONLY- Hold a wine tasting evening


Sleep under the stars


Hold an ‘old style’ District gang show


Trefoil Guild- Perform a play with 10 mistakes for audience to spot.


Go to the Big Gig


Complete your units Entertainment/ Performing Arts badge


Rainbows- sing camp fire songs


Take part in a carnival procession celebrating Guiding

Entertainment


Write a poem/rap about Guiding and read it to your unitDate: ........... Witness: ........... Points: ...

Record a Guiding jingle and try to get it played on the radio.


Visit a museum or castle


Hold a bring a friend night


Go to a fair


Go to the cinema/ theatre


Start your own book club


Make a collage about yourself (Guides working on B-P can count this towards their award)


Cook your favourite recipe and write out how to make it.


Complete the Healthy Lifestyles badge


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.


Grow a plant that can grow to be as tall as you and take a photo. BONUS- Send it in. HINT- plant catalogues help


Trace your family tree. See how far back you can go.

Being You


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.


How many tent pegs can you bang in five minutes?


Try a new hobby or craft. If you continue this for 12 weeks you can gain your Hobbies Badge. (Counts towards B-P Award)


http://www.girlguiding.org.uk/brownies/badges/hobbies.html

Send a friendship badge to someone involved in guiding abroad


Design a poster showing as many ways as you can on how to be environmentally friendly


Help a local conservation group with a project in your area


Plant a tree


Make a bird house. BONUS- If you are a Brownie complete one of the badges below to gain an extra point


Brownies complete your Seasons or Environment badge

World


Brownies complete your Wildlife Explorer badgeDate: ........... Witness: ........... Points: ...

Find out about an extinct animal


Make a scarecrow


Do a litter pick around you local area outside of your usual meeting place


Make jam or mincemeat


Have an ‘Ugly Bug Ball’


Complete the Elements Challenges DOUBLE POINTS


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.


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).


Have a team games evening


Learn sign language


Find a story to illustrate your units promise or law.


Learn how to count to ten in five languages other than your own


Break a bad habit


Practise being ambidextrous until you can write your name neatly with both hands

Learn & Laugh


Go on a plant treasure hunt and see if you can find the following:

a) a plant growing in the shade and in the sunb) a plant growing in water and in a damp areac) a plant with flowers all in one colourd) find a plant that has flowers in two different colours and another that

has three different colourse) a plant that likes dry placesf) a perfumed plantg) a flower that is smaller than 1ph) a flower bigger than 50pi) find a flower that represents a countryj) a plant that has a sticky stemk) a fuzzy plantl) a prickly plantm)find a plant that has an interesting bug on itn) an edible planto) a poisonous plant


Have a Tug of war


As a group work together to write a Guiding centenary song to the tune of The Saints Go Marching In. BONUS- Perform to parents.


Complete a Teamwork badge


Invent the following: a burglar alarm for a tent/ playhouse or bedroom. HINT- Think ‘Home Alone’ Movies


Make a useless gadget.


Make a weighing machine


Hold a town crier contest. Winner gets a gob-stopper


Ride on an open top bus


Ride on something unusual that you have never been on before


Complete the Adventure Out Badge


Complete an Outdoor badge


Pat a Cow or a horse if you have never done so before


Go on an a boat trip


Adventure

Learn how to ride a unicycle

Date: ........... Witness: ........... Points

Go rock climbingDate: ........... Witness: ........... Points: ...

Bush craft with an expert


Try Raft Building


Try Water sports


Try an unusual fruit or vegetable that is new to you


As a unit visit a Nature Centre


Visit and ride on a miniature railway


Cook spaghetti and use it to tie as many different knots as you can


Join in a Division walk


Do 100 good turns


Invent an active game that someone in a wheelchair or on crutches could play safely. BONUS- Try it out


Ask DASH to come and run one of your meetings.


Complete the Community Action badge (If you do not already have it)


Hold a Race/ Quiz/ Bingo Night to fundraise for a charity. Invite all the parents.


Community Action

Hold a District pram marathon. Charge per entry and donate the proceeds to a Children’s charity.


Help a member of the Trefoil Guild or someone that needs help with their gardening.


Help Mum and Dad around the house


Help wash-up


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

Being

Learn & Laugh

http://freecen.rootsweb.com/cgi/search.pl

http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/default.asp

http://www.ancestry.co.uk/

CHOOSE FROM EITHER A OR BChallenge 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/ BrowniesMake and/or decorate a candle

Guides/ Senior Section/ Guiders/ Trefoil GuildSurprise, 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:

Medium-size clay flower pot Adhesive tape Coloured wool String Nails of varied sizes Scissors Aluminium pie tins Hole Punch

What to do:

1. Cut out various shapes from the foil such as hearts 2. Hole punch them at the top.3. Put 2 or 3 shapes on a length of wool about 30cm, space them out by

using knots. 4. You can also hang the blunt nails on lengths of wool. 5. The lengths of wool can differ. 6. When you are happy tape the various lengths of wool to the inside of

the pot. 7. Test it for sound and security by holding it upside down. 8. Using string and the hole in the top of the pot make it hang upside

down.

Challenge B- Pinwheel

Supplies needed:

2 pieces of construction paper (the thicker the better)

Scissors A hole punch Split pin A pencil with an eraser Markers or crayons

Start by making two square pieces of paper. To start making a square, put the two pieces of paper together. Fold the corner of the pieces of paper over as shown.

To finish making the squares, cut off the small rectangles, forming two squares (which are already folded into a triangle).

Fold the triangle in half.

Unfold the paper.

Decorate one side of each sheet of paper.

Put the undecorated sides of the paper together.

Make four cuts along the fold lines – about halfway to the centre.

Punch four holes in the pinwheel, one at each corner.

Gently gather each of the four points (with a hole) to the centre. (Be careful not to crease the paper.)

Push a split-pin through the four punched holes through the centre of the pinwheel to attach the pinwheel to the side of a pencil’s eraser.

Challenge C

Make a Wind Sock

You can use a wind sock to find out where the wind comes from.

Make the wind sock by following the instructions on the drawing. Tie the wind sock to the top of a pole.

Using the wind sock and the compass you can now measure the wind direction. You can also see how much wind there is, by looking at how high the wind lifts the wind sock.

If you want the wind sock to be weatherproof, you can use plastic bags or nylon fabric instead of paper.

Toolbox: 1 sheet of 8, 5 x 11 inch printer/copy paper

1 piece of tissue paper 28 x 28 cmGlueAdhesive tapeScissorsPaper puncher1 paper clipMetric ruler1.2 m kite stringPoleMagnetic compass

How much do you know about the countires on planet earth?

CHOOSE FROM EITHER A OR B

Challenge A- PART ONE

At one end of the room there are two maps of Europe (one for each team).

At the other end of the room there is a pile of cut out countries, these have no name on them just the shape!

This is a relay race! Each team stands by its map, the first runner goes to the end of the room gets a shape and carries it back to the map. They place it in the correct place and the next person can go. The winners are the first team to complete their map.

PART TWO

For the rest of the time use the labels to correctly name as many of the countries as possible.

At the end of the challenges the teams will be ranked in the order of number of correct countries named and awarded the matching points. The team with the most will earn 8, the second 7 etc.

Challenge B- Rainbows/ Brownies

Tissue Paper EarthYou need:

Earth Pattern (see next page) Wax Paper / Cling Film Blue & Green Tissue Paper PVA

Instructions:

Tear Blue and Green tissue paper into ½" pieces. Place a piece of wax paper over Earth Pattern. Brush lightly with starch. Arrange tissue pieces to make the Earth using the pattern as a guide. Brush lightly with PVA. Add another layer of tissue pieces and finish with a final layer of PVA. Let dry. Peel from wax paper. Trim circle. Hang or tape in window.

Order Form

Congratulations on gaining 100 stars for the Centenary Challenge!!

Badges cost £1 each.

Please e-mail order details to: [email protected]

Unit Name: ______________

Delivery Address:__________________________________________

Number of Badges required:___________________

Please make cheques payable to Girlguidng Heathrow

Please send a stamped addressed envelope for the return of your order- Up to 30 badges A5 envelope with 1 large letter stamp. 30-100 badges A4 envelope with 2 large letter stamps

mailto:[email protected]

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