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Hidden Edinburgh Challenge Hidden Edinburgh Challenge Created for the Senior Section Spectacular 2016 Introduction The Hidden Edinburgh Challenge is designed for Rainbows, Brownies, Guides, the Senior Section, Leaders and Trefoil members. It has been designed by Girlguiding Edinburgh’s ‘Team Spectacular’, to showcase some of Edinburgh’s hidden treasures, and to give you an opportunity to explore this beautiful city through a range of activities that can be completed in the unit meeting place, and out and about around the city. The badge accompanying this challenge is circular, with a 3-inch diameter and gold accenting. It features a unicorn, Girlguiding Edinburgh’s Senior Section Spectacular mascot. Badges cost £1 each plus P&P. This challenge has been produced to raise funds for Girlguiding Edinburgh’s Senior Section Spectacular activities, and to contribute towards further Senior Section activities following 2016. To earn the badge, Rainbows gain 60 points, Brownies 70 points, Guides 80 points, Senior Section/Leaders/Trefoil Members 100 points. You should complete at least 10 points from each of Places and Spaces, Unicorns, and Guiding. The rest of your points can come from sections of your choice. We have tried to include a range of activities to suit all ages and abilities, but please feel free to adapt any of the activities to suit participants as needed. Badges can be ordered using the order form on the last page. We hope you have fun completing this challenge and exploring our beautiful city. Please share your photos and stories with us by emailing Team Spectacular at [email protected]! Places and Spaces Edinburgh is full of weird and wonderful places. This section introduces you to some of them - what else can you find? • Visit Edinburgh’s own Wild West street in Morningside, or hold a Wild West themed film night with films such as Toy Story, Back to the Future III, or Rango (10 points) • Visit Edinburgh Castle, and design your own unit crest (10 points) • The Edinburgh Seven Hills Challenge is a 14.3 mile long race over the seven hills of Edinburgh, which takes place in June every year. As a unit, walk this distance. You can find out more about the Edinburgh Seven Hills Challenge at http://www.seven-hills.org.uk/ (15 points) • Visit Holyrood Palace or the Scottish Parliament, and have a debate about a current issue that matters to you (10 points) • Make a junk sculpture of Arthur’s Seat, Edinburgh’s ancient volcano and highest hill (5 Points) • Edinburgh is home to many beautiful gardens, including the Royal Botanic Garden, walled gardens, and the Secret Herb Garden; why not make your own miniature garden (5 point) • Gilmerton Cove is a series of underground passageways and chambers, hand-carved from sandstone, located beneath the streets of Gilmerton. Have a go at carving soap or wood (5 Points) • Visit the Royal Yacht Britannia; or make a boat and sail it on a local river, pond, or in a bucket of water! (10 points) • Decorate a cake with a map of Edinburgh or a hidden Edinburgh location (5 points) Places and Spaces Useful web links Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Royal Yacht Britannia http://www.rbge.org.uk/ http://www.royalyachtbritannia.co.uk/ Holyrood Palace http://bit.ly/1LIvemU Scottish Parliament http://bit.ly/1ULpfC1 Edinburgh Castle http://www.edinburghcastle.gov.uk/ Arthur’s Seat http://bit.ly/234BgWD Gilmerton Cove http://bit.ly/28wWb8G Wild West street, Springvalley Gardens http://bit.ly/234zCEl Secret Herb Garden http://bit.ly/1U8Yla6 Unicorns Unicorns are Scotland’s national animal and, as Scotland’s capital city, Edinburgh is full of them! • Make an edible Unicorn – you could try unicorn cake pops or unicorn-shaped rainbow cheese toasties! (5 points) • Make a paper mache or decoupage unicorn (5 points) • Design a T-shirt or a bag with a unicorn theme (5 points) • Make edible glitter and use it to decorate your own biscuits (5 points) • Invite the Girlguiding Edinburgh Spectacular Mascot to visit your unit – contact Team Spectacular at [email protected] for more information (5 points) • Go on a Unicorn hunt around Edinburgh, or find some unicorns in your unit meeting place (10 points) • Find out the difference between horns and antlers, and make a poster about other animals with horns, such as Narwhals or Rhinos (5 points) • Visit Pets at Home or another local pet shop to find out about some other animals – do any of them have horns? (10 points) • Have a day out to visit other animals - why not visit Edinburgh Zoo? (10 points) Unicorns Useful web links • Rainbow cheese toasties - http://www.popsugar.com/food/Rainbow-Grilled-Cheese-Recipe-41029936 (You could use a unicorn or horse-shaped cookie cutter to make your sandwich more interesting!) • Unicorn cake pops – check out some of these designs for inspiration - http://www.craftsy.com/blog/2013/06/unicorn-cakes/ • Paper mache unicorn instructions - http://bit.ly/1cxNKwv • Hobbycraft decoupage unicorns - http://bit.ly/29Oqd1H • Edible glitter recipe - http://www.wikihow.com/Make-Edible-Glitter • Check out this list of animals with horns as a starting point to help you with your research: http://modernfarmer.com/2014/08/10-best-horns-animal-world-definitive-list/ • Find out the difference between horns and antlers at these useful links: https://www.nps.gov/yell/learn/kidsyouth/ahdiff.htm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horn_%28anatomy%29 • Pets at Home – http://www.petsathome.com/ (Some stores offer sessions for youth groups – you can organise this through the website or by contacting your local store – look for the pets at home badge logo!) • Edinburgh Zoo - http://www.edinburghzoo.org.uk/ Unicorns Edinburgh City Centre has lots of unicorns for you to find. Have a wild time travelling around Edinburgh hunting unicorns in this wide game. You could visit the Royal Mile and the Meadows in a couple of hours, or use a bus day ticket and try to find as many as you can and/or attempt the bonus challenges! Holyrood House, Queen’s Gates Museum of Scotland (inside) Queen’s Gallery entrance The Meadows (at each end and the Quartermile Scottish Parliament entrance) Edinburgh School of English, Royal Mile Scott Monument, Princes Street Old Tron Kirk, Hunter Square Unicorn Antiques, Dundas Street Edinburgh Mercat Cross, Royal Mile Karen’s Unicorn Restaurant, Abercromby Place St. Giles Cathedral, Royal Mile Charlotte Square Edinburgh Castle Royal Bank of Scotland, St Andrew Square Bonus challenges: • Using all natural items you can find, make someone into a unicorn • Tear a unicorn using one post-it with your hands behind your back • Write a poem about unicorns • Copy the stained glass window at St Giles Cathedral • Make up a unicorn dance and perform in front of the castle • Share your unicorn photos with @GirlguidingEdin on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook, with the hashtag #hiddenedinburgh [make sure you have the correct photo permissions if you want to share pictures of people . Check out the Girlguiding website for more info: http://bit.ly/2b2jOT8 - log in required] Unicorns Edinburgh City Centre, particularly the Royal Mile and the Meadows, has lots of unicorns for you to find. If you can’t get out and about with your unit, you could hide pictures of unicorns around your meeting place or outside for the rest of the group to find. Here is a picture of a unicorn for you to copy, print, and hide! Girlguiding The Senior Section is open to girls and young women aged 14 to 25, and in 2016, The Senior Section turns 100! • Have a look at some old Senior Section uniforms - how have they changed? Design a uniform for the future (5 points) • Find out about Senior Section opportunities and make a display or a game to help others find out what members of The Senior Section can do (5 points) • Visit the Girlguiding Edinburgh archives and find out about the history of Girlguiding in Edinburgh (10 points) • Trefoil School was established in 1939 to give evacuees with disabilities access to an education. Try making a jam sandwich blindfolded, or one handed (5 points) • As a member of Girlguiding, you made a promise to serve the Queen and your community, and to help other people. Fundraising is a great way to do this. As a unit, try to raise £100 for a local Edinburgh charity. You could organise a sponsored walk, or have a fancy dress day; you could do a crazy shoe or hair day; you could contact your local supermarket and ask if you could do bag packing with some of the older units; or you could even hold a Girlguiding or Unicorn themed bake sale. (15 points) • Invite someone from your local Trefoil Guild group to speak about guiding when they were younger (5 points) • Join up with another unit and take part in some Hidden Edinburgh Challenge activities (5 points) • Visit the Museum of Childhood - can you find the Guide doll? (10 points) Girlguiding Useful web links • Poster about different Senior Section uniforms - http://bit.ly/1PXgdTJ • Edinburgh County Archives - http://www.girlguiding-edinburgh.org.uk/our-activities/archives.html (Contact Irene Lang at [email protected]) • Senior Section Spectacular Archives Pack - http://bit.ly/29HQwH8 • Trefoil School - http://www.trefoil.org.uk/about.html • Senior Section Opportunities - http://www.girlguiding.org.uk/seniorsection/whatcanido/index.html • The Edinburgh Dog and Cat Home - http://www.edch.org.uk/ • Edinburgh Sick Kids Friends Foundation - http://www.edinburghsickkids.org/ • Simpson’s Memory Box Appeal (SiMBA) - http://www.simbacharity.org.uk/ • Museum of Childhood - http://www.edinburghmuseums.org.uk/venues/museum-of-childhood Sport Sport has played a big role in Edinburgh’s history, and today is still home to lots of successful sportswomen and men! • In January 1970 the Royal Commonwealth pool was opened – go for a swim in your local pool (10 points) • Golf has been part of Edinburgh’s history since the 15th-century, when it was banned so King James II could encourage archery practice.
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