The Dolphin Challenge is for Rainbows, Brownies, Guides, Rangers, Leaders and Trefoil members.
Dolphin shaped badge measures 3⅞” high and 3⅛” wide and cost £1.00 each - plus postage
This challenge and the badge order form can be downloaded from our website www.girlguidingwelshpool.co.uk
Welshpool Guides and Rangers have produced this challenge and badge to raise funds for the units and towards international trips.
Thank you for your support - have fun completing the challenge!
Dolphin Challenge Please adapt any of the activities to suit your unit or make up your own challenges. Rainbows should aim to complete at least 3 different challenges of their choice. Brownies should aim to complete at least 4-5 challenges Guides, Senior Section, Leaders and Trefoil should complete at least 6 different challenges of their choice.
1. Dolphins are mammals – find out about other mammals that live in the sea. 2. Colour in a dolphin picture. 3. Use iris folding to make a dolphin card. 4. Take part in an environmental project on a beach, (beach litter pick). 5. Visit a sea life centre, aquarium etc. 6. Make a dolphin using felt. 7. Decorate biscuits with dolphins using icing. 8. Make a dolphin using shells, driftwood or other natural found on the beach. 9. Make a dolphin using origami. 10. Dolphins eat fish and squid – eat some fish or try some squid. 11. Use marzipan, fondant icing to make dolphins - models that you can eat! 12. Watch the film “Free Willy”. Learn about the effects of keeping dolphins in captivity and discuss the animal welfare issues with others. 13. Use glass paints to decorate a jar or glass with dolphins and sea life. 14. Create a collage of dolphins. Each person could make a dolphin for the collage.
15. Learn about the dolphin family and the different species. 16. Find out about the work of dolphin conservation groups and raise some money to help. 17. Make a mosaic dolphin. 18. Read a story about a dolphin – Rob and The Bottlenose Dolphin, Dilly the Dolphin or Darr the Dolphin's Dirty Tricks 19. Make or complete a dolphin puzzle – dot to dot, word search, maze or a jigsaw. 20. Embroider or cross stitch a dolphin. 21. Design a greetings card, using quilling to create a dolphin. 22. Knit or crochet a dolphin or another sea creature. 23. Design dolphins on each other’s faces using face paints. 24. Use seed beads and wire to make a dolphin. 25. Learn how to sign “dolphin” (British Sign Language and Makaton). 26. Learn about echolocation and how dolphins use it. 27. Watch the film “Dolphin Tale” 28. During the summer dolphins swim closer to the UK coasts – take your binoculars and watch…. especially if near –
• Durlston Head - Dorset, • Moray Firth - Inverness, England Scotland • Prawle Point - Devon, England • Loch Gairloch - Wester Ross, • Porthgwarra - Cornwall, Scotland England • Chanonry Point - Black Isle, • Cardigan Bay - Cardigan, Scotland Wales
29. Dolphins communicate through clicks, whistles and squeaks - learn some Morse code or sign language so you can communicate with out speaking. 30. Paint a picture of a dolphin - try painting on silk. 31. Make a dolphin fridge magnet using Hama beads or Fimo clay. 32. Create an ocean in a bottle. 33. Learn about the work of the RNLI -Lifeboats and hold an event to fund raise for them – visit a Life boat station and spend some money in their shop. 34. Listen to some dolphin sounds and waves set to music, lie down and relax. 35. Make a dolphin sun catcher and hang in a window. You could use tissue paper stuck on to acetate shapes. 36. Use the words – “Bottle nosed Dolphin” how many words can you make using 3 or more letters? 37. The largest of the oceanic dolphins is the Killer Whale, find out how large their dorsal fins are and how individual Killer Whales can be identified. 38. Find out about the Amazon River Dolphin. What colour are they and how do they differ from ocean dolphins. 39. Discuss the practice of hunting of killing of dolphins of meat and blubber. 40. Create a “word cloud” in the shape of a dolphin; fill it with words connected with the sea. 41. Make a Para cord dolphin or other sea creature (if you have not used Para cord before start with an easier project – a bracelet or key ring). 42. Dolphin love to play, go to a swimming pool and play some games with your friends. 43. Make a shoebox sea diorama; include dolphins and other sea creatures. 44. Create dolphin by whittling a piece of wood. 45. Make a power point about all the facts you have learnt about dolphins.
Visit this Pinterest site for great ideas, patterns and instructions https://uk.pinterest.com/judyevanswales/dolphin/
Please look on the internet, there are lots of ideas to help you complete this badge – here are some. http://www.electricscotland.com/kids/stories/middleeast4.htm Darr the Dolphin's Dirty Tricks http://animals.sandiegozoo.org/animals/dolphin - facts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLyjRUBvUcg – Dolphin Music to relax to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GnWTQp6eWg - Dolphin Music to relax to http://www.activityvillage.co.uk/dolphin-crafts - activities http://www.artistshelpingchildren.org/dolphinscraftsideaskids.html - crafts
The Dolphin Challenge Badge Order Form
Contact Name Unit Phone number Email address Postal Address
Postcode
Number of Badges Total (£)
@ £1 per badge Postage and packaging
Up to 10 badges £1.50 10 to 30 badges £2.00 31 or above £2.50
If ordering Butterfly, Ladybird, Dolphin or Seahorse badges together the max. P+P is £2.50 Total Please make your cheque payable £ to “1st Welshpool Guides” [email protected]
Please send order for badges to Judy Evans Highfield Middletown Welshpool, Powys SY21 8EL
Thank you for your support