Share the Fun!

Pack Produced By Girlguiding Ulster Trainers 2013 Welcome to Share the Fun! The aim of this challenge badge is to promote all the fun activities that Guiding has to offer in your area. We hope that you and your girls will enjoy trying out all the various activities in the resource. How to use this Pack The activities in this pack have been set out in the 4 section groups i.e. Rainbows, Brownies, Guides and Senior Section. Most of the activities can be completed in one meeting, although a few of them may take a little longer. In order to obtain the badge each group needs to complete 4 of the 6 activities contained in their section, plus two activities from the “Continue to Share” section. When you have done this the badge is available from the Lorne shop - Girlguiding Ulster members receive this FREE! The badge will cost £1.00 each for members outside of Girlguiding Ulster Please see badge order at the end of the resource for more details. Complete 4 of the activities in this section having fun and friendship along the way Animal Pairs Game Object of game:- Match the baby animal with the correct adult animal. Materials needed:- Printout of animals Card Glue Scissors Leaders:- Print out the two sheets of animals provided and glue to card. Once dry use scissors to cut along solid lines to produce individual cards. Write names of animals on blank side of card. Instructions on how to play game:- Place all the adult cards on the floor with the animals facing up. Hold up a baby card and ask the Rainbows if they know what the baby is called. i.e. puppy. Tell the Rainbows that the puppy has grown up and is now a WHAT? (See if they can identify the name of the adult animal and find it in the pile on the floor). Do this with all the baby cards. Animal Pairs Game Baby Adult Puppy Dog Piglet Pig Foal Horse Calf Cow Joey Kangaroo Kitten Cat Cub Bear Lamb Sheep Duckling Duck Calf Elephant Kitten Rabbit Calf Giraffe Watch something Grow! How to watch something grow:- Take the label off the yogurt pot and paint or colour the pot Draw a face onto the yogurt pot or use stickers Put some wet kitchen roll in the bottom and put some damp cotton wool on top of the Kitchen roll. Make sure you don’t fill it right to the top Evenly spread some cress seeds on top of the cotton wool and press them down gently (you can add some food colouring to the cotton wool if you want the cress ‘hair’ to be a different colour) Put the pot in a warm place that gets some sunlight like a windowsill Watch the cress grow! This should happen after about 7 days A variation on the pot is to grow a cress caterpillar Cut egg box in half-length ways Paint the box green Glue on some eyes, nose, mouth and two pipe cleaners as antennae Line the base with a strip of plastic (to prevent the carton from going soggy) Kitchen roll, damp cotton wool and spread cress seeds. Watch the cress grow before your eyes. Button Bracelets These are so simple, pretty and easy for Rainbows to make. Materials needed:- Buttons Pipe cleaners How to make a Button Bracelet:- Weave buttons onto a pipe cleaner and twist to secure This activity would be good for Rainbows to learn weaving and they could also make one for a friend to show what ‘FUN’ Rainbows have. Flower cupcakes All you need is to buy cupcakes or make your own. Store-bought vanilla icing works fine on these flower cupcakes. The best part about these cupcakes is that they are so simple to decorate. Use bought sweets for decoration. Green sweet lace for a stem or green icing pen can also be used for this. Then it is time to enjoy. Always make at least two one for you and one to share to show that Girlguiding is Fun! In and out of the Dusty Bluebells A dancing game which has a follow-my-leader theme Verse In and out of the dusty bluebells In and out of the dusty bluebells In and out of the dusty bluebells My fair lady Chorus Tip a rip a rapper on her shoulder Tip a rip a rapper on her shoulder Tip a rip a rapper on her shoulder My fair lady. Actions 1. One Rainbow is the leader. 2. The rest of the Rainbows form a ring with hands joined and arms raised to form arches. 3. The leader then weaves in and out of the arches. 4. At the end of the first verse, the leader stops behind the next Rainbow she comes to and taps her on her on shoulder. 5. That rainbow then becomes the leader 6. The two Rainbows on either side of her join hands and close the circle again. 7. The first Rainbow holds onto her waist and they weave in and out of the arches again. 8. Repeat from 4 until circle is too small to weave in and out. Name Chase This is a particularly good game if you have a few new members joining the Unit. Based on the old favourite Duck, Duck, Goose, it helps everyone learn the Rainbows’ names. Suitable for Age: 4+ Instructions:- The Rainbows sit around in a circle, facing each other. One Rainbow is chosen to be "it" first. The Rainbow who is "it" stands up and walks around the outside of the circle tapping each Rainbow on the head and saying their name, with prompting if necessary. At some point the Rainbow taps a Rainbow on the head and will say the name RAINBOW instead. The chosen Rainbow must now jump up and chase the first Rainbow around the circle, trying to tag "it" before she can sit down in her place. If she succeeds, "it" has another go. If she fails, she takes over as "it". This game is similar to Chase The Rabbit and Duck, Duck, Goose. Complete 4 of the activities in this section to help girls make new friends and share the fun of Brownies Friendly Book Marks Materials needed:- Large Lolly stick Picture of an owl Foam toppers Pencils, Glue, scissors Items to decorate bookmark How to make your book mark:- Stick your foam topper or Owl picture onto the lolly stick Write the Brownie Motto on the stick and give to a friend who isn’t a Brownie in your Unit – make one for yourself too!!! Be as colourful and imaginative as you can!!! Felt Bracelets Materials needed:- Felt Velcro tape Buttons Templates of shapes (see end of this section) Strong glue How to make your felt bracelet:- Cut a piece of felt 2cm wide that will go around the wrist. Cut out the shapes you wish to have on the bracelet. Now start to arrange the items in the middle of the bracelet and glue them into place. Once dry, place a small amount of Velcro on either end of the bracelet, Be careful here to make sure that the Velcro joins together. One piece on the top of the bracelet and at the other end of the bracelet the Velcro goes underneath. Friendly Flowers Make two flowers and then give them friendly faces (using, card, paper or any other type of material) then give one to your friend asking them to come and join us in Brownies To make These Friendly Flowers You need: 2 Emery Boards (as stems) Coloured foam for flower faces Foam for leaves Googly eyes And draw on a happy face The nail files can be removed and used and the flower face can be kept – use sticky dots to allow files to be removed Friendship Games I'm Your Friend Brownies sit together on the floor. One Brownie sits in the chair with her back to the group, with eyes closed and hands covering eyes. Someone from the group tiptoes up to the chair, taps the Brownie sitting on the chair on the back, and in a disguised or funny voice says, "Do you know me? I'm your friend." The mystery Brownie then re-joins the group and the guessing begins! The Beanbag Hellos Brownie in the chair uncovers her eyes, Play the Beanbag Hello Game! turns around, and tries to guess the name of the friend who tapped and It is nice to say hello to a friend. It talked. shows them that you are thinking about them. The leader throws a After three guesses, a new Brownie beanbag to a Brownie. takes the chair and gets a turn. This Brownie says hello to another Brownie in the circle. After the first Brownie says hello, she thinks of something nice to say to the other Brownie. The first Brownie then throws the beanbag to another Brownie. Continue until each Brownie has caught the beanbag and said hello and something nice to each other. Make a poster and invite girls to come and join Brownies Display it in a place where people who are not in Brownies will see it – get your Leader to ask at a Library for example You can make a handprint and write a message on it Or you can make Holly the handy hedgehog by putting all the hand print messages together as Holly’s body and then sticking it to a nice shiny background Or write what you think your friends would like about Brownies See how many ideas your Brownies can come up with for your poster!!! Pencil Toppers Materials needed:- Pencils Pipe Cleaners Foam Scissors, colouring pens, glue Sticky Jewels How to make the pipe cleaner toppers:- Decide on a design to make as your topper Twist your pipe cleaner into the chosen shape leaving enough at each end of the pipe cleaner to twist into a loop big enough to fit round the top of a pencil.

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