World Guiding Badge – Guide Instant Meeting November 2015 Saskatchewan Program Committee Instant Meeting WAGGGS stands for the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts. There are over 145 countries that belong to WAGGGS, including Canada. This meeting will introduce the girls to five other member countries as well as a brief introduction to the World Centres. Program Connections: You in Guiding Learn About Guiding #1 Tell the Story of Guiding Learn About WAGGGS #1 Learn about WAGGGS #5 Learn about five WAGGGS countries World Guiding Badge Meeting Plan 120 minute meeting. Approximate activity times shown. Be flexible! 10 min: Gathering Activity 25 min: Guide Opening 30 min: Baden-Powell Skits 20 min: Our Cabana Craft – “God’s Eye” 10 min: World Centre Relay Race 20 min: World Guiding Posters 5 min: Guide Closing Meeting Supplies o Attachments o Baden-Powell information o Kenya Fact sheet (Africa Region) o Libya (Arab Region) o Australia (Asia Pacific Region) o Poland (Europe Region) o Jamaica (Western Hemisphere Region) o Relay race information o Craft o Popsicle sticks o Different colours of yarn o Posters o Poster board o Markers Gathering Activity As the girls arrive, have them gather in their patrols. Give each patrol a fact sheet about one or two WAGGGS countries. Have them prepare to share this information with the rest of the group during horseshoe so that everyone ends up learning about a total of five countries. If possible, have them find the country on a world map or globe and determine which WAGGGS region the country is in. If you are interested, more information can be found at www.wagggsworld.org, including information on other countries. Guide Opening and Baden-Powell Skits Use your regular Guide opening to get the girls into horseshoe formation. Once there, have the girls share the information they learned about the WAGGGS countries and discuss the similarities and differences. Discuss the story of Lord and Lady Baden-Powell and how guiding started, using the attached resource. After the discussion, have the girls create skits or commercials about one of the Baden-Powells to share information they found interesting. Our Cabana Craft – “God’s Eye” Using the attached instructions from the Our Cabana activity pack, have the girls make a ‘God’s Eye’ out of popsicle sticks and yarn. World Centre Relay Race Have the attached labels and pictures at one end of the room, with a full set for each team. Have the girls race across to collect the pieces. Once they have them all, they need to match up the name of the World Centre with the picture of the World Centre and the name of the country in which it is located. First team to finish correctly wins! World Guiding Posters Using what they have learned today, have the girls make up posters to help younger girls learn about Girl Guides around the world. Guide Closing Use your regular Guide Closing. Pax Lodge United Kingdom Sangam India Our Cabana Mexico Our Chalet Switzerland Kusafiri Africa "God's Eyes" The Huichol Indians of Mexico and the Aymara Indians of Bolivia weave brightly colored yarn on a simple frame of crossed sticks to make a design called "Ojo de Dios" or "Eye of God". Originally, "God's Eyes" were made to be placed on an altar so that the gods could watch over the praying people and protect them. They are now more often sold in markets, reminding us that God looks with love on people everywhere. Materials you will need: 2 small sticks, fairly straight and approximately 5" long OR 2 popsicle sticks (you can also use fairly smooth tree branches or dowels) Scissors and pencil 1-3 balls of yarn- in different colors Small Bells for Decoration (optional) Step 1: Cross the sticks at the center. Tie them together with the end of a piece of yarn, making an X, but don't cut the yarn off its skein (Figure 2). Tie the yarn IN BACK of the 2 crossed sticks (Figure 1). 3 Step 2: With the pencil, number the sticks at the ends, in the center. (Figure 3) Step 3 : Bring the yarn to the front between sticks 3 and 4. Pull the yarn over stick 3 and the next one too (stick 2), and bring it to the back between sticks 2 and 1. Wrap it behind stick 2 and bring it to the front again between sticks 2 and 3. Pull it over stick 2 and the next one too (stick 1), and wrap it behind stick 1 (Figure 3). Step 4: Pull the yarn over stick 1 and the next one too (stick 4) and wrap it behind stick 4. Pull it over stick 4 and the next one too (stick 3) and wrap it behind stick 3. This is one complete round. Always lay the yarn next to, NOT on top of the yarn already in place. Step 5: Keep on wrapping the yarn behind each stick, over that stick and the next, and around behind that one, then over that stick and the next and behind that one. (Figure 4)As you continue making the rounds, always be sure that the yarn lies next to, but never on top of the yarn in the previous round. After the first few rounds, you will see the woven pattern of the "eye" beginning to form. 4 Step 6 : When you have an "eye" in one color of yarn, you can cut the yarn and tie on another color, and continue weaving. Make sure that the knot that you joined the 2 colors with, stays in the back (Figure 5). Step 7: Keep weaving the "God's Eye" until you are about 1/2 inch from the ends of the sticks. Cut the yarn, leaving approximately a 7-8" tail. Tie the tail in a knot in back .If you have bells for decoration, attach one to each of the 4 ends. A "God's Eye" this size can be use as a decoration, hung almost anywhere. At Christmas you can even hang them on your tree. They can also be made in miniature with the thread wound on toothpicks, but these are delicate and much harder to handle. 5 Fact Sheet The Three Baden-Powells: Robert, Agnes and Olave This is the story, very briefly told, of three remarkable people. Robert Baden-Powell started the Boy Scouts. His sister, Agnes, helped him organize a similar movement for girls, the Girl Guides. Olave spent her life, after her marriage to Robert, promoting Guiding and Scouting. Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell Robert, later known affectionately as B-P, was born in London, England, on February 22, 1857. His father, the Reverend Powell, a science professor at Oxford University, spent a great deal of time with his large family of six sons and a daughter, taking them for walks in the park, teaching them at home and reading aloud to them. He died when Robert was just three, leaving his wife, Henrietta, to raise the family alone. She was a remarkable woman who excelled in music, art, languages, literature, science and mathematics. Her interests led her to establish a scheme of a high school education for girls. The family had many friends who influenced Robert. His older brothers taught him to handle a boat, to camp and to cook. He went to a boarding school, Charterhouse, where, although he was not a good student, he made his mark in other ways through his artistic (he was ambidextrous) and dramatic talents. He was very clever at eluding the masters, going off into the nearby woods (against the rules) to catch, skin and cook rabbits, using such a tiny fire that the smoke did not betray his presence. After leaving school Robert entered the British Army as an officer, serving in India, Afghanistan and South Africa. The Zulus called him “M'hala Panzi” (he who lies down to shoot). While among them he first heard the chant “Een gon yama” (he is a lion), well known now to Guides and Scouts. The Matabele tribe gave him the name “Impeesa” (the wolf that never sleeps). During the Boer War, B-P, in charge of a small detachment of mounted men, was besieged in the town of Mafeking. This situation appealed to the British public and when Mafeking was relieved after 217 days, B-P was proclaimed a hero. While in Mafeking, one of B-P's officers organized the boys in the town into a messenger service to help the soldiers called the Mafeking Cadet Corps. B-P was quick to see the possibilities in this and the idea of the Boy Scouts was born in his mind. B-P's last assignment in South Africa was to organize a local police force. Their uniform was the model for the original Boy Scout uniform. He wrote a small manual 1 on scouting, army style, for the police force, the first of many publications he produced. On his return to Britain, B-P became Inspector General of Cavalry and travelled widely in the line of duty. He found that his scouting manual was being used by the Boys' Brigade. After inspecting the boys and talking with their leader, he agreed to adapt his book for them. However, because of his concern about the lack of “spirit” in British boys, particularly in those without the advantages of a good education, he decided instead to form a new organization, the Boy Scouts. He felt what was needed was a scheme of character training for boys.