The official Beatrix Potter™ Challenge Badge
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Beatrix Potter character names and illustrations.
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The official Beatrix Potter™ Challenge Badge
This pack has been written for all sections, please feel free to add or modify any challenges to suit your unit.
A picture of the badge is above. Badges are £1 each plus p&p and the order form and branding approval and copyright permission can be found at the end of this pack.
We advise that you complete risk assessments for any activities you undertake especially outside your meeting place and remind you that the necessary child/adult ratios must be in place
Thank you for your support and we really hope that you enjoy completing the challenge. We would love to receive photos and feedback!
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1st Birmingham Rainbows with kind permission from Frederick Warne and Co. All images remain copyright and may not be used except in relation to this challenge without the express written permission of the copyright owners.
This challenge badge is divided into four sections:
1. Peter Rabbit 2. Jemima Puddle-duck 3. Mr. Jeremy Fisher 4. Beatrix Potter
It is suggested that Rainbows complete 4 challenges one from each of the first four sections, Brownies complete 6 challenges from the first four sections and Guides, Senior Section and Trefoil Guild complete 8 challenges including 2 from section 4.
The Books can be ordered from the Penguin Random House website: https://www.penguin.co.uk/ladybird/friends/peter-rabbit/
If people like this badge, and there is the demand, we may write another challenge badge using other stories such as Squirrle Nutkin. Do let us know if you would like this when ordering your badges. If you have a favourite book you would like us to include please let us know and we will do our best to include the most popular stories.
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Section 1:
The Tale of Peter Rabbit™
Characters
Peter Rabbit
Mrs. Josephine Rabbbit (Peter Rabbit’s mum)
Flopsy, Mopsy and Cotton-tail (Peters siblings)
Mr. McGregor (owner of the Garden)
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Section 1: Challenges for Peter Rabbit
• Using a large A3 sheet or bigger make a collage / paint a picture of the girls version of Peter Rabbits home with his mum and brothers and sisters in the sand bank underneath the root of the very big fir tree (include the different rooms in the warren and where everyone lives and sleeps) you can then display this when completing this challenge • Use the instructions of Peter Rabbit’s mum not to go into Mr. McGregors garden, for a discussion on beliefs and right and wrong linking back to the promise. In the resource pack are suggestions for this activity, Why adults might give instructions like this. What are they trying to do? • Make a savoury pie (if time is short use frozen ready to roll pastry). Maybe chicken (recipe in resource section) • Find a garden space (even a hanging basket or school gardening space or help someone who can no longer manage their garden) and plant carrot seeds in with flowers. Plant several different varieties and see which grow best • Investigate the competitive world of gigantic vegetable growing. Carrots can be grown in drain pipes to encourage them to grow straight. Depending on the time of year any manner of vegetables can be sown if you can find a wall to lean your drain pipe on. If you have a local show, enter your vegetables and see if you can win a prize. • Taste test a number of different raw vegetables – give each one a score out of 5. Which is the most popular, which is the least popular? • Lay out 10 vegetables or photos of them - How many vegetables can the girls identify. • Identify fruits or vegetables which are all the colours of the Rainbow and colour a Rainbow with pictures of them see resource pack for a suggestion • Have a pillowcase with a number of different vegetables in, Give the girls a set time to “furtle” in the pillowcase and then ask them to write down all the vegetables they think are in the pillowcase.
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Include a couple of more unusual vegetables to see if they can guess what they are. • Play a game of disappearing rabbits. All of the bunnies hop around the room, when the leader shouts Mr McGregor’s coming all hunch down on the floor heads in and close their eyes. One girl is then covered by a blanket or coat. Can the remaining girls guess who is under the blanket. The person who guesses correctly gets to make the bunnies hop and shout when Mr McGregor is coming on the next round! • Make a vegetable soup, Use vegetables which are in the reduced section at the supermarket or ask for donations from shops or parents. Any vegetables will do. You just need veg, water, vegetable stock and possibly salt and pepper to taste. Have one group make the soup and another make bread ( there are lots of non=proving recipes) and then all share a meal at the end of the meeting. Invite parents to come too for small charge to cover costs or fundraise.. • Invite someone from a local food bank to come and talk to your unit. In advance ask the food bank what items they are short of and ask the girls to bring these items to the meeting to donate. (We did this and the lady was excellent – running interactive role plays and bringing activity sheets). To increase the number of donations have a joint meeting with another unit or another section. • Design a poster or leaflet to advise other girls of your age group about the benefits of eating lots of vegetables. • Teach the unit the song “Mr Peter Rabbit had a fly upon his nose” (words and actions in Resource section) • Organise a trip to a farm to pick fruit or organise the farm to fork or healthy eating modules at your local Tesco (there is a GG badge for taking part in the Tesco programmes) • Play catch Peter Rabbit. • Make your own mini or full size scarecrow. If this is not possible ask companies to donate or the girls to bring in an old CD which can be decorated and used as a bird scarer. Talk about why farmers use scarecrows. Some towns have scarecrow festivals. Find out if there is one happening near you and arrange to go and see all the entries. If you are feeling brave, why not enter your unit’s scarecrow and see where you come!
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• Discuss why Mrs Rabbit gives Peter Rabbit herbal tea and his sisters who listened to their mummy bread butter and fresh blackberries for their tea. Was she right to do this? Is there a reason why she used camomile tea? If you were Mrs Rabbit what would you have done. • Obtain a number of different herbal teas for the girls to taste and score out of five. For older girls do not reveal the names of the tea and see if they can guess what flavour the teas are supposed to be. • Investigate what else was happening in 1902 when this book was first published. And display your research in an innovative way. • Write a book review for Peter Rabbit as if you are a world renowned book critic. • Make a wordsearch for another girl in your unit to solve. • Make a bookmark using some of the images in the resource pack. And gift it to another girl • Find pottery or decoupage animals rabbits and decorate them as brightly as possible. • Make Rabbit sun catchers with black paper and tissue paper. Older girls can make suncatchers on acetate with glass outline pens, tracing a picture underneath the acetate and then filling the different sections with glass paints. • Cut out a number of carrot and bunny shapes and have a treasure hunt. The treasure could be a bundle of carrots with their green tops on which the girl then swap for a prize. For older girls why not use this as an opportunity to use tracking skills. • Make bunny cookies / biscuits and decorate with icing and strawberry lace whiskers! (recipe in resource pack) • Adapt a challenge from Rainbow Roundabouts with girls making a jam sandwich whilst blindfolded and another girl giving them instructions. Once all the sandwiches are made, cut them with a large bunny shaped cookie cutter before eating them all up! • Hold a garden party / fete or tea to celebrate 150 years of Beatrix Potter (Brownies could obtain their hostess badge) and invite another unit, parents or a local community group to join you.
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Section 2: The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck™
Characters
Jemima Puddle-Duck
Farmer’s wife
Farm animals, ducks, hens, cows
Mr. Tod (who gives Jemima a place to lay her egg)
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Kep the Collie Dog (he helps Jemima escape from the fox)
Kep and the two fox hounds
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Challenges for Jemima Puddle-duck
• As with Peter Rabbit, make duck shaped, biscuits, cookies, sandwiches. • Find out what was happeneing in 1908 when this book was first published? Make a poster showing all of the events you have found and present them to your unit / six or patrol. • Jemima Puddleduck’s book was written at the farm Beatrix Potter bought in 1905 called Hill Top. It is in the lake district. Organise a unit or division event to visit Hill Top and the Beatrix Potter Museum. • Jemima’s eggs are often taken by the Farmer’s wife. Older girls could investigate the difference between battery hens and free range hens and organise a formal debate with girls arguing for and against free range hens becoming mandatory. • How many egg dishes can the girls name in two minutes? Is egg in anything they wouldn’t expect (e.g. egg powder is in many quorn products). • Teach the girls to poach / scramble / fry or boil eggs. Depending on the age one to one supervision in the kitchen may be required. Talk to them about pans, scrambled egg and putting the pan in water and what difference this might make (preparation for making breakfast on overnights/ pack holidays / camps etc) • Using wrapped chocolate eggs have a “duck egg” hunt. To ensure that all the eggs are not gathered by one or two girls we split them into teams with a “shopping list of what they are looking for” e.g. 5 cream eggs, 5 packets of mini eggs. • Use the situation with Mr Gentleman Fox, where he pretends to help Jemima but really is plotting her downfall, to discuss Stranger Danger for your age range. What would they have done? What should they have done? How can they keep themselves safe? • Talk about the natural world and the food chain. How does this work? How are animals made to ensure that they are adapted to being able to predate their prey (where are eyes located, aero- or aquadynamic, camouflage, sense of smell)
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Section 3: Mr. Jeremy Fisher™
Characters
Mr. Jeremy Fisher
The Stickleback
The trout
The Water Beetle
Sir Isaac Newton and Ptolemy Tortoise
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Challenges for Mr. Jeremy Fisher
• Using natural material (including a grass roof with buttercups) make either a collage of or 3D model of a damp little house under the buttercups for Jeremy Fisher to live in • Jeremy Fisher likes having his feet wet, organise a unit swim either as part of a normal meeting or a special event Adults and older girls ould include a sponsored swim for charity or set a target - in six weeks time I will be able to swim X lengths ( Roundabout Keep Healthy and Swimming badges) • Design a swimming costume incorporating your favourite colours and one to camouflage Jeremy Fisher from the trout. • Find out about “old wives tales” concerning how to avoid a cold and remedies to make you feel better (are any of these backed up by modern science) • Create a pond, all you need is a strong washing up bowl, stones making a slope from the bottom to the top, and a water plant. This will increase the wildlife in the space / garden massively. Keep a record of any visitors to your pond. • Have a fish race (draw fish shapes on A4 paper or cut them out) give each team different colour fish. Give each team member a fish and each team a newspaper, they can use it however they like to get all of their fish over the finish line You can also have one girl / leader as the frog who will be trying to catch the fish if they come near her (make it harder by asking her to only move like a frog / toad) • Design your own umbrella / wet weather clothing to ensure you don’t have to stay in when its raining. • Go out in wet weather gear and just enjoy the rain, see how much rain water you can collect, dance in the rain or whatever the girls want to do. • Jeremy Fisher takes ginormous hops down to the pond, Who can jump the furthest . highest. Try jumping from a standing start and also with a run up. Which is easier? • Make a lily pad boat and see whose boat floats the best (you can use anything from a stream to a paddling pool) If using a stream you could
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adapt Pooh sticks and see whose boat reaches a finish line or is the first to appear on the otherside of a bridge. • Jeremy Fisher has a butterfly sandwich for lunch. Putting out a number of different breads and ingredients first for tasting, and then ask girls to design the best sandwich they can think of. Ask them to bring the ingredients next week and make the sandwiches or choose the three favourite designs and make them the following week. • Find a local park / nature reserve and go pond dipping. Can you find a water beetle. Or a stickleback. If you live near the coast go rock pooling with an Instructor. Draw all the creatures you find. • Use the behaviour of the shoal of fish to look at kind and helpful behaviour and why the fish are making fun of Jeremy Fisher. • Why does Jeremy Fisher let the stickle back fish go? (view BBC Autumn watch on-line “Google” Si the Stickleback) • Find out about different types of fish that live in the UK.? Cook and try a trout or a recipe with trout or another fish (e.g. fish cakes, ). Learn to identify 5,10,15 different fish depending on your age. (play Kim’s game with pictures of the fish, or the pairs memory game) • Ask girls to bring in a number of items, corks, balls, cups, etc and try and guess which ones will float in a washing up bowl or paddling pool? Are you right? What happens to the water when something big and heavy is added? (What happens when you get in the bath?) • Form a market research group and try out different shower gels or bath foam. You could decant them into water bottles for a blind test or scoring could be given for packaging, including how appealing is it, how practical is it, is there lots of unnecessary packaging, the scent (does it smell like its name), how bubbly is it? Score them out of 10 for each category, Older girls might want to write up their reviews as if for a magazine. (see if you can get their results published) • Make a rocket with coca cola and mentos to simulate Jeremy Fisher coming out of the trout like bubbles from soda • Have a “bubbles “ evening. Make your own bubble mix, experiment, which mixture gives the best, the most bubbles. Make your own bubble wands from chenille sticks, make lots of different shapes. Who can blow the highest bubble, the most bubbles, the furthest bubbles.
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• Either design a new fishing kit for Jeremy Fisher or suggest a new watery hobby he might want to undertake e.g. canoeing, scuba diving, water polo. Try out as many as you can! • Don’t forget to check whether participants need to be able to swim 50 metres to take part, any age restrictions or whether additional parental / consent is required.
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Section 4: Beatrix Potter™
Beatrix Potter aged 5 at Dalguise, 1871 by Rupert Potter. Image courtesy of a private collector
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Section 4: Challenges related to Beatrix Potter’ s childhood.
• Helen Beatrix Potter was born in 1866 in Bolton Gardens South Kensington London. Research what this area was like in 1866 and compare it to where you live or meet now? What are the differences / similarities. Was your meeting place built? Are there any buildings you recognise as still being there today? • Beatrix Potter used to love taking holidays in Scotland and the Lake District whilst she was growing up. Theme an evening on one of these . You could ask girls to bring in examples of landmarks, activities, places to stay things to do and the girls to act as tour guides for their six, making a map of the area and sticking on pictures in the right place as the girls visit them. They could stop off at points on the journey to complete themed activites even in another meeting such as boating or canoeing on a lake, reservoir or canal, swimming in a lake or taking part in watersports or organising a day or night hike in the countryside. • Beatrix was educated at home by several governesses. Her talent for drawing was discovered and encouraged. Her first projects were to re-write / illustrate her favourite fairy tales such as Cinderalla, Sleeping Beauty and Alice’s adventures in Wonderland. Watch a film of one of these or ask the girls to either re-write the start or end of the story (or a signicant scene such as Alice playing chess or the tea party), re-write a scene as if it is a film and act it out in their group, patrol or six. Find copies of the stories on line of from the girl’s bookshelf / kindle, ask them to reimagine and re-draw one of the scenes, e.g. the ugly sisters trying to get into Cinderella’s shoe, Cinderella’s ball gown and the glass carriage as she arrives at the ball. At the end compare how different the ideas are. • Beatrix loved animals and had a very large number of pets. She had a hedgehog, rabbits, mice and bats. She and her brother also had a lot of insects. Arrange a visit to PetsatHome (Brownies get their Friend to Animals badge – Pet section) to see handle and learn to care about all their animals. Choose an animal you would like as a
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pet or cuddly toy and make up an adventure story, why not “write” it as a storyboard as if it is a film or cartoon, • Make a collection of paper plate animals (lots of ideas on pinterest), try and make them as realistic as possible (e.g. hedgehogs could have painted art straws for spikes) or chenille sticks for antlers or antennae. • From 1881 - 1887 Beatrix kept a journal where she wrote her opinions her thoughts and practised her drawing. However she also wrote it in code which was not cracked unti; 1954. Keep a diary for a week recording what you did, what you enjoyed, who you saw etc. Search on-line for the many “codes” either ask the girls to learn the alphabet in one of them (e.g. braille, morse code, exchanging letters for numbers) or ask them to decode a short message in groups using the code and then to write a sentence in the code for another group to decipher. (e.g. the jewels are buried under the oak tree!) • Beatrix produce very accurate drawings of fungi which captured her imagination. In 1897 she wrote a scientific paper that was presented to the Linnean Society, however women were not allowed into their meetings and therefore on 1 April 1887 a male member of the society presented it. Discussion topic: How do you think this made Beatrix feel? How did society view women in 1897? Were they recognised at all in society? Are there any societies still in existence today who ban women from becoming members? • Beatrix loved to use watercolour paints. Try to paint a picture in watercolour maybe a country landscape or a flower or insect. Who can mix the most different colours? One groups could use watercolours, one pastels, one chalk, one acrylics and then talk about the different mediums and how they affected the final picture • Learn about primary and secondary colours and the colour wheel. See how many different colour green / pink/ orange items you can find outside. Can you mix paint that matches that shade in order to paint it? • Arrange a trip to one of the living history museums such as the Black Country Museum and book a lesson in their schoolroom. Would you prefer to go to school in 1870s or today? What rules were in place to stop bad behaviour or morale decline? What
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happened if you broke a rule? Do you think these punishments were more or less effective than the punishments schools are allowed to use today.
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Resource 1: Beatrix Potter Word search
Can you find these words?
JEREMY MR TOD BEATRIX
FISHER WATER POTTER PETER BEETLE DUCKS
RABBIT MINNOW HENS
MOPSY TROUT COWS FLOPSY JEMIMA KEP
COTTONTAIL PUDDLE DUCK ISAAC NEWTON
Resource 2: Recipe for Chicken Pie
• Rating: • Serves: 6 • Cook Time: 45 minutes • Prep Time: 20 minutes • Effort: easy INGREDIENTS
• 200 g dry cured streaky bacon, finely chopped • 2 large skinless chicken breasts, chopped • 150 g petit pois, frozen • 150 ml chicken stock • 150 ml double cream • 50 g parmesan, grated • 320 g all butter puff pastry, at room temperature • 1 egg, beaten, for glazing TIPS AND SUGGESTIONS
Swap the peas or petit pois for shelled broad beans, or small cubes of courgette.
You can also use chicken thighs in place of chicken breasts.
METHOD
1. Preheat the oven to 200C/180C fan/gas 6. Fry the streaky bacon in a large pan until crispy. Add the chicken pieces and
fry until golden all over around five minutes.
2. Add in the peas, stir, and add in the chicken stock. Simmer for a few minutes until some of the stock has reduced. Stir in
the double cream and parmesan cheese. Season well with freshly ground black pepper and let it simmer for five minutes.
Set the filling to one side to cool down a little.
3. Spoon the cooled filling into a 20cm round pie dish. Roll out the pastry and then carefully place it over the filling onto the pie dish, trimming around any excess pastry from the edge. Press the edges down gently and then brush the top with egg. Make a small hole in the centre to allow the air to escape.
4. Bake the pie in the oven for 25-30 minutes, until golden and serve.
(courtesy of the goodfood channel)
Resource 3: I can eat a Rainbow
Red strawberry, apple, pomegranates, radishes, cherries, raspberries, tomatoes. Orange – oranges, pineapples, peppers satsumas, tangerines, peaches, apricots, butternut squash, carrots, mango, sweet potato Yellow – lemons, melon, sweetcorn, peppers, star fruit Green – runner beans, peas, apples, pears, lettuce, cabbage, broccoli, advocado, kiwi, grapes, peppers, brussel sprouts, celery, cucumber Blue - blueberries Indigo - aubergine Red grapes, red onions, red cabbage Violet - plums, figs beetroot
Resource 4: Discussion topics / questions on the rights / wrongs of discipline (warning: please check these questions before using them as some of them may not be suitable for some girls)
1. What do you think about withholding a nice meal as a form of punishment for a child? 2. Was this ever used to punish you? Have you ever used it? Why / why not? 3. Do you think Peter would have gone to Mr. McGregors garden if he had known what had really happened to his dad? 4. How would you explain a dangerous is out of bounds to a a) five year old, b)ten year old, c) fifteen year old? Would your advice change if the child was a girl / boy? If so why do you think this is? 5. What do you think Peter thought the reasons were his mum had banned him from the garden? 6. Do you think Peter considered that his mum was looking out for him / just spoiling his fun? 7. Do you think Peter’s punishment would have been the same if the book had been written today? Why / why not? 8. Re-write / re-imagine / re-enact the story from either the perspective of Mrs. Rabbit or Peter or even Mr McGregor. 9. Why did Mr. McGregor shoot Mr Rabbit? Was this justified? 10. Why did Mr. Rabbit go into the garden? Is it the same reason Mrs McGregor makes him into a pie – they are trying their best to feed their families on meagre resources?
Resource 5: Words for Little Peter Rabbit had a fly upon his nose
Words in grey are the actions. Words to the song are in black.
Action: make rabbit ears above head with both hands and wiggle them back and forth.
Little Peter Rabibit had a
Action : Wave arms as if they are insect wings
Fly upon his
Action: point to nose
Nose.
A fly apon his nose, A fly upon his nose (actions as above_
Little Peter Rabbit had a fly upon his nose;
Actions as if boxing
Biffed and he boffed it
Waving arms as if wings
And it flew away.
Patting where a rabbit tail would be with right hand
Powder puff
Use fingers to indicate curly whiskers coming from your face And curly whiskers ,
Powder puff and curly whiskers Powder puff and curly whiskers And he biffed it and he boffed it and it flew away.
Repeat verse one.
Words can be missed out on subsequent rounds until just actions remain or singing faster and faster, louder and louder etc.
Resource 6: Outline images of Beatrix Potter Characters for Suncatchers
For more Betrix Potter resources and activity sheets, please visit:
http://www.peterrabbit.com/play/ Re: Branding Approval –
Thank you very much. I promise I will make that clear. It is a full challenge pack that is clearly from our unit and the write up makes it clear too.
Helen
From: Branding Matters
Hello Helen
Thank you for contacting us. I can confirm that your badge meets our branding requirements, as it contains the name of the challenge, the name of your unit and the correct trefoil. Please do make sure that both people purchasing the badge, and Beatrix Potter license holders are aware that this badge has been produced on behalf of your unit, and in no way does this constitute a partnership with Girlguiding as a whole. Girlguiding itself owns some images given to the association by Beatrix Potter herself, and I would like to ensure that there is a clear distinction between your badge, and the products which Girlguiding has produced.
You have obviously worked hard to ensure you have the permission of the licensee for Beatrix Potter, and therefore if they are happy, and the above agreement is clear, we are happy for you to produce the badge.
Good luck with your challenge.
Best wishes
Rebecca
Rebecca Marlow Communications and PR Administrator
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Copyright Permission:
Hi Helen
Thanks for the email
1. I can confirm that we have given you permission for this project and to create and sell the Official Beatrix Potter challenge badge to the members of the Girl Guides
Very best
Thomas
Thomas Merrington
Creative Director Penguin Ventures