The official Beatrix Potter™ Challenge Badge BEATRIX POTTER™ © Frederick Warne & Co. , 2017. Frederick Warne & Co. is the owner of all rights, copyrights and trademarks in the Beatrix Potter character names and illustrations. 1 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! 2 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. 3 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) 4 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. 5 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! 6 • 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. 7 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) 8 Kep the Collie Dog (he helps Jemima escape from the fox) Kep and the two fox hounds 9 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.