Badge Day

[brown.owl]

I mentioned this in another thread and thought i'd better start a new one.

I couldn't find a badge related section, so am posting this here. A BadgeDay is a really cool idea, although it takes a lot of planning once you get the forms back it's not something you can do in a hurry...

The girls come for the day to a very large hall with a garden pref and complete 4 badges. Some stuff has to be done in advance and they bring it with them. You send out letters with the selection of badges the girls can choose from and they mark 1-5 with 1 being the one they'd most like to do and 5 is a back up in case of clashes. Not all badges run all day. you don't really want more than 11-12 girls in each session as you do at least one activity from the badge with them, then check what they have brought or practised in advance and then sign their badge book and give them a badge. Sessions are only about an hour to hour and a quarter depending on timings. If anyone wants my letters and grids to see how it works, let me have your email addresses as i can't post excel files on here.

I have attached the first letter which i send out to all the girls in the district (we only do this with brownies, but it has been done with rainbows and guides before), but the other ones are powerpoint and excel, plus some more word, but if you are interested let me have your email.

It is a lot of work, and you need to be ok at logic puzzles to place the girls, it sometimes helps to have a friend around; but the girls get a lot out of it, it's good for putting the girls together with other Brownies. Please lets spread the torch.

We only do this as a biannual thing and as i'm in the middle of planning our current one, most of the stuff has 2006 dates on it.

[Carrie]

That looks complex, but maybe we should try something more adventurous. We have a very simple craft morning for all the District. Which involves every unit bringing a craft for all the girls to do and they just move around the tables as they please. Then their own guiders give them badges, at a later time.

[penguinjen]

That looks really good, I can see it as a good way to split the cost of the really expensive things like a circus skills teacher among a number of units.

Jen

[brown.owl]

I've just finished placing the girls for this year - yay the hard work is now over!!!! I was soo good and concentrated so hard despite having a toddler talking at me and the dog standing on my bits of paper that had fallen on the floor!!


Sorry - i'm on a high that it's done and it took less time than the last time i did it, so I'm buzzing a little. (i'm not actually ON anything, just in case anyone was wondering)

[jim]

from experience on the ambulances They all say that brown.owl LOL