For the orange 'sport' badge, our Rainbows chose:
1. 'race for the rings'. We will do a wide game, with 5 challenges - not quite worked out what these are yet, and for each one, the girls are awarded a pony bead for completing it. They end up with 5 beads, each in a colour of the olympic rings. We've also got white ponybead cord, to make them into bracelets.
The ponybead cord is like 'scoubies', so unlike elastic, it doesn't fray, & it's rigid enough for the girls to thread easily, but easier to bend & knot. It stretches slightly too, so a bracelet can be quite tight around the wrist, and still stretch off the hand.
We got the beads from this website, because they sell the right colour beads in small quantities, and saw the thread so go that too. The order arrived today, so I've just cut the lengths, and knotted loops in the end ready to stop beads falling off when they collect them.
http://www.craftbits.co.uk/cord-pony-lacing.htm
For the second 'orange/sport challenge' they chose ancient Greece.....I mananged to mix up the 'ancient Greeks' challenges in 'sport' and 'culture' showing them the 'culture' option instead, which involves decorating vases, not doing sport, ooops! But vases is what they chose, so it doesn't matter. I will add the sport one to the options for the next badge.
We're going to use Crafty Crocodiles' mini vases. We've bought a selection from the first two on this page, so the girls can choose which they do. I didn't notice the jugs in the catalogue, or we might've mixed it up a bit with those too. We'll be using up the acrylic paints we used for painting umbrellas last year, but with smaller brushes!
http://www.craftycrocodiles.co.uk/search/vase
The thrid choice was a tie between trying a new sport / playing sports on a wii, so we will be mixing both....if we can find someone to lend us a wii!