83rd Birmingham Brownies Little Yellow Duck Project Challenge Badge

What is the Little Yellow Duck Project?

The Little Yellow Duck Project involves people around the world handcrafting little

yellow duck gifts as random acts of kindness that are left in public places for others

to find. A special tag on each one invites the finder to take their gift home to

brighten their day and to visit this website to register where they found their gift.

We hope that the stories and information found here will encourage them to pledge

their own random act of kindness by registering to donate blood, bone marrow,

organs tissues.

There are three sections to the Little Yellow Duck Project Challenge Badge, girls must

complete the relevant activities from each section to complete the badge.

The Challenge Badge Contents Section 1 Acts of Random Kindness Section 2 Organ, bone marrow and blood donation Section 3 Duck Duck Quack Resources Useful Websites

Section 1 Acts of Random Kindness

The little yellow ducks are handmade then given a name and a tag then left in a

public place for someone else to find. Remember the ducks need to travel as far as

possible so use as many different places as you can think of.

Tags can be downloaded at http://thelittleyellowduckproject.org/english-tags/

Don’t forget to check the map to see if the ducks have been found

http://thelittleyellowduckproject.org/world-map/

Girls may wish to make a little yellow duck to take home as well.

Girls can use the following methods:

pom poms Hama beads

Felt Funky foam

Painted stones Loom bands

Fimo/modelling clay Sewing

Crochet Knitting

Cross stitch Mini ducks

Jewellery Sugar craft

Rainbows: Each girl must make at least one little yellow duck.

Brownies: Each girl must make at least three little yellow ducks.

Guides and Senior Section: Each girl must make a least five different little yellow

ducks using at least two different methods one of which must be something new.

Each girl must also work towards a community based duck challenge based on an act

of random kindness:

Select from

a) bake and decorate a duck themed biscuit or cake – give it to someone you

don’t know or donate a batch to a local care home

b) collect duck themed items to create a bath time bucket – rubber duck, yellow

soap, bubble bath, shower gel etc – donate them to a local project that works

with families in crisis

c) make a duck children’s toy and donate to a local hospice or hospital

Section 2 Organ, bone marrow and blood donation

The Little Yellow Duck Project is a global initiative highlighting the life-saving random

acts of kindness of blood, bone marrow, and organ and tissue donation. Whilst every

random act of kindness has the ability to brighten someone’s day, these donations

have the ability to literally save or transform someone’s entire life.

The story behind The Little Yellow Duck Project

The Little Yellow Duck Project was created by Emma Harris in memory of her best

friend, Clare Cruickshank, a kind and fun-loving person who lived life to the full. Clare

loved being creative and could spend hours happily covered in glue and glitter or

finding a way to make something with her sewing machine! She was also crazy

about little yellow rubber ducks and had a huge collection of them in all shapes and

sizes.

Clare was born with the genetic lung disease, cystic fibrosis, and by the age of 24,

her lungs were so damaged that a transplant was her only hope of survival. Sadly a

matching donor was never found and despite a long fight, she passed away on April

15th 2013 aged 26.Despite her own time running out, Clare asked her Mum, Ann

Rowcliffe, to promise to donate any organs or tissues that she could after her death.

Although a matching donor hadn’t been found in time for her, she wanted to give

someone else that chance and hope. As a result, the sight of two young adults has

now been restored by receiving her corneas. Clare had the most stunning bright

blue eyes that shone with life and enthusiasm. It’s a tribute to her generosity and

kindness that others can now see life clearly as a result of her gift.

The Little Yellow Duck Project has been inspired by Clare’s generosity, her sense of

fun and her love of little yellow ducks. Each handcrafted little yellow duck gift aims

to spread a little happiness to its recipient and a little awareness of how we can each

follow Clare’s example in saving or transforming the lives of others through blood,

bone marrow, organ or tissue donation.

Activities

Play the Organ Game to find out which organs can be donated and where they are in

the body.

Find out more about Anthony Nolan

Design a poster encouraging people to donate blood

Play the organ donation version of Captain’s Coming

Listen to some of the real stories from those affected by organ, tissue, blood or bone

marrow donation.

Rainbows: must complete at least one clause.

Brownies, Guides and Senior Section: must complete at least two clauses.

Section 3

Duck Duck Quack

The Little Yellow Duck Project is about fun and about ducks as well as acts of

kindness and organ, bone marrow and blood donation. In section three we want you

to have lots of duck based fun! Hold a Duck Duck Quack night choose from the

following activities:

Pin the beak on the duck

Play Duck Duck Quack (duck duck goose)

Make and wear a duck headband

Make ducks out of lego bricks – Who is the fastest? Who is the most creative? Who

can make the biggest duck?

Have a duck race

Make duck feet to wear – create a duck dance to wear with them on. Can you find

some music that makes you think of ducks?

Make and wear a duck mask

Play Duck Beetle

Make five duck finger puppets and sing 5 Little Ducks

Design your own rubber duck

Learn how to identify different ducks

Learn the different duck calls

Go to a local pond and see how many different types of duck you can spot

Create some duck themed nail art

Rainbows: Must include at least two of the above activities

Brownies: Must include at least three of the above activities

Guides and Senior Section: Must include at least four of the above activities

Resources

Section 1

Pom Pom Duck

Make two pompoms from yellow wool, one smaller than the other. Use ends to tie

pompoms together. Stick on felt eyes and felt beak.

Use two yellow pompoms and stick together, add googly eyes, felt beak and feet.

Hama Bead/cross stitch pattern

Painted stones

Wash and dry suitable shaped stones, paint yellow and add features in

red/orange/black.

Loom Bands

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IRfjno1T1E

Crochet/Knitting/sewing

http://thelittleyellowduckproject.org/patterns/

Felt/foam duck

Felt/foam cut out and stick together – add magnet or brooch backs.

Sewn – cut out tow of each and sew together, stuff and decorate with

buttons/ribbon.

Section 2

The Organ Game

How to play

Cut out the pieces from template two. Challenge the girls to put them in the correct

places on the body template. Answers are on the final picture. Alternatively,

enlarge, cut out and add Velcro and girls stick on each other’s bodies where they

think they go.

Organ donation version of Captain’s Coming – use the following actions

Captain’s coming – lay flat on the floor

Heart – use both hands over the heart moving backwards and forwards to show

beating

Lungs – move hands in and out towards each other as if using bellows

Liver – use knife and fork to cut up

Pancreas – use a frying pan

Small intestine – curl up into a small ball

Kidneys – hold sides with cross arms and laugh

Eyes – make owl eyes with hands

Bones – shake arms and legs to make bones rattle

Section 3

Pin the nose on the duck

Duck Headband

Duck Beetle

Can use cut out shapes (template below) or draw.

Throw 6 for body – must have body first before any other parts

Throw 5 for head feathers

Throw 4 for nose

Throw 3 for each eye

Throw 2 for each foot

Throw 1 for each inner eye

First person to complete a duck shouts DUCK!

Duck Mask

Use the same template for Duck Beetle to make your Duck Mask.

Duck Race

Race your rubber ducks inside using a paddling pool – use straws or water pistols to

get them to the other side.

Outdoor use lengths of drainpipe (with end stops) and water pistols.

Older girls could use a local stream. Always take care when near water and follow

the water safety code.

Duck Finger Puppets

Cut the fingers off yellow rubber gloves and decorate to make your own duck finger

puppets.

Useful websites

General

http://thelittleyellowduckproject.org/

https://www.pinterest.com/LYDProject/

Section 2

http://www.medikidz.com/medipedia/organ-transplant

http://www.giveandletlive.co.uk/en/teacherszone/downloads/index.html

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