Cheshire Border International Challenge Badge 2013

Compiled by Cheshire Border International Adviser

Table of Contents

CHESHIRE BORDER INTERNATIONAL CHALLENGE BADGE 2013 ..................................... 4

HOW TO COMPLETE THE CHALLENGE .................................................................................... 5

WAGGGS CHALLENGES ................................................................................................................. 6

INDIA ................................................................................................................................................... 8

India Challenge 1 - Flag – Colour this in ..................................................................................................... 9

India Challenge 2 - Elephant Mask Craft .................................................................................................. 10

India Challenge 3 - Rangoli ......................................................................................................................... 11

India Challenge 4 - Diwali The Festival of Lights.................................................................................... 13

India Challenge 5 - Diwali Lanterns .......................................................................................................... 14

India Challenge 6 - Crossword .................................................................................................................... 15

India Challenge 7 - Seven Tiles (Pitto) ..................................................................................................... 16

GERMANY ....................................................................................................................................... 17

Germany Challenge 1 - Make a pretzel .................................................................................................... 18

Germany Challenge 2 – Castles .................................................................................................................. 19

Germany Challenge 3 - Koffer packen ...................................................................................................... 20

Germany Challenge 4 - Topfschlagen ....................................................................................................... 21

German Challenge 5 - Schokoladenessen ................................................................................................ 22

ESTONIA .......................................................................................................................................... 23

Estonia Challenge 1 - Marzipan .................................................................................................................. 24

Estonia Challenge 2 – Zoo ........................................................................................................................... 25

Estonia Challenge 3 - Nose Telephone ..................................................................................................... 26

Estonia Challenge 4 - National Flower ..................................................................................................... 27

Estonia Challenge 5 - Chicken .................................................................................................................... 31

Estonia Challenge 6 - Vanaema’s Kook..................................................................................................... 33

FINLAND.......................................................................................................................................... 34

Finland Challenge 1 - Cabbage Rolls ......................................................................................................... 35

Finland Challenge 2 - Chain (Ketju) .......................................................................................................... 36

Finland Challenge 3 - Crab Ball Tag .......................................................................................................... 37

Finland Challenge 4 – 12 sticks on a board .............................................................................................. 38

Finland Challenge 5 – Finnish Paper Star ................................................................................................. 39

Finland Challenge 6 – Scandinavian Christmas doll................................................................................ 44

UNITED KINGDOM ........................................................................................................................ 45

UK Challenge 1 – English Rose .................................................................................................................... 46

UK Challenge 2 – Scottish Mat .................................................................................................................... 48

UK Challenge 3 – Colour in the Welsh Dragon ......................................................................................... 49

UK Challenge 4 – Camping and meeting other members ...................................................................... 50

UK Challenge 5 – Nature in the dark ......................................................................................................... 51

UK Challenge 6 – 3 minute chocolate brownies ...................................................................................... 52

ORDER FORM ................................................................................................................................ 54

Cheshire Border International Challenge Badge 2013

During summer 2013, 4 groups of Cheshire Border

Guides/Senior Section are going on International trips. One

group is going to India, another to Germany, another to

Finland and Estonia and the other is going to Poacher – an

International camp in the UK.

Our international expeditions are varied in activities and are

being put together both with the girls and leaders designing

the trips from modes of transport to the activities involved.

Each trip is unique and brings its own challenges to each of

the girls going. The trips are designed to help everyone

develop a real understanding of other countries, through

travel, working together as a team to complete community

projects and meeting with local people. Everyone is really

looking forward to their trips as it will be an excellent

opportunity to find out about our guiding/scouting sisters and

the work of WAGGGS around the world. We hope you enjoy

completing the activities as you join us on our adventure

through each of these trips.

Thank you for supporting us by taking up this challenge!

How to Complete the Challenge

To complete the challenge you’ll need to: First choose a minimum of 1 activity from each country and the WAGGS challenges. Then to complete the challenge choose the required number of activities depending on your section, from the countries of your choice. Rainbows : 3 Country activities Brownies: 4 Country activities Guides: 5 Country activities Senior Section: 6 Country activities Once you have completed your chosen activities, you can send for your Cheshire Border International Challenge Badge 2013. Order forms are at the back of this booklet or available to download from the County website: www.girlguidingcheshireborder.org.uk Badges cost £1.00 each and are available to order until 31st December 2013. Please note that if you want badges posting out to you please include £2 for P&P.

WAGGGS Challenges

For information on WAGGGS look at http://www.wagggsworld.org/en/home

1. What does WAGGGS stands for? World Association of Girl Guides and Girl

Scouts

2. Learn one of the promises from the country pages

Rainbows/Brownies – repeat the promise together

Guides/Senior Section – discuss the differences with our own promise

3. Can you name all of these World Guide Centres

a) b)

c) d)

a- Pax Lodge, UK

b-Sangam, India

c- Our Chalet, Switzerland

d-Our Cabana, Mexico

4. Did you know there is now a fifth World Centre? Do you know where it is?

Africa

5. For Guides/Senior Section only – this is the WAGGGS badge

a. What do the following represent?

i. The 2 colours? Sun shining on all the children of the world

ii. The vein? Compass needle pointing the way

iii. The 2 stars? The promise and law, a philosophy shared by all

members

iv. The flame? eternal love of humanity

v. The 3 trefoil leaves? The three fold promise – to serve God

and my country, to help people at all times and to live by

the Girl Scout Law

vi. The flowing border? Shows we are a worldwide and growing

movement

India

Guide Promise

On my honour, I promise that I will do my best:

To do my duty to God and my country,

To help other people, and

To obey the Guide Law.

Age groups

Ranger 16-25

Guide 10-17+

Bulbul 5-10

Girl Guiding/Girl Scouting introduced: 1911 - Founder Member of WAGGGS (in

conjunction with present day Bangladesh and Pakistan under the name of India)

Number of Girl Guides/Girl Scouts: 1305028 (01/01/2006)

Admits boys: No

India Challenge 1 - Flag – Colour this in

India Challenge 2 - Elephant Mask Craft

You can tell this gorgeous elephant mask is of an Indian elephant because of his

colourful head-dress and his ears!

You will need:

Large paper plate

Grey paint

Grey card

Coloured paper

Decoration (we used 3D paint and gems you can use whatever you have to hand)

Glue

Thin elastic

Instructions:

Paint the back of the paper plate grey and leave to dry.

When the paint is dry cut out your eye holes.

From grey card cut a trunk and two ears, remembering that Indian elephants have

small ears.

Glue the ears to opposite sides of the face and the trunk to the middle.

Cut out a triangle of coloured paper for the head-dress and glue it to the plate so

the point sits between the eyes. Decorate the coloured paper with bits from your

craft box.

Make a small hole in either side of the face. Tie a piece of elastic through.

India Challenge 3 - Rangoli

A rangoli is a colourful design made on the floor near the entrance to a house to

welcome guests. At Diwali, Hindus draw bright Rangoli patterns to encourage the

goddess Lakshmi to enter their homes.

Rangoli patterns are traditionally drawn with the fingers using flour, rice grains or

coloured chalk.

Rangoli can be square, rectangular or circular – or a mix of all three. They are

often symmetrical. Rangoli motifs are usually taken from Nature - peacocks,

swans, mango, flowers and so on.

Rangoli were originally done in small patterns of about 60cm squares, but now

entire areas of floor can be covered in intricate designs, often produced by first

drawing gridlines in light chalk.

Outdoor Rangoli

You will need:

Chalk

Food colouring (in a number of colours)

Plain flour

Long rule

Thick paint brush

Area of yard or garden path

Use your ruler to draw out a grid of dots, as close together (for intricate designs)

or as far apart as you like. In our outdoor rangoli, we used a grid 50cm by 50cm

with 5cm intervals.

Now draw on your design with the chalk. As before, younger children may need a

design drawn for them to colour.

Mix together half a cup of flour with a few drops of food colouring and a little

water until it forms a paste about the texture of PVA (white) glue. Repeat for each

colour of food colouring that you are using. Use your pastes to paint your design.

Note: this will stain the path for quite a while (perhaps permanently) so make sure

you have permission first! You may want to paint your design onto a large, movable

paving stone instead of directly onto the ground.

India Challenge 4 - Diwali The Festival of Lights

Diwali will next be celebrated on 3rd November 2013.

Diwali is celebrated by Hindus in India and all around the world in October or November. It

is the Hindu New Year and is either a 3-day or 5-day holiday depending on where you come

from.

It is a very exciting and colourful holiday. Homes are cleaned to welcome the New Year

and windows are opened so that the Hindu goddess of wealth, Lakshmi, can enter. It is

believed that she cannot enter a house which is not lit up, so every household burns

special Diwali clay lamps (diyas) to light the way for the goddess, which is why the holiday

is also known as the Festival of Lights.

Children have a holiday from school. Presents are given and delicious holiday food is

prepared and exchanged. New clothes and jewellery are worn. Parties are held, and dice

and card games are played. Fireworks and firecrackers are set off to warn off evil spirits,

so it is a noisy holiday too!

The last day of the holiday is a special day for brothers and sisters called Bhaiya-Dooj (or

Bhaidooj, or Bhai Dooj). Brothers give special presents to their sisters, who cook for them

and look after them.

The fifth day of Diwali is called Bhaiya-Dooj (Bhai Dooj), and is a special day for brothers

and sisters. Design an award for your brother or sister like that shown below.

India Challenge 5 - Diwali Lanterns

You will need:

Small jam jar

Sheets of coloured tissue paper

Shiny paper/foil/sequins

Glue/double-sided sticky tape

Scissors

Tea lights

Instructions:

- Cut a strip of coloured tissue paper that is long enough to wrap around the jam jar.

- Decorate your tissue paper by using shiny paper/foil and sequins! For the best looking effect, use just small pieces of paper or foil. This way all the colours will be lit up by the light from the tea light!

- Now wrap your tissue paper around the jam jar using glue or sticky tape. - Finally, put the tea light in the bottom of the jam jar and light the wick

carefully. Make sure that none of the tissue or card is on the inside of the jam jar!

*Why not try making a few lanterns with lots of different colours.

They make perfect garden lights!*

*Alternatively you could use Glass Paints instead of paper to

decorate your jar*

India Challenge 6 - Crossword

India Challenge 7 - Seven Tiles (Pitto)

Needs 6 or more players, aged 5 and up.

Equipment needed for this game is 7 sticks or stones which can be stacked into a

tower, and a tennis sized ball.

The game begins as one team throws the ball at the tower from about 7-10 metres

away, trying to knock it over. If the thrower misses the tower, he is out for the

rest of the game, and another player from the same team tries to throw.

If the tower is knocked over, the opposite team must retrieve the ball, and throw

it at the first team trying to hit them all out of the game one at a time. In the

meantime the team which knocked over the tower must reconstruct it, avoiding

the ball being thrown at them. The second team may not run with the ball, but

may pass it around, seeking better position to hit out at the first team. This

continues until either the first team is eliminated or the tower is reconstructed,

whereupon the team cries Pitto and gets one point.

The teams then swap positions and the game is played over and over again.

Germany

In Germany there are several different scouts and guide organisations the details

below are based on Pfadfinderinnenschaft Sankt Georg.

Brownie Promise

I will really take part in my Patrol and in our group and do my best to bring joy to

others.

The Brownie can also choose her own words, when she makes her promise.

Guide Promise

I promise to do my best, to recognize God in my life, to engage myself with

responsibility in the community I live in, and to observe the rules of the Guides.

When she makes her promise, the Guide may also express its meaning in her own

words.

Caravelle Promise

The Caravelle chooses her own words for her promise.

Ranger Promise

Rangers choose their own words for their promise.

Age Groups

Wichtel (= Brownies) 7-10

Pfadis (=Guides) 10-13

Caravelles 13-16

Rangers 16+

Brownies Guides Caravelles Rangers

Girl Guiding/Girl Scouting introduced: 1950

Number of Girl Guides/Girl Scouts: 47523 (01/01/2003)

Admits boys: Yes

Germany Challenge 1 - Make a pretzel

Ingredients

Serves: 12

1 1/2 teaspoons dried active baking yeast 175ml (6 fl oz) warm water (45 C) 1/2 teaspoon caster sugar 1/4 teaspoon salt 280g (10 oz) bread flour 1 egg, beaten 2 tablespoons coarse salt, or Maldon Sea Salt flakes

Preparation method

Prep: 15 mins | Cook: 15 mins

1. In a small bowl, dissolve yeast in warm water. Let stand until creamy, about 10 minutes.

2. In a large bowl, combine yeast mixture, sugar, salt and half of the flour; beat well. Beat in the remaining flour, a little at a time, until a stiff dough is formed. Place dough in a lightly oiled bowl, cover, and let rise until doubled in volume.

3. Preheat oven to 230 C / Gas mark 8. Lightly grease a baking tray.

4. Turn dough out onto a lightly floured surface and divide into 12 pieces. Roll pieces out into long sticks and form into pretzel shape. Place pretzels on prepared baking sheet. Brush with beaten egg and sprinkle with coarse salt.

5. Bake in preheated oven for 12 to 15 minutes, until golden brown.

Germany Challenge 2 – Castles

Our girls are visiting Reineck Castle whilst in Germany.

Make a castle from paper, cellotape, glue, toilet rolls, cardboard, paint, crepe paper. Like the one below.

Germany Challenge 3 - Koffer packen

Koffer packen means “Packing a suitcase”. Children sit in a circle and pretend to “pack” a suitcase. The first child says the first item (for example pyjamas). The second child says the first item and adds an item of her own. This continues around the circle with each child repeating the list and adding another item to the suitcase. If a child makes a mistake she is out. The last child remaining wins a treat.

Germany Challenge 4 - Topfschlagen

In English, “Hit the Pot”. This is a traditional German game for small children. Hide a pot containing a small present or piece of chocolate. The child who is “It” closes her eyes or is blindfolded and is given a wooden stick. She crawls on the floor, banging the spoon on the floor until she finds the pot. Spectators can help by shouting “hot” or “cold”. When she finds the pot, she gets to keep what is inside. The pot can be hidden again and the game replayed for the remaining players.

German Challenge 5 - Schokoladenessen

This “Chocolate eating” game is another traditional favourite. Wrap a bar of

chocolate in several layers of newspaper and tie with a ribbon. Place the

chocolate in the center of a table with a hat, scarf, mittens, fork and butter knife.

Each player rolls the dice once, trying to roll a six and play proceeds clockwise. If

a player rolls a six, she puts on the hat, scarf and mittens and attempts to open

and eat the chocolate with the fork and knife until another player rolls a six and

takes over. This fast=paced game continues until all the chocolate is eaten.

Estonia

Promise:

I solemnly promise to do my very best:

To fulfil my responsibilities to my god and Estonia, to help my neighbour and at all

times to fulfil the Guide law.

Law:

A Guide is honest and trustworthy

A Guide fulfils her/his responsibility to her/his god, country, parents and leaders

A Guide is helpful and friendly

A Guide is polite and obliging

A Guide is a friend to nature and animals

A Guide is cheerful and is not afraid of difficulties

A Guide is diligent, thrifty and persistent

A Guide is clean in her/his words, thoughts and deeds

Age groups:

Rover 16-26

Guide 12-15

Brownie 7-11

Girl Guiding/Girl Scouting introduced: 1919

Number of Girl Guides/Girl Scouts: 776 (01/01/2003)

Admits boys: Yes

Estonia Challenge 1 - Marzipan

In Tallinn there is a Marzipan museum. This sweet made mostly of almonds and

powdered sugar has been manufacturedsince the Middle Ages. The old Hanseatic

cities Reval (now Tallinn) and Lübeck are both still fully convinced that the right of

discovery of marzipan belongs to their city. There are places in Tallinn to go and

see people painting the marzipan such as these below.

Using marzipan and food colouring mixed together make a marzipan animal. To

make this even harder try using coloured icing or food colouring to see if you can

create the features as well.

Estonia Challenge 2 – Zoo

6 or more players, aged 5 to 12 played indoors or outdoors.

The players are seated on chairs in a circle. Each is given an animals or birds

name. The zoo keeper walks around the outside of the circle and tells a story

about the zoo. When the animal name of a player is mentioned in the story, that

player must get up and follow the zookeeper. Soon a great line of players forms in

this way, and each holds the waist of the player in front of her.

When all players are in line, the zookeeper tells them to become their animals,

and the all imitate which animal they are supposed to be (eg a bird, elephant etc.)

After a while the zookeeper rushes to get a chair.

The player who is left out becomes the zookeeper and the game starts all over

again. Players are encouraged to change their identities.

Estonia Challenge 3 - Nose Telephone

6 or more players, aged 5 and up, played anywhere.

Players form two equal teams and line up horizontally, each team facing the other.

The game begins as the first player on each team places an empty matchbox (from

wooden matches) cover on her nose. She then tries to transfer the matchbox to

her neighbour without using her hands.

If the matchbox falls, players must pick it up only with their noses. The winning

team is that which finishes passing it along first.

Estonia Challenge 4 - National Flower

The national flower is a Blue cornflower. Start with an origami square base, made

with the coloured side inside, instead of the usual outside. (In the square base

instructions, start with the coloured side downwards instead of upwards).

Then valley fold along the line shown to bring point A to the centreline

Unfold the last fold, and using the crease line you just made as a guide, make a

squash fold as shown

Now fold point B over the right as shown.

Repeat the last five steps on the left side of the paper

Now flip the piece over

... and repeat these (2) squash folds, that is, the last ten steps. Your piece should

now look like the kite below.

Fold corner C over to the left, and fold the corresponding corner D in back of the

piece around the back and to the right.

Next, fold the top of the piece down to the bottom, and unfold.

Now looking at the top of the piece, spread the top points open.

Squash fold the inner flaps as shown.

Then squash fold the petals. Here is the first one (upper left petal) completed.

The next three photos show the squash fold on the upper right petal.

Finish the bottom (2) petals, then unfold the base so it points straight down and

it’s complete

Estonia Challenge 5 - Chicken

Make a chicken like they do in Estonia

1. You need some yellow paper, wire, feathers, eyes, glue, scissors and a pencil.

2. Use a template to trace and cut out a body.

3. Make wings, eyes and a beak.

4. Use a piece of wire to make legs.

5. Paste wings and legs.

6. Here they are.

Estonia Challenge 6 - Vanaema’s Kook

Grandmothers cake

Vanaema’s kook (or Grandmother's cake in English) is a renowned Estonian dessert

cake – sweet, soft and tasty. It consists of a cake layer (prepared from eggs, salt,

sugar, flour, sour cream and baking power), then a layer of filling mass (made of

sliced apples or rhubarb mixed with sugar) and a scrumptious layer of crumbly

topping. When served, the top of the cake is usually decorated with ice cream. A

piece of delicious Vanaema’s kook cake is a perfect accompaniment to a glass of

cold milk, a cup of aromatic tea or coffee.

Finland

Guide Promise:

I will love my God and my neighbour, my native country and mankind by fulfilling

the Girl Guide ideals in my life.

Brownie Promise:

I promise to do my best to love my God, to fulfil the Brownie Law and to help

others every day.

Age groups:

Vaeltaja (Finnish) Rover (Swedish): Ranger 15-20

Partiolainen (Finnish)Flickscout (Swedish) Guide 10-14

Sudenpentu (Finnish) Vargunge (Swedish) Brownie 7-10

Girl Guiding/Girl Scouting introduced: 1910 - Founder Member of WAGGGS

Number of Girl Guides/Girl Scouts: 32278 (01/01/2006)

Admits boys: Yes

Finland Challenge 1 - Cabbage Rolls

300 grams ground beef 1 dl short-grain rice 1 onion ½ tsp salt ½ tsp ground white pepper 1 egg Topping: 3 tbs cooking oil ½ dl dark syrup Remove the core of the cabbage with a sharp knife. Boil the cabbage in salted water, in a saucepan. Place a lid over the saucepan and allow the cabbage to simmer until the "leaves" begin to separate. Remove the cabbage from the water and set aside to cool. Leave approximately 5 dl of the water in the saucepan and cook the rice until done (keep the remaining water to baste the cabbage rolls with during cooking) . Peel away the outer leaves of the cabbage and save them for the cabbage rolls. Cut away any hard pieces and shred them together with the smaller leaves and use them for the stuffing. Stir the mince, boiled rice, chopped onion, shredded small leaves, seasonings and egg into a smooth mixture, in a mixing bowl. Place 2 tablespoons of stuffing on each cabbage leaf. Fold the sides inwards and then wrap the leaves. Place the cabbage rolls, seam side down, onto a greased ovenproof casserole. Baste the cabbage rolls with oil and allow them to brown on both sides at 225 degrees Celsius, until light golden brown. Lower the heat to 175 degrees Celsius, baste the rolls with syrup, and cook for approximately one more hour. Baste the rolls a few times with the remaining water from the boiled cabbage, if the rolls start to look dry. Food Serving Suggestion

Serve the Cabbage Rolls hot together with lingonberry jam.

Finland Challenge 2 - Chain (Ketju)

Needs 10-15 players.

All Players but one join hands in a large circle, and the one player must leave the room for a moment.

With one player leading the players all holding hands in the circle must tangle themselves in a confusing by moving under others arms, in circles etc.

When the knot looks impossibly mixed up, the lone player may be called back into the room, and he must separate their hands.

Once the knot is united, another person is chosen to leave the room and then the former person who was outside may lead the circle in forming the next knot.

Finland Challenge 3 - Crab Ball Tag

Needs 7 or more players.

All players but one, must get into a crab shape, up on their feet and hands, stomach facing upwards. The other player is it and may run around upright, with a medium sized rubber ball. The purpose is for them to gently hit the other players with the ball, but only from between the neck and the knee. The crabs may hit the ball away by kicking or heading it. However, they may only hit the ball if it is aimed at them.

The person who is it cannot run with the ball, and if the ball is knocked away by a crab, then they must throw it from where the ball lands.

If the player who is it succeeds in hitting the crab out, the crab becomes it and the game continues. The game can be made more exciting by having 2 players who are it.

Finland Challenge 4 – 12 sticks on a board

8-15 players needed.

Equipment needed for this game is 12 little sticks and a 30cmx30cm board to

arrange them on. The board must sit on a brick or stone, which acts like a teeter-

totter.

The game is like hide and seek as one player is it and the others hide. One player

starts the game by stepping on the edge of the board, flipping the sticks into the

air. All of the other players hide, the player who is it must pick up the sticks and

arrange them on the board.

Once the board is ready, the it may set off to look for the hidden players. If the it

finds a player they must run back and touch the board, calling out the players

name.

Hidden players may get in home-free by upsetting the board again before the it

can reach it. The game continues until the last player is caught, or is home free.

The first player that was caught becomes it for the next game.

Finland Challenge 5 – Finnish Paper Star

The Finnish Paper Star can be made in various sizes and can be used as a ceiling

decoration, a Christmas Tree ornament or even as a Christmas Tree Topper! If you

make it with glitter paper (as I did) you will have an extra sparkly decoration for your

home.

Things you will need

Paper (Almost any kind of paper will work for this craft. I used a 12" x 12"

scrapbook paper sheet from a pound store.)

Pencil

rubber (If you plan to make mistakes.)

Ruler

Scissors

Glue (I used a fast dry liquid.)

String (To hang.)

Instructions

Using a ruler measure out 12 strips that are 12 inches long and 3/4" wide. If you want

to make an ornament sized star, make all 12 strips 6 inches long and only 1/2" wide.

Once you have measured 12 equal sized strips you will need to cut them out.

Photo 1

Photo 2

Photo 3

Photo 4

Photo 5

Photo 6

Take 6 of your 12 strips and weave them as shown. (See photo 1) Ensure that the

point where the strips intersect is the center. (Use your ruler to make sure.)

Once your strips are woven as shown, you will need to glue down the strips where they

overlap (see photo 2). Allow to dry if needed.

Take 2 'corner' strips (like shown in photo 3), twist them and match ends. Then glue

down the strips where they overlap.

Continue taking the corner strips and glue them together (like shown in photo 4) until

all 4 corners are done.

When all 4 corners are shaped, it should look like photo 5.

Now take your other 6 strips and repeat the same process as above until you have 2

that look like photo 6.

Lay one of the star halves on top of the other star half as shown below so that each

curved loop matches a straight end.

Now weave the straight ends into the curved loops, like shown below.

Glue the straight ends to the curved loops (like shown below).

Don't worry that the straight strips are now longer and extend past the curved loops.

(They will be trimmed later).

Now trim the excess straight ends (like shown below) using the curved ends as your

guide.

When all your ends are trimmed, your star should look like below

.

Now add a string to your star (like shown below) and your beautiful Finnish Paper Star

is ready to hang.

If you wish to make your star into a Christmas Tree Topper, you can omit the step of

adding a string.

Finland Challenge 6 – Scandinavian Christmas doll

Try to make a Scandinavian Christmas doll using felt, wool and a clothes peg

United Kingdom

Senior Section/Guide Promise:

I promise that I will do my best, to love my God, to serve the Queen and my

country, to help other people and to keep the Guide law.

Brownie Promise:

I promise that I will do my best, to love my God, to serve the Queen and my

country, to help other people and to keep the Brownie Guide law.

Rainbow Promise:

I will do my best, to love God and be kind and helpful

Age groups:

Senior Section 14-25

Guide 10+

Brownie Guide 7+

Rainbow Guide 5+

Girl Guiding/Girl Scouting introduced: 1909 - Founder Member of WAGGGS

Number of Girl Guides/Girl Scouts: 552603 (01/01/2006)

Admits boys: No

UK Challenge 1 – English Rose

You will need:

Red tissue paper Green chenille stem / pipe cleaner Sticky tape

Instructions:

Cut three strips of tissue paper: one 3 inches wide, one 2 ½ wide and one 2 inches wide.

Concertina fold each strip so you are left with a roughly square shape.

On each strip draw a petal shape with a strip across the bottom touching each fold, as shown in the diagram below.

Cut out, taking care not to cut through the folds at the bottom. Unfold the strips.

Starting with the thinnest strip, wind the petals around the end of the chenille stem, securing with pieces of sticky tape. When you have finished the first strip, add the next widest and then the widest. Secure with sticky tape. Twist the chenille stem around the tissue to help keep it in place.

Carefully tease out the petals with your fingers to make it look more like a rose.

UK Challenge 2 – Scottish Mat

You will need:

A sheet of white card Blue paper

Instructions:

Fold the card in half lengthways. Cut long lines in the card about 1 inch apart and about 1 inch from the edge of the card.

Cut the paper into strips about 1 inch wide. Take a strip of paper and pass it under the card and then up through the first slit, down through the second and back up through the third and so on until you reach the other side of the card. Push it up so it sits as close to the top of the red card as it can reach. Repeat with a second strip of paper, starting the other way, down through the first slit and up through the second and so on. Repeat until the card is full.

Laminating will protect your mat.

UK Challenge 3 – Colour in the Welsh Dragon

UK Challenge 4 – Camping and meeting other members

Poacher is a large International camp held in the UK. The girls going on this trip

will be camping for the week and enjoying lots of activities outdoors. Of course

there will be many of the high adrenalin activities but Poacher prides itself on

creating new concepts and putting a different spin on existing and traditional

challenges.

With everything focused on one huge activity site they won’t have far to move for

a non-stop range of Adventurous Activities, Crafts, Action Projects and

Entertainment. Naturally there will be some activities off site, like the special

Water Village, and additional Trips to local places of interest.

Poacher is an International camp and the girls will meet lots of Scouts and Guides

from all over the world.

1. Why not put up a tent and stay in it for at least one night to see what

camping is like.

2. Meet up with another unit to meet other members in Guiding or attend an

event where people from other units or even Scouts are taking part.

UK Challenge 5 – Nature in the dark

Nature in the dark A fun way to get outside and do some teambuilding. You will need:

Minimum of five people Open space e.g. a park/garden Blindfolds

What to do:

Get into pairs. You will need one person to act as a referee. One person in every pair should wear a blindfold. The referee should make a list of nature objects that she wants the pairs to

collect - types of leaves, flowers, acorns, conkers and so on. All pairs should stand in the middle of their open space. The blindfolded girl in each pair has to collect the items and the girl

without the blindfold should stay in the middle and act as a guide by giving her directions.

The winners are the pair who collect all of the items first.

UK Challenge 6 – 3 minute chocolate brownies

You will need

4 tablespoons cake flour

4 tablespoons sugar

2 tablespoons cocoa

1egg

3 tablespoons milk

3 tablespoons oil

1 mug

Microwave

Instructions:

1. Mix the flour, sugar and cocoa in the mug

2. Spoon in the egg

3. Pour in milk and oil and mix well

4. Put in microwave for 3 minutes in microwave on full power (1000

watt)

5. Wait until it stops rising and sets in the mug

6. Spoon out and enjoy!

Toptip: To make this brownie even more delicious break up some chocolate

into small chunks and add it to the remix before microwaving.

International Opportunities within Girlguiding

Girlguiding offers lots of ways for girls and leaders to take part in International

opportunities. This can include a one day excursion with their unit, a gap year

opportunity, a trip with their county or region or GOLD.

Leaders from any section within Guiding are open to these opportunities. If you

would like to get involved please contact the International Adviser.

Girls can get involved in International by firstly attending one of the County

International Selection weekends.

To find out more please look at the county website or contact the International

Adviser by email on international@girlguidingcheshireborder.org.uk

www.girlguidingcheshireborder.org.uk.

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