The last badge that we worked on together as a unit was the World Guiding Badge. As well as covering the syllabus we also played games from other countries and ate lots of sweets and chocolate from different places- all in the name of World Guiding you understand!! Here are some of the things that we did.

Sheep Game

This game comes from New Zealand and is very silly, but fun.

Choose one Guide to be "it", all of the others are sheep. Everyone runs around and when a Guide is caught she lies on the floor with her legs dangling in the air making worried sheep sounds. Someone else can free her by holding a limb and saying "She'll be alright mate" in as a good a New Zealand accent as possible. You have to stop the game occasionally to change the person who's "it".

Taps in French

Singing taps in another language was on the syllabus, we sang taps in French:-

C'est la nuit

Tout se tait

Sur la plaine, les collines et les bois;

C'est la paix

Tout est bien

Et Dieu vient.

WAGGGS Badge Beetle

We made our own game with the WAGGGS badge to help us to remember the different bits of it. We drew the badge onto an A4 piece of gold card and then cut it out. We also cut out a badge sized blue circle for the background. We then played beetle with it. Each Guide had to throw a 6 first to get the blue background, the a 1 for the gold rim then the pieces went as follows:-

6- Background

5- Compass needle

4- Stars

3- Trefoil

2- Feu

1- Gold rim

The first Guide to complete her WAGGGS badge wins!

Mexican Football

The Guides make a circle and a large drinks bottle is placed as the goal in the middle. One Guide is in goal, she has to stop the goal from being knocked over, the Guides in the circle kick a ball and try to knock it over. The Guide who kicks the ball that gets the goalie out replaces her. (You can slightly fill the bottle if it keeps falling over but if the girl in goal knocks it over with her own foot she is still out and you must choose someone else to be in goal)