Girl Guides of Canada

Guides - High on Life

Sparks - Being Me Keeper

• Make a friendship bracelet using large-holed beads and yarn or friendship sticks to give to a special friend or someone in their family.
• Women’s History Challenge: As a group, choose a theme for your mural such as winning the right to vote, women in sports women in entertainment, women in technology. Discuss some of the accomplishments of these women and design a mural based on your theme.
• Completes 2 requirements of the Being Me Keeper!

Brownies: Key to Me Badge

• Girlfriends Through Time
• Read a story about another time. Tell your circle about your story. Explain how things are different today from when the story took place.
• In circles the girls can read through materials from a woman’s life in pioneer times. There will be objects provided so the girls visualize what type of work they would have had to do.

Brownies: Key to my Community - Interest Badges

• All About Canada
• Paint a maple leaf or a beaver on a white T-shirt. Why are they symbols of Canada? What other animals or plants do you think would make good Canadian symbols? Why?

Brownies: Key to STEM - Exploration Space

• Read a story about Roberta Bondar or another female astronaut
• Find out what the International Space Station and the Canadarm are.
• Imagine you could go anywhere in space, where would you go? Why?
• Act out a space story.
• Discuss the difference between a planetarium and an observatory.
• Play a game about space.

Brownies: Key to the ARTS - Act It Out

• How do you make a skit, play, rap or puppet show with the Brownie story?
• Girls will be able to make paper bag puppets and perform a show based on the Brownie Story!

Brownies: Art By Hand

• Make a knitted, woven or appliquéd square
• We will arrange a local community knitting group to teach the girls how to knit so that they are able to knit a small coaster or headband.

Brownies: Marvellous Masks

• Mask making
• Girls will be able to make masks using a variety of supplies girls will be able to discuss different cultures and why they make masks.

Guides: Folklore Badge

• Visit a museum, a fair or place of interest to learn about Canadian folklore.
• Perform a skit, puppet show, or other presentation about a legend, a prov. Folk tale or a Canadian folk hero.
• After a short presentation on Canadian Folklore, the girls will split into groups and perform their version of a Canadian folk hero/tale. Each group will be given a different folklore to perform.
• Completes 2 requirements of the Folklore Badge

Guides: Heritage Badge

• Find out about a story, legend, monument or landmark in your community. Share your findings with others.
• Discover a Canadian who has contributed to Canadian culture in the past or present. Create a story, song or poem about this Canadian, or play charades or twenty questions using the names of famous Canadians.
• Canada has changed in the past 25yrs. How do you think it will change in the next 25yrs? Share your prediction in a creative way.
• A discussion will be led regarding community landmarks/stories. The girls will be given a list/biographies of famous Canadians/ “Nepeanites”, to play charades. The end of the activity will conclude with a discussion on how Canada has changed in the past 25yrs…how do they think it will change in the next 25yrs?
• Completes 3 requirements of the Heritage Badge

Guides: Peace Badge

• Take part in a peace rally or a Remembrance Day ceremony.
• The Nepean museum participates in the Nepean Remembrance Day ceremony and invites GC to participate with us.
• Completes 1 requirement of the Peace Badge

Guides: Provincial/Territorial Heritage Badge

• Share how your province and your community got their names.
• Tell, dramatize or draw a picture about the daily life of early settlers in your community. Discuss your community’s history and why you find it interesting.
• Create something in the same way early settlers would have.
• There will be a discussion on early settlers and way of life followed by a pioneer craft. Included will be how the province/community got its name!
• Completes 3 requirements of the Provincial Heritage Badge

Girls Creating: Provincial/Territorial Heritage Badge

• Create an object from material such as clay, papier-mâché, soap, wax, plaster, wood etc.
• Create a print, using a wood block, linoleum block, potato etc.
• Create an art gallery or an art show to display the work of your unit. Invite your parents and friends to come and see the art exhibit.
• Choose a famous artist from history, and create a work of art that is inspired by this artist.
• Activity A: The Girls will come prepared with an artist of their choice in mind, and an example of their art. The girls will have the opportunity to create their piece of art inspired by their favorite artist. The girls will then help set up an ‘art gallery’ in the museum space for parents to come visit. This will likely take two-three evenings. Completes 2 requirements of the Art Production Badge.
• Activity B: The Girls will create two crafts, one using a print the other creating an object! Completes 2 requirements of the Art Production Badge.

Girls Creating: Creative Craft Badge

• Make a piece of jewelry using materials that are not precious metals or gems. You might make a pin, necklace, bracelet or hair ornament.
• Create a toy design in one of the following categories; stuffed toy.
• Visit a museum to learn about craft and toys made during the last 200yrs.
• Create a craft that would be able to display in a room in your house.
• The activity will include a short discussion on toys in the last 200yrs and will create one of three different crafts; jewelry, stuffed toy or a ‘displayable’ craft. The choice of craft will be decided ahead of time by the leader and museum staff.
• Completes 2 requirements of the Creative Craft Badge

Girls Creating: Needle Work Skills Badge

• Using a needle and thread, perform these two functions by hand: sew a button; and, pin and stitch a hem.
• Use a simple pattern to sew something by machine or hand.
• Using knitting needles and yarn, demonstrate the knit and purl stitches. Knit a simple scarf or other article of your choice.
• The museum will arrange to have a local sewing/knitting group come in and instruct and assist the girls in either a sewing OR knitting project. The type of project will be decided ahead of time by the leader and museum staff.
• Completes 1 or 2 requirements of the Needle Work Skills Badge. If the girls are knitting they will also complete 1 requirement of the Heritage Home Skills Badge.

Personal Growth: Heritage Home Skills Badge

• Learn how to spin wool into yarn using a Spinning Wheel and Drop Spindles, and dye wool using Kool-Aid!!
• Visit a place where antiques, crafts or folk art collections are displayed.
• Activity A: The evening will begin with a short tour. The girls will learn how wool is spin into yarn and dye wool. Completes 2 requirements of the Heritage Home Skills.

Fun in the Outdoors: Gardening

• Plant and neatly cultivate a garden, window box, or planter for a season. The garden should contain at least five kinds of flowers or vegetables.
• Describe the soil you are using. Explain how the soil can be improved. For example, you can enrich the soil with compost or add fertilizers. Identify the type of plant that grows best in this soil.
• Show the vegetables of flowers you have grown.
• Activity A: Judy Whitelock will demonstrate a gardening technique called ‘square foot gardening’ that will allow the girls to take home their own unique garden as well as the necessary skills to continue caring for their plants and vegetables.