Boots, Bikes & Boats Challenge
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1. WE DISCOVER WE GROW Girlguiding The Shropshire Boots Bikes and Boats Challenge Badge This challenge is open to all members of Girlguiding from Rainbows to Trefoil Guild and we hope you enjoy the challenges on your Guiding journey There is a lovely badge to gain if you complete the required challenge for each section As you move to another level of Guiding you can be challenged again to extend the fun and experiences available to you To gain a badge you must complete the following challenges Rainbows 2 challenges from each section Brownies 3 challenges from each section Guides 4 challenges from each section Senior Section amp Adults 4 challenges from each section Badges can be obtained from the County Badge Secretary at a cost of 1 a portion of which will go towards supporting the County Outdoor Centre at Lyneal In the following sections you will find suggestions for challenges together with suggestions about which sections might find them suitable You are free to adapt this for your own girls and to use your own challenge ideas Key R Rainbows B Brownies G Guides S Senior Section A Adults leaders and members of the Trefoil Guild Contacts to help and advise you To find the contact detail of an Outdoor Activity Adviser details run the area contact details report on GO Boots Challenges CHALLENGE SUITABLE HELP FOR Go on an spy walk All sections Check the Guidin2. arinas particularly to the north of the marina County on the Shropshire Union Canal Have a duck race and All sections You could just borrow or buy ducks Toys r us or you do some fundraising could use a company e g fun www pdkfundraising co uk Try a rowing boat BGSA There are boats to hire on Ellesmere and in Ludlow The Linney You may know of others local to you Go paddling in your All sections You may want to sail a toy boat as well wellies Walk across an There are famous ones Pontcysyllte and Chirk Aqueducts aqueduct just out of Shropshire and others on the Shropshire Union Canal Do the Rospa water You can find it at www rospa com wise quiz under water safety for children and young people In your Patrols invent GSA You can download a pdf file to help you with the signs and play a game to from www rospa com search for water safety signs teach the meaning of water safety signs Use an exercise rowing You may be able to borrow a domestic one or visit a machine to improve fitness centre your fitness Appendix 1 SAMPLE I SPY Spy Chart Score 5 points for each I Spy Total 150 Cross out the items when you see them Things Shropshire Way sign Bench Bridge Pond Stile Kissing gate Electric fence Footpath signpost Church Cumulus clouds Creatures Buzzard Labrador Dragonfly Magpie Spider Horse Butterfly caterpillar Rabbit Pheasant Ant Plants Oak tree Thistle H
3. awthorn Dandelion Cow parsley Stinging nettles Bramble Holly Horse chestnut tree conkers Buttercup Appendix 2 TRACKING SIGNS Water in this Direction Turn Left or Right This way over Obstacle Party Split Up _ Message this Wa Gone Home Appendix 3 PARTS OF A BIKE Saddle Stem Seatpost Tyre ES PE A Cassette 7 RN a gt Spokes Hub S Crankset gt padal Front Chain Derailleur Fitness Commuter Bike Rear derailleur
4. g Manual for walking rules Sample I spy is attached Appendix 1 Make a boot print RBG Either poster for your patrol Each girl walks in a tray of poster paint and makes or six a boot mark in a poster Or The six patrol draws a boot and decorates it to illustrate their team Go on a night hike GSA Check the Guiding Manual for walking rules Wellie boot wang All sections A large area and an old boot is needed Each girl stands at the same point in turn and wangs throws using any technique they like the boot as far as possible Safety ensure all other player stand clear the boot might go in any direction Make a herbery in an All sections It will be good to have some drainage holes and it works old boot plant up an best if the plants are grown elsewhere before planting in old boot the boot Walk a section of the All sections Check the Guiding Manual for walking rules Shropshire way www shropshirewalking co uk Learn 10 map symbols GSA www ordnancesurvey co uk will help you Learn how to set a map BGSA Show how to use a compass Use a map to identify 5 places from their grid references Go tracking Tracking signs are given in Appendix 2 Explore a wood All sections Nature detectives will help with this which is part of the Woodland Trust Try a ghost walk Both Shrewsbury and Ludlow offer these www shropshireghostwalks co uk Take a walk with a GSA Many Shropshire towns have Town Crier
5. including Town Crier Shrewsbury Newport Ludlow Bishop s Castle Cleobury Mortimer Wellington Whitchurch Bridgnorth and Market Drayton Decorate your own wellie boots Make a lantern and take a candle walk outside your meeting place or turn off the light inside Beat the Bounds of your Parish Take a seasonal walk with challenges and compare the seasons Follow a photographic trail Play a game to help learn the Countryside code Work out how many of your paces you will need to walk 100m Use a treadmill All sections All Sections All sections All sections All sections All sections Use permanent paint or pens You might prefer to take a battery candle on a walk This means find out where the edges of the parish are and plan a walk using footpaths as close as possible to the edges Look for what changes This can be in a park or a local area Perhaps photograph the same place each season Someone will need to walk the route first and take photos so that the girls can try to spot the sites For older girls take the pictures from strange angles Google The Countryside code and set challenges This is a skill useful for judging distances If you are still growing check it again next year Visit your local fitness centre and see if you can try one There may be a minimum age limit Bikes Challenges CHALLENGE SUITABLE HELP FOR Go on a bike ride with RBG For younger girls this may j
6. t about a local All sections cycling club or group Take part in the Level 1RB This is cycling proficiency for 21 Centuary Bikeability scheme Level2 GSA www bikeability org uk Level3 SA Use an exercise bike to All sections You may be able to borrow a domestic one or visit a improve your fitness fitness centre Boats Challenges CHALLENGE SUITABLE HELP FOR Try canal art and BGSA decorate a coaster or trinket box Make a model propeller RBGSA There are instructions in GFI With a Splash currently out boat of print so borrow from your local Guide Unit Make a miniature raft RBGSA You can use lolly sticks and rubber bands and sailitin a and sail with a lighted paddling pool or go out and collect twigs use lashings tea light and sailin a stream Go on one of these RBGSA boats Narrow boat Sailing dinghy Kayak Canoe Make a raft for your BGSA An activity centre is the best options for all of these patrol or six and sail on clauses Try it www pgl co uk Take a canoe taster BGSA www ovac co uk activities session www acuk net pioneer centre from a canoe or boat Try a scavenger hunt BGSA Play pooh sticks All sections You may need to read Winnie the Pooh to younger girls so they know all about Pooh sticks Visit a maritime All sections For museums and ships you may need to plan a trip to museum and or a London Bristol or Plymouth Locally however there are historic ship and or a narrow boat m
7. ust be a very local area an adult Follow a national bike This link will take you to the national cycle network trail www sustrans org uk Show how to mend a There is a video on the www halfords com website under puncture cycles gt service or you might like to ask someone from a cycle shop to visit Know 10 parts of a bike GSA There is a picture to help you in Appendix 3 Find out the route of GSA the next Tour de France Visit a velodrome The closest to us is Manchester www nationalcyclingcentre com and they have tours and visits Make a poster to show BGSA the cycling achievements of Team GB at London 2012 Try using a uni cycle BGSA Remember circus skills badges Find out the history of All sections This could be a poster a talk or a visit to a museum the penny farthing Try a tag along or a All sections A tag along attaches to an adult bike and will be suitable tandem for Rainbow younger Brownies Go mountain biking Many activity centres offer this Find out about Sustrans GSA This is the group who run the national cycle routes www sustrans org uk Find out about cycling BGSA There may be local one on the local council websites as trails in your area and well as Sustrans print a map of them Cycle a tow path BGSA Make sure your girls meet the swimming requirements Know how to look after You may want to invite a visitor from a local cycling group your bike and do a safety check Find ou
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