Circus Skills Badge
- Take part in at least one juggling or circus skills workshop.
- Do three of the following: Make a set of juggling balls. Demonstrate your skill to an audience of more than ten people. Try one skill from the list below. Teach three people one of your circus skills. Devise a worksheet to demonstrate one of your skills. Find out some interesting facts about one of your skills, e.g. it’s origin, a world record, it’s history. Set yourself a target to complete a trick that you cannot yet do, keep a record of your progress as you learn the trick.
- Learn three further skills from the list below. Demonstrate each of your skills to your Patrol. Tell them how you learned the skills, and how long it took you to get them right.
Skills: Acrobatics, Balloon modelling, Contact juggling, Cigar boxes, Club swinging with two clubs, Diabolo, Devilstick, Juggling with three or more items (scarves, rings, balls, clubs), Lasso, Plate spinning, Stilt walking, Tumbling, Unicycle, Yo-yo.
Leslie's Guiding Badge History 