Traditions of Guiding badge
Do five of the following (for every further five clauses completed you may gain a second badge):
- Know how to fold a flag and hoist colours. Demonstrate your skills to your Patrol.
- Demonstrate how to carry and present unit colours. Show how to roll, store and care for unit colours.
- Use and explain four whistle and hand signals.
- Tie a Reef Knot and a Packer’s Knot. Demonstrate their use on a parcel or bedding roll.
- Traditionally Guides march formally into a horseshoe. Find out how this is done and try it.
- Lay or follow a trail using woodcraft signs.
- Strike a match correctly and light a candle.
- Use Scout’s pace to cover 1.6km or 1 mile and remember a verbal message.
- Use semaphore to send and read a simple message.
- Know the first two verses of your national anthem.
- Know ten significant facts about the history of Guiding. Share this information with your Patrol in the form of a quiz, game, poster etc.
- Lay a table for a three course meal. Use a centrepiece and fold the napkins in an interesting way.
- Set a map with a compass and walk on a bearing.
- Whip the end of a rope to stop it from fraying.
- Do an activity that shows a camping skill, e.g. pitch and strike a tent, make a gadget, light a fire.
- Explain and, where possible, demonstrate how to turf before lighting a fire.
- With your Patrol plan and do a pioneering activity, e.g. a rope ladder, hay maker bridge, or swing.
- Make and use a Buddy Burner.
- Learn the words of the World Song and sing with members of your Patrol.
- At a campfire prepare and cook dampers.
- Find out what Guides did for a ‘First Class’ award.
- Make a lanyard to wear at camp.
- Learn two graces and teach them to your Patrol.
- Demonstrate the international symbol of recognition when meeting another Guide.
- Know what the Union Flag is made up of, and draw it correctly.
- Research a Guiding tradition in another section.
Leslie's Guiding Badge History 