CULTURE

badge requirements

Complete five of the following clauses, at least two of them from each section:

LOCAL

1. With your Patrol, make up a local trail to explore your neighbourhood with a quiz or scavenge hunt for the other Patrols in your unit.

2. Interview a member of your community who can tell you about life in your area, and record it on tape or video.

3. Learn a dance, song, poem or piece of drama traditional to your area or region and perform it as an entertainment with your Patrol.

4. Find stories or legends about a local patron saint or a coat of arms. Ask about local people over the years who have contributed to the well-being of the community. Present this in an interesting way through photographs, drawings, a report for a local newspaper or a short drama.

5. Visit a local craft exhibition with your Patrol then ask one of the exhibitors to give you a demonstration of one craft. If possible, have a go at it yourself.

6. Visit a place of historical interest, eg a museum, famous building or archeological site, with your Patrol then make a presentation to the unit.

7. Find out which local/national youth councils, parliaments or forums give young people an opportunity to have a voice in current issues affecting them.

OTHER CULTURES

Choose a culture other than your own and then:

1. Cook a traditional meal often eaten in your chosen culture, and invite your family, Patrol or Guider(s) to share it with you.

2. Learn ten words and their meanings from your chosen culture’s language or dialect. Teach them to your Patrol.

3. Talk to someone from a different cultural background and find out about their lifestyle. Present this in an imaginative way to your unit, eg by using photographs, postcards, maps and posters or by demonstration with dramas, costumes, games and so on.

4. Put on a cultural fashion show using members of your Patrol, or use dolls to demonstrate costumes from other countries. This could be used as part of an international evening in your unit.

5. Find out about the daily life of girls or young women in your chosen culture and then share it with your Guiders.

6. Organise an arts activity, eg dance, music, drama etc, for your Patrol based on your chosen culture.