TRADITIONS OF GUIDING

badge requirements

Complete five of the following clauses (for every further five clauses completed you may gain a second badge):

1. Know how to fold a flag and hoist colours. Demonstrate your skills to your Patrol.

2. Demonstrate how to carry and present unit colours. Show how to roll, store and care for unit colours.

3. Use and explain four whistle and hand signals.

4. Tie a Reef Knot and a Packer's Knot. Demonstrate their use on a parcel or bedding roll.

5. Traditionally Guides march formally into a horseshoe. Find out how this is done and try it.

6. Lay or follow a trail using woodcraft signs.

7. Strike a match correctly and light a candle.

8. Use Scout's pace to cover 1.6 km or 1 mile and remember a verbal message.

9. Use semaphore to send and read a simple message.

10. Know the first two verses of your national anthem.

11. Know ten significant facts about the history of Guiding. Share this information with your Patrol in the form of a quiz, game, poster etc.

12. Lay a table for a three course meal. Use a centre piece and fold the napkins in an interesting way.

13. Set a map with a compass and walk on a bearing.

14. Whip the end of a rope to stop it from fraying.