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Description

Badge bingo bonanza: Work together to discover the different badges and awards Beaver Scouts can earn with this brilliant bingo game.

Updated using instructions from The Scout Association
https://www.scouts.org.uk/activities/badge-bingo-bonanza/

Resources

Pens or pencils
Bag (for bingo tokens)

Bingo cards (Badge bingo bonanza) PDF print outs
Bingo calling tickets (Badge bingo bonanza) PDF print outs

Take it further
You could move from this activity into a Log Chew – each team could choose one Activity Badge, one Staged Activity Badge, and one Challenge Award they’d like to tackle.

Instructions

ORIGINAL TEXT: Arrange YP into teams, this can be done with different sections so they work together. Each team gets a bingo card & pencil. Teams have to hunt for the badges on their card and write the number on their bingo card. Points awarded for each correct answer. If there is time you can use the bingo cards for proper bingo later on!

ACTIVITY TEXT:
Before you begin
- Print out enough bingo cards so there’s one for each pair or small group. You could laminate the cards so it’s easier to use them again.
- Cut out the bingo tickets, fold each one in half, and put them in a bag (or another container, such as a tub or a hat).
- Decide whether you’ll use pens or counters to mark squares. Counters are ideal if you want to use the game again.


Play bingo
1. Everyone should split into pairs or small groups. The person leading the game should give each small group a bingo card and a pen or pencil. Groups should be mixed so that older and newer members work together.
2. Teams should look at the badges and try to figure out whether they’re Core Badges, Activity Badges, Staged Activity Badges, and Challenge Awards. They should look and see whether they can find where the badges go on their uniform.
3. The person leading the game should take a ticket from the bag. They should read out the name of the badge, and put the ticket to one side so they can check people’s answers later. Now and throughout the game, older members should make sure younger members have a go at taking a guess before they tell them the answer.
4. Each team should search their bingo card to see if they have that badge. If they have that badge on their card, they should cross it off or cover it.
5. Everyone should repeat steps two and three until a team covers three in a row. They should call out ‘row’, the game should pause, and the person leading the game should check their card.
6. Everyone should continue repeating steps two and three until a team covers their whole card. They should call out ‘bingo’, the game should pause, and the person leading the game should check their card. If they’re right, they’re the winners! Everyone should keep playing until several teams have completed their rows or whole card.


Reflection
- This game needed everyone to work in teams to match the badge names with the images, and find out more about all of the different badges Beavers can earn. When people are working in a team to problem solve, it can be easy to start talking over one another or only listen to the loudest person. How did teams make sure that everyone had the chance to suggest answers? Some teams may have taken it in turns to answer first; in others, the older or more experienced members may have helped the younger ones.
- Were any badge images especially hard to match up with their names? How did people work out any badges that they didn’t know? Some things about the pictures (including the colours) may have helped. What Activity Badges or Challenge Awards would newer members like to try? Does anyone have any of them already? They could explain what they did to earn them.


Change the level of challenge
It’s up to you whether the bingo caller calls out the badge names or offers clues (such as ‘this badge encourages you to care for a pet’ for the Animal Friend Activity Badge, or ‘you’ll need to work together to earn this Challenge Award’ for the Teamwork Challenge Award).

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Badge Links

• Membership - Badges
• Outdoors - Wide game
• Teamwork - Team game