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Figure out how you’ll take your favourite Activity Badge further. Are you ready for the challenge?

Courtesy of The Scout Association
https://www.scouts.org.uk/activities/one-more-badge/

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Take it further
Everyone doing the Activity Plus Badge could keep a diary (or a video diary) to share their journey with the group. Once they’ve achieved their badge, they could talk to the rest of the group about what they did.

Youth shaped guidance
Everyone should work with the adults to choose the right Activity Plus Badge for them.

Instructions

Choose a badge
1. Everyone should sit in a circle. They should talk to the person next to them about all of the Activity Badges they’ve achieved, and which one they enjoyed most. People could look at their uniforms to remind them what they’ve done – the Activity Badges are circles. Anyone who’s new should pair up with someone who can tell them about their badges. They should think about badges they’d like to try – they may want to look at a badge poster or book for inspiration and ideas.

2. The person leading the activity should explain that the Activity Plus Badge is the next big challenge once someone has an Activity Badge.

3. Everyone should choose one Activity Badge they really enjoyed doing and would like to do more of for their Activity Plus Badge. They shouldn’t choose a Staged Activity Badge unless they have the highest stage already. They shouldn’t tell anyone what they’ve chosen. If someone doesn’t have any Activity Badges yet, they could choose an Activity Badge they’d like to earn.

4. Everyone should take it in turns to mime their favourite Activity Badge. A mime is a silent action. For example, someone could pretend to dig a flowerbed for the Gardener Activity Badge, pretend to spacewalk for the Space Activity Badge, or do some star jumps for the Health and Fitness Badge. You may need to remind people that it’s about showing their favourite badge – not just copying their friends.

5. Everyone else should try and guess the Activity Badge the person is miming.

6. Once everyone’s had a turn at miming their chosen badge, some people should share their ideas for what they could do to earn their Activity Plus Badge. How might they improve their skills?


Make a plan
1. The person leading the activity should give everyone a small piece of paper.

2. Everyone should write or draw the Activity Badge they want to earn, or the Activity Badge they’re going to build on for their Activity Plus Badge.

3. Everyone should write or draw what they’ll do to achieve it. An adult should check people’s targets and agree them with them. They could also help with writing. Adults can also help if people get stuck for ideas. For example, for the Gardener Plus Badge, someone could look after their garden for a further three months, planting or harvesting different plants. For the Cook Plus Badge, they could prepare and cook another three dishes and serve them as a meal.

4. Everyone should give their targets to the person leading the activity. The person leading the activity should keep a record of people’s targets – they could copy, photograph, or photocopy them.

5. The person leading the activity should give everyone their targets back.

6. The person leading the activity should check in with people over the next few weeks. How’s their Activity Plus Badge going? Do they need any support?

7. Everyone should celebrate whenever anyone earns an Activity Plus Badge (or an Activity Badge, if they’ve been working on that instead).


Reflection
This activity helped everyone to understand that to get better at things, people need to try, try again. Can anyone think of something that they can do now that was hard when they first started? People might think about things like counting, tying their shoelaces, or learning to ride a bike. Just like that, Activity Badges are about people having fun while challenging themselves. If people have already done the Activity Badge, they’re ready for another challenge, so they should have confidence as they tackle the Activity Plus Badge. Everyone should make sure they recognise other people’s achievements. Well done to everyone who’s working hard and making progress – everyone’s so proud of you!


Change the level of challenge
- Split into two groups for the miming if you have a lot of people.
- You could have a chart or display that shows the badges everyone’s working towards and how much progress they’ve made. You could use this to encourage everyone to support each other.

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