Your Red Leadership Badge is your opportunity to further develop, extend and practise your leadership in an area of your choosing. Girls can accessorise with additional items from our range - for example, a tabardor baseball cap- but these are not part of the uniform. Where to put Rainbow badges GirlGuiding NZ members have exclusive access 1000’s of discounted products and high-quality retail brands through a partnership with ‘Rewarding Concepts’. The online shopping hub has a great line-up of aspirational brands, covering everything from outdoor activities to home and lifestyle, including – Canon, Macpac, Brother, Merrell, Logitech, Sony, Salomon, Garmin, and many more. Promise badges-These should be worn on the badge sash or worn on the left-hand side of their uniform, closest to their heart. Unit badges are split into the same four Exploration areas that were used for the Exploration Challenge badges. There are a wide range of badges for rangatahi to choose from including learning about safety in the outdoors and what to do in emergency situations, go on geocaching adventures, learn the skills required to camp safely, have a go at cooking in the outdoors, construct gadgets for camping practicing knots you have learnt, find hazards within the home and community and what to do for each different hazard, decode secret messages, learn about the different weather patterns and how to read these on a weather map, challenge yourself with having a disability for a day and the effects this has on daily tasks, learn self-defence and how to protect yourself, visit a Marae and learn the customs. Rangatahi also have the opportunity to perform in front of an audience, learn the science behind how things can fly, create science experiments, learn how to cook international food, learn the difference between needs and wants when it comes to budgeting, discuss why people pretend to be someone else online and how to keep yourself safe, take part in ultimate challenges to build your confidence, learn the impacts of water in the environment, learn how to make origami, and how to recycle to make an impact on the environment.

A Guide completes a few different activities to enable Leaders to get to know rangatahi as well as introduce them to the Guide programme and rangatahi in the Unit. Once they have completed these activities a Guide Promise Ceremony takes place and they receives her Promise Badge. I guess that one is rather wholesome, just like most Brownies were. Related stories recommended by this writer: The Pathway Badge provides Rangers with the skills to fully participate in all aspects of the Ranger Programme. The skills they learn will make them a valued member of any Unit team and will equip them with confidence for a leadership experience. Now, this is how you know you’ve made it. I’ll start off with being awarded as Seconder, which meant that out of your entire six your Sixer rated you the most. Or you were just best friends but that isn’t really the point. You were essentially second in command and if your Sixer wasn’t in one week you would fill in temporarily until the next week when they returned.

If they have moved up from Pippins to Brownies they will have completed the Pippin Brownie Link badge. This badge is designed to introduce the Pippins to Brownies as part of their transition to the new section. The Guide Programme is broken down into four Exploration Challenge areas. Guides will complete one badge from each Exploration Challenge area for each of the three Endeavour badges. Whilst completing these rangatahi will get to take part in a wide range of outdoor activities including hikes, water activities, ropes course, orienteering, outdoor games, as well as learning the safety around these different activities, they will have the opportunity to serve in the community by painting murals and planting trees, learn about different aspects of the Māori Culture. Guides also have the option to make Guiding visible within the community, learn how they can make an impact on the environment, make home-made cleaning products, learn how to express feelings, learn about peer pressure and how to deal with it, take part in activities with other Guide Units, take part in browsing on the internet safely, and learn about safety around the home including evacuation planning. Rangatahi can complete Interest Badges at home. There are 6 different badges to choose from and each badge has a range of activities to choose from. Rangatahi get to go on different adventures, learn about all types of animals, be creative using different mediums, spend time and learn about their family, learn about and participate in different sports, and learn about different ways of cooking. The traditional way to attach badges to uniform is to sew them on.It’sthe cheapest way to do it and will never leave a mark on your uniform when you take the badge off to put on a camp blanket.And it’s not as hard as it sounds! The Brownie Programme structure is based around the opportunity to gain three Koru Badges. These badges are the progression milestones in the Brownie Programme. The requirements for each badge are slightly different but include: Sunshine Unit badges, Discover badges, Interest badges, Whānui badges, Leadership activities and Guiding Events.

You will complete a Leadership Option for your Queen’s Guide Award, but you can also complete a second Leadership Option for your Gold Challenge. I still find this bizarre to this day. Albeit at my Brownies we always called our leaders by their first name because the owl thing just never worked but all my friends at different units would refer to their leaders as Brown Owl, Snowy Owl, and Tawny Owl. Why? I have absolutely zero clue. The Gold Special Activity is a chance for you to work with new people, try something you’ve never done before, or accomplish something that will extend and develop you as a person. In working towards this award, Rangers will develop leadership, teamwork, communication, and life skills, and experience the enjoyment and satisfaction of reaching goals.Your sash was bound to fill up anyways with the size of some of those badges but to go that extra mile and buy a blanket AND fill it with badges? Congrats, that’s fame. Macpac has a loyalty group in all Macpac stores that entitles all members of GirlGuiding New Zealand 30% off RRP on Macpac branded products.