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Promise & Law Resources

Developing these Promise and Law resources was a part of my Olave Baden Powell Award, and the key reason for developing this website. I'm very thankful to all the units and leaders who helped out by testing the activities or lending me their Guides to test things on - these lovely people are acknowledged at the bottom of the page.

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Activities are listed separately and have 3 types of tags to help you find what you are looking for.  Recuit/Guide tags indicate if the activity is suited to members who have recently joined or Guides who have already made their promise.  Age tags indicate the developmental stages I had in mind as suitable for the activity (including OP standing for lave Program).  And finally Individual/Patrol/Unit tags indicate the size group that the activity can work with.  Click on the tags to filter activities.

Me Trees

Time: 20-60 minutes Hint: Can be over multiple meetings


Equipment:

  • Large bare tree branch (one for the unit or each patrol), standing in a bucket/pot of sand/rocks

  • Leaf shapes cut out of green paper/card (5-10 each)

  • Flower shapes cur out of paper/card ( 1 each)

  • Blu-tac or string

Instructions:

  1. Guides write their name on a flower and decorate and stick it to the tree.

  2. Guides write/draw 3 leaves about themselves (e.g. 1 special thing about her, 2 for talents or skills) and blutac them to the tree near her name flower

  3. Guides then write/draw a leaf for the others in their patrol/unit with something special about them, which get added to the tree near the correct flower Hint: If needed, leaders can manage this to make sure content is kind and everyone gets approximately equal numbers of leaves

  4. Patrols/Units can keep the trees for a period of time, until “Autumn” comes and the leave fall off the trees into convenient envelops for the Guides to take home.



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