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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.

My Community

Time: 20-40 minutes


Equipment:

  • A5 or A4 pieces of paper

  • Coloured Textas

  • Sticky tape

Instructions:

  1. Tell the guides they need to independently draw their community on a sheet of paper. Don’t give them any more instructions, (unless they really need it). Give them ~10 minutes or so to do this.

  2. In patrols, get each Guide to tell the others who is in their community. If someone has thought of something new, Guides can add that person/thing to their community as well.

  3. Patrols then join their community sheets together with sticky tape, and then present it to the rest of the unit, briefly describing who/what is in their community. Again, if patrols discover something new they wish to add they can quietly do so.

  4. Guides can join all the patrol communities together with sticky tape.

  5. As a unit, look at the community and discuss what you see. Some questions might be:

  • Is there anyone we have forgotten in our community that we should add?

  • Is there a boundary to the edge of our community? Is it limited by a location or anything else?

  • Are there small communities within the larger community?

  • How could we serve this community? As a whole? Or to help the individuals or small groups in the community?

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