Beaver Scout Activity Badges
Safety
Complete the following:
- Explain the Green Cross code
- Explain the Water Safety code
- Say what to do when approached by a stranger
- Identify possible dangers around the house and say what to do about them
Health & Fitness
Complete the following:
- Learn about foods that are good for you
- Learn about the value of keeping fit
- Plan a healthy meal.
- Tell others in the Colony about a sport or activity they take part in
- Learn about personal hygiene
Creative
Complete the following:
The Beaver Scout needs to:
- explain/know about a creative activity
- take part in the creative activity
- tell the Colony about the activity.
Examples of creative activities include:
- Putting on a show or form of entertainment
- Making a mobile, origami shapes, a model out of clay or plasticine, a painting or drawing or doing conjuring tricks
Imagination
Complete the following:
- Write, tell or act a short story, poem or play.
- Build a model using a variety of objects.
- Build a collage, draw or paint a picture imagining what life might be like in the future
Faith
Complete the following:
- Write a prayer or reflection
- Read or share a prayer at the opening or closing ceremony or some other time
- Find and tell a story that relates to the Beaver Scout Promise
- Tell others in the Colony about the story in an interesting way, for example, as simple drama, picture, cartoon, or part of a game
- Visit a place of worship and show evidence of their visit with Photographs, drawings, handouts, leaflets or information sheets
Animal Friend
Complete the following:
- Know how to care for an animal, fish or insect
- Help to take care of an animal for one month
- Tell others in the Colony about the animal
- Know about the correct food to feed the animal, including type, variety and quantity
- Know about the habitat of the animal, such as where it sleeps etc
- Know how to exercise the animal
- Keep a record of the food given to the animal and what they do with the animal for a period of two weeks.
Examples of suitable animals for this Badge include: dogs, cats, gerbils, guinea pigs, fish, birds, rabbits, lambs, stick insects.
Hobbies
Complete the following:
- Take part in a chosen hobby for a period agreed
- Tell and show the Colony the chosen hobby
Explore
Complete the following:
- Decide what or where to explore
- Think about what they expect to find
- Go on the exploration
- Tell others in the Colony what they have discovered.
Suggested places to visit and explore include:
- the seashore
- a forest or park
- woodland
- a town
Air Activities
Complete the following:
- Make a paper dart out of paper and see how well it flies
- Find out about a particular aeroplane and tell others in the colony about it. Examples might be Concord, Spitfire, Airbus, Lynx helicopter etc.
- Talk to someone who has flown in a plane, helicopter or hot air balloon and find out what it was like
- If they have already flown in a plane – tell others in the Colony what it was like. If not, tell them what they would like to fly in, and why
Healthy Eating
Complete the following:
- Make a fruit salad
- Make a healthy snack
- Make two different sandwiches
- List some unhealthy foods
Examples of healthy snacks include omelette, salad mini pizzas, strawberry smoothie, homemade meatballs etc.
Experiment
Complete the following:
- Decide what to do and try and work out what might happen
- Investigate something of interest to find out how it works; or grow something from seed
- Tell others in the Colony what they saw and discovered.
Some examples of experiments could include:
- Growing a bulb
- Growing mustard and cress, a seed potato, bean or carrot top
- Showing how a torch works from the bits that make it up
- Showing what a magnet can do, or making a game using magnets.
Adventure
Complete the following:
Take part in three activities with other Beaver Scouts that will provide adventure. Two should be activities that they have not tried before.
Examples include:
- Treasure hunt
- Following a laid trail
- Grass sledging
- Journey using a new form of transport
- Making and sailing a model boat
- Climbing
- Abseiling
- Swimming
- Canal boating
- An adventure walk around a park
- Visiting a pier
- Swimming