NATURE

Here are some ideas for earning the Nature badge.  Some activities are designed to be done in a patrol or unit, others are designed to be done at home.

Suggestions have been split into ideas for Guides aged under 10 and Guides aged over 10, but feel free to mix and match - as long as it is a challenge for the individual girl!

Under 10

Make a tornado in a bottle.  Here are some instructions to help you.

Make a poster showing 3 different ways to care for nature.

Keep track of the weather for a week - record whether it was sunny or cloudy or rainy, and see if you can find out the temperature for each day.

Go outside to a garden or park and watch the grass closely.  See how many different bugs you can find.  Pick one and try to follow it for 2 minutes.

Make a bouquet of flowers for someone special.

On a walk, see if you can spot natural objects of 7 different colours.

Use recycled materials to make something useful.

Be able to identify three different flowers and bring in an example of each.

Make a nature bracelet by taping a piece of masking tape around your wrist (sticky side away from your skin).  Walk around in a park and add different natural objects to your bracelet.

Over 10

Use recycled materials to make something useful.

Go outside to a garden or park and watch the grass closely.  Draw pictures of the insects that you see and find out their names.

On a walk, see if you can spot natural objects of 15 different colours.

Make your own erupting volcano.  There are complete instructions here.

Make a floral arrangement as a centrepiece for a table.

Discover a website where you can find the temperature, wind speed and amount of rainfall for your city.  Use the Bureau of Meterology site as a starting point.

Make a card using only a piece of paper, glue and natural objects.

Make a poster showing 5 different ways to care for nature.

Pick one thing that you do that is harmful to nature and reduce how much you do it.

Be able to identify 5 different types of flowers and bring in an example of each.