SUPP_1947_Girl Scout Badge Sampler

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Girl Scout Handbook

Badge Sampler

1947, Hard cover

Back-Yard Camper

To earn this badge, do ten o these activities.

The two starred are required.

*1. Select a backyard in your neighborhood or a section o a vacant

lot nearby and help make a plan or setting up an outdoor fireplace.Get the necessary permissions, talk with the nearest fire station

about fire permits. With the advice o an adult, secure material

and construct a fireplace adequate or cooking one-pot meals,

baking, and toasting.

2. Show that you know the precautions (including fire regulations,

permits, and community rules) needed in building a fire and cooking

out-o-doors in the city, even though it may be on your own property.

3. Help to waterproo duck or other heavy material that can be made

into a pup tent shelter or serve as a ground cloth or an envelope bed

to be used in your back-yard camp.

4. With others, plan an overnight and sleep out in your back yard in

a klondike or an envelope bed or sleeping bag.

5. Make a set o cooking utensils you would need or simple cooking,

using tin cans, scrap wire, or other scrap material.

6. Make rom scrap lumber, boxes or crates, one or two pieces o simple

urniture to use around an outdoor fireplace, showing that you know

how to use a saw, nails, hand ax and hammer.

7. Make a simple sketch map o your neighborhood showing how

to reach your back-yard camp rom several diferent directions.

8. Make a tin-can stove and buddy burner. Use them to make pancakes,

bacon and eggs, or some other simple ood.

9. Find out how charcoal is made and where you can purchase it. Use it

or a cook-out, i other uel is not available.

10. With your patrol or troop, outline a plan or a six-month program that

will include at least one outdoor meting each month.

*11. Help plan and carry out a neighborhood cook-out or no ewer than

eight people.

12. With members o your patrol, lay a nature or historical trail in your

neighborhood or your troop to ollow.

13. For your neighborhood cook-out, plan a program o out-o-door games

that can be played in a small space, nature games appropriate or a city,

a campfire program or an evening o olk dancing that will urnish

entertainment or the guests.

14. Plan and carry out a simple outdoor meal using the back-yard fireplace

with members o your amily.

15. Arrange an attractive table with a centerpiece or your outdoor meal

or make and use an e cient plan or dishwashing in the out-o-doors.



Bibliophile


The two starred are required.

*1. Show how to handle a book, including: how to open a new book,

things to do to avoid strain on the binding, how to keep it clean

when in use.*2. Make a list o the books you would like to own: earn or save the

money to buy one book to start a collection on your chosen subject,

or example, nature, poetry, works o your avorite illustrator,

autographed copies, examples o good printing and binding,

first editions.

3. Find out how libraries mend and rebind books. Mend one o your own

books or one belonging to your troop or school library.

4. Demonstrate how to dust books and bookshelves. Know the efects

o temperature, moisture, and dirt on books.

5. Visit a museum, library, or special exhibition to see a collection o rare

manuscripts and printed books. Invite someone amiliar with the

collection to explain it and what makes books “rare” or valuable.

6. Design and make a bookplate or yoursel, a riend, or your troop.

7. Learn about the work o several amous illustrators. Select one o your

avorites and show examples o his work to our troop. Explain why you

chose this illustrator and tell interesting things you have learned about him.

8. Be able to identiy the ollowing binding leathers: morocco, calskin,

pigskin, seal, Russian, and ooze.

9. Design and make a leather book cover.

10. Visit a printing shop to see diferent kinds o type and how type is set.

Read about the early history o printing and the amous printers and

type designers.

11. Visit a paper or pulp mill to see how paper is made. Or, visit a wholesale

paper dealer to see the diferent kinds o paper used in books. Make a

collection o types o paper.12. Observe the way bookstores and libraries arrange books on shelves.

Make a plan or the arrangement o books in your own home and put

your bookshelves in order.

13. Design simple bookshelves or your own books or troop library, and act

as troop librarian or a period o two months.

14. Help work out a plan or circulating the books in your troop library,

and act as troop librarian or a period o two months.

15. Make an exhibit or your troop showing:

a. the history o writing (or example, picture writing, symbolic writing,

the alphabet); or

b. the evolution o a book (or example, the early materials, such

as stone tablets and papyrus, used to write on; the discovery o

paper-making; the invention o printing).

16. List the new words and names you have learned in working on this

badge and play a quiz game with your troop based on them.



Campcraft


The our starred are required.

*1. Go on an overnight or weekend troop camping trip to a cabin

or lodge. Help plan and prepare or the trip. Take your ull share

in carrying out all plans.2. Know ways o heating, cooking, and lighting where gas and

electricity are not available. Choose one kind o uel and explain

its natural state, how it is made into uel, and how to select it.

Demonstrate its proper use on one o your camping trips.

3. Build a fire in a stove or open fireplace and keep it going at the right

heat while you help cook a meal over it.

4. Show how to rewick, trim, fill, clean, and light an oil lamp, lantern,

or stove. Demonstrate the proper way to move or carry it and explain

necessary precautions to observe in using it.

*5. Plan and pack your own equipment or your overnight or weekend trip

so that you can handle it yoursel conveniently. Demonstrate the proper

way to move or carry it and explain necessary precautions to observe

in using it.

6. Show that you know how to prime a pump or to thaw out a rozen pump

or water pipe. Or, show how to puriy water or drinking when a sae

supply is not available.

7. Show that you know how to hold, use, and carry correctly a knie,

hammer, saw, hatchet, or light ax. Sharpen a knie or an ax and explain

how to keep other tools in good condition.

8. Split or saw enough wood o the right sort to light a fire easily and keep

it going or an hour. Stack wood into a neat pile.

9. Make or use on your camping trip three o the ollowing articles,

choosing rom at least two o the sections:

a. For cooking: broiler, pothook, plank, crane, uzz stick, tin-can stove,

plate rack, buddy burner.b. For lighting: candleholder, lantern, candles, waterproo matches.

c. For carrying equipment: packbasket, knapsack, waterproo cover

or any equipment.

d. For housekeeping: incinerator, shower drain, dishwater drain,

temporary shelter.

10. Make some article or your cabin or camp site, such as a shel, bench,

guard rail, flower container, bulletin board, storage cupboard.

11. Show how to dispose o camp garbage and waste and how to keep

the latrine clean and sanitary.

*12. Help lash some article o equipment to use in camp, such as table,

washstand, dishrack, or shel, using square knot and clove hitch.

Whip the ends o a rope and be able to tie two o the ollowing: sheet

bend, sheepshank, bowline, double hal hitch.

13. Help build and care or three o the ollowing: a. a quick, compact

and hot fire; b. a fire reflecting heat or cooking or warmth; c. a fire

or broiling over coals or roasting in ashes; d. a fire or bean-hole

cooking; e. a barbecue fire; . a campfire. Show how to keep matches

sae and dry in order to have fire when needed; explain fire prevention

and saety rules.

14. Assemble and care or the first aid kit. Know what to do about common

ailments and mishaps, such as sunburn, cold, cut, scratch, blister, burn,

sprain, plant poisoning, toothache, insect bite. Know how to call the

nearest doctor in case he is needed.

*15. Help plan a campfire program, and conduct a part o it.



Dramatic Appreciation

To earn this badge, do any ten o these activities. The badge will

be more interesting to you take up the chosen activities in the

order written.

1. Attend a moving picture on the first day that it is shown in your

community, and write a review o it such as might appear ina newspaper.

2. Attend a Little Theatre, school, or other play, and write a review

o it such as might appear in a newspaper or magazine.

3. Attend a play or moving picture with several riends, each o whom

is responsible or observing a particular eature, such as costumes,

scenery, make-up, plot. Discuss the good and bad points o its

various eatures.

4. Find out what plays there are in your public, school, and older riends’

libraries. Explore annotated play lists. Make a list o twelve one-act

plays that you eel could be done by the girls in your troop. Select

rom this list a antasy, a drama, and a comedy or arce that would

go well together to provide a varied program.

5. Start a scrapbook containing pictures o the theatres, playwrights,

actors, and actresses belonging to one great period or nation.

6. Learn about the history o the theatre and present, with other members

o your troop, an animated account o it.

7. Collect pictures, sketches, or short articles on one o the ollowing

topics: great actors and actresses; theatres in various ages and

countries; costumes worn in plays during various periods in the history

o the theatre; outstanding playwrights; the development o the

cinema as an art.

8. Help make up six dramatic situations to be acted by your troop with

impromptu dialogue. Discuss both the situations and their presentation

and suggest improvements on the plots and acting.

9. Help select and arrange a olk tale, Bible story, or legend suitableor acting in pantomime, giving in writing details or its presentation.

Choose appropriate music with which to accompany it. I possible,

present it and discuss your results.

10. Arrange and help with the presentation o a ballad that you think has

good dramatic possibilities.

11. Write a short play with dialogue based on a olk tale, a Bible story,

a legend, the lie o a amous person, or an original plot.

12. Find out what plays are current successes in the theatre; who wrote

them and what actors and actresses are appearing in them. Read

reviews o several o these plays and decide whether you would like

to see them.

13. Find out about one great composer o opera and learn all that you can

about one o his operas. Know the names o the singers who have taken

the leading roles in this opera and, i possible, listen to phonograph

records o parts o it.

14. Listen to a play given on the radio; discuss what things were said

that helped you to ollow the action o the play. Discuss the diference

between presenting radio and stage plays.

15. Find out several ways in which styles have changed in writing and acting

plays or the theatre or or motion pictures.



Games

To earn this badge, do eight o these activities.

The three starred are required.

*1. Know how to play at least 1 game rom each o the ollowing groups:

a. Games or two teams.

b. Interpatrol contests or three or more groups.c. Circle games.

d. Singing or dramatic games.

e. Nature games.

. Games or children six to nine.

Select any three games rom the above groups and adapt them

to include Girl Scout program activities.

*2. Be responsible or games played at a troop meeting. Games program

must last a minimum o ten minutes. Be prepared to explain and reeree

all the games, and be sure that all necessary equipment is on hand.

3. Choose games appropriate or a campfire, a party, or a amily gathering,

such as guessing games, dramatic games, quiet games, and ice breakers.

Explain and play at least three o them with a group.

*4. Compile a collection o games that would be un on hikes, at camp,

at an outdoor meeting o the troop, or on a rainy day at home with

younger brothers and sisters. Include a number o persons, equipment

needed, and rules or playing.

5. Be responsible or games equipment needed by your troop or patrol

or at least three meetings.

6. Demonstrate your skill in one o the ollowing sports:

a. tennis

b. badminton

c. sotball

d. gol

e. table tennis

. quoitsg. deck tennis

h. horseshoes

I. roller skating

j. shu e board.

7. Choose one o the sports listed under activity 6 and amiliarize yoursel

with its rules and with the types o competition that are usually used

in this sport.

8. Participate in a tournament o 1 o the organized sports and try to analyze:

a. i you won, how you can still improve your game;

b. i you lost, why and how you can improve your technique.

9. Be a qualified member o some school, troop, club, or community

athletic team. Be amiliar with the proper clothes or this activity

and the rules o health and saety connected with it.

10. Practice one sport daily or ten minutes (weather permitting)

or a period o two weeks. Know the value o daily practice in

the improvement o your skill and your enjoyment o the sport.

11. Know the history and development o three organized sports

and the countries in which they are most popular.

12. Participate in an indoor or outdoor play day or field day.

13. Help plan and run of a tournament o one o the organized sports;

or i this is not possible, tell your troop how you would organize a

tournament in one o these sports or fiteen girls.

14. Be able to explain three games that might be used by a handicapped

or a convalescent riend.

15. Know how to play at least one game rom each o the ollowing groups:

treasure hunts; tracking and stalking games; nature games; signaling games.



Wild Plant


The one starred is required.

*1. Identiy, out-o-doors, thirty wild plants. Do the rest o the activities

in connection with these plants.

2. Find as many diferent kinds o seeds as you can and notice howsome are prepared to travel. Plant some o these seeds and watch

them grow.

3. Learn what organizations in your community are working or the

protection o wild plants, and do something to help.

4. Photograph or sketch some wild plants. Or, make some crat object

using some part o a plant in the design.

5. On a map o the United States, indicate the states in which five

o the plants you have chosen grow wild.

6. Be able to recognize at any season o the year the ollowing plants,

i they grow in your part o the country: poison ivy, poison oak, poison

sumac, and poison wood (Florida). Know how to protect yoursel against

them and what to do or such poisoning.

7. Know what edible wild plants and ruits grow in your section and how

to prepare one o them to eat.

8. Know the uses o three plants or dyes or medicines.

9. Keep a troop chart o the wild plants you find. Include the name

o the plant, who first saw it in bloom, the date, the place.

10. Learn the proper way to cut common flowers and care or them.

Show ways to arrange flowers, seed pods, or bare sticks or home

decoration. Use only the common plants.

11. Fill a terrarium, and show that you understand how to keep the plants

in good, healthy condition. Use only common plants.

12. Take a trip to the grounds or estate o someone who has a wild-plant

garden. Learn something about the transplanting and growing o

wild plants. Try growing one or more or yoursel.13. Visit a botanical garden to see the wild plants uncommon or unknown

in your section.

14. Make a list o the plant and animal lie in an area a yard square.

15. Find at least three relatives o wild plants in your local flower shops,

greenhouses, or gardens.

16. Find one wild plant that opens and one that closes ater dark.



Winter Sports

To earn this badge, do nine o these activities.

The our starred are required.

*1. Show proficiency in one o the ollowing:

a. Snowshoeing: lay a cross-country trail that can be ollowed

by members o your troop or your riends.b. Skiing: simple downhill running, cross-country running, climbing,

snowplow, snowplow turn, and kick turn.

c. Skating: learn how to hold each edge, inside and out, orward

and back or a big hal circle or longer beore you put your other oot

down. Learn to stop and start quickly. Practice stroking to music.

*2. Take part at least three times in three o the ollowing: coasting or

bobsledding; tobogganing; sleighing; ice and snow games; tracking

and trailing in snow.

3. Demonstrate to your troop either by a ashion show or by pictures,

proper clothing or winter sports. Explain in detail the care o wet clothing.

4. Make some article o clothing appropriate or winter sports that you

can use.

*5. Discuss with your troop how accidents in winter sports can be avoided.

Explain how to avoid injuries that might occur, such as snow-blindness,

sunburn, rostbite, chillblains, bruises, sprains, and so orth.

6. Read one book about Arctic explorers, Eskimos, or other people who

are snowbound or many months o the year. Or, read one book eaturing

some aspect o winter sports.

7. Make a collection o poems and songs about snow, ice, and winter

activities. Or, make a collection o pictures o snow scenes and winter

sports in the United States and in other countries, to be used or display

purposes at a troop meeting.

8. Skating: know how to care or your skates. Explain the rules regarding

ice saety and ice rescue.

9. Skiing: know how to select and care or your own skis and poles. Explainthe saety precautions or skiing, skiing etiquette, and now to select a

place to practice.

10. Look up the rules governing skiing competitions and learn the points

on which competitors are judged. Learn the names o our or five

well-known skiers, and report what competitions they have won, length

o jumps, and so orth. Or, learn what you can about the National Ski Patrol.

11. Study the evolution and development o snowshoes, skis, and skates.

Be able to tell by what people and in what countries they are most

commonly used.

*12. Learn three games or activities that are un to do on ice or in the snow.

Play them with your troop or riends.

13. Participate in an ice or snow carnival or competition. Or, plan or your

riends an aternoon o un out-o-doors in the winter.

14. Make several snow figures or build a snow hut.

15. Learn to recognize tracks o diferent birds and mammals in snow. Learn

how these birds and mammals find ood and shelter in winter.

16. Lay a cross-country trail through the snow, using tracks or other trail

signs appropriate to winter, or ollow one made by an animal or a human

being. These trails may be laid or ollowed on snowshoes or skis, as well

as on oot.



World Trefoil


The five starred are required.

*1. Find out how Girl Scouting began in this country. Read about

Juliette Low and the early days o the Girl Scout movement. Tell

the troop how some o the interesting things in Mrs. Low’s lieshowed her interest in international afairs.

2. Find out about the Juliette Low World Friendship Fund and

contribute to it. Tell your troop, or another troop, how the und

has helped children in other countries.

*3. Learn what you can about Lord and Lady Baden-Powell and how they

introduced Scouting to the boys and girls o the world.

*4. Find out what countries have Girl Scouts and Girl Guides. Choose three

o these countries and tell about some o the interesting things girls have

done or are doing in these countries.

*5. Explain about the World Association o Girl Guides and Girl Scouts and

how being a member o it helps you become a world citizen. Know the

meaning o its emblem.

6. Know the Girl Scout uniorms and emblems and the national flags o ten

countries belonging to the World Association.

7. Dress dolls in the Girl Guide or Girl Scout uniorms o some o the

diferent countries. You might have an exhibit in your town, or you might

lend your dolls to other groups.

8. Make a scrapbook o things Girl Scouts and Girl Guides do in other

countries made up o clippings rom The American Girl , The Girl Scout

Leader , the Council of Fire, correspondence with riends in other lands,

postcards, and so orth.

9. Find out about the camping customs o Girl Guides in two or three

countries that you choose. Compare them with our own. Talk with

someone in your community who knows these countries to discover

some o the reasons why their camping is diferent rom ours—healthhazards, customs or women, climate, and so orth.

10. Learn to sing several songs sung by Girl Guides in their own countries.

11. Ask a member o an International Friendship Troop to tell you about

the Guides in the country with which that troop is corresponding.

12. Plan a troop meeting or campfire that might be typical o a Girl Guide

or Girl Scout troop in another country.

13. Make a sketch o Our Chalet in Switzerland, or get a picture o it

and hang it in the troop room. Sing “Our Chalet” song in French and

English. (Sing Together, A Girl Scout Songbook , Girl Scouts, Catalog

No. 20-190, 50 cents.) Know something o the history and purpose

o the Chalet.

14. Learn the international Girl Guide and Girl Scout song that begins

“Yonder lies the world beore us.”

*15. Demonstrate or explain the things we hold in common with

Girl Scouts and Girl Guides all over the world, such as sign, salute,

handshake, Promise and Laws, motto, slogan, treoil, investiture,

emblems, and insignia.

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