Before you become a Guide and make your promise you need to find out a bit about what Guides do. You do this by completing eight pre-promise challenges.
Before you become a Guide and make your promise you need to find out a bit about what Guides do. You do this by completing eight pre-promise challenges.
Talk about what you want to do with your Patrol Leader or Guider. Choose one challenge from each section or, if you like, you can choose something completely different to do for your challenges. Ask your Patrol Leader, Guider or someone at home to sign your handbook once you have completed it. Make sure you get your Parent or Guardian's permission before starting to do each challenge, some activities may need adult supervision (such as cooking).
Enjoying the Out of Doors
Join in an outdoor activity with your patrol (such as a hike, wide game, cooking, an act of worship, a sport).
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Learn something that would be useful out-of-doors (such as reading a bus timetable, using a compass, trails, weather signs)
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Learn more about something you find out of doors (such as trees, birds, the stars, rocks)
Keeping Fit
Show in a game or agility challenge that you are lively and energetic
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Keep a record for a week to show you can keep up a daily good health habit (such as keeping fit, caring for your teeth, cutting down on crisps and sweets)
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Show each week at your meeting that you have taken trouble to look clean, neat and suitably dressed.
Thinking for Yourself
Join in a game or patrol activity where you have to think (this could be a memory test or a puzzle to work out)
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Learn something by heart that will help you as a guide (such as a guide song, the Country Code, guide signals made with hands or whistles)
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Choose which items of uniform you will wear when you are a Guide
Giving Service
Join in a patrol good turn or service project
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Learn something that will be useful in giving service (such as how to treat a graze, how to call the emergency services, the manual alphabet)
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Think of and carry out a piece of service (such as weeding a flower bed, an anti-litter campaign, visiting someone in hospital)
Exploring the Arts
Make something yourself and show it to your patrol (such as a mask, a picture frame, a photo story)
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Join with your patrol in a a play, dance, song etc
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Write a story or poem or play and share it with your patrol
Becoming a Homemaker
Undertake a new regular job at home (such as making or changing your bed, putting out the rubbish, watering plants or washing the car)
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Learn how to do something that will be useful at home (such as how to cook a favourite dish, how to change a light bulb, how to use an iron)
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Join with your patrol in a home craft activity
Keeping the Guide Laws
Learn the guide law and understand what it means
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Think of something connected with one part of the guide law that you will undertake to do while you are preparing to become a Guide (such as exercising someone’s dog, getting up as soon as you are called, being punctual) then carry it out!
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Take part in a patrol activity about the guide law.
Getting to Know People
Join in with your patrol at a patrol meeting or discussion
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Learn something interesting about each member of your patrol (such as where they go to school, where they live, how many brothers and sisters they have) or about your guiders
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Find out about BP and the early days of guiding
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