The Butterfly Challenge is for Rainbows, Brownies, Guides, Rangers, Leaders and Trefoil members. Butterfly shaped badge (3½ x3 ) cost 1.00 each - plus postage This challenge and the badge order form can be downloaded from our website www.girlguidingwelshpool.co.uk Welshpool Guides and Rangers have produced this challenge and badge to raise funds for the unit and towards a trip to Switzerland to visit Our Chalet, one of the World Centres. Thank you for your support - have fun completing the challenge!
Butterfly Challenge Please adapt any of the activities to suit your unit or make up your own challenges. Rainbows should aim to complete at least 3 different challenges of their choice. Brownies should aim to complete at least 4-5 challenges Guides, Senior Section, Leaders and Trefoil should complete at least 6 different challenges of their choice. 1. Learn about the lifecycle of a butterfly. 2. Make a butterfly welly peg. 3. Use string printing to make butterfly designs. 4. Make a caterpillar using pompoms. 5. Hold a butterfly party, when everyone dresses up as a butterfly. (Try making your own costume / wings). 6. Make a butterfly feeding station. 7. Colour in a butterfly picture. 8. Make a pincushion in the shape of a butterfly. 9. Learn how to say butterfly in different languages. 10. Make a butterfly fridge magnet using Hamma beads or Fimo. 11. Make a butterfly using shrink plastic. 12. Have a go making butterfly cakes. 13. Make a butterfly using origami. 14. Decorate biscuits with butterflies using icing. 15. Use marzipan, fondant icing to make butterflies models that you can eat! 16. Look for butterflies in your garden or around your unit meeting place. 17. Make a butterfly to hang in your garden. 18. Cook a meal using butterfly pasta farfalle. 19. Learn how to pipe chocolate butterflies and use them decorate cupcakes.
20. Find out which plants attract butterflies to the garden. 21. Grow some plants that will attract butterflies. 22. Read about British butterflies. 23. Create a collage of a butterfly. 24. Learn about the work of butterfly conservation groups. 25. Fly a butterfly aeroplane that you have made. 26. Play a caterpillar game - like Giggle Wiggle. 27. Hold a caterpillar races using sleeping bags to move across the floor. 28. Make a butterfly puzzle dot to dot, word search, maze or a jigsaw. 29. Read a story about a caterpillar The Very Hungry Caterpillar. 30. Embroider or cross stitch a butterfly. 31. Grow some plants for caterpillars to feed on. 32. Make a very hairy Mary caterpillar using an old tights, grass seed and compost 33. Design a greetings card, using quilling to create a butterfly. 34. Make a butterfly or caterpillar puppet. 35. Plant a garden in the shape of a butterfly. 36. Design butterflies on each other s faces using face paints. 37. Design a butterfly picture using handprints. 38. Knit or crochet a butterfly or caterpillar. 39. Use seed beads and wire to make a butterfly. 40. Buy and set up a Live Rearing Kit watch the eggs, caterpillars turn into butterflies. 41. Learn how to sign butterfly (British Sign Language and Makaton). 42. Keep a diary of the butterflies and caterpillar you see. 43. Sing the butterfly song (If I were a Butterfly) or another song about a butterfly.
44. Play the game Ele-fun catching butterflies from the elephants trunk. 45. Learn some butterfly jokes. 46. Sing the fuzzy caterpillar song 47. Design and make a butterfly mask. 48. Hold a design a butterfly competition. 49. Fly a butterfly kite. 50. Paint a picture of a butterfly - try using painting on silk. Please look on the internet, there are lots of ideas to help you complete this badge here are some. http://spoonful.com/crafts/very-hairy-caterpillar http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/butterflies/lifecycle/ https://www.butterflysong.com/index.cfm/pageid/723/index.html The Fuzzy Caterpillar - Tune - Itsy bitsy Spider The little fuzzy caterpillar, Curled up on a leaf. Spun her little chrysalis, and then fell fast asleep. While she was sleeping, She dreamed that she could fly, And later when she woke up, she was a butterfly.
The Butterfly Challenge Badge Order Form Contact Name Unit Phone number Email address Postal Address Postcode Number of Badges Total ( ) @ 1 per badge Postage and packaging Up to 25 badges.. 1.50 26 or above. 2.00 Total Please make your cheque payable to 1 st Welshpool Guides Thank you for your support Please send order for badges to Judy Evans Highfield Middletown Welshpool, Powys SY21 8EL