Each year there are different events that take place that a Brownie may get a badge for their participation. This might include a day event, Community Action Project or a Brownie Camp.

Something I think most girls who were Brownies can relate to is the weird obsession with the Queen being an underlying theme in absolutely everything we did. If it wasn’t your Brownie promise it was definitely making sure you knew the words to the “God Save the Queen” ready for church the next morning ahead of the parade, because if you mumbled and didn’t know the words – everybody would know about it. 7. Leaders being named after owls If rangatahi have linked up from Guides and made their Promise as a Brownie or Guide they will not make it again as a Ranger. Although slightly over the top, if you collected enough badges as your time as just a Brownie and there was no longer space, you will have had a blanket. Specifically, a blanket that your mum sewed the badges onto one by one and you brought on every single family holiday to flex. Throughout the Ranger journey Rangers will problem-solve, accept new challenges, volunteer, advocate, gain knowledge and skills, have fun, explore, and adventure into the outdoors and your community. We live in a digital world, so considering their online presence and safety is part of Ranger Skills too.

Macpac are also helping us to keep safer in the outdoors by offering free Personal Locator Beacon (PLB) hire to our members, so you can enjoy New Zealand more safely. Macpac has a loyalty group in all Macpac stores that entitles all members of GirlGuiding New Zealand 30% off RRP on Macpac branded products. Badges can be attached to her uniform – the promise badge, which she’ll get after making her Brownie promise, should be on the left-hand side and all other badges can be attached where she chooses.

I'm a leader. Our girls don't use sashes, just put badges straight on gilet/hoodie or camp blanket. If you do have a sash, usually their Six emblem goes near the top, with space for their Promise badge and Sixer/Seconder pin. If your unit has a name tape, that goes over the shoulder. The rest is up to you! You can just add them as she earns them, or have sections for Interest Badges/Skills Builders (the little hexagonal ones)/Theme Awards (larger shield shapes)/any other special ones your unit does. Remembering all this, do have fun. There are lots of really nice fellow Girl Guides out there to write to over the Internet. Just remember to be aware and be a Savvy Surfer! Interest badges, skills builders and awards- as girls earn these badges they should be sewn on to any item of uniform. Many girls like to add these onto their hoodies or their badge sash. Your Red Leadership Badge is your opportunity to further develop, extend and practise your leadership in an area of your choosing.Each year there are different events that take place that a Guide may get a badge for their participation. This might include a day event or Community Action Project. Whānui badges encourage rangatahi to look wider than their Pippin section. They include badges that may be local initiatives right through to badges that are international initiatives. If a Pippin brings a friend to join in the fun and activities and the friend decides to join, both rangatahi receive this badge.

If they have linked up from Brownies and made their Promise as a Brownie they will not make it again as a Guide. I’ve diligently sewn all DD’s brownies badges on to her sash. Then we ran out of room. We started on a second sash. Now that’s almost full... Experienced Brownie mum and Snowy Owl: sew the badges onto a camp blanket she can take up to Guides with her - so not the brown Brownie blankets GG sells. After a little research, it’s actually quite a cute story that makes sense for a group of six-year-olds to believe. In a story that gets told to Brownies, two children go into the woods to find a Brownie to help their mum tidy up their house and are guided by a wise owl. As the owl helps the children, Brownie leaders are named after owls. 8. The feeling of accomplishment when carrying the flag at a paradeA Ranger completes a few different activities to enable Leaders to get to know them as well as introduce them to the Ranger programme and rangatahi in the Unit. Once they have completed these activities a Ranger Promise Ceremony takes place and they receive their Promise Badge. I still find this bizarre to this day. Albeit at my Brownies we always called our leaders by their first name because the owl thing just never worked but all my friends at different units would refer to their leaders as Brown Owl, Snowy Owl, and Tawny Owl. Why? I have absolutely zero clue. Sunshine Unit badges are a core component of the Brownie programme. These are badges that Brownies do with their whole Unit. Sunshine Unit badges cover a wide range of topics and rangatahi learn lots of skills. Rangatahi will get to go camping, learn safety skills, participate in different science experiments, have creative fun, be a junior chef, try some technology activities, learn useful tools for handling money, and have fun in the outdoors. Unit badges are split into the same four Exploration areas that were used for the Exploration Challenge badges. There are a wide range of badges for rangatahi to choose from including learning about safety in the outdoors and what to do in emergency situations, go on geocaching adventures, learn the skills required to camp safely, have a go at cooking in the outdoors, construct gadgets for camping practicing knots you have learnt, find hazards within the home and community and what to do for each different hazard, decode secret messages, learn about the different weather patterns and how to read these on a weather map, challenge yourself with having a disability for a day and the effects this has on daily tasks, learn self-defence and how to protect yourself, visit a Marae and learn the customs. Rangatahi also have the opportunity to perform in front of an audience, learn the science behind how things can fly, create science experiments, learn how to cook international food, learn the difference between needs and wants when it comes to budgeting, discuss why people pretend to be someone else online and how to keep yourself safe, take part in ultimate challenges to build your confidence, learn the impacts of water in the environment, learn how to make origami, and how to recycle to make an impact on the environment. Each year there are day events, Community Action Projects or Pippin Camps, where Pippins may get a badge for their participation.