A Challenge for All Sections

A Challenge for All Sections Inside is a range of activities based around weddings, the Royal Family and the Royal Wedding. You just need to do one ac...
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A Challenge for All Sections Inside is a range of activities based around weddings, the Royal Family and the Royal Wedding. You just need to do one activity from each section. The activities are labelled according to Guiding section but feel free to do an activity from another section if it appeals to you - just make it challenging to your girls. It is for all sections from Rainbows to Trefoil Guild. Leaders can award themselves a badge for organising all the activities! Once you have completed your Royal Wedding Challenge, you can send off for your badges. The order form is at the back of the pack. Thank you for your support.

The Royal Family 1. Create a family tree to show the link between the Queen and Prince William. 2. Collect some coins with the Queen’s head on them and do some ‘coin rubbings’. How many different portraits of the Queen can you find? 3. Prince William and Kate will one day live in Buckingham Palace where the Queen lives now. Draw a picture of it or colour one in. 4. Play a game of ‘Prince Charming’s coming’ (see back of pack)

1. See how far back you can trace William’s ancestors. Gather together as many pictures as you can of Kings and Queens. 2. Sing as many campfire songs as you can think of with Princes and Princesses in them 3. Look on packaging and find out how many foods are ‘by Royal Appointment’. Then compile a ‘Royal Menu’! 4. Find out which charities are supported by which members of the royal family. Choose one and hold a fundraising event for it

1. Play Kings and Queens (see back of pack for how to play) 2. Do a Royal Word search – either create one yourself for other Brownies to try or find one on the internet. 3. Act out a story with a prince and a princess in it 4. In your six, collect pictures of the Royal family from newspapers and stick them all together to make a poster. How many different Royals can you find?

1. Write a quiz on the Royal Family and have a quiz night with your unit to test your Royal knowledge 2. Have a look at the Queen’s website – maybe become her friend on Facebook! 3. Know how to address the Queen and other members of the Royal family. Practise some Royal etiquette. 4. If you were Queen for the day, what laws would you bring in? Have a discussion with your unit about the good and bad points of being the Queen.

1. Find out the role of members of the Royal family in Guiding 2. Visit a Royal Palace 3. Find out who the Kings and Queens are on the pack of standard playing cards. Have a card games evening 4. Compile a timeline of the Queen’s reign and add in famous events that have happened during that time.

The Royal Wedding 1. Make a wedding card in your unit and sent it to Prince William and Kate (or someone else you may know who is getting married) 2. If you were invited to the Royal Wedding what would you wear and what present would you take with you? 3. Decorate a picture in a frame of Prince William and Kate 4. Make up a short rhyme/poem about the Royal Wedding

1. Make a Royal Wedding Invitation 2. Design and make some royal confetti 3. Find out about the Royal Coat of Arms and make one for your family. 4. Make a banner for the happy couple which could be displayed in the crowd (if you get the chance, display it on the Wedding Day)

1. Crowds of people will line the streets of London to wave Union Flags for the happy Couple. Find out about our flag and make one to wave. 2. Design some stamps for the Royal Wedding 3. See how many words you can make out of ‘Royal Wedding’ or ‘Prince William and Kate Middleton’ 4. Make a Royal wedding souvenir

1. Find out what you can buy for official wedding merchandise. Find the wackiest Royal Wedding item available! 2. Find out about or visit Westminster Abbey 3. Find out other events that have happened on 29th April 4. Imaging you were a member of the press and write an article about the Royal wedding. Set it out like a newspaper would, with photos

1. Go for a ride in a horse and carriage or in a posh car! 2. Do a cross stitch sampler of the Royal Wedding 3. Get your Guild together to watch the Royal Wedding and dress up in something patriotic! 4. See how many Royal Weddings members of the Guild can remember and what they were doing on that day. Compare the atmosphere on previous weddings to what the current one is.

Weddings 1. Make a flower basket for a flower girl 2. Dress your Barbie (or similar doll) in fabric and ribbons to make her look like a bride. 3. Act out a wedding ceremony and then make a guard of honour outside a wedding venue (if you are lucky, you may be invited to do this by someone you know) 4. Play a wedding day relay race with wedding related items

1. Find out why certain things are lucky at weddings – eg. Chimney Sweep 2. Make a buttonhole using fresh flowers or make a flower and turn it into a button hole. 3. Get some travel brochures and plan your dream honeymoon! 4. Get your musical instruments out and play some wedding music

1. Make a good luck token for a bride 2. Have a wedding party. If you have been a bridesmaid, wear your dress or wear your best party dress. 3. Have a hairdressing evening and put flowers in your hair as if you were going to be a bridesmaid 4. Learn how to wrap a present with ribbons and bows, suitable for a wedding.

1. Be a wedding planner and create samples of colour co-ordinated accessories for your client! 2. Imagine you are the wedding photographer. Arrange your friends in groups like they would at a wedding and take their photo. 3. Learn how to make a bouquet 4. Make a montage of all the diamond engagement rings you can find or go to visit a jewellers shop to find out how diamonds are put in their settings.

1. Make a table centre flower arrangement 2. Visit a church tower when they are bell ringing and see if you can join in. 3. Find out the origins of ‘something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue’ 4. Have a wedding poetry evening – ask everyone to bring a poem to read .

Tiaras, Rings and Dresses! 1. Make a sparkly pipe cleaner tiara 2. Play ‘hunt the ring’ (like hunt the thimble) 3. Make an edible necklace 4. Make a bow to clip onto your shoes to make them into wedding shoes! Or make a Royal Wedding jibbit for your Crocs!

1. Using different coloured plastic bags and a stapler, have a patrol bride and bridesmaid dress making competition. 2. Some Royal Princesses have been style icons. Make a collection of pictures of their dresses 3. Different cultures wear different types of dresses. Find out about them or get someone to come to your meeting to show you one. 4. Create a ‘Hello’ magazine article about a celebrity wedding

1. Create a wedding hat 2. Make some flower hair clips that you could wear at a wedding. 3. Make a sparkly wedding accessory 4. Play a wedding Kim’s game—use things that you may find at a wedding. You could ask everyone to bring something in.

1. Look at previous Royal weddings and compare the dresses 2. Make a ring or another item of jewellery which could be worn at a

wedding 3. Hold a Hen Party for Kate Middleton 4. Watch some wedding movies e.g. 4 weddings and a funeral or Runaway Bride

1. Make a fascinator 2. Design a ‘mother of the bride’ outfit or go to some shops to search for one! 3. Hold a jewellery making class 4. Have a manicure session

Wedding Buffet 1. Ice some biscuits on a wedding theme 2. Make some wedding favours 3. Make a placemat for the Royal Wedding. Draw it on paper and then laminate it. 4. Plan what you would like to have to eat for your wedding buffet and hold a party to celebrate the Royal Wedding

1. Make some fizzy cocktails to toast the happy couple 2. Make some wedding figures to go on top of a wedding cake 3. Create an ice sculpture centrepiece! 4. Make some menu cards

1. Some weddings have cup cake towers instead of a wedding cake – make one with your unit. 2. Make some name place cards for a dinner party 3. Know how to lay a table and decorate it nicely for a wedding with serviettes 4. Know how to introduce people at a wedding and how to announce the bride and groom

1. Learn to do Royal Icing! 2. Know to make a toast and toast the happy couple 3. Know what to include in a wedding speech and make one for Prince William and Kate. 4. What music would you have for your first dance? Plan the disco music too and have an evening of dancing!

1. Plan and cook a sit down meal based on a wedding breakfast and serve it to your Guild. 2. Make and ice a mini wedding cake 3. Make a book from scratch which could be used as a Guest book. 4. Go to a wine tasting evening or a vineyard to select the wine for a wedding

How to play: Kings and Queens One Brownie is the Queen and sits with her back to the other brownies (who are down the other end of the hall). Another Brownie is the King and sits next to the Queen but facing the Brownies. The King point to a Brownie who must then creep along the hall to touch the back of the Queen’s chair. If the Queen hears her she wiggles and the Brownie must go back to her place. If the Brownie reaches the Queen then she becomes the Queen, the Queen becomes the King and the King returns to the other Brownies. A good quiet game! Prince Charming’s Coming! A younger version of NSEW/Captain's Coming. The last one to do the actions can be 'out' if Rainbows are comfortable with 'out' games. Start with four actions and build it up as the Rainbows get to know them. Witch = Cackle and stir cauldron. Sleeping beauty = Lay on the floor with arms across chest. Troll = stamp feet and look scary. Prince Charming = Gallop around the room on your horse. Fairy Godmother = Wave wand and hover (on tip-toes). Dwarves = March and sing 'hi-ho!'. Cinderella = scrub the floor. King's coming = curtsy Kim’s Game Place about 20 objects on a tray and get the girls to memorise them. Then cover up the items and give the girls a set time in which to write down as many as they can. You can also take one object away and see if they can tell which one it is.

Most of the activities are self explanatory however if you need further information, type the subject into Google and it will find you resources or information about events.

BADGE ORDER FORM Once your unit has completed the Royal Wedding Challenge, return this form to order your badges. Unit ______________________________________________________ County_____________________________________________________ Leader’s name ______________________________________________ Address where badges should be sent ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ Postcode_____________________________________________________ Phone or e-mail in case of queries ____________________________________________________________ Number of badges at £1.00 each Please add postage according to the number of badges that you order: 1-20 badges £0.50 21-60 badges £0.70 60+ badges £1.00 Total amount enclosed £ Please make your cheque payable to 1st Ness Guides and send it to: Royal Wedding Challenge Badge 25 Chester Road Neston CH64 9PA All profits will go to 1st Ness Guides trip to California Dreamin’ 2012 Thank you for your support