Here are the clauses we completed for the Traditions of Guiding interest badge ... Make a lanyard Learn knots Strike a match properly & light a candle Learn 2 Graces (see below - Johnny Appleseed, For our Food) Know ten significant facts about the history of guiding. Share this information with your Patrol in the form of a quiz, game, poster etc. Scroll down for full Traditions of Guiding badge syllabus

JOHNNY APPLESEED

The Story of Johnny Appleseed  Johnny was a little boy who lived in America many years ago. He was interested in flowers, animals & trees, particularly apple trees, & whenever he ate an apple he would take the seeds from the core & plant them. When he grew up he wandered round the countryside & always carried with him a large bag of apple seeds which he planted himself & which he showed children how to plant. He became well known & liked by the American Indians who gave him food & shelter & his friendly nature made him popular wherever he went, earning him the name of Johnny Appleseed. He was always made welcome on his travels as he was so well known for the many apple trees which grew from the seeds he had planted, transforming a previously barren countryside.

Do five of these clauses. For every further five clauses you complete, you may have another badge.

1. Know how to fold a flag and hoist colours. Demonstrate your skills to your Patrol.

2. Demonstrate how to carry and present unit colours. Show how to roll, store and care for unit colours.

3. Use and explain four whistle and hand signals.

4. Tie a reef knot and a packer’s knot. Demonstrate their use on a parcel or bedding roll.

5. Traditionally, Guides march formally into a horseshoe. Find out how this is done and try it.

6. Lay or follow a trail using woodcraft signs.

7. Strike a match correctly and light a candle.

8. Use Scout’s pace to cover 1.6km or one mile. Remember a verbal message and deliver it at the end.

9. Use semaphore to send and read a simple message.

10. Know the first two verses of your national anthem.

11. Know ten significant facts about the history of guiding. Share this information with your Patrol in the form of a quiz, game, poster etc.

12. Lay a table for a three-course meal. Use a centrepiece and fold the napkins in an interesting way.

13. Set a map with a compass and walk on a bearing.

14. Whip the end of a rope to stop it fraying.

15. Do an activity that shows a camping skill; eg pitch and strike a tent, make a gadget, light a fire.

16. Explain and, where possible, demonstrate how to turf before lighting a fire.

17. With your Patrol, plan and do a pioneering activity; eg make a rope ladder, haymaker bridge or swing.

18. Make and use a buddy burner.

19. Learn the words of the World Song and sing it with members of your Patrol.

20. At a campfire, prepare and cook dampers.

21. Find out what Guides did for a ‘first class’ award.

22. Make a lanyard to wear at camp.

23. Learn two graces and teach them to your Patrol.

24. Demonstrate the international symbol of recognition when meeting another Guide.

25. Know what makes up the Union Flag and draw it correctly.