Brownie Sash - Brownie Guide Uniform

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All girls should have a uniform top and bottom chosen from the Brownie uniform range. These can be worn for unit meetings, trips and events where formal uniform is needed. Not available in conjunction with any other offer. Excludes Electronics, Freight, Gift Cards and Workshop Services. The Peak Award provides opportunities for Rangers to further develop skills in a range of areas, including leadership, community action, and advocacy. If they have moved up from Pippins to Brownies they will have completed the Pippin Brownie Link badge. This badge is designed to introduce the Pippins to Brownies as part of their transition to the new section.

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. 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. 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.

Where do Brownie badges go?

There are nine Unit badges that teach rangatahi a range of different skills including building friendships, learning about the Pippin family, basic first aid as well as keeping safe, exploring different art mediums, cooking and being safe in the kitchen, learning about and playing music, learning about different animals and how to care for them, science experiments, and designing and building different objects. A Guide completes a few different activities to enable Leaders to get to know rangatahi as well as introduce them to the Guide programme and rangatahi in the Unit. Once they have completed these activities a Guide Promise Ceremony takes place and they receives her Promise Badge. 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. The Interest certificates are designed to challenge Rangers to extend their knowledge and skills in areas that may be new to them. There are 12 different areas for Rangers to explore: Adventure Outdoors, Discover the World, Eco World, Embracing Responsibility, Explore and Try, Future Focus, Great Outdoors, Guiding Spirit, Living Well, Rangers with a Cause, Te Papa and Wairua. A Ranger will receive a certificate for each Interest Certificate completed. For each three certificates completed they will receive a badge.

It’s more than likely at least one girl in your friendship will have been in the girl guides, and will have a story to tell no matter how long they were in the Brownies for. You’re a Brownie for life, not just for your childhood. You make life-long friends and complete various tasks to fill your Brownie sash. Or, if you’re that little bit extra, blanket (there was always one). This comes straight after the strange initiation ceremony, you form the number three with your fingers and make the moment that’ll define the rest of your time as a Brownie for as long as you can remember. Making your promise was such a big deal, with all the parents taking videos and photos to be inevitably shared all across Facebook while you face the deep internal fear of stumbling when reciting the promise and Brownie Guide Law. Want to save money on your activities in NZ cities? Entertainment digital memberships have thousands of local and regional offers for the best restaurants, cafes, takeaway, activity, and retail outlets. And even better, 20% of all sales go directly to fundraising for GirlGuiding NZ. If rangatahi have moved up from Guides to Rangers they will have completed the Guide Ranger Link badge. This badge is designed to introduce the Guides to Rangers as part of their transition to the new section.It is very possible the promise has changed since I was a Brownie but nonetheless the theme of the Queen being our saviour is apparent. You had to promise to do your best, stay true to yourself, to help others and to serve the Queen and community and to keep the Brownie Guide Law. The law was actually pretty cute and set a pathway for thousands of girls across the world: “A Brownie Guide thinks of others before herself and does a good turn every day.” Respect to that. Good values.

If you’re a Guide, how about using your new talents to complete the Craftivism interest badge? Craftivism is all about crafting items that make a statement and challenge injustice. Grab a sewing needle and change the world. 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. 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. 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.A 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. Community Action is volunteering; it’s about making a positive contribution or change. It further builds on Rangers volunteering with extended practical action in their community. All girls should have a uniform top and bottom. These can be worn for unit meetings, days out and events where a formal uniform is needed. A Brownie completes a few different activities to enable Leaders to get to know them as well as introduce them to the Brownie programme and rangatahi in the Unit. Once they have completed these activities a Brownie Promise Ceremony takes place and they receive their Promise Badge. Whether it was calling your leaders “Brown Owl” for a reason I’m still really not sure about, or that feeling of being an absolute legend when you were a Sixer and having your best pal in your six as your Seconder; we all had similar yet very strange experiences whilst being part of the Brownies.