Resilience story telling with Renita Boyle

Renita Boyle has created a series of videos for us including a feel-good reading of the book ‘The Little Yellow Leaf’ as well as her own story ‘Stronger than you know’. Plus, she’s put together a video of fun activities to complete all about finding your happy place and building your mental resilience.

The Little Yellow Leaf

Stronger than you know

Create your own resilience story (find your happy place)

Check out this resource so you too can design your own breathing leaf patterns.

Suitable for Rainbows and Brownies

Self-care isn’t selfish!

Hayley from the Resilience Learning Partnership will be hosting a live, interactive workshop about looking after ourselves and how we deal with our feelings. You’re going to need a pen/pencil and paper again for this activity! You can watch her live session here and she’s even created this special self-care themed Spotify playlist for you to listen to as you take part.

Suitable for Rainbows and Brownies but older girls and volunteers can tune in too!

Taskmaster

Write a happy haiku, or write the happiest story you can using only 10 words.

We hope you’re enjoying the activities! Why not take it further with Unit Meeting Activities, Skills Builders, and Interest Badges? You could give these challenges a go:

Reflect and Feel Good Skills Builders at all levels fit well with this theme…

Rainbows: Healthy Mind interest badge
Brownies: Mindfulness interest badge
Guides: Meditation, Aspiration interest badges
Rangers: Self care interest badge

Guide and Ranger leader Lauren (who’s also a scientist) has made an amazing video showing you how to make your own lava lamp at home using an old plastic bottle! Check it out and get ready to experiment.

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This is suitable for all sections (Rainbows and Brownies may need some help from adults)

Other upcycling challenges to give a go!

We’ve put together a list of great video links below where you can learn how to make some great upcycled clothing and accessories using things you can find lying around your home! This is a great way to reduce waste and breathe new life into something old. What will you come up with?

No sew tote bag from an old t-shirt

Make a headband from an old t-shirt

Make an infinity scarf from an old t-shirt

Suitable for all sections but younger girls may need help from an adult

Taskmaster

Build a raft out of recycled items that you can float in the bath or sink – how much weight can you make it hold without sinking?

We hope you’re enjoying the activities! Why not take it further with Unit Meeting Activities, Skills Builders, and Interest Badges? You could give these challenges a go:

Rainbows: Recycling interest badge
Brownies: Stitch up your six, Zero Waste interest badge
Guides: Upcycling, Conscious Consumer, Craftivism interest badges
Rangers: Costume interest badge

To end the day we’ll have two great videos by Brian from HeadStrong, one for volunteers to thank them for all their amazing work during the last 18 months and another for girls from all sections. HeadStrong is an organisation who inspire positive conversations around mental health. We couldn’t think of a better way to relax and feel-good after what will be an action-packed day!

VIDEO FOR VOLUNTEERS

VIDEO FOR ALL SECTIONS

Taskmaster

Create a new word that doesn’t already exist in the Oxford English Dictionary to describe yourself. Tell us what it is and what it means!

We hope you’re enjoying the activities! Why not take it further with Unit Meeting Activities, Skills Builders, and Interest Badges? You could give these challenges a go:

Rainbows: Healthy Mind interest badge
Brownies: Mindfulness interest badge
Guides: Meditation, Aspiration interest badges
Rangers: Self- care, Morals & Values interest badges

Join Anna from WanderWomen and get to grips with nature by learning all about the benefits of barefoot walking, meditation, cloud gazing and square breathing! Anna has made a series of videos for you to look through and get ready to go on your own mindfulness journey.

Suitable for all sections (the journey stick video is aimed at Rainbows, Brownies and Guides)

Cloud gazing and barefoot walking 

Make your own journey stick

Meditation and square breathing

Taskmaster

Go outside and have a good look around you – how many colours can you spot?

We hope you’re enjoying the activities! Why not take it further with Unit Meeting Activities, Skills Builders, and Interest Badges? You could give these challenges a go:

The relevant Explore and Camp Skills Builders fit well with this theme!

Rainbows: Nature interest badge
Brownies: Grow Your Own interest badge
Guides: Backwoods cooking, Geocaching, Navigator, Whittling interest badges
Rangers: Bushcraft interest badge

Why not try the Out & About – Wee Beastie, Ocean, Keep Scotland Beautiful, or Forest challenge badges? Find out more here.

Welcome!

We’ll be kicking of the day with a special welcome message from Scottish Chief Commissioner Moira! Check out what she has to say…

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Make your own self-care box

Then at 10.10am Ranger leader Stacey’s taking over! Stacey thinks we should all have our very own self-care box – check out her video and find out how to put your own one together. You can include anything from face masks to drawing materials. Stacey has created not one, but two infographics to help you create your box!

Suitable for all sections (mainly Rainbows, Brownies and Guides)

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Taskmasters:

• Find as many things as you can beginning with W – you have 3 minutes!
• Find all the animals on our interactive map – how many are there?

We hope you’re enjoying the activities! Why not take it further with Unit Meeting Activities, Skills Builders, and Interest Badges? You could give these challenges a go:

Rainbows: Great Greetings (UMA), Book Lover, Storyteller interest badge
Brownies: Mindfulness interest badge
Guides: Meditation, Aspirations interest badges
Rangers: Self-care, Morals & Values interest badges

Money, media and making it!

Published author Iona Bain is going live to chat about money, media and making it! So, if you’re interested in a career in media and want to learn more about why money matters, then tune in live at 11.05am on Saturday 2 October. You can ask Iona questions too! You can watch her live here.

Plus, Iona is giving all of us an exclusive discount on her book – Own It! How our generation can invest our way to a better future! Here’s the code: OWNITGUIDES – this will entitle girls to 30% off the book when purchased from the Harriman House website.

There’s something for all sections but will maybe benefit Guides and Rangers more

Invest in the future!

Helen from Future Asset are going live at 1.30pm on our exclusive Wander the World Facebook group to chat about investing in the future and what that means! You can watch Helen’s live session here.

Suitable for Guides and Rangers

Does money really make the world go round?

Hayley from the Resilience Learning Partnership hosted an interactive, live workshop to find out what girls already know about money and if it really does make the world go round? Get your pens and paper ready to take part in this interactive session! You can watch her live session here and she’s even created this special money-themed Spotify playlist for you to listen to as you take part.

Suitable for Rainbows and Brownies but older girls and volunteers can tune in too!

Taskmaster

Make a set of scales read 3.78kg – You have 1 minute! You can put anything you like on the scales! (bathroom scales are probably best able to hold this weight. If you only have kitchen scales, use smaller items and make your scales read 378g).

We hope you’re enjoying the activities! Why not take it further with Unit Meeting Activities, Skills Builders, and Interest Badges? You could give these challenges a go:

Live Smart Skills Builders at all levels fit well with this theme!

Rainbows: Know Your Coins, Fruit Shop (UMAs)
Brownies: Need v Want, Profit and Pitfall, Stepping Stone Savers, Brownie Marketplace, Coin Hunt (UMAs)
Guides: Savvy Shopper, Run the risk, Treasury takeover, Pay your way, Bank or bust (UMAs), Saver interest badge
Rangers: Entrepreneur interest badge

Are you ready to take the lead? The British Army have made a series of short videos for us about everything from making your own compass to exploring different leadership styles! Check them out now and let’s find out who’s the fastest at packing their sleeping bag away…

Make your own compass

All sections (Rainbows and Brownies may need adult help)

Camping organisational skills

All sections

Positive affirmations

All sections

Exploring different leadership styles

Suitable for Guides and Rangers

How to look after your kit/uniform

Suitable for Guides and Rangers (Rainbows and Brownies can join in but may need adult help)

Taskmaster

Can you find a way to camouflage yourself, then reveal yourself?

We hope you’re enjoying the activities! Why not take it further with Unit Meeting Activities, Skills Builders, and Interest Badges? You could give these challenges a go:

Lead and Live Smart Skills Builders at all levels fit well with this theme…

Rainbows: In the Workshop, Stop that Leak, Everyday inventors, Fruity Experiments (UMAs) Construction interest badge
Brownies: Cyclist Says, Transforming travel (UMAs), Jobs & Inventing interest badges
Guides: Bionic body parts, Collision course, Interstellar engineers, Information overload, Instruction disruption, Paper pilots (UMAs), Investigating and Fixer interest badges
Rangers: Event Planning interest badge

You could also have a go at the Girlguiding Scotland Digital challenge badge!

Do you love to go cycling? Sustrans is a great charity which focuses on making it easier for people to walk and cycle. Bethany from Sustrans will be going live to talk about saving the planet and why we should all get on our bikes to help combat climate change! You can view Bethany’s live workshop here and you can access the quiz that featured here and enter the pin: 08156844.

Suitable for all sections (may benefit Guides and Rangers more)

The Sustrans team have also put together a series of videos together to show us how to check our bikes are ready to be ridden and what we should do when we have a punctured tyre. Plus, there’s a great colouring-in challenge to take part in as well as fun things to do next time you’re on a cycle path!

How to do an ABC check on your bike

Suitable for Rainbows and Brownies (they may need an adult’s help)

How to do an M check on your bike

Suitable for Guides and Rangers (they may need an adult’s help)

How to repair a tyre puncture

Suitable for Guides and Rangers (they may need an adult’s help)

Millenium Milepost colouring-in challenge

Check out this short video of a Millennium Milepost, found on the national cycle network, being painted and use it as inspiration to colour in the picture below with your own design (there’s a longer video available here). Once you’ve done that please take a pic of your masterpiece and share it in the Wander the World Facebook group, or on Twitter using #WanderTheWorld21, or send it to us at web@girlguiding-scot.org.uk by 5pm on Friday 8 October and we’ll pick a winner who will have the opportunity to see their design brought to life!

Millenium Milepost colouring-in challenge

Suitable for all sections

Cycle path challenge

Why not explore your local cycle path and try some of the activities from our 10 things to do on the cycle path resource? If you decide to try identifying the birds you see, you can use this identification sheet. Or you can try the RSPB’s bird identifier!

Suitable for all sections

Taskmaster

Come up with a new way to travel along a cycle path that isn’t walking, scooting or bicycling, and demonstrate it!

Check out Rebekah’s amazing video all about her job as a Foley Artist, which is someone who makes sound effects for films! Find out more about the creative ways she makes sound effects for different scenarios and how you too can produce some fantastic sounds of your own.

Suitable for all sections (younger girls will need to ask their parents for help/permission to do some of these activities)

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Taskmaster

Make a dramatic entrance, complete with sound effects and/or music! Take a pic or film it then let us see!

We hope you’re enjoying the activities! Why not take it further with Unit Meeting Activities, Skills Builders, and Interest Badges? You could give these challenges a go:

The relevant Communicate Skills Builder fits well with this theme!

Rainbows: Everyday Inventors,
Brownies: Performing & Dancing interest badges
Guides: Vlogging interest badge
Rangers: Digital Design interest badge