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Bonnie's Badge Book

For requests for me to make badges see Badge Suggestion Post

How do I set up a merit badge?
Any pup who fits in the 'Joining in' criteria can set a badge as follows:

1. Decide what the badge is for:
- Badges must comply with the rules of the bar, the rules of the Scouts (have fun, don't get hurt, don't be an asshole), and be something the badge setter is capable of doing themselves.
- They absolutely can be a pisstake/taken advantage of within the above guidelines but should not target a specific individual. For example the 'Making Autor Blush' badge was suggested in chat, but for the sake of Autor's sanity, a 'Making People Blush' badge might be more fair!
- Badges should be able to be completed without being put in physical danger (e.g. the Saving Christmas Badge can also be awarded for healers, investigators, etc). Scouts are expected to risk assess all activities (see below).

2. Check in this post if it's been done (similar is fine, just name it differently)

3. Each badge must have at least one clause/task to complete. You can make multiple levels of the badge if you desire. (e.g. Saving Christmas once, Saving Christmas twice).

4. Make a picture of your badge. IC the badges are fabric (sew-on patches) about an inch wide and are a coloured circle with a small picture inside.
I've done mine with a blue circle on the outside, using powerpoint circles (denim texture outside, canvas inside) but do them different/more technical/less technical if you like. If you want to do levels (usually done in roman numerals), or other text, I've used Berlin Sans FB as the font if you want to match. Try and make them icon size if possible.

5. Put your badge and instructions in this post.

6. To complete a badge IC you must present what you did to a leader. You can then collect your badge from Bar. You can not cheat IC, unless you are working for the Badge Forgery Badge. If you are not able to find one of us to present to IC, let one of us know and we can handwave.

IC you sew your badges on the arm/front of your hoodie.

Side note 1: Leaders will not police the content of badges unless there is a good reason e.g. someone is getting harassed/hurt/being a pain in the arse.

Side note 2: Pups under the age of 11 are expected to be supervised for an adult. Particularly Harmless Badges = should be suitable for supervised under 11 year olds. Tiny Person Badges = aimed at kids too young to do the regular badges.

Side note 3: Setting a badge does not obligate you to teach it.

Side note 4: Ideally badges should not be awarded retrospectively unless there is a good reason (e.g. an event only happens yearly or the task involved is huge). If you want your badge to be awardable for retrospective activities please state how far back.

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Subject - Name of badge
(If a Particularly Harmless Badge please state)

Clauses -

Safety equipment recommended -

Power Tools (left)

This badge must be supervised by an adult. Once complete you are allowed to use the assessed power tools in pairs or groups. All power tools may be found in the Forge.

1. Demonstrate correct use of safety equipment required to operate power tools.
2. Learn and demonstrate correct use of a drill, sander, jigsaw and nail gun.
3. We do not want you to use a circular saw unattended, but please demonstrate how you would set it up.

Hand Tools (right)

1. Demonstrate correct use of a hand saw, a hand drill, a screwdriver, a hammer, a plane, sandpaper and a chisel.
2. Complete an Engineer or Woodwork badge using at least two of the above tools.

Safety equipment: Goggles.

Edited 2015-01-01 23:52 (UTC)

Polylinguist Badge Level 1
Demonstrate your ability to speak and write one language other than your native tongue.

Level 2
Demonstrate your ability to speak and write three languages other than your native tongue.

Level 3
Demonstrate your ability to speak and write five languages other than your native tongue.

Edited 2015-01-22 06:27 (UTC)

Pioneering

Anyone lugging around any piece of wood longer than they are tall must be either over sixteen or accompanied by a leader.

This may work in conjunction with camping related badges and Piracy badge.

1. Learn how to do the following: Square Lashing, Tripod Lashing, any other lashing you need for your project in step 2 or 3, clove hitch, reef knot, figure of eight knot, and a round turn and two half hitches.
All of these knots can be found in the Knotting book in the Scout Hut.

2. Use the above knots and canes to create a small project of the following: a pot stand (See pictures 5, 7 and 8 on this page), a sweet pea/bean tripod, a sleeping bag/bedding rack, or similar gadget. (You must take it apart and put it away when you are done).

3. Use ropes, knots and large wooden poles to create a large project such as a swing (see the 9th pic onwards), a bridge, a climbing frame, a raft, a tree house or similar (n.b. you must also take it apart when you are done unless you have barman permission to leave it up). Your item must be checked by a leader before you climb on it.

Edited 2015-02-26 22:03 (UTC)

If you do not have access to a camera, Bonnie has a Polaroid and Guppy has a digital camera you can carefully borrow.

Photography (tiny people) (left)

Tiny people are not defined by a specific age but include toddlers/children/people for whom even the Particularly Harmless badges are probably too hard.

1. Learn how to take a photograph. This can be with a film camera, polaroid, digital, smart phone, iconograph, etc.

2. Take a picture of an animal, a friend, and an object (make sure you ask first!)

3. Either help arrange your photos in an album with your grown up, or help decorate a photo frame to put one in.

Photography

(Particularly Harmless)

1. Learn how to load, unload and take pictures with the camera of your choice. This can be with a film camera, polaroid, digital, smart phone, iconograph, etc.

2. Learn how your pictures are developed (you do not necessarily have to be able to do it yourself but you will need some way to get your pictures developed).

3. Take at least 20 photographs (please do not take photos of people/their things/their pets without their permission).

4. Arrange some photos on a theme in an album or scrap book OR Construct a photo frame to display a photo (See also Woodwork Level 1).

Photowrecker

Produce four photographs from the following categories. You cannot use the same category twice.

1. A very serious picture that has been Photobombed

2. A photo containing at least three people pulling a silly face.

3. A super-artistic photograph of something incredibly inane and pointless, done either with a fancy lens or effect, or in black and white.

4. An amusing and well-photoshopped or digitally modified photo

5. An album of 'holiday photos' for a holiday you never went on, which you must have tested on an unsuspecting victim.

6. A photograph which is completely out of focus.

7. A photograph with your thumb or finger in front of the main item you were photographing.

8. An amusing animal picture with a caption.

(Particularly Harmless)

You must have permission from people before you photograph them, their objects or their animals.

1. Be able to use all the settings on your camera effectively and know what they are for. Know how to use any zoom or alternate lenses that come with your camera.

2. Learn how to take effective photos from three or more of the following categories:
- People/Portrait
- Animals
- Landscapes
- Still life
- Plants/flowers
- Close-up
- Vintage
- High-speed
- Underwater
- Cloudscape
- Any other appropriate genre

3. EITHER
Make a short newspaper using one or more of your photos. You may like to do this with a friend.

OR

Arrange at least one photo from each of your three genres in a scrap book, album, or a photo frame you have constructed (see Woodwork Level 1.

This badge is awarded for participation in the Easter Hat Photography Challenge.

Bronze Prize (left)

Come third in a Scouts competition or race, and be a good sport about it.

Silver Prize (middle)

Come second in a Scouts competition or race, and be a good sport about it.

Gold Prize (right)

Come first in a Scouts competition or race, and be a good sport about it.

scout badge runner up most creative

Wooden Spoon

Come last in a Scouts competition or race, and be a good sport about it.

Creative Attempt

You didn't come first, but you did something cool.

See A: Animal Friend.

A pennant may be awarded for completing a number of badges in a theme. Since the badge book is ever growing, if you feel a badge fits into a category feel free to ask or comment below.
Any pennants created after this point should be tagged under this sub-heading.

Edited 2015-01-12 02:37 (UTC)

Zoologist pennant (top left)

1. Complete 3 of the following:
Cats' friend, Dogs' friend, Poultry keeper, Horses' friend, Animal Friend.
Or a similar badge involving the care of or interaction with animals.

2. Have regular contact in helping with at least one animal.

Gastronomer pennant (top middle)

You cannot count the same badges twice between 1 and 2.

1. Complete 3 badges involving the preparation of food (with no more than 2 levels of the same badge), such as Exogastronomy, Om nom, Om nom nom, OM NOM NOM NOM, Tea appreciation, Coffee appreciation, Eating a Demon Bunny.

2. Complete 2 different badges related to eating food, such as Culinary Expert, Tea appreciation, Coffee appreciation.

3. Demonstrate safe food hygiene practices throughout.

4. Cook at least one meal on an open fire safely. If you have not done your Fire Safety badge please consult a leader before lighting your fire.

Bob pennant (top right)
(Can you fix it? Yes you can)

1. Complete your Hand Tools and Power Tools badges.

2. Complete 4 of the following or similar of: Bricklayer, Cubefall, Sledge engineer, bicycle engineer, motorcycle engineer, car engineer, Woodwork, Demolition, Pioneering, Forge (craft).

Artypants pennant (bottom left)

1. Complete 4 of the following or similar badges: Art, Bricklayer, Cubefall, Knitting, Crochet, Basic Sewing, Virtuoso (one level), Photography, Quilting, Jewellery Craft, Fashion Design or similar.

Tiny person badges are acceptable for this pennant providing you are a tiny person.

2. Have a good record of tidying up your art activities afterwards.

Leader pennant (bottom middle)

1. Complete Mentor and at least one Safety badge.

2. Complete Badge Overenthusiasm Badge.

3. Complete 3 of the following: Exosociology, Entrepreneur, Helping, Fundraising, Volunteering, Greeter, Mischievous Greeter, any Safety badges not done in clause 1.

Soilmaster pennant (bottom right)

1. Complete both Indoor and Outdoor gardening.

You may use tiny person badges if you are a tiny person.

2. If you are a tiny person, be able to say what plants need to make them grow. If you are not a tiny person, be able to identify three common ailments of plants and how they are treated.

Edited 2016-04-29 20:50 (UTC)

Pi

1. Learn what pi is.

2. Bake or acquire a pie.

3. Calculate the circumference of the pie, using pi.

4. Play Pie OR learn how to throw a custard pie accurately at a consenting victim.

5. Draw a pie chart on a subject of your choice OR draw a Magpie (a pair if you're superstitious) OR draw a Pied Wagtail.

Edited 2015-03-11 20:16 (UTC)

When taking this badge you must acknowledge that in the real world piracy can be a dangerous career for both yourselves and the general public, and observe the Scout Code at all times (to have fun, not get anyone hurt, and not be an asshole).

This may be done in conjunction with the Viking badge, but where possible try to do different clauses for each.

Complete 4 of the following:

- Know how to operate a sailing boat, canoe, kayak, rowing boat or other similar vessel well enough to go across the lake and back (you must wear a buoyancy aid and you must not go out on the lake alone).

- Build your own boat or raft capable of surviving at least ten minutes with you riding on it (again you must wear a buoyancy aid and not go out on the lake alone). Also counts towards Pioneering badge.

- Write and perform a sea shanty, pirate song or similar

- Broadcast your own pirate radio station for at least one hour.

- Participate in International Talk Like A Pirate Day

- Dress up like a pirate for a holiday such as Mardi Gras, Halloween etc.

- Learn how to catch fish OR be able to identify five different species of fish

- Complete the knots clause of the Pioneering badge

- Start a coin collection from different countries and worlds.

- Learn to make jewellery (either beadwork or forgework)

- Learn to navigate using a compass

- Learn to navigate without a compass

- Learn to read a map. In pairs produce a basic map of Milliways, and each bury an item of 'treasure'. Find each other's treasure.

- Make a model ship, a ship in a bottle or similar.

- Navigate a remote control model boat around a series of objects

- Draw or paint a picture of two historical boats.

Edited 2015-09-30 20:43 (UTC)

See also: Viking

Pseudoassassination (left)

This badge is awarded for participation in an Assassins game of at least eight participants, without breaking the rules (no hassling people in the bathroom, no breaking into bedrooms, no injuring your target)

Pseudoassassination master (middle)

This badge is awarded to the Scout with the highest score in the Assassins game.

Most Creative Pseudoassassination (right)

This badge is awarded for the most entertaining pseudoassassination attempt.

1. Reach level 3 in any form of a pacman game

OR

2. Play live action pacman with four or more other people.

Parkour level 1
Parkour is the art of getting from point A to B in the most efficient way possible using only your body and your environment. It includes running, climbing, swinging, mantling, vaulting, jumping, rolling, and crawling.

1. Arrange for a trip to the pirate ship on the lake or climb to the top of the bar itself. Retrieve a black cat plush toy from the crow's nest or the roof and bring it to a leader. Be safe! If you are injured, you fail the badge.

2. Demonstrate the following movements in your climb:
•Running towards a high wall and then jumping and pushing off the wall with a foot to reach the top of the wall

Moving from a position hanging from a wall-top or ledge, to standing on the top or vaulting over to the other side
Vaulting over obstacles
Jumping and landing accurately with the feet on small or narrow obstacles
Jumping and catching a ledge with the hands while the feet land on the vertical surface below
Using a rolling motion to help absorb large impacts

Edited 2015-04-15 21:11 (UTC)

Particularly Harmless

1. Complete 2 of the following:

- A wordsearch
- A Su Doku
- A crossword
- A codeword
- Another word or number puzzle

If you are both illiterate and innumerate, you may substitute this clause for another paper-based puzzle using pictures.

2. Complete 1 of the following:

- A Ball in a maze
- A ring puzzle
- A Wooden Puzzle
- A rubic's cube
- Any other similar physical puzzle

3. Complete 2 of the following:
- A jigsaw with at least the number of pieces equal to the square of your age. I.e. if you are 5, 25 pieces, if you are 25, 625 pieces.
- A 3D jigsaw with at least 200 pieces.
- A WASGIJ (a jigsaw where the solution is the picture facing that on the front of the box)
- A super difficult Jigsaw (1000 or more pieces OR a hard core pattern like baked beans).
- A Puzzle Box with at least ten steps.
- Another similarly difficult puzzle.

These badges are pinned to your hoodie.

The patrol may choose their badge by discussion or vote. If there is no overall decision, the Patrol Leader has the deciding vote. Each patrol must have a different badge.

The patrol may change their badge at a later date to any that is not currently in use if the majority of the patrol wish to do so, or may come up with their own.

If a Patrol Leader or Second steps down, they get to keep their PL badge but should not wear it on your hoodie. Similarly if the patrols change round, you get to keep your Patrol Badge, but you should not wear it on your hoodie.

You can earn up to four versions of this badge. You may earn more than one for the same performance providing you meet all clauses (e.g. if you do backstage work and perform).

(Left)Drama

Part 1:
Complete at least one of the following:
- Write a play or sketch lasting at least five minutes
- Select a play written by someone else to produce. Hold auditions and organise practices.
- Audition for a play organised by someone else. Attend practices for your part regularly.
- Any of the above but for a dance performance, puppet show or other drama-based show.
- Organise a talent show.

Part 2:
Complete at least one of the following:
- Perform your play/sketch/etc in front of a live audience
- Perform your play/sketch/etc on camera and then show it to an audience

(Left centre) Music

Part 1
Complete at least one of the following:
- Start or join a band or choir and put in regular practice.
- Write or adapt a piece of music for two or more people
- As a solo artist, organise a concert

Part 2
Complete at least one of the following:
- Perform your music to a live audience
- Record your music using audio or visual recording.

(right centre) Visual arts/film

Part 1
Complete at least one of the following:
- Plan a short film of at least five minutes
- Adapt a pre-existing play for production on film
- Film an event or sport to edit together and put to music
- Learn how to use video editing software
- Audition for someone else's film
- Film one of the performances from the drama or music versions of this badge.

Part 2
Complete at least one of the following:
- Show your film to an audience

(right) Backstage

Learn one of the following and use it to assist a performance:
- Lighting/sound tech
- Producing
- Make up
- Costumes
- Scenery design

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Bonnie's Badge Book

P

Power Tools/Hand Tools

Polylinguist Badge

Pioneering

Photography (tiny people)/ Photography

Photowrecker

Photography (Composition)

Portrait Photographer (Easter Special Edition)

Prize Badges

Poultry Keeper

Pennants (Multiple Badges in Related Fields)

Pennants (Zoologist, Gastronomer, Bob, Artypants, Leader, Soilmaster)

Pi

Piracy

Re: Piracy

Pseudoassassination/Master/Most Creative

Pacman

Parkour

Puzzle Master

Patrol Badges/ Patrol Leader and Second

Performing Arts