Summer Holidays
Activities: Do some summer themed crafts. Get out of your meeting place and go to the park
Take it further: Have an old fashioned summer beach holiday, fish and chips out of paper on the seafront, visit a local beach and have a sandcastle competition and beach games. Visit a RNLI lifeboat station and find out about the work they do. Have a campfire evening; cook marshmallows and bananas, and then sing campfire songs.
Summer Festivals
Throughout the summer there are lots of music and family friendly festivals.
Activities: Try hair wrapping, temporary and glitter tattoos, face and body paints. Make and exchange friendship bracelets. Try festival fashion; wellies and short for example.
Take it further: Attend a festival such as Wellies and Wristbands, or hold your own festival themed camp. Go for a muddy walk in wellies, if you cannot go camping, have an indoor or day only camp.
August Bank Holiday - Nottinghill Festival
The Nottinghill Festival is held in London at the end of August each year for 2 days; Bank Holiday Sunday and Monday. Carnival, processions and street parties with a Caribbean and West Indian flavour are held and people wear outlandish outfits, masks and headdresses.
Activities: Make some carnival outfits from scrap material. Don’t forget to include lots of feathers & sequins. Make your own musical instruments such as rice shakers and drums. Have a musical procession in your costumes.
Take it further: Visit a local carnival or lights procession, maybe get involved and have a float of your own.
Last 3 weeks in August – Edinburgh Festival and Edinburgh Fringe
The Edinburgh Festival is one of the world largest Art and Culture festivals, with the Fringe representing the more Alternative side of the Arts.
Activities: Learn about the types of performances to be found at the festival.
Take it further: Put on your own Arts festival, everybody provide art work, music, a comedy routine or dance act for example. Put on a show for your unit or local community.
Summer – Guiding Pride
In 2015 Girlguiding were at some of the Pride marches around the country.
Activities: Learn about the reasons for holding the marches; discuss equality and same sex marriage.
Take it further: Visit one of the Guiding Pride stands at a local Pride event.
Web Links: Guiding Pride blog: http://www.girlguiding.org.uk/get_involved/pride.aspx
11 August 1897 – Birth of Enid Blyton
Activities: Hold a book club evening, where everybody brings a favorite book to discuss. Have a mystery evening with a crime to solve. Don’t forget to have lashings of Ginger Beer while you are doing it!
Take it further: Visit a library, or hold a sleepover in one. Have a “boarding school” themed pack holiday with lacrosse matches and midnight feasts.
Badge Links: Booklover Interest badge
Web Links: http://www.enidblytonsociety.co.uk/
Other ideas for August
Press some wild flowers for use in Crafts in the Autumn.
Place flowers on a stone, cover with pale fabric and hammer to do flower printing.
