Ideas for Letterboxing Badge
Requirements for earning badge:
Letterboxer
Purpose: When I've earned this badge, I'll know how to have fun adventures byfindingand hiding letterboxes.
Steps:
1. Get started with letterboxing.
2. Find your own stamp.
3. Practice finding clues.
4. Search for a letterbox.
5. Make a letterbox.
For more information about letterboxing, visit http://www.letterboxing.org/
Activities
Type
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Activity Descriptions
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supplies
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Badge
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At Home
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Work with your Girl Scout to set up a scavenger hunt for your family using different clues.
Help you Girl Scout find letterboxes in the area. Clues are available online if you do an internet search
letterboxes.
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Letterboxing
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Snack
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While enjoying snack, here are some things for girls to talk about.
Where are the best places to look for a letterbox?
How many letterboxes do you think are out there?
Where would you hide a letterbox?
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Letterboxing
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Game (10 min)
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Practice Your “Seeking” Skills
Hide small objects or candy around your meeting location.
Prepare some clues for the girls to use to find the objects/candy.
Steps:
1. Introduce letterboxing to the girls. Letterboxing is essentially a real-life hidden treasure hunt. To
participate, look online for clues or set up your own letterboxes.
2. Split girls into pairs and give each pair a clue.
3. Have the girls practice their seeking skills using the clues to find the hidden objects/candy.
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Objects/candy
Clues written on slips of paper
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Letterboxing 1
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Craft (20 min)
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Creating Your Own Stamp
1. Explain to the girls that stamps are an important part of letterboxing and represent the person who made
the letterbox. Anyone who finds your letterbox will have your stamp in their own notebook of stamps.
2. Have the girls create their own stamp by cutting a shape from craft foam or use pre-cut shapes and
let girls pick their favorite.
3. Have the girls glue the foam to a jar lid or piece of wood to make the stamp sturdy.
4. Have the girls test out their stamp by pressing it onto an inkpad and then firmly pressing it on paper.
5. Give each girl a notepad or make one by folding paper together. Girls can use these notepads to
collect images from the stamps they find on their letterboxing adventures.
6. After girls have created their own stamps, have them work together to make a troop stamp that they
will use in the troop’s letterbox. Save the stamp for a future meeting, where you will create your
troop’s letterbox.
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Craft foam or pre-cut foam shapes
Jar lids or small pieces of wood
Glue (if foam is not self-adhesive)
Scissors
Ink Pad
Paper
Small notepads or paper to make notepads
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Letterboxing 2
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Game (15 min)
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Create a Scramble
1. Give the girls some examples of word scrambles.
For example: The last letter of every word becomes the first and the first becomes the last.
Kool rndeu eht elids ta eht karp = Look under the slide at the park
2. Have the girls create their own word scramble and ask others to try and solve their clue.
3. Ask the girls to brainstorm other ways to write clues.
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Paper
Writing utensils
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Letterboxing 3
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Outings and Visitors
Sample Meeting 1
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