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Letterboxing Badge

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Saved by Darby Schmidt
on August 8, 2013 at 4:01:08 pm
 


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

Activity Descriptions

supplies

Badge

At Home

  • 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.

 

Letterboxing

Snack

Snack Discussion

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?

 

Letterboxing

Game (10 min)

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.

Objects/candy

Clues written on slips of paper

Letterboxing 1

Craft (20 min)

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.

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

 

Letterboxing 2

Game (15 min)

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.

Paper

Writing utensils

 

Letterboxing 3

 

 

Outings and Visitors

 

Sample Meeting 1

 

 

 

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