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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.






Birth Flower: Gladiolus

Birth Stone: Peridot