Girl Scout Handbook Badge Sampler

1940, Hard cover

Life Saver Badge

NOTE: This badge belongs jointly to the elds of Health and Safety and Sports and Games. A girl must be twelve years of age or older to eligible for this badge. To earn this badge, participate in a Junior Life Saving Course of the American Red Cross given by a qualied life saving instructor, and at the end of the course pass the examination satisfactorily. You will then be qualied to receive both the Life Saver badge and the American Red Cross Junior Life Saver emblem. Participation in this course covers the following: personal safety in swimming, elementary forms of rescue, personal safety and self rescue in use of small craft, preparatory training for swimming rescue, recovering a submerged victim, approaches, carries, defense and release, resuscitation and special forms of rescue. Four additional activities, given below, indicate ways in which the skills and knowledge learned in the Junior Life Saving Course can be put into practice. 1. Discuss the principles of water safety, including places to swim, when to swim, and when to avoid swimming; use of water safety equipment; and the need for good swimmers to sane practices. If possible, assist a Red Cross Senior Life Savor who is supervising other swimmers or teaching swimming. 2. Find out from the American Red Cross how to establish a Junior Life Saving Crew and then form one or become a member of one. 3. Do something to improve the waterfront equipment at your camp, such as painting the boats or splicing the lines correctly on the buoys. 4. Find out about Red Cross Aquatic Schools or learn to swim campaigns in your community or vicinity and help in any way that you can.
References Instructors ManualLife Saving and Water Safety Courses (American National Red Cross. Washington, DC, 1938, free to instructors). Life Saving and Water Safety (American National Red Cross; Blakiston, 60 cents). Swimming and Diving (American National Red Cross, 60 cents). Swimming and Water Safety (Boy Scouts of America, $1).

Minstrel Badge
To earn this badge, participate in eight of the following activities. The two starred (*) are required. Choose any six others that interest you. *1. Teach a folk song, an art song, or a round of at least three parts to your troop and work on the song until the troop members feel that they know it and you are pleased with their performance. 2. Tell an interesting story or some interesting facts about the background of one of the songs you lead or one that you learn to sing. 3. If you can play an instrument, such as a piano, violin, ute, ageolet, or pipe, learn the accompaniments for one song and one dance for your troop. 4. Learn and take part with a group in two song dances (folk dances accompanied by singing), of which one is American and the other foreign in origin. *5. Learn and sing alone or with others the following songs and be able to give accurate sources for them: a. Three American folk songs of different typesa shanty, a Negro spiritual, a mountain ballad, a cowboy song, and so forth. b. Three folk songs from foreign sources. c. Two art songs. d. Two rounds or canons (which must of course be sung with others). 6. Tell a folk tale or story based on a local legend of the type around which folk songs are sometimes built. Try making a song out of such a legend. 7. Make and show a shadowgraph based on a song. Lead or participate in the singing when the shadowgraph is shown or help with the other details of the performance. 8. Help produce a folk ballad in dramatized form with action and suitable costuming and staging. 9. From the songs you know or from songbooks in your troop or school library select and list the songs that you thing are the most suitable for the various occasions when your troop sings, such as the opening or closing of the meeting, ceremonies, a hike, a time when everyone is feeling very gay or a time when everyone is feeling very serious. 10. Plan with others an entertainment based upon the life and work of one great composer and put it on in your troop meeting or at a campre. 11. Read about the minnesingers In Germany, the troubadours in southern France, or early minstrels in England, and learn a song or two of the kind that they might have sung. 12. Find out what typical instruments are used to accompany the dances of ve nations or peoples; for example, the use of bagpipes in Scotland. If possible, hear one of these dances played on the proper instrument. 13. Become a member of a trio, quartet, or chorus that learns enough songs to take part in a troop program or other Girl Scout occasion when such music would add to the pleasure of those attending. 14. Find out enough about the customs, manners, and culture of one particular country, group of people, or section of our own country to enable you to plan with others a party that takes its color and entertainment from some of the things it has contributed to the world, such as its songs, dances, legends, crafts, foods.

References See also references under other Music badges. American Ballads and Folk Songs, collected by John A. and Alan Lomax (Macmillan, $5). American song Bag, The, compiled by Carl Sandburg (Harcourt, Brace, $1.89). Around the World in Song by Dorothy Gordon (Dutton, 95 cents). Book of Songs, A, Concord Series No. 14, edited by Thomas Whitney Surette, Archibald T. Davison, and Augustus D. Zanzig (E. C. Schirmer, $3). Same, words and voice parts only; Concord Series No. 4 (E. C. Schirmer, $1.25). Botsford Collection of Folk Songs by Florence Hudson Botsford (G. Schirmer, three volumes, $1.50 each; $4 for set of three; National Equipment Service carries the tune book edition, 50 cents each). Concord Junior Song and Chorus Book, The, Concord Series No. 15, edited by Thomas Whitney Surette, Archibald T. Davison, and Augustus D. Zanzig (E. C. Schirmer, $3.50). Same, words and voice parts only; Concord Series No. 16 (E. C. Schirmer, $1.25). Dramatized Ballads with Musical Accompaniment by Janet E. Tobitt and Alice M. G. White (Dutton, 1937, $2; order from Girl Scouts, Inc.) Folk-Songs of the Four Seasons by Susanna Myers and Harvey Officer (G. Schirmer, $1.75). Garland of Green Mountain Song, A, by Arthur W. Peach (author, Northeld, Vermont, 1934, 50 cents). Girl Scout Song Book (Girl Scouts, Inc., 35 cents). Plays for High Holidays by Janet E. Tobitt and Alice M. G. White (Dutton, 1939, $1.50; order from Girl Scouts, Inc.). Saucy Sailor, The, and other Dramatized Ballads by Janet E. Tobitt and Alice M. G. White (Dutton, 1940, $2; order from Girl Scouts, Inc.). Sing Together (Girl Scouts, Inc., 20 cents). Ten Folk Songs and Ballads (E.C. Schirmer, 15 cents). Universal Folk Songster, The, by Florence Hudson Botsford (G. Schirmer, 50 cents). Yours for a Song by Janet E. Tobitt (Author, 1939; order from Girl Scouts, Inc., 25 cents).

Sculpture Badge
To earn this badge,participate in ten of the following activities. Four of the activities are to be selected from section A; two each from sections B and C; and any two others that interest you. The choice in section A may be made in any way desiredfour different examples from any one or more of the seven activities suggested. A. Creative Ability 1. As the simplest rst step, make a model in clay of some familiar form. Your own pets will give you opportunity for close observation. Woodland friends you have made on nature study trips or farm friends make good subjects and can easily be modeled with a little practice. 2. Make a model in clay of a human gure or a portion of the human gure, such as hand, food, head. 3. Make a clay model that will represent springtime, childhood, age, time, or some other idea. 4. Make a clay model that will indicate a state of feeling or emotion, such as happiness, power, meditation. 5. Model a gure in clay that can be made into a ceramic, that is, red and glazed. Know how and why this type of modeling should differ from others. 6. Carve a gure in the round from a plaster block. 7. Carve a gure or design in bas relief from a plaster block. B. Skills 8. Demonstrate with a lump of clay the difference between modeling and carving. 9. Find out how sculpture is reproduced from the working model: in plaster, in metal, in wood, in stone. 10. Learn what tools and equipment are used by sculptors and where they may be obtained. Know about the care of tools and how to keep clay models moist between working periods. 11. Learn what is meant by casting, the lost wax process, a gelatine mold, planes, armature, direct carving, plastic art, and glyptic art.

12. Make a cast of one of your clay models. 13. Model a head for a marionette or a doll, or make a mask. 14. Model some gures that may be used on model stage sets, ships, maps, villages, and so forth. 15. Model a gure or design either in the round or in relief that would be suitable for wood carving. 16. Find out what materials are available to you for sculptural work: clay, tale, soapstone, wax, and so forth. C. Appreciation 17. Learn something about the history of sculpture in the United States: our best known sculptors, their work, and where it may be found. 18. Learn something about contemporary or modern sculpture in the United States. Discover in what way it differs from the art of fty years ago. 19. Learn something about the different materials from which sculptured forms have been made. 20. Find out what sculptural works of art there are in your community: statues, friezes, and so forth. Learn something about the sculptors who created them and something of the historic and civic signicance of their work. Discover what facilities for study in sculpture your community offers, such as exhibitions and classes in schools, art centers, museums, churches, organizations, or private studies. Arrange to have some members of your troop take advantage of some of these classes or visit the exhibitions. 21. Find out if there are any well known sculptors in your community and, if possible, visit their studios and watch them work. OR Arrange some way to interest your troop in sculpture. For instance, select one sculptor; nd out about his life, his works, and under what conditions his works were produced. 22. Discover the meaning of the terms in the round and in relief. Find examples of each kind of sculpture in the public buildings of your community. 23. Point out examples in your own community where the sculptors art may be seen on useful objects such as traffic markers, drinking fountains, bird baths, lamp posts, mail boxes, and so forth. OR Find pictures of or cite examples in your own community of the use of sculpture in gardens. 24. Make a collection of pictures of the work of outstanding American sculptors. OR Make a collection of pictures that will show how sculpture is used in architecture. 25. Visit as many war memorials as you can and study pictures of those you cannot visit. Think of an idea for a war memorial that would carry the thought of peace attained, rather than that of active warfare.
References History of American Sclpture by Lorado Taft (Macmillan, 1930, $3), Meaning of Modern Sculptre, The, by R. H. Wilenski (Stokes, 1932, $3.50) , Modern American Sculpture by Sadakichi Hartmann (Architectural Book Publishing Company, 1918, $6), Relation of Sculpture to Architecture, The, by T. P. Bennett (Macmillan, 1916, $4.50), Some Modern Sculptors by S. Casson (Oxford, 1928, $3.50).

Wood Badge
To earn this badge, participate in ve of the following activities, choosing at least one from each section. A. Creative Ability 1. Make a design suitable for chip carving and apply it to some article of wood, such as a box, tray, book cover. 2. Make a design suitable for carving in relief and apply it to some article of wood. 3. Make a clay model or a drawing suitable for carving in the round and carve it in wood. B. Skills 4. Know something about the tools needed for different types of woodworktheir use and how to care for them. A good craftsman is always careful of his tools, and no tools need more careful attention than woodworking tools. Know where to obtain tools, supplies, and equipment. 5. Show that you know who to handle and use the following: saw ax vise chisel chip-carving knife whittling knife oil stone hammer plane emery wheel sandpaper miter box gouge 6. Make a birdhouse, feeding station, home for your pet, or some other article of wood that will provide comfort for some of your bird or animal friends. 7. Make some simple carpentered article for your room, such as a footstool, bookshelf, or window box. 8. Make some article of wood that would make useful in one of the following activities: music drama sculptured weaving basketry architecture camping sports health C. Appreciation 9. Consult some good books on woods, woodworking, and wood carving. List the different skills and crafts that have developed through the use of wood, such as carpentry, cabinet work, inlay, wood carving. Check those that would interest Girl Scouts.

10. See if you can locate in your community a wood carver, a cooper, a cabinetmaker, a furniture factory, a box factory, a lumber yard, a carpenter shop. Find out as much as you can about the work through visits. OR Find out what facilities for study in wood carving your community offers, such as classes or exhibits. If possible, join one of the classes and attend the exhibits. 11. Visit museums, shops, private homes, and public buildings to look for examples of wood carving, such as carved gures, cuckoo clocks, choir stalls, doors, wainscoting. 12. Find out who are our best known American wood carvers; become familiar with their work and know where it may be found. 13. Assemble an exhibit of carved wood objects. This would be a good activity for your troop. 14. Start a collection of wood carvings. OR Look for examples of wood carvings in churches, public buildings, shops and so forth, and sketch details in your notebook. 15. Learn about different woodstheir color, grain, and quality. Learn to recognize the trees from which these woods come; know where they grow, what makes the grain in wood, which woods are hard and which are soft, and what makes them so.
References Carpenters Tool Chest, The, by Thomas Hibben (Lippincott, 1937, $2), Chip Carving by Harris W. Moore (Manual Arts Press, 75 cents, order from Girl Scouts, Inc.), Country Craft Book, The, by Randolph Wardell Johnston (The Countryman Press, Weston, Vermont, and Farrar and Rinehart, 1937, $3), From Forest to Furniture by Malcolm H. Sherwood (Norton, 1936, $3), Principles of Woodworking by Herman M. S. Hjorth (Bruce, 1930, $1.76), Wood Carving as a Hobby by Herbert W. Faulkner (Harper, 1934, $2; order from Girl Scouts, Inc.).

World Gifts Badge

The badge activities in the International Friendship eld contain references to situations that are changing so rapidly that we realize many of them are out of date, at least for the time being. Political boundaries change swiftly, but peoples do not. It is suggested, therefore, that the activities in this eld be undertaken with peoplesnot countriesin mind, reaffirming our belief as a member of a World Association in the possibility of peace and friendship among members of the worlds families. To earn this badge, participate in any seven of the following activities. 1. Find out what people settled in the community in which you now livewhat country or countries they came from, why they came, how they lived, the clothes they wore, their songs, dances, stories, and crafts. Talk to some of the old inhabitants of your town or of the part of the city you live in, to nd out what they remember of the early days. Invite them to come and talk to the troop. 2. Make up a dramatic scene from information you can get from your public library and museum on the coming of the rst settlers to your community or early days in it. Put this on at a troop party with the help of other troop members. 3. Make a list of customs, songs, dances, holiday celebrations, ways of doing things in your community that can be traced to the people who settled there and to their life in the Old World.

4. Make a map or chart showing roughly the different nationalities that settled in various sections of the United States. 5. Choose one of the nationality groups of the United States and discover what it has contributed to the life of the United States in the way of customs, ideals, arts and crafts, great men and women. 6. Find out from what cities and countries your own ancestors came and those of the other girls in the troop. Make a map, a chart, or a troop family tree to illustrate this information. 7. Have a costume parade to show articles of foreign wearing apparel that girls in the troop or their parents own; or have a family heirloom exhibit of interesting things from homes of troop members that came from foreign lands. Ask fathers and mothers to explain about the articles as part of the occasion. 8. Invite a foreign-born woman to demonstrate the making of a dish popular in her homeland, or to tell the troop of her rst impressions of the United States, or the many things and ways she found different. 9. Learn some of the folk dances and songs from the girls in your troop or in other troops who were born in other countries or whose parents were. Make plans for a troop folk dance or folk song party, using these dances and songs. 10. Learn about and play games and sports of other lands. See if you can discover the countries from which our own sports and popular games have come. Have a game festival for the children of your city or for girls in other troops and play typical games of certain countries. 11. Make a scrapbook of famous mean and women born in other countries who have contributed much to the development of the United States in such elds as art, science, medicine, literature, and exploration. 12. Give a party based upon the customs of one foreign country represented in your troop, with costumes, games, songs, decorations, foodall in keeping with the nation. Invite the girls in the troop who are of this nationality or descent to help you plan the partyalso their mothers. 13. Find out what your community sends to other countries in the way of raw and manufactured goods, and what these countries send you in return. To illustrate what you discover, have an exhibit of some of the things, or make sketches or bring pictures of those things that cannot be exhibited. Or make a map showing how your community is tied to the whole world through trade. If possible, visit a warehouse and see articles being shipped abroad or as they come into your town from other countries. 14. Find out whether there are countries that control the supply of any products that other countries must have; whether the United States control the supply of any products that other countries must have; whether the United States controls certain products. Discuss with your leader or with some other older person the effect this might have: (a) in a world where all nations were friendly; and (b) in a world where they were unfriendly.
References Correlating Materials in Comptons Pictured Encyclopedia by Hazel H. Ott (F. E. Compton & Co., 1000 North Dearborn Street, Chicago, 10 cents). This pamphlet was prepared especially for the Girl Scout program and is helpful if you have access to Comptons Pictured Encyclopedia. Folk Festivals by Mary Effie Shambaugh (Barnes, 1932, $2). Folk Festivals and the Foreign Community by Dorothy Gladys Spicer (Womans Press, 50 cents). Immigrant Gifts to American Life by Allen H. Eaton (Russell Sage Foundation, 1933, $3). Taking Stock of Our Dowry by Virginia Owen Greene, in The Girl Scout Leader, January, 1937, 5 cents. We Travel Though We Stay at Home, Program on World Independence, by Ursula P. Hubbard (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 405 West 117th Street,New York; one set free to any Girl Scout troop upon request; additional sets 25 cents plus postage). Young Americans from Many Lands by Anne Merriman Peck and Enid Johnson (Albert Whitman, Chicago, 1936, $2).

Writers Badge
To earn this badge, participate in ten of the following activities. The two starred (*) are required. Choose any eight others that interest you. *1. Provide yourself with a notebook of the loose-leaf or spiral binding type that will open at and be easy to write in. Use this notebook for carrying out the activities you choose for this badge, putting in it the pieces of writing you think are good enough to keep for a while. 2. Write in your notebook a short description of an outdoor troop outing in three different waysverse, narration, and dialogue. After three or four weeks, reread your descriptions and choose the one you think expresses the experience most vividly and interestingly and try to improve on your rst writing of it. 3. Know something about writing as a vocation, that is, as a means of earning a livingthe kinds of jobs that require writing skill, such as editing; advertising; reporting; writing ction and non-ction books, textbooks, poetry, drama. 4. Know the main provisions of the copyright law and the need for observing such a law. 5. Start a scrapbook of clippings about writers and writing, verse, quotations, and informative articles that may be useful to you in your writing. Record the sources of all such material collected. 6. Learn to handle a typewriter with reasonable accuracy. 7. Know how to use reference books that will answer your questions in regard to the meaning of words, synonyms, word rhymes, correct grammar usage. 8. Write a short dramatic sketch for a puppet show or play that is acceptable to the other members of your troop for use on some special occasion. 9. Write words suitable for your troop that may be sung to a marching song. 10. Write words that may be sung to a lullaby. Choose a folk lullaby tune, if possible. *11. Inscribe in your notebook daily for at least one month a very brief description in verse or prose of something observed that day that aroused in you a special feeling, such as happiness, crossness, pity, admiration, curiosity, love. Or, if some days you can remember no special response of this kind, describe to the best of your ability some sight or sound, such as wind in the grass or trees, rain on the pavement, noise of boats on a river, sunlight and shadow. Use few words and try to choose just the words you need to express the remembered emotion, image, or sound. At the end of the month read your descriptions aloud to yourself and decide whether you wrote better at the beginning of your record or toward the end. 12. Select a good anthology of poetry and read the poems that appeal to you aloud by yourself several times. Read slowly and listen to you aloud by yourself several times. Read slowly and listen to the sound of the words and the rhythm of the lines. If you nd a poem you especially like the sound of, learn part or all of it by heart. When you feel ready to share your selections with others, read some of these poems at a troop meeting.

13. Have someone help you nd several examples of splendid descriptive prose writing and read them aloud by yourself several times. Read distinctly and try to express with your voice the richness and power of the words. After listening in this way to a master writers use of words, try your hand at describing a similar scene that you yourself have witnessed, being careful to choose your own words and not borrow expressions from the passages you have been getting acquainted with. 14. Make a collection of a dozen or so words of one, two, and three syllables and see how many words you can nd for each that rhyme well with one another. After putting down all the words you can think of by yourself, use a rhyming dictionary to nd others. Select words that really rhyme and know what they mean.
References Authors Book, The (Macmillan, 50 cents). Creative Youth by Hughes Mearnes (Doubleday, Doran, 1937, $2.50). Here Is a Book by Marshall McClintock (Vanguard, 1940, $3). Majorie Fleming, Her Journals, Letters, and Verses, edited by Sidgwick (Oxford, 1935, $2). On the Art of Writing by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch (Putnam, $2.50). Theodore Roosevelts Diaries (Scribner, $2.50).