1981 Guide Handbook - Yellow Trefoil Badge
Make progress in keeping each of the Eight Points:
Thinking For Yourself
Keeping Fit
Keeping the Guide Law
Exploring The Arts
Getting To Know People
Giving Service
Becoming A Homemaker
Enjoying The Out Of Doors.
1983 Guide Handbook - Yellow Trefoil Badge
You may have your yellow Trefoil Badge twelve months after making your Promise if you have shown you are trying to keep your Promise through:
1) Taking part in at least six activities with your Patrol.
2) Gaining two interest badges.
3) Trying two of the following:
a) Tie a camp bedding roll properly.
b) Know how to tie a reef, sheet bend, round turn and two half hitches, and clove hitch, and when to use each one.
c) Use your neckerchief as a triangular bandage in three different ways.
d) Wash and iron a garment of your own.
4) Meeting a challenge set by your Guider or Patrol Leader's Council.
5) As soon as you start working towards your Yellow Trefoil Badge write down your first target by choosing one of the challenges from the selection below.
Note: As soon as you have reached one target set yourself another and see how many targets you can reach in the twelve months.
Near the end of the twelve months tell your Patrol about the targets you have reached. Talk over with your Guider the progress you feel you made in working for these targets and how you have tried to keep your Promise during the year.
* Take a series of photographs, arrange them in an interesting way, and show them to your Patrol.
* Grow some vegetables.
* Discover the price differences in four shops of sugar, margarine, soap-powder and tea. (Use brands you use at home).
* Blindfold yourself and help pitch a tent.
* find out about a major manufacturing company in your area and what they make.
* Find out five places of interest near to you. Visit them, and be ready to show a friend or a visitor round them.
* Write a letter to an elderly relative or friend of the family who lives alone.
* With your Patrol visit an art gallery, museum, exhibition, etc., and recount your visit in an interesting way to the rest of your Unit or another Patrol.
* Cook a homemade pie and share it with your Patrol.
* Make and fly a kite.
* Find out and compare the types of hair and styles of the members of your Patrol. Discover which shampoos and styles suit each other best.
* Make a campfire song book with words and music.
* Make up a new game. Try it on your own Patrol first, then let other Patrols try it too.
* Help with a money-raising effort for a good cause.
* Practise wrapping up parcels, both in gift wraps and for posting.
* Ice a cake.
* Collect at least fifty proverbs.
* Make a Patrol mascot.
* Do a good turn for your place of worship.
* Make a list of useful telephone numbers and keep it handy.
* Start or add to a Patrol Prayer Book.
* Work out a story in sound and 'tell' it to another Patrol.
* Go and look at a row of houses, and decide which one you would like to live in and why.
* Practise making fake wounds and learn how to treat them.
* Learn a 'magic trick' and try it out on your Patrol.
* Find North by three different methods - not using a compass.
* Make a simple first aid kit for your Patrol Box or your home. Be sure you know how to use the contents.
* Make a puppet, and practice using it.
* Work out a fitness challenge for yourself to cover at least a month.
* Learn to knit or crochet.
* Draw or paint a picture with the pencil or paintbrush held in your mouth or between your toes.
1988 Trefoil Badges Supplement to Guide Handbook - Yellow Trefoil Badge
You may have your Yellow Trefoil Badge twelve months from joining Guides if you are trying to keep your Promise. You will need to:
1) Take part in at least six activities with your Patrol, one or more of which is to be out-of-doors.
2) Gain two interest badges.
3) Do all of the following and show you have reached a good standard in two of them:
a) Tie a camp bedding roll properly.
b) Know how to tie a reef knot, sheet bend, round turn and two half hitches, and a clove hitch. Know when to use each one.
c) Use your neckerchief as a triangular bandage in three different ways.
d) Wash and iron a garment of your own.
e) Make something using a craft from another country.
4) Meet a challenge set by your Guider or Patrol Leaders' Council.
5) As soon as you start working towards your Yellow Trefoil Badge set yourself targets. Write down your first target by choosing one of the suggestions below.
Note: When you reach one target, set yourself another and see how many you can reach in the first year you are a Guide.
Near the end of your first year, tell your Patrol what you have done whilst working for the Trefoil Badge. Talk over with your Guider the progress you feel you have made and how you have tried to keep your Promise during the year.
* Take a series of photographs, arrange them in an interesting way, and show them to your Patrol.
* Grow some vegetables.
* Discover the price differences in four shops of sugar, margarine, soap-powder and tea. (Use brands you use at home).
* Blindfold yourself and help pitch a tent.
* find out about a major manufacturing company in your area and what they make.
* Find out five places of interest near to you. Visit them, and be ready to show a friend or a visitor round them.
* Write a letter to an elderly relative or friend of the family who lives alone.
* With your Patrol visit an art gallery, museum, exhibition, etc., and recount your visit in an interesting way to the rest of your Unit or another Patrol.
* Cook a homemade pie and share it with your Patrol.
* Make and fly a kite.
* Find out and compare the types of hair and styles of the members of your Patrol. Discover which shampoos and styles suit each other best.
* Make a campfire song book with words and music.
* Make up a new game. Try it on your own Patrol first, then let other Patrols try it too.
* Help with a money-raising effort for a good cause.
* Practise wrapping up parcels, both in gift wraps and for posting.
* Ice a cake.
* Collect at least fifty proverbs.
* Make a Patrol mascot.
* Do a good turn for your place of worship.
* Make a list of useful telephone numbers and keep it handy.
* Start or add to a Patrol Prayer Book.
* Work out a story in sound and 'tell' it to another Patrol.
* Go and look at a row of houses, and decide which one you would like to live in and why.
* Practise making fake wounds and learn how to treat them.
* Learn a 'magic trick' and try it out on your Patrol.
* Find North by three different methods - not using a compass.
* Make a simple first aid kit for your Patrol Box or your home. Be sure you know how to use the contents.
* Make a puppet, and practice using it.
* Work out a fitness challenge for yourself to cover at least a month.
* Learn to knit or crochet.
* Draw or paint a picture with the pencil or paintbrush held in your mouth or between your toes.