By Southern Region | October 5, 2025
Ideas for the Create a Challenge the Book Badge
- Bring in your favourite book to show your unit, and tell them a bit about it
- Make your own bookmark
- Write a fiction story about a Guide having an adventure and draw a picture of what she does
- Write a report about a trip you have taken
- Keep a diary for a week
- Participate in the MS Readathon
- Write a fiction story, poem or play
- Research your favourite author and be able to tell your unit three interesting things about them
- Read 3 books by different authors, approved by your teacher as suitable. Prepare a written recount of each book
- Visit a local library and borrow a book. Know how books in a library are classified
- Be able to identify the following parts of a book: spine, pages, title, author, illustration, call number
- Find out about Book Week and share this information with the unit
- Choose one of your favourite books and design a front cover. Have a think about what you need to include to inform readers about book
- Demonstrate the use of a dictionary
- Write a biography about a famous person
- Interview a person connected with Guiding. Find out what that person does in Guiding and write a report about what your find
- Produce a comic strip consisting of four or five frames with characters telling a story
- Make a poster using photographs or drawings to tell a story about something interesting you have done, with a sentence under each picture telling what it is about