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Survivor Manawaru Escape in the Wild Brownie Badges Record Want to read previous stories? Click here to view the stories from 2011

What has Waikato been up to in 2012?

Why not tell us what you have been doing in your unit so far this year?

I know you have been out camping, doing Community Service and generally having a lot of GirlGuiding Adventures - lets show everyone what we have been doing!

Forward any stories or photos on to your Leader, District Co-ordinator, Regional Co-ordinator or the Central North Zone Office so they can be published here.

Survivor Manawaru

Guides and older Brownies from Papawai District and beyond shared a fun day of pioneer activities and outdoor cooking for a day event called Survivor Manawaru.

Held at Manawaru School, the girls formed ‘tribes’ (just like in the TV series) and firstly had to create a tribal flag and bandana. Tribes were named such things as HAKS (Happy Awesome Kind Sharing), The Cheeky Survivors, Go Tribe Blue and Surviving in Pink. They then went on to erect a flagpole using manuka wood poles and rope and also to make a rope ladder.

Lunch was a sumptuous affair with girls choosing from five different cooking options over two hours. Scones were made in a Dutch oven on a fire (served complete with jam and whipped cream); toasted sandwiches on a fire; snaplock bag omelettes on gas burners; sausage and vegetable kebabs on a coal BBQ and finished off with fruit pots covered in marshmallows and chocolate cooked on a gas BBQ.

After lunch the girls continued using traditional knotting and whipping skills to make rope donkeys and small rafts. These rafts then had a fire lit on them and floated down the creek.

Papawai District

Escape to the Wild

February 2012

Camp reports from two girls for their Budding Publisher clause of Challenge 9.

By Tara Kington, Morrinsville Thursday Brownies.
At camp we did lots of cool jungle theme activities, my favourites were when the guides were on a walk. All the brownies and pippins got into groups and headed off to our first activity. Our first activity was trying to get across a stream on stilts; we were not allowed to touch any obstacles as they were crocodiles. I didn’t have much balancing skills on the stilts which means I was quite bad.

On our second activity there were some concrete blocks and wood planks, the group that you were in would have to make a bridge or something to walk across your objects & they weren’t allowed to touch the ground. I fell on the ground and had to start again.

Our third activity was, there were cornflakes on the ground and whoever was first had to run across without making a sound otherwise you got squirted, I didn’t get squirted at all.

Our fourth activity was to get across the playground we had to work as a team, I kept losing my balance. Our last activity was there were poles sticking up from the ground. Some had string across each other; we called it elephant grass. We had to try get through the grass without touching it. I had heaps of fun. I had to keep restarting. It was the best camp ever.

By Emily Fryer, (pictured) and Eden Mouat, Morrinsville Brownies
Wow! At Brownie camp we all had fun because we made a cantab snake, a jumbo in a cage, a drum, a shaker, finger print things, a nature picture, monkey puppet and a decorated elephant.

The games were fun because we got to dance on cornflakes, walk through elephant grass, play on the playground and walk on stilts.

The bunks were thin and hard but comfortable for sleeping on.

It was more fun on the second day because all the pippins came. On the second night we all had fun at the spooooky Burma trail.

We liked Brownie camp because the Burma trail was fun.

Brownie Badges Record

What a nice way to present Brownie and Guide Badges. Belle has created an online Blog to record her process of her Brownie and Guide Badges.

Check out Belle's Blog at http://guidegirlnz.wordpress.com