Make your badge bucket list

Before you begin 

• Use the safety checklist to help you plan and risk assess your activity. There's also more guidance to help you carry out your risk assessment, including examples.   
• Make sure all young people and adults involved in the activity know how to take part safely. 
• Make sure you’ll have enough adult helpers. You may need some parents and carers to help. 

Create your badge bucket lists

1. Give each group big sheet of paper, pens, and a copy of the Badges and Awards book. You could also use printed badges and requirements.
2. Each group or individual can then create their own badge bucket list. They should pick their top five badges they want to do, either in Scouts or at home, and keep a copy of the list to remind them. They could note down the things they need to do to get each one too.
3. Once they’ve chosen their badges, they should rank them one to five. 
4. Everyone should bring their lists together and compare them.
5. The badges in 5th place should be given one point, the badges in 4th place should be given 2 points and so on, with the badge in 1st place getting 5 points.
6. Add up all the points for each badge. The badge with the most points is the winner and the one chosen by the group to do next. 
7. At the end, each person could make and decorate a sheet with their badge choices on, including a tick box. They can then take it home and keep a track of the badges they achieve. 

Choosing your badge activities

1. Everyone should then come up with a few ideas for how to get the badge.
2. Write each idea down on a big sheet of paper or write each one on a slip of paper.
3. There’s two ways you can then choose the best idea:
   • Everyone could be given three sticky dots, to stick on their favourite ideas. It’s up to them whether they stick all three on their favourite idea, or split them between several good ideas. The idea with the most dots is the winner. 
   • Everyone should be given three sticky notes, then write either one, two, and three on a different one. They should stick them on their favourite ideas, with the highest number (three) on their favourite badge idea. At the end, add together the numbers on all of the sticky notes stuck to each idea. The idea with the highest total is the winner.