Explorers Creative Arts Activity Badge
Explorers Creative Arts Activity Badge
If you love expressing yourself through art, music, dance, or performance, then the Explorers’ Creative Arts badge is perfect for you!
Complete three activities. You could:
Discover - Find out about an artist, craftsperson or arts organisation and their work.
What or who inspired them? How did they get started? What are their motivations?
Experience - Learn a new creative skill.
This could cover art, performing arts, dance, photography or music.
Mobilise: Find out what opportunities there are around your local area for you or your Unit to get involved in the Arts.
Is there anything you could do to improve opportunities? You could raise some funds, help with running a session, or support in building opportunities to access the arts for others.
Solve - Create a piece of art using a non-traditional medium or an innovative way of working.
This could be painting using natural materials, creating a piece of performance art, using unconventional materials or techniques, or using soundbites to create music.
Create - Explore an avenue or medium of your choice and create a piece of work that reflects you as a person.
How could you present this to other people?
Tips
- Remember to think broadly and choose something that you are interested in.
- Remember that the Arts encompass lots of different areas and that theatres and museums also fall into this area.
- There are also lots of different platforms and mediums in which you can unleash your creativity.
- Could you work towards achieving an Arts Award? If you have a creative skill already, could you teach it to your unit?
- To get the badge, you can either try some of our example activities, or come up with your own with support from a Scouts volunteer or trusted adult. The activities should be challenging for you and take a reasonable amount of time.
Offer flexibility and encourage Explorers to tailor their badge to their interests and skill set.
Everyone has different skills and experiences, so try to consider their starting point when choosing what they will achieve.
As a rough guide, an Activity Badge should be achievable within 3 weeks of activities.
- When taking part in adventurous activities, remember to let someone know:
- Where you’re going.
- Who you’re with.
- What time you plan to be finished.
- A plan for communicating your progress.
- Ask for help if you're visiting new places or trying new activities.
- Buddy up – take part in activities with another Explorer or friend, so you can experience and try new things together.
- Complete your own risk assessment based on your plans and ask an adult volunteer to check it for you.
- When taking part in adventurous activities, remember to let someone know:
- All activities for this badge must be safely managed and locally approved.
- Volunteers must make sure they have completed a thorough risk assessment and taken appropriate steps to reduce risks.
- Use the safety checklist to help plan and risk assess the activity.
Badges will be available to purchase from Scout Store later in September, please check back for updates.
June 2026.
Requirements can be adapted to suit each young persons abilities. See our guidance on flexibility.