Select the Outdoor Badge below for downloads of the badge program and any supplements associated with it.
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Backyard Camping
Start your outdoor camping progression by camping in the backyard. If someone can’t make it through the night, it’s easy to go inside and make a quick call.
Initial Release: 6.16.2015 / Latest Release: 6.16.2015
- Badge Program: Backyard Camping — EP_Backyard Camping
Container Gardening
Think container gardening is as easy as dropping some soil and a seed in a container? It might be. Then again, this simple solution may result with a plant that has a very short life. Container gardens take a lot of planning and care to keep plants healthy.
Initial Release: 5.22.2011 / Latest Release: 7.20.2014
- Badge Program: Container Gardening — EP_Container Gardening
Explore My Camp
Your experiences at your camp will vary from others. You might enjoy the activities, the stories or just being outdoors. Explore your favorite camp today.
Initial Release: 11.30.2012 / Latest Release: 7.20.2014
- Badge Program: Explore My Camp — EP_X My Camp
Field Trips: Sharing My Community
Each of us knows our own community. How often have you wanted to do a field trip, but are unaware of what’s available? By sharing your unique community with others, you can provide experiences that visiting troops might miss. Together, we can provide opportunities for discovery and exploration for our youth and ourselves. Instead of sharing our stories, we’re providing the opportunity for everyone to have the experiences to create their own.
Initial Release: 7.1.2011 / Latest Release: 7.20.2014
- Badge Program: Field Trips – Sharing My Community — EP_FT_Sharing Community
- Found: Requirements for Council Quilt Patch (Girl Scouts of Northern Indiana-Michiana) — FND_Council Quilt_Patch
Geocaching Basics
Geocaching is a great activity whether you are doing it individually or as a group. You get to play “hide and seek” with others worldwide.
Initial Release: 8.10.2012 / Latest Release: 7.20.2014
- Badge Program: Geocaching Basics — EP_Geocaching Basics
Identifiers
Have you been to an event and needed a way to identify your group or troop? Do you have a large family gathering at an amusement park? Need a way to show people who your group is? Explore items you can make to help create an identifier for you and your group.
Initial Release: 6.1.2012 / Latest Release: 7.20.2014
- Badge Program: Identifiers — EP_Identifiers
Letterbox Basics
Letterboxing incorporates the fun of a treasure hunt with art and orienteering. The clues to find a letterbox can be straightforward or a fun challenge. This badge gives you the basics to get you started. If you enjoy this activity, check out “Letterbox Next Steps” to learn even more!
Initial Release: 7.15.2014 / Latest Release: 7.15.2014
- Badge Program: Letterbox Basics — EP_Letterbox Basics
- Supplement: List of items to be aware of for seekers and owners — SUPP_Letterbox Etiquette
- Supplement: Safety issues for letterboxing — SUPP_Letterbox Safety
Letterbox Next Steps
”Letterbox Basics” gave you the basics, making the sport as easy as possible. This badge program expands on the basics so you can explore this in even more depth. There are more cool things than listed here, so don’t let this badge program be your last step.
Initial Release: 7.22.2014 / Latest Release: 7.22.2014
- Badge Program: Letterbox Next Steps — EP_Letterbox Next Steps
- Supplement: Minibook for recording letterboxes, 1/4-page — SUPP_MB_Letterbox_4_24m
- Supplement: Minibook for recording letterboxes, 1/8-page — SUPP_MB_Letterbox_8m
- Supplement: Information to start letterboxing, minibook — SUPP_MB_My Letterbox_8m
Letterbox Planting
After exploring letterboxing, you may find that you want to create your own letterbox.
Initial Release: 7.30.2014 / Latest Release: 7.30.2014
- Badge Program: Letterbox Planting — EP_Letterbox Planting
- Supplement: Minibook for recording letterboxes, 1/4-page — SUPP_MB_Letterbox_4_24m
- Supplement: Minibook for recording letterboxes, 1/8-page — SUPP_MB_Letterbox_8m
- Supplement: Information to start letterboxing, minibook — SUPP_MB_My Letterbox_8m
- Supplement: 4-up cards to put in your letterbox — SUPP_PR_Letterbox Card_4up
- Supplement: Sheet to plan your letterboxes location — SUPP_PR_Letterbox
Night Activities
Hiking isn’t the only activity you can do at night. There are many ways to use the night in group and individual activities. NOTE: Camping is not included in this badge program.
Initial Release: 5.13.2014 / Latest Release: 7.20.2014
- Badge Program: Night Activities — EP_Night Activities
Night Hikes
Taking a hike at night introduces an entire new world of wonder. As our vision decreases, our other senses start working overtime to collect information. Let’s take a hike and explore this cool world.
Initial Release: 6.10.2014 / Latest Release: 7.20.2014
- Badge Program: Night Hikes — EP_Night Hikes
- Supplement: Be safe at night — SUPP_Night Safety
Photo Scavenger Hunt
By hosting a photo scavenger hunt, you can utilize your local area, add special items to find and explore your community. This type of event incorporates physical activity with fun. So, let’s start with the basics of planning a photo scavenger hunt.
Initial Release: 7.13.2012 / Latest Release: 7.20.2014
- Badge Program: Photo Scavenger Hunt — EP_Photo SH
- Supplement: Action hunt ideas — SUPP_PSH_Action Hunts
- Supplement: Alphabet hunt ideas — SUPP_PSH_Alphabet Hunts
- Supplement: Animal hunt ideas — SUPP_PSH_Animal Hunts
- Supplement: Art hunt ideas — SUPP_PSH_Art Hunts
- Supplement: Color hunt ideas — SUPP_PSH_Color Hunts
- Supplement: Community hunt ideas — SUPP_PSH_Community Hunts
- Supplement: Food hunt ideas — SUPP_PSH_Food Hunts
- Supplement: Holiday hunt ideas — SUPP_PSH_Holiday Hunts
- Supplement: Nature hunt ideas — SUPP_PSH_Nature Hunts
- Supplement: Night hunt ideas — SUPP_PSH_Night Hunts
- Supplement: Photo skills hunt ideas — SUPP_PSH_Photo Skills Hunts
- Supplement: Placed item hunt ideas — SUPP_PSH_Placed Item Hunts
- Supplement: Prop hunt ideas — SUPP_PSH_Prop Hunts
- Supplement: Puzzle hunt ideas — SUPP_PSH_Puzzle Hunts
- Supplement: Shape hunt ideas — SUPP_PSH_Shape Hunts
Photo Scavenger Hunt: Adults
This badge program builds upon “Photo Scavenger Hunt”, incorporating specifics for adjusting a scavenger hunt for adults as well as highlighting possible themes / lists you can use for a hunt designed for a mature group of scavengers.
Initial Release: 7.13.2012 / Latest Release: 7.20.2014
- Badge Program: Photo Scavenger Hunt – Adults — EP_Photo SH_Adult
Photo Scavenger Hunt: Teens
This badge program builds upon “Photo Scavenger Hunt”, incorporating specifics for adjusting a scavenger hunt for teenagers as well as highlighting possible themes / lists you can use. Unlike younger children, teenagers are frequently “bored”, so we need to step our hunt up to make it more interesting for them.
Initial Release: 7.13.2012 / Latest Release: 7.20.2014
- Badge Program: Photo Scavenger Hunt – Teens — EP_Photo SH_Teen
Photo Scavenger Hunt: Youth
This badge program builds upon Photo Scavenger Hunt, incorporating specifics for adjusting a scavenger hunt for younger kids as well as highlighting possible themes / lists you can use for a hunt designed for their age group.
Initial Release: 7.13.2012 / Latest Release: 7.20.2014
- Badge Program: Photo Scavenger Hunt – Youth — EP_Photo SH_Youth
Share My Camp
Visiting and staying at a camp allows you to make it your camp — if only for a short time. Sharing your camp with others helps keep it alive in the minds and hearts of others.
Initial Release: 11.30.2012 / Latest Release: 7.20.2014
- Badge Program: Share My Camp — EP_Share My Camp