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Beaver Scout Animal Friend Badge

• You don't need to have your own pet to do this badge.
• You could help look after a family or friend’s pet, farm animal, or a school or classroom pet. You could help at an animal shelter, pet store, farm or city farm.
• You could also find out about any wild animals near you, that need some help. Birds might need help during the winter when there's less food for them. Or, if there's a hedgehog living nearby, there's lots you can do to help keep them safe. 
• If you’re thinking about getting a pet, remember this is a big responsibility.
• If you’re thinking about getting a pet, before introducing any animal into your home, you need to make sure you can meet their needs throughout their lifetime.
• Any animal, no matter how big or small, will be a big responsibility that will require lots of time, love, money and care every day, so you need to be sure that this is something you can commit to.

1. Learn how to care for an animal, Find out what the animal needs. Learn about its habitat, space, exercise and sleeping area.
2. Help to take care of that animal for four weeks
3. Keep a note of how you have looked after the animal for the four weeks.
4. Tell others in your colony about the animal

1. Even though there are lots of computer games and things that show you what its like to care for an animal, these won’t count for the badge. You will need to learn to take care of a real, live animal.
2. You can include looking after wild animals such as birds for this badge if you do not have a pet at home. Caring for them would include feeding them and looking after a bird bath for example
3. Using the worksheet keep a note of how you have taken care of the animal this could include takins photographs or writing short sentences. Once you have handed in your worksheet your leaders will get to show us at one of our sessions.

• Download and fill in the Animal Friend Worksheet and hand it into your section leader or Upload to OSM

1. Design a cover for your favourite book. - Tell your Colony, Lodge, Explorer Scout Young Leader or Beaver Leader why this book is your favourite. 
2. Read at least six books. - Books you have read on an e-reader count too.
3. Show that you know how to look after a book.
4. Make a bookmark and explain what bookmarks are for.

1. Spend at least six weeks making a collection.
2. Show your Colony or Lodge a sample of things from your collection.
3. Tell others in your Colony or Lodge about your collection.

   What is your collection? Why do you collect these things? What is your favourite thing from your collection?

• This worksheet is used in conjunction with our Book Reader Activity session, some of the activities for this badge will take place at a Beaver Session.
• Download and fill in the Book Reader Worksheet and hand it into your section  leader.