Is your Tenderheart working on the Our Feathered Friends Merit Badge? Have they learned the parts of a birds? Now it is time to get outside and do some bird watching. Continue reading “AHG Merit Badge Help – Our Feathered Friends #2”
Are you enjoying watching the Olympics as much as I am? Most nights you can find my family in front of the television watching the various athletes compete. I was reminded of a set of mini-gold medals I made for a previous Olympic themed campout, and thought it would be a great time to share them with you. These would make great SWAPS.
They are super easy to make, but do require a few days of dry time, so be sure to plan ahead.
SUPPLIES:
1 batch of homemade air-dry clay (recipe here)
Small round cookie cutter (1.5 inched in diameter)
A #10 decorating tip (or other tiny round item to make circle impressions)
Gold metallic craft paint
Small craft paint brush
Ribbon
Hot glue gun with glue
Scissors
Rolling pin
Safety pins
Step 1: Make air-dry clay and allow to cool to room temperature. (Depending on the size of your circle cutter and how many you need you may only need to make 1/2 batch of clay). Recipe found here
Step 2: Working with a small amount of clay at a time roll it into a sheet just under 1/4 inch think. Using your round cookie cutter cut out as many circles/medals as you need.
Step 3: Before the clay begins to harden, use the small end of a #10 decorating tip to create the Olympic rings. You only want to make a light indention. Be careful not to go all the way through.
Step 4: Allow to dry at least 24 hours.
Step 5: Paint each medal with gold paint, being certain to get into the crevices of the Olympic rings, and the sides. Allow paint to dry.
Step 6: Place a small loop of ribbon on the back of each medal with a little hot glue, and add a safety pin.
It’s Friday, so that means another badge help here at the Life of Momma B. Today I am looking at the Our Feathered Friends Merit Badge from the Science and Technology Frontier.
Spring is right around the corner, and all little girls love baby birds. Baby animals of any kind really. Now is a great time to study Ornithology (yes, that is my fifty cent word for the day). The first requirement teaches the basic parts of a bird.
To help you with this, I have drawn a basic diagram of a bird that can be labeled. If you click on the picture below you can download a pdf worksheet for your Tenderheart to use. And I did include an answer sheet. The worksheet also includes basic definitions for all of the parts of the bird needed to complete requirement #1. 
If you are trying to complete this badge, I have also posted these requirements:
NOTE: The requirements have been simplified here. Please be sure to read the full text in the Girl Handbook to make sure you fully understand the requirements.
I am not sure which merit badge frontier I enjoy most. I learn so much from the Heritage Frontier. But I do enjoy the creativity that goes with the Arts Frontier. And when the two overlap, I am delighted.
Today we are looking at the five-pointed star, also known as a pentagram, found on the American flag. Can you imagine our flag with a six-pointed star instead of the five-pointed star? It just does not seem right.
According to legend, the original flag was designed with a 6 pointed star. It was not until Betsy Ross, demonstrated how easily a 5 pointed star could be cut that it was even considered.
Continue reading “AHG Merit Badge Help – Dawn of Our Country #4”
Since today is Groundhog Day, why not incorporate a little badge work into your day. Will Punxsutawney Phil see his shadow? Will we have six more weeks of winter?
Long before computers, people used signs to predict the weather. Over time, they recognized a pattern between cloud patterns and animal behavior and the upcoming weather. This created a long list of weather folklore. Continue reading “AHG Badge Help – Young Meteorologist #15”
