Guiding Light

The World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS) has designed an exciting new Games Go Global Badge to help members around the world learn more about the Olympic Games and the UK’s incredible sporting and cultural heritage.

Here are a few activities from the Games Go Global Badge activity pack...

Red ‘double-decker’ buses are famous symbols of London, with an upstairs floor to carry extra passengers. Divide into pairs and line up at one end of the meeting place. When the leader calls “get ready, set, go!” the first of the pair runs to the other end of the meeting place and back again. When they come back, they jump onto their partner’s back, ‘piggy-back’ style, making a double-decker bus. Their partner then carries them to the end of the room and back again. The pair to finish first is the winner.

In an open space, lay down a rope to mark the ‘throwing line’. Find a Wellington boot or other plastic shoe. Standing behind the throwing line, contestants try to throw the boot as far as possible.

In teams of three, two people form ‘the chariot’ and carry the third person.

To find out more about the badge, log on to

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‘do your best’ – which is something that athletes and Girl Guides have in common! All of the following Gold Olympians were once Girl Guides/Girl Scouts! Dame Kelly Holmes – 2004 Gold Olympian Athletics Jenny Thompson – 1996 Gold Olympian Swimmer Bonnie Blair – 1994 Gold Olympian Speed Skater Florence Griffith-Joyner – 1988 Gold Olympian Athletics Jacqueline Joyner-Kersee – 1988 Gold Olympian Long Jump Dorothy Hamill – 1976 Gold Olympian Figure Skating Peggy Fleming – 1968 Gold Olympian Figure Skating