Guide Badges

Craft Badge

Note: You should have made only one of the items at school. For every further four items completed you may have another Craft Badge.

Complete four of the following clauses:

Make a decorative ornament using paper or card, eg origami, mosaics.

Use one of the following techniques to decorate paper: calligraphy, rubber-stamping, quilling, stencilling, marbling.

Make a picture or design, decorate an item or produce a three-dimensional piece of work using any of the following techniques:

Embroidery (by hand or machine).
Tapestry.
Patchwork.
Quilting.
Beading.
Lace-making.
Use weaving skills to produce a functional article such as a mat, friendship bracelet, small bag or a wall hanging.
Using an appropriate medium e.g. wood, clay etc, carve or sculpt a figure, pot or group of animals. The work may be decorated and glazed or fired if appropriate.
Make three prints, either decorative or pictorial, using any of the following techniques:

Potato prints.
Lino prints.
Polystyrene prints.
String prints.
Etching.
Screen printing.
Or a combination of these methods.

Produce a print for decorating clothing or a soft furnishing using one or more of the following methods:

Block printing.
Screen printing.
Tie-dying.
Painting.
Decorate a medium other than paper, such as glass, silk, fabric or ceramic, using an appropriate technique.
Engrave a picture on a glass object or panel.
Make and decorate an object from salt dough.
Make a corn dolly, flower arrangement or an item showing a craft that is traditional to your area, e.g. Dorset Buttons.
Make and decorate a candle.
Make an article using another craft.