Billingshurst Guides learn new skills during lockdown

The 2nd Billingshurst Guides were encouraged to achieve interest badges for their Gold Award independently at home after adapting a new Girlguiding programme which was introduced at the start of September 2019.

Natalie Evans, 2nd Billingshurst Guides leader, said: “The work the girls have produced has been amazing.

“The most popular badges have been confectionery, photography, upcycling, mixology and natural remedies.

“We are now having Zoom meetings to enable a bit of social contact and routine again and keep doing the fun guiding activities the girls love.

“So far we have been doing quizzes, learning sign language and having a long awaited catch up with the girls.”

Things the girls have been busy creating include turning a metal shelf unit and tin cans into a strawberry planter, bag making using items such as an old skirt and selling them to raise money for charity, using scraps of material to make a quilt, turning old tin cans into useful stationary pots and making a kiwi lip scrub for the Natural Remedies badge.

Many of the girls have been also making cakes including fudge, chocolate tiffin, truffles and macarons.

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