Promise and Law Activities

Thanks very much to Wendy Baker for posting these ideas to the Guide Mailing List!

1. This is a paper folding game which the Guides really liked.

I presume that you know how to fold the paper square to make the game. The four squares on the outside are coloured blue, red, green, brown. The first inside parts are numbered stating at the top left hand. Law #1, Law #4, Law #5, Law #7, Promise, Law #3, and Law #2.

When you raise the inside flag it will read from the top left. How can you be trusted when working for a neighbour? Next one: How can you be a friend to all in your community? How are you courteous outside your home? What can you do to keep our parks nice? Tell when you smiled instead of crying? How can you help spend less money? Give and example of helping in your community. What does being loyal to your community mean to you?

2. Act out a situation when you could keep your Promise and Laws in these places:

• at a baseball game
• during an exam
• in a restaurant
• in class
• at bedtime
• with a favourite friend
• going to church
• in church
• when at your grandparents home

3. Match the opposite cards and decide to which Guide Law they refer (These cards list works which are either good or bad qualities

"A" polite, snobbish, considerate, extravagant, lying, cowardly, lazy, purposeful, cheerful, merciful, ill natured

"B" truthful, courageous, energetic, rude, friendly, thoughtless, thrifty, depressed, good tempered, aimless, unforgiving

Have the girls make up some of their own.

4. In the following situations discuss: How are the Guide Laws being broken? What might happen? How will the others feel? What part of the Promise could have been kept?

• Your friend leaves the TV on even when she is not watching it, she turns down the sound.
• At camp, a tent peg is pushed through the canvas.
• A Guide you know makes fun of you because you attend church.
• A Guide you know kicks cats because she doesn't like them.
• At school, Guide who has not done her homework asks you for a copy of yours.
• Your Guider asks you to call your patrol to remind them to bring their membership fee to the next meeting. You decide you are too busy and hope they will remember.

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