A challenge for all sections on the themes of
transport, travel, invention and adventure!
1st Waddington Guides’
Transport Challenge
A challenge badge for all sections on the themes of
transport, travel, invention and adventure!
On a recent camp we experienced so many different and exciting forms of
transport that we thought we deserved a badge! So we have created this
challenge badge for all the members of Guiding who love to travel, to
encourage them to find out about different methods of transport, try out some
which are new to them and have lots of fun doing some challenges along the
way – literally! There are lots of activities which we have tried and tested, so
we hope you will enjoy them as much as we have!
The challenge consists of 5 sections:
Section 1: Vehicular Voyages – Experiencing different forms of transport
Section 2: Excellent Expeditions – Maps, directions & explorations
Section 3: Transport Trivia – Finding out more about transport past & present
Section 4: Joyous Journeys – Making journeys fun
Section 5: Creative Conveyances – Transport-themed arts and crafts
To complete the challenge we suggest that:
Rainbows should complete six challenges
Brownies should complete eight challenges
Guides should complete ten challenges
Senior Section members and adults should complete twelve challenges
In each case, at least one challenge should be completed from each section.
Vehicular Voyages
Everyday Transport
During a single Guiding event (e.g. a camp or day trip) travel by four of the following:
Bike/Scooter
Bus
Car
Coach
Foot
Taxi
Train
Tram
Unusual Transport
Travel by one of the following methods of transport and tell others about your
journey in an interesting way (e.g. poster, diary entry, talk, powerpoint, news article):
Amphibious vehicle
Boat/Ferry
Cable car
Chained ferry
Cliff lift
Funicular
Gondola
Helicopter
Horse & carriage
Hot air balloon
Hovercraft
Light railway
Monorail
Motorbike
Narrow boat
Narrow gauge train
Open top bus
Paddle steamer
Plane
Rickshaw
Tourist/beach train
Speedboat
Steam train
Underground train
Transport for Fun
ᴽ Transport isn’t just about getting from A to B – travelling by unusual methods can
be just for fun! With your Six, Patrol or Unit, try out any one of these:
Bell boating
Canoeing/Kayaking
Canyoning
Coasteering
Dragon boating
Go karting
Gorge walking
Horse riding
Ice skating
Jet skiing
Kite surfing
Microlighting
Parachuting
Paragliding
Parascending
Parasailing
Pedalo
Punting
Quad biking
Rafting
Roller skating/blading
Rowing
Sailing
Segway
Skiing
Sledging (snow or grass)
Snowboarding
Surfing
Swimming
Tandem
Turfboarding
Water skiing
Windsurfing
White water rafting
Zip wire
Zorbing
Remember to check the A-Z of activities and ensure the correct risk assessment
requirements, adult:child ratios, instructor qualification, etc. are fulfilled
Excellent Expeditions
Coin Walk
Go on a coin walk – take a coin with you and every time you reach a corner toss the
coin. If it lands heads up turn left and if it lands tails up turn right. Remember to
keep a note of which way you have been so that you can find your way back!
Geocaching
Try geocaching – a treasure hunting game using GPS. For details of where
geocaching is available near you, go to www.geocaching.com
Orienteering
*Learn to set and use a compass and use it to go orienteering.
Local Area
˜*° Draw a sketch map of your local area, marking on it important landmarks such as
churches, phone boxes and schools. Use it to explain to someone how to get to
three local places of importance, for example the police station or hospital.
Plan a Journey
*ᵡ°ᶻ With other members of your unit, plan and make a journey using at
least one mode of public transport. You will need to consider:
Where you are going & why
Which form(s) of transport you will use
How long it will take (use a timetable)
How you and your group will keep safe
How much the journey will cost
What you need to take with you
Budget Travel
How far can you travel from your meeting place on a budget of, for example, £10?
Either use the internet to find out, or actually try it for yourselves! You could do this
in small groups, competing others to see which group can travel furthest. Stay safe –
let someone know where you are regularly and hitchhiking is not allowed!!
Transport Trivia
Famous Journeys
Find out about one of the following famous journeys and tell
your unit about your findings in an interesting way:
Saul’s journey to Damascus (Biblical)
Christopher Columbus discovers America (1492)
Titanic’s maiden voyage (1912)
Scott of the Antarctic’s mission to the South Pole (1912)
Apollo 11 – first manned mission to the moon (1969)
Inventions
Transport today would be very different without the inventors of the past!
Find out what each of the following people invented and when:
Karl Benz
Louis Brennan
Christopher Cockerell
Paul Cornu
G Daimler & W Maybach
Karl Drais
Cornelius Drebbel
Dean Kamen
RJ Mitchell
Robert Stephenson
Frank Whittle
Orville & Wilbur Wright
There are matching cards at the back of this pack to use with this challenge if you wish.
See for Yourself
Go on an outing to a transport museum, famous vehicle or airshow/similar.
For example, you could visit York Railway Museum or the HMS Belfast,
watch the Red Arrows perform or go to watch a motor race.
Historical Events
Transport has played an important part in many historical events. Find out about
one of the following and tell your unit about your findings in an interesting way:
Anti-Jewish bicycle decree
John F Kennedy’s assassination
London Underground air raid shelters
Rosa Parks’ bus journey
Trojan horse
Joyous Journeys
Travel Games
ᶻ Make up games which you could play on two of the following types of journey:
Boat/Ferry
Car
Coach/Bus
Plane
Train
Walk
Picture Journey
ᵡᶻ On a journey, take photographs or draw pictures of what you see along the way.
When you get home, use them to make a poster or timeline showing
people where you went on your journey and what you saw.
Alphabetical I-Spy
On a journey with other members of your unit, look out for items starting
with every letter of the alphabet and write them down. The first person
to spot an item starting with all 26 letters is the winner!
Scavenger Hunt
Make a list of 15 items for someone to find whilst they are on a journey. Think about
what they are likely to see (this will depend on the type of journey) and decide
whether you want them to bring the items back with them or just see them.
If possible, swap lists with someone and have a go at finding the items on a journey!
Sing as You Go
Singing always helps to pass the time on a long journey.
Learn or sing some (vaguely!) transport or travel themed songs, such as:
Barges
Daisy Bell (Give me your answer do)
Everywhere we go
Follow the yellow brick road
It’s a long way to Tipperary
Me Tarzan, you Jane
Oh you’ll never go to Heaven
Princess Pat
Row, row, row your boat
The ants went marching one by one
The wheels on the bus
When I was one…. (Pirate song)
Creative Conveyances
Transport of the Future
What might transport look like in the future? Let your imagination
go wild and create a new form of transport. You could draw or paint a
picture or create a model from clay, plasticine, paper or recycled rubbish.
Books
Read a book, such as those listed below, in which someone goes on a great journey.
Then write a review about the book or tell someone what you thought of it.
Alice in Wonderland
Around the world in eighty days
Charlie and the great glass elevator
Gulliver’s travels
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
The Time Machine
Watership Down
Films
With members of your unit, watch one of the following short films involving a
journey. Then act out your favourite scene. Each film’s length (min) is in brackets.
Alternatively, if you have more time, you could watch a full length film involving a
journey, such as Ice Age 2: The Meltdown, Homeward Bound or Road Trip.
Hedgehog in the fog (11)
Mickey Mouse in Steamboat Willie (8)
The Snowman (26)
Wallace & Gromit – A Grand Day Out (24)
Poems, Songs & Stories
Listen to a poem, song or story about transport or travelling, for example
From a Railway Carriage (Robert Louis Stevenson), Daisy Bell (Henry Dacre)
or The tortoise and the hare (Aesop). Then have a go at making up your own.
Bear & Balloon Challenge
Make a hot air balloon which is able to lift a small teddy bear
at least 10cm off the floor for a minimum of 20 seconds.
Delicious Transport
Try one of these transport-themed food ideas. Remember to check for allergies!
Helicopter sandwiches
Fruity cars
Jelly boats
Make a sandwich and cut off
the crusts to use as propellers
and landing skids. Use chipshaped crisps for the tail and a
slice of apple for the window.
Use bananas, kiwi, blueberries,
strawberries and cocktail sticks
to make these delicious and
healthy cars!
Use jelly, blue food colouring,
oranges, melons and cocktail
sticks to make these delicious
boats.
Crafty Creations
Try one of these transport-themed crafts. Instructions are at the back of the booklet.
Balloon powered
car
Balloon
hovercraft
Paper plane
garland
Space rocket
Baker Ross Buys
I’ve never met a Guider who doesn’t like Baker Ross! The following Baker Ross
transport-themed crafts have proven popular in our unit:
Car suncatchers
Flying gliders
Racing car
ceramic coin
banks
Racing car
scratch art
bookmarks
EK6726 6 for £2.50
EK6727 24 for £9.12
EV1813 8 for £2.50
EV1814 24 for £6.96
P573 4 for £6.96
P5731 12 for £19.80
ET145 10 for £2.99
ET1451 30 for £8.10
Additional Information
Over the next few pages you will find:
 Instructions for making the crafts
 Inventions matching cards and answers
 Information on links to interest badges, etc.
 Badge order form
Rocket ships
You will need
 Kitchen roll inside (cardboard tube)
 Coloured card/foam
 Stickers, felt/foam letters/shapes, etc. to decorate
 Orange & yellow tissue paper
 Sticky tape
 Scissors
 Glue
Instructions
 Wrap the toilet roll in tin foil and stick in place
 Cut a circle from the card with a circumference slightly larger than that of the
tube
 Cut a straight line from the edge of the circle to the centre
 By allowing the two pieces of circle to overlap, fold the card circle into a cone
with a base slightly larger than the end of the tube
 Stick the cone together
 Stick the cone to the top of the tube
 Cut two matching triangular pieces from the card
 Stick the two triangles to the bottom of the tube
 Cut the tissue paper into thin strips
 Stick the tissue paper to the inside of the tube at the bottom so that when it is
held up it looks like there are flames coming from the bottom of the rocket
 Decorate the rocket as desired
Balloon powered car
You will need
 4 plastic lids from soft-drink or water bottles.
 Rectangle of thick corrugated cardboard (15cm x 10cm)
 Straight straw
 Bendable straw
 Metal skewer
 2 wooden skewers
 Balloon
 Elastic band
 Plasticine
 Sticky tape
 Scissors
Instructions
 The plastic lids will be the wheels of the car. Placing each one in turn on the
plasticine to avoid injury, use the metal skewer to make a hole in each lid, just
big enough for a wooden skewer to fit through
 Cut the straight straw in half
 Tape one half-straw at one end of the cardboard, across the shorter side
 Tape the other half-straw at the other end
 Thread a wooden skewer through each half-straw to make the car axles
 Thread the plastic lids onto the skewers and
 Use plasticine to hold the wheels in place
 Cut the long part of the bendable straw to the same length as the short part
 Blow up the balloon and let it down a couple of times to stretch the rubber
 Place the neck of the balloon over one end of the bendable straw and fasten it
using the elastic band
 Turn the cardboard over and tape the bendable straw along the length of the
car so the balloon rests on the cardboard. The straw should poke over the
other end
 Inflate the balloon by blowing through the straw and pinch the balloon so that
the air doesn’t come out
 Place the car on a clear, smooth surface, let go of the balloon and watch your
car go!
To watch a demonstration video, go to:
http://sciencesquad.questacon.edu.au/activities/balloon_powered_car.html
CD Hovercraft
You will need
 CD
 Superglue
 Balloon
 Sports-style water bottle lid
Instructions
 Superglue the bottle top to the centre of the CD, with the valve closed
 Place the balloon over the bottle top
 Open the bottle top’s valve
 Blow up the balloon, blowing through the CD and bottle top
 Close the bottle top’s valve
 When you are ready to let your hovercraft move, open the bottle top’s valve
and place it on a flat surface
To watch a demonstration video, watch the YouTube clip: Make Toy CD Hovercraft by
spacepainter
Paper aeroplane garland
You will need
 Cotton or thin cord
 Needle
 Paper of various colours and patterns
Instructions
 Use piece of paper no larger than A6 to make small paper aeroplanes of
various shapes, sizes and colours – you can decorate them or make them from
different colours of paper
 Use the needle to thread the aeroplanes onto the cotton/cord, approximately
30cm apart
 Hang the garland from the ceiling to give the impression of very busy airspace!
Inventions matching cards
You may like to use these cards to match inventors with their inventions.
The dates have already been matched with the inventors to help give some clues!
The answers are at the bottom of the page.
Louis Brennan
1903
Paul Cornu
1907
Cornelius Drebbel
1620
Christopher Cockerell
1955
Karl Drais
1820
Karl Benz
1885
Gottlieb Daimler &
Wilhelm Maybach
1886
Dean Kamen
2001
Frank Whittle
1930
Robert Stephenson
1829
RJ Mitchell
1936
Orville & Wilbur
Wright
1903
Monorail
Helicopter
Submarine
Speedboat
Bicycle
Hovercraft
Spitfire
Steam locomotive
Turbojet engine
1930
Segway
Modern car
Aeroplane
Modern car – Karl Benz, 1885
Monorail – Louis Brennan, 1903
Helicopter – Paul Cornu, 1907
Hovercraft – Christopher Cockerell, 1955
Speedboat – Daimler & Maybach, 1886
Bicycle – Karl Drais, 1820
Submarine – Cornelius Drebbel, 1620
Segway – Dean Kamen, 2001
Spitfire – RJ Mitchell, 1936
Steam loco. – Robert Stephenson, 1829
Jet engine – Frank Whittle, 1930
Aeroplane – O & W Wright, 1903
Links to Guiding
Section Programmes
If you’ve enjoyed these activities, why not try
a connected badge, Go For It or award?
Activities from this challenge can be counted towards Rainbow Roundabouts
such as Roundabout Global Adventure, Roundabout the World and Roundabout
Get Healthy.
Activities marked ˜ count towards the Brownie Finding Your Way badge.
Activities marked * count towards the Brownie Out and About badge.
Activities marked ᵡ count towards the Brownie World Traveller badge.
Activities marked ° count towards the Guide Finding Your Way badge.
Activities marked ᶻ count towards the Guide World Traveller badge.
Activities marked ᴽ count towards the Guide Outdoor Pursuits badge.
Go For It! On the Move, Take your Toothbrush and Life Wise include some
similar activities to those in this challenge badge
Activities for this badge could go towards Look Wider. For example:

Creativity – Creative Conveyances challenges

Fit for Life – Activities involving exercise or healthy foods

International – You could plan and/or undertake a journey abroad

Leadership – Lead one of these challenges for other members
Activities from this challenge badge can count towards your
Leadership Qualification or part of the Camp and Holiday scheme.
If you’ve enjoyed the travelling elements, why not think about
travelling more with your unit or with other members of Guiding?
Perhaps even to one of the four World Centres?!
Badge Order Form
Thank you for taking part in our Transport Challenge – we hope you
enjoyed it! Please fill in the form below to order your badges.
Unit: _____________________________________________________
County: __________________________________________________
No. of badges required: ________ at £1.20 each = £________
Postage:
1 – 30 badges
31 – 100 badges
101+ badges
£1.00
£1.50
£2.00
£________
TOTAL:
£________
Postage name & address:
_________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________
E-mail address: ____________________________________________
(We will e-mail when the badges have been dispatched)
Please make cheques payable to 1st Waddington Guides and send
order forms to:
Sarai Woollins
34 Blackfriars Road
Lincoln
LN2 4WS
Alternatively, you are welcome to order by e-mail and pay by bank
transfer. Please contact Sarai directly to arrange this:
[email protected]
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Profits will be used to help finance camps and holidays for members of 1 Waddington Guides