Colour Chameleon A challenge badge for all sections by 46th Glasgow Guide Company Registered Charity Number SCO35079
Welcome to Colour Chameleon! Let us start by saying thank you for downloading our challenge pack. We hope you have as much fun completing it as we did creating it! The challenge is made up of 4 parts: 1. Colourful Creations 2. The Science of Colour 3. Colourful Games 4. The Meaning of Colour To complete the badge you should complete a minimum of six age appropriate activities from a variety of the sections. To help you choose your activities, each page includes the Promise Badge for the sections the activity is recommended for. Please feel free to adapt the activities to suit your unit. Please email us with estimated badge requirements as you start the challenge this will help us to manage our badge stock levels and should mean we have badges when you need them! If you have any activities of your own you would like to share please email details to us at the46thglasgowguides@outlook.com and we will include in future updates. Thank you for your support, 46th Glasgow Guides 1 P a g e
Colourful creations Crayon Melts You will need: Wax crayons in various colours A sharp knife A mixing bowl Silicon fairy cake trays (or other shapes if you can find them) Coloured card Glue 1. Chop up wax crayons into chunks and mix together in bowl. (Do not grate or flake the crayons as you will not get the desired effect.) 2. Fill moulds with crayon mix. Bake in a very hot oven (230 C) for 15 minutes. Don't worry if it looks a bit of a mess at this point! 3. Once cooled (you may need to leave it till next week if doing this on a unit night), take out shapes and mount onto card petals using a glue gun or other strong glue. If you can find heart shaped moulds, why not create Valentine hearts with a special message on your mount? 2 P a g e
Crayon Pictures You will need: Canvas frame Wax crayons Glue gun Heat gun or hairdryer 1. Glue wax crayons onto the top of the canvas using a glue gun. 2. Holding the canvas upright, melt the crayons using a heat gun or hairdryer. Make sure you stop before they drip off the bottom of the canvas. 3 P a g e
Clothes-peg Chameleons You will need: wooden clothes pegs glue white card felt tip pens or colouring pencils red paper 1. Copy template onto thin white card and colour your chameleon in bright colours. 2. Cut out the template into two pieces. 3. Glue the top part of the chameleon onto the top of a clothes peg. Then glue the bottom part onto the bottom of the clothes peg (make sure they line up). 4. Cut a small strip of red paper and roll it up. Glue the end to the clothes pin where the chameleon's tongue should be. 4 P a g e
Paper Chameleons You will need: scissors 1 x A4 coloured card, 2 x 1/4 A4 coloured card Extra coloured card/paper for tongues and eyes glue pen sticky tape 1. Fold a piece of A4 card in half lengthways. 2. Draw a diagonal line from one corner at the folded edge, to the opposite corner on the open edge. Cut this line and keep aside the 'non folded' edges. 3. Fold the edge of the paper to the centre on both sides. Open the shape so it becomes a triangular shape with an uneven edge (this is where you will stick the head to). 4. Open the side fold but keep the middle fold down - you should be able to see the fold lines. 5. Make cuts to the folded line on the fold side, cutting through both layers of paper. 6. Open the folds and glue the two uncut sides of paper together. 7. Cut out some legs from your 'non folded' extra bits and glue to the bottom. 8. Take a 1/4 of a piece of A4 paper. Fold over the short side and cut off the excess to make a square. 9. Open the square and fold in the opposite direction to make a crease in the shape of an "X". 5 P a g e
10. Cut one of the lines of the X to the centre point. Fold over the triangle to the adjacent triangle and glue into place. This should give you a pyramid shape. 11. Repeat steps 8-10 above, then tape the two pyramids together. This is your head. Draw eyes on the outside of one of the pyramids. 12. Cut a length of pink or red card and roll to make a 'tongue'. Tape or glue to the middle of the mouth. 13. Attach the head to the uneven edge of your chameleon's body. 6 P a g e
Coloured Sand You will need: Salt Food colourings Zip lock bags Clear jars 1. Pour a cup of salt into a zip-log bag. 2. Add 10-15 drops of food colouring. 3. Squish the bag until the salt is covered evenly. 4. Leave the bags for a few hours until dry (or until next week). 5. Layer different colours of sand in a glass jar to make a lovely gift. Or: Use the sand to make a picture by swirling glue onto paper and sticking on your sand. 7 P a g e
Bubble Painting You will need Washing up liquid 15 drops of bright food colouring 1/2 cup of water straws white A4 card 1. Mix together a squirt of washing up liquid with the water and food colouring. 2. Blow into the mixture using a straw until you have a huge pile of bubbles. 3. Gently press the card onto the bubbles allowing them to pop on the paper. An extra challenge: Can you make a collage using your bubble paintings in different colours? 8 P a g e
Shaving Foam Marbling You will need Shaving foam Food colouring or paint 2 x baking trays A butter knife or similar to mix Ruler Card 1. Squirt some shaving foam onto the baking tray. Mix the foam with the knife until you have covered the whole tray. 2. Using a ruler spread the shaving foam so you have an even layer on the tray. 3. Drop 1 drop of each food colour or paint on the shaving foam, making sure they are evenly spread out. 4. Using a stick or toothpick swirl the shaving foam to spread the colour in streaks across the foam. 5. Lay the card on the shaving foam and gently press into the coloured foam mixture. 6. Peel off the card and place on a clean baking tray. Using the ruler wipe off the shaving foam leaving the colour behind on the card. 7. Place your card in a safe place to dry. What can you make with your marbled card? 9 P a g e
Paper Plate Rainbows You will need Cotton wool Coloured ribbon - red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple Paper plate Scissors Glue Craft knife (optional) 1. Fold a paper plate in half and cut along the fold. 2. Cut slits into the paper plate in a fan leaving about 1 cm at the top edge and making sure the slits don't join each other at the bottom. 3. Weave the red ribbon through the slits (over one section, under the next) and push to the edge of the plate. 4. Repeat with the orange, yellow green, blue and purple ribbons in that order. Make sure that you alternate the starting sections of the ribbons so you get a weave effect. 5. Once you have woven all the ribbons, trim one end to leave about 15cm length. Trim the other end so that it is even with the paper plate. 6. Clue the ribbons on both sides of the plate to make sure they stay in place. 7. Fluff up 1 or 2 cotton wool balls and glue onto the plate, covering the short edge ribbon. 8. Punch a hole at the top of the rainbow and tie a piece of ribbon through the whole so you can hang up your rainbow. 10 P a g e
Colour a Flower You will need A colour of paint. Black and white paint Flower worksheet (appendix 1) Chose ONE colour. Pain an unmixed sample into circle B. Add white to your colour and use the mix to paint circle A. Lastly ad black to your original pure colour and use the mix to paint circle C. Use the colours you have mixed to paint the flower as realistically as you can. 11 P a g e
Stained Glass Rainbows You will need Black paper or card Coloured tissue paper Glue Scissors 1. Cut 'windows' in the black paper in the shape of a rainbow. 2. Stick tissue paper onto the back of the windows. 3. Hold your rainbow to the light so see the colours! Design a Butterfly You will need Paint, coloured pens or pencils. Attached template printed onto white card/paper Using the attached template, design a beautiful butterfly using as many colours as you like. 12 P a g e
Colourful Cupcakes You will need 150g (5 oz) lightly salted butter, softened 150g (5 oz) caster sugar 175g (8 oz) self-raising flour 3 eggs 1 teaspoon vanilla extract Assorted food colourings Icing sugar to decorate Mixing bowls enough to separate out the colours Wooden spoons (or electric whisk, if you re cheating) Cake cases Makes 12 Cooking time: 20 minutes 1. Pre-heat oven to 180 C (350 F), gas mark 4. 2. Line a baking tray with 12 cake cases. 3. Put all the ingredients (except the food colouring) in a bowl and beat until light and creamy. 4. Divide the mixture into separate bowls and colour using the food colouring. 5. Divide the mixture between the cases. 13 P a g e
6. Bake in oven for 20 minutes of until risen and firm to the touch. 7. Transfer to a wire rack to cool. 8. Decorate. 9. Eat. 14 P a g e
Pom-pom bookmarks You will need Wool Scissors 1. Wrap wool around your 3 middle fingers 90-100 time. 2. Cut the wool off and ease gently off your finger. 3. Cut a separate piece of wool around 12-15 cms. 4. Tightly tie the wool around the middle do it a couple of times just to be sure. Remember to leave enough wool for the tail of your bookmark. 5. Cut the loops of wool. 6. Fluff out into the shape of a pom-pom. 15 P a g e
The Science of Colour Homemade Blusher You will need: beetroot powder corn flour cocoa powder (optional) small bowl spoon make up brush (to apply) Mix 2 tbs of beetroot powder to 1 tbs of corn flour in a small bowl, making sure you break apart any clumps. Add a little cocoa powder to make it a little darker or a little more beetroot powder if you want to make it brighter. Make a Rainbow You will need Red, Blue and Yellow paint Paper Can you paint a rainbow, showing all the colours of the rainbow but using only the three primary colours. 16 P a g e
Colour Spinners You will need White card, cut into circles Red, Blue, Green and Yellow felt tip pens. Pencil Divide the card into quarters. Colour each quarter a different colour. Push the pencil through the middle and spin the wheel like a spinning top. Look closely - how many colours do you see? Does it make a difference how fast you spin it? 17 P a g e
Tasting Colours You will need Lemonade Food colouring Mix a few drops of food colouring into a jug of lemonade. Repeat with 2 different colours. Ask girls to taste each drink and decide what flavour each is. Once you have revealed the 'true' flavour, discuss with the girls why they think that they thought they were different flavours. Why not add some food colouring whilst cooking spaghetti and ask the girls what flavour the spaghetti is? 18 P a g e
Absorbing Science You will need Water Clear plastic container with low sides Coloured pens food dye plastic cups paper towels (thicker paper towels work best) - Experiment 1 1. Make some dots using pens on the bottom of a sheet of paper towel. 2. Fold the top of the paper towel over the container so that your coloured dots are inside the container, but not resting on the bottom. 3. Slowly pour in water so that it just touches the bottom of the paper towel. 4. Watch carefully as the water slowly makes it way up the paper towel towards the coloured dots. When the water reaches the tot the colour starts to rise! This is because the towel is absorbing the water and taking the ink with it. - Experiment 2 1. Fill a plastic cup with some water and add a few drops of food colouring. 2. Roll up some paper towel and place one end in the cup with the water, and the other in an empty paper cup beside it. 3. Watch as the coloured water travels up the paper towel and makes its way into the empty cup so that both cups have the same amount of water. - Experiment 3 1. Fill 2 cups with water. Add blue food colouring to one cup and yellow food colouring to the other. 2. Put an empty cup between the two paper cups. 3. Roll up 2 paper towels: place the end of one towel into the blue dye and one end of the other into the yellow cup. Put the other end of both towels into the empty cup. Watch as the water makes its way into the empty cup and creates green water. 19 P a g e
The Meaning of Colour Who is your colour? Chose a colour and imagine they are a person. What are they like? What is their personality? Create a poster showing your colour as a person and share it with the rest of your unit. Why do you think we associate different things with different colours? (e.g. Red=angry, Blue=peaceful) Colour around us Did you know that T.V. programs are 'graded' to bring out certain colours. For example, the colour blue is highlighted in 'The Apprentice' as this is the colour of business. Over the week look out for different T.V. shows and the colours that appear most in them. Discuss the shows you have chosen with others in your patrol or unit and what colour themes appear. What do you think the program makers are trying to highlight? 20 P a g e
Colour in nature Animals use colour to act as a warning, to camouflage or to give a message. Choose and animal and research how it uses colour. Make a poster to share with your unit, showing how the animal uses colour. Colour tribes People use colour as part of a uniform and to associate them with a certain group of people. For example football teams, guide uniform. Gangs also use colours to show that they are members of the same gang. Why do you think they do this? Discuss the impact of what colours can mean to people both in the same 'unit' or a different. How can this create problems? 21 P a g e
Colourful Games Rainbow Ladders This game is a glorified race divide the girls into teams of 5 or 6 ( you can play with more or less though) and line them up at one end of the hall. We usually put a chair or something similar at the opposite end of the hall for them to run round. You are going to tell a story of an artist painting a picture - give the girls each a name so the first person in each team might be Blue, the second red, someone might be brush ie name one person in each team after something you are going to say repeatedly while telling the story. As you tell the story every time you use the word that a child is named after they have to run round the chair and then back to their place the first team to be back wins the point. If you use the word Easel or another word chosen by you the whole team has to run Obviously much more fun if you repeat the same name time and time again so the girls end up exhausted! I would start along the lines of : Mr Colour, the artist decides to paint a picture. He sets up his easel (everyone runs) attaches his canvas to the easel (everyone runs) and then chooses a brush (if someone is called brush they run). He decides to paint the sky blue (person called blue runs), so puts his brush (brush runs) in the blue (blue runs) paint etc. etc. let your imagination run away with you doesn t matter if the story is totally silly. We also play basically the same game telling the story of Ma Brown making a pot of lentil soup (the girls are called after the ingredients and every time I say pot or basket they all run), or making a Christmas cake! 22 P a g e
Coloured Steps This is again a team race. Everyone needs a partner and they should sit in two lines facing their partner with their legs stretched out so their feet are touching their partners feet. Tell them to sit on their fingers and ensure that there is a good gap between each rung of the ladder the unit should have formed. Instead of numbering the girls give them all a colour so number one is blue, two is red, three is yellow etc. You then simply call out one colour at the time and the girls have to run down your ladder ( jumping over each individual set of legs hence why they should be spaced out) and then run back up your hall to the top of the ladder, where they should jump over any remaining legs from the top of the ladder until they are back in their place. First girl back and seated correctly get the point for her team Fruit Salad Put all the chairs in a circle and give each girl a colour (each colour should have about 4-5 girls). Remove one seat. The girl without a seat stands in the middle and calls out a colour, all the girls who have that colour need to change seats with each other and the girl in the middle also has to try to get one of the seats. One person will be left without the seat and chooses the next colour If you want all the girls to change seats call out "rainbow". 23 P a g e
Colour Tag Pick about 4 people to be 'taggers'. Set boundaries (you want an open space ie: school gym). Call out a colour (everyone wearing red for example) and then everyone wearing that colour (or can do patterns, ie: stripes, plaid etc) has to run across. If they are tagged, they sit out. If the caller calls out: "color tag" then everyone runs. If the caller calls out "energizer" then everyone sitting out can rejoin in the game. Word-search Print out the word-search attached. How quickly can you find all the words? 24 P a g e
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PAINT A FLOWER 1. Chose ONE colour. Pain an unmixed sameple into circle B. Add white to your colour and use the mix to paint circle A. Lastly ad black to your original pure colour and use the mix to paint circle C. A B C 2. Use the colours you have mixed to paint the flower as realistically as you can.
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