I dunno about the rest of you, but I love Dinosaurs! I personally find them interesting and fascinating! 🦖🦕

There are actually 3 times a year that Dinosaur Day can be celebrated.  International Dino Day-May 15th, National Dino Day-June 1st and Dinosaur Day-August 2nd. 

If you can't celebrate in May then you have two more days you can choose from and still be able to get your badge for it. 

Badge Requirements:

* Pick your favorite Dino(s) (1-2), and tell in your own words why you like them. Ideas to mention:

~ What time period were they in? 

~ Were they herbivores or carnivores?

~ How big were they?

~What part of the world today, did they live in back then?

~ What color were they likely to have been?

* Color a picture

* Give a definition of your Dino's name

* Any thing you want to do, as long as you have fun and it has to do with dinosaurs 🦕 

(NOTE: The blue one is a patch and the green one a pin.  Both of these were found on Amazon.)

Here are a few printables:

Dino activity sheets

Glowworm Guild Pinterest Board

As is the norm, you will need to ask a leader to sign off on your activities. You can you use the leader that you chose for your month badge.

Leaders are:

@Daddy Bear 77

@beanbean

@InspireDaddy- NOT AVAILABLE 

@DaddyRaven

Substitutes if needed are:

@shadowrider

@Very Proud and Happy Daddy

Remember the childhood rhyme April showers bring May flowers? Flowers are a big part of May Day celebrations. May Day brings maypoles, collecting flowers, and the delight in finding a surprise basket of flowers on your doorstep. Throughout its history, May Day has traditionally been a joyous celebration of spring, femininity, fertility, and the coming summer.

Many parts of the world celebrate the first day of May:

    * In Ireland, people sprinkle yellow primroses outside doorways to protect homes from evil spirits, while in Wales, they use hawthorn.

• In Scotland, bannocks are a traditional food, and on May Day they are marked with a cross. Children roll them down the hills. If the cake lands with the cross facing down, it’s considered bad luck.

• Another custom is “maying” or “to go a-Maying.” Maying is simply gathering flowers for May Day celebrations. The verse, “Here we go gathering nuts in May,” is from a popular May Day game referring to gathering knots of flowers. Nuts is a corruption of the word “knot.” In the British Isles, Hawthorn flowers come into blossom at the end of April and are commonly “gathered in knots.”

• In 1644 England, the Puritan leaders banned May Day celebrations because of its ties with pagan traditions. Even so, people still managed to celebrate. The ban was eventually overturned and the celebrations strengthen with the Restoration of England.

• In some parts of Britain, it’s called Garland Day. People collect greenery and make it into garlands. Children parade garlands of flowers fastened to sticks, crosses, or hoops.

• In France, it’s also known as La Fête du Muguet or Lily of the Valley Day. Traditionally, a sprig of lily-of-the-valley is given to loved ones. This flower is considered a lucky charm.

Today, May Day is celebrated all over Europe and in many countries and in some parts of the United States. In many countries, boys leave maypoles outside their sweetheart’s window.

American celebrations are sporadic, and many people don’t celebrate it at all. However, Mendon, Utah, has a huge celebration every year. Pennsylvania holds a Faerie Festival. 

 

ACTIVITIES:

* Create a May Day Crown (Using flowers You can use artificial since all regions aren't in full bloom yet)

* Check on Pinterest

(I'm going to find a few other things to do also) 

I'm sure growing up, you've heard at least one Mother Goose Nursery Rhyme.  They're been a favorite for little ones for well over a hundred years if not longer.

**Due by the 15th. If your doing both May 1st badges,you have until the 18th.

**Find your leader from the May Monthly Badge list.

💚LITTLES: (Do all four)

* Draw or color a picture of your favorite Mother Goose Character or story.

* Read your favorite MG story. Tell us a little about the characters

* Take a picture(s) of what you did

* You May do any other activities you want to, as Looong as they to with the MG theme.

💚MIDDLES: (Do all four)

* If you have a favorite story or Character (s), create your own little short story using that character.

* Draw or color a picture of your Favorite MG Character. 

* Take pictures of your activities

* Pick your own activity from Pinterest or any other site and do it. 

Everyone is a princess, all the time, in my way of thinking, but it's fun to go all out and actually celebrate it!

This patch is a week long patch. You can not start it until the 19th, but you can start planning and deciding what kinds of things you would like to do. 

It's also one of the badges you get to decide what activities you want to do to earn it. 

Things you must do, however to qualify:

* You have to do at least two activities each day. If you can't however, do them both on one day, but have more time on another, you can work in them that way. As long at the end you have at least 12-14 activities finished. 

* Photos CAN be one of those activities. However, not the only one. You can do photos for each day, as one activity, everyday, but you must also do at the least one other.

Some ideas are:

* Watch a Princess movie each night/day. Write a small paragraph about - Which movie/show you watched and what you like about it. 

* Princess crafts: Pinterest has tons and for all age levels. Little's or Middle's. Anything you feel like doing, that can be princess related to, is up too you! 

* Tea parties

* Sing Along

* Coloring pictures

Make it special and for you! Cause you're the princess of this story!

Note: None of the activities you do here, can be transferred and counted towards another badge/patch that you're working on.

So let's have fun! Enjoy ourselves and make memories!

Juju💚🐛

GUIDELINES:

* Let your leader know that you are participating and which activities you will be doing. 

* Badge activities start on the 19th of April and due on the 22nd.

* Choose 3-4 activities from the list below. You may also find your own ideas to do. Lots of them on Pinterest. I'll also put a link below to the list I've started. 

* If you have any questions please ask. 

ACTIVITIES:

~ Make Bird feeders from toilet paper rolls

~ Plant a tree

~ write a short essay on how trees help us and our planet

~ recycle and make a craft from the materials you are recycling ♻️ 

~ Color or draw a picture of planet Earth 🌏 

~ Paint rocks and leave for others to find

~ Make clay necklaces of the earth 🌎 (recipe below or you could use air dry clay)

~ Make seed bombs

~ Choose your own idea of a craft or activity pertaining to earth day, that you would like to do. 

Here is the link to my Pinterest Earth Day board:

EARTH DAY PINTEREST BOARD

You can also purchase physical patches here if you wish:

Earth Day Patch

Easter (April 5th)- You can choose to do a faith badge or a Easter Bun buns Badge, or both! The choice is yours! Cannot start until 12amon the 5th.

Activities: 

* Write a short paragraph about the different traditions you do to celebrate Easter.  e.g. Do you go to church? Do you have a special family dinner or is it just you and your Big? Etc... anything you want to write about that pertains to how you celebrate. 

* Color Easter egg(s). Hard boiled or perhaps a blown out egg.  (I use to make one of these every year). If you can't color eggs, then Hide eggs and have an Easter egg hunt.  Maybe a scavenger hunt.  

* Write a paragraph about your day.  What activities did you do to celebrate? If you don't celebrate Easter, possibly write it about Spring and what you like about it. 

* Color a picture of something that symbolizes Easter to you.  One about Spring, a Easter bun buns, Eggs, flowers etc...

* Free choice: you pick what you want to make to show us.  Your creation.  Your imagination. 

All activities for this one is required. 

Show pictures to your leader or contact me, before midnight on the 5th.

(There are two symbols for Autism. If you don't want the traditional one,  (the puzzle piece) and prefer the infinity one, let me know so I can let shadowrider know which to put on your profile)

APRIL 2ND- AUTISM AWARENESS DAY. 

Some of you already know that I, personally, am on the Divergent Spectrum.  For those of you that don't know,  I am autistic.  To see me or speak to me in person, you may not even notice, unless you know what to look for. 

That is why, I think it is important to make bring awareness to something that allot of people don't understand.  The more you know, the less of a stigma it is. 

Studies and information changes alot over time, so keeping up on these changes is a good and intelligent thing to do. 

For those that would like to earn this patch,  you will need to choose 3-4 of the following activities:

1. Go on line or to the library and look up autism;

    ~Find out about what it is and about the spectrum itself.  

     ~Find out what "masking " is. 

    ~Find out why females mask more then males. 

2. Wear blue, red or gold,  on this day to show your support for Autism Awareness Day. Blue or light blue is the traditional color to wear. 

3. Color a puzzle pieces to represent the autism symbol. 

4. Write a short essay about autism. 

5. Find a AUTISM Awareness activities in your area and participate. 

6. Make a sensory toy. (There are many on Pinterest)

As required, please take photos of what you do and share with your leader and the group in your own personal GLOWWORM GUILD photo album.