Beavers 40thBirthday - Challenge Badge 2026
Choose 40 birthday celebrations to do here are some examples:
Find 40 different items on a nature walk, decorate 40 stones write positive notes on each stone and then pop them around your local community, decorate 40 cupcakes with different toppings/ designs – Please make sure you take photos to send us.
Please complete the 40 challenge above and then choose 10 more from the list below.
T - Take part in a District or County activity / event
H - Have a joint activity with a Squirrel Drey or Cub Pack
B - Building Money Skills confidence – Each lodge Leader is given a small amount of money (£3) The Lodge Leader and their Lodge choose a Theme which could be a colour or item and they each buy an item to match the Theme or Colour. Each lodge visits 6 shops (let the shopkeepers know beforehand of the Beaver Scout invasion!) allowing each beaver to have a say in what is brought and how much is spent. The Beavers must make decisions on what they buy and why, also the cost. They also must tell the shopkeeper what they are doing. Once completed they tell the other lodges about their way of collecting.
I - Invite a member of the Kent Beaver Scout Programme Sub Team to your colony – Contact Us
R - Rustle up a meeting with someone who serves your community i.e. a police officer, your mayor, a vet, a coastguard, a lifeboat crew member
T - Take part in a sleepover
H - Have fun going back in time to 1986 finding out all about when Beaver Scouting first started – what badges could you earn, what was the unform like is it the same as today – we cannot wait to hear what you discover
D - Design and make a bird feeder / bug or bee hotel or a Hedgehog house – are you quiet and quick enough to take photo’s of your visitors RSPB - Feed the Birds
A - Advertise your activities – share photo’s / videos (please make sure you have consent) and or a write up of some of the marvellous activities your colony has taken part in during our celebration year on Facebook Instagram - tag us @kentbeaverscouts.
Y - Yet some more challenges to choose from:
- Take part in an environmental project in your community
- Visit a local care home
- Go on a nature walk looking at the different signs of the season – i.e. spring new buds and spring flowers - UK's Largest Woodland Conservation Charity - Woodland Trust
- Sing a song with a difference – i.e. just with actions or what about sign language
Badge order form will be available later in the year
