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Guided by Design
Think like a fashion designer and design a future for the people!
Recommended for:
All Sections!
Estimated Time:
60
Minutes
Materials:
Pens/Pencils
Scissors/Glue
Celebration:
Fashion Week
Activity Description
Guided by Design is a creative fashion challenge where girls step into the role of designers and explore how uniforms reflect identity, values, culture, and change. Leaders can choose between two pathways Guiding Around the World or Guiding Through the Ages, before girls take on a design challenge to create a brand-new uniform.
Choose your challenge
🌍 Option 1: Around the World 🌍
Girls explore Guiding uniforms from different countries, linking the country, uniform, and values. This activity focuses on global diversity, culture, and how climate and lifestyle influenced design.
🕰️ Option 2: Through the Ages 🕰️
Girls build a Guiding timeline, linking decades, uniforms, and Promise/badge designs. This activity explores how Guiding has changed over time and what has stayed the same.
How to Play
1. Introduce the challenge - Split into small teams and introduce the challenge: explain that today, the girls are becoming fashion designers and will explore how uniforms reflect people, place, and purpose.
2. Run your chosen starter - Use either Around the World or Through the Ages puzzles. Ask groups to match the pieces and discuss what they notice. This can be differentiated to only matching 2 pieces rather than 4 if needed!
3. Set the design brief - Explain the task: design a new Guiding uniform that is practical, comfortable, inclusive, and suitable for its context. This may be a uniform for a different country, or a uniform for 100 years in the future
4. (Optional) Trash Fashion - Take the challenge further, turning your designs into life-size mockups using recycled materials such as bin bags, cardboard, strin,g etc.
5. Share and celebrate - Finish with a mini catwalk or group presentation, dragon's den style.
Looking for programme ideas?
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Demanding Designs (UMA 30)
Keeping the Adventure Alive
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