Medieval Challenge Badge

North Devon District Senior Section have created a badge to raise money to take 15 Senior Section Members to Switzerland in the summer of 2016.

Badges cost £1.20 and we very much hope you and your unit enjoy this badge, as much as we have enjoyed designing it.

To order the badge, please fill in the slip below and send with a cheque to Fiona Ravenscroft, Pullands, West Down, Ilfracombe, North Devon, EX34 8NH, or e-mail

To gain the badge, the number of sections to be completed are as follows:

  • Senior Section 14
  • Guides 10
  • Brownies 8
  • Rainbows 6

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I……………………………..would like to purchase…………………….badges and send a cheque payable to Ilfracombe Senior Section, including £2 postage and packaging. My e-mail/address for an invoice is:......

  1. Play medieval charades-Use medieval words to act out to members of your unit, patrol or six.
  2. Have a go at a board game- Go, Chess, Draughts 9 Men Morris.

Other (Medeval game ideas can be found at: )

  1. Learn the Language of the Fan
  1. Design a coat of arms relevant to you
  1. Play giant noughts and crosses with members of your unit
  1. Play Pick up sticks or Shove H’appeny
  1. Build a castle using natural material
  1. Dress a member of your patrol as a princess
  1. Make a material pouch to carry stones in and play the game Noughts and crosses or Tic tac toe! Or invent your own game medieval style.
  1. Make a hobby horse out of recycled materials and host a jousting competition with foam lances and balloons!
  1. Hold a medieval banquet
  1. Make and eat jousted fruit!
  1. Create a skit and perform it to your unit! Make sure to make them laugh.
  1. Have a go at Juggling and make your own juggling balls
  1. Have a go at Stilt walking
  1. Design and make medieval headgear
  1. Hide dragons eggs outside or in your meeting place and hunt the Eggs
  1. Play Sleeping Dragons! Don’t wake one up!
  1. Play a wide Game- Kings and Queens


3-Learn the language of the fan

Back in the medieval period, ladies used the fan to communicate; have a go at communicating with each other using your handmade fans.
To hold the fan with the right hand in front of the face.
Follow me.
To hold it in the left ear.
I want you to leave me alone.
To move it with the left hand.
They are watching us.
To throw the fan.
I hate you.
To move it with the right hand.
I love another.
To hold it closed.
Do you love me?
To let slide it on the eyes.
Go away, please.
To touch the edge of the hand fan with the fingers.
I want to talk to you.
To hold it on the right cheek.
Yes.
To hold it on the left cheek.
No.
To leave it hanging.
We will continue being friends.
To hold the fan in the lips.
Kiss me.
To open it slowly.
Wait for me.
To open the hand fan with the left hand.
Come and talk to me.
To hold it opened, covering the mouth.
I am single.

  1. Design a coat of arms relevant to you

9-Make a material pouch and play a game of Noughts and crosses and Tic tac toe

Equipment-

Tea Plate Sized Circle of Material with 8 holes at edges

Draw String

Permanent Marker

10 Small Stones (5 of 2 different colours)

Material Scissors

To Make

Cut out a circle of material in the shape of a tea plate- See Template

Draw Grid on as of template

Make 8 holes around the edges and thread drawstring through

Play Tic Tac Toe, Play as Noughts and Crosses

When you have finished put the counters in the middle and draw the pouch together.

12- Make and Eat Jousted Fruit

  • Cut up a variety of different fruits
  • Take a long thin wooden Skewer
  • Place different fruit on each wooden skewer
  • Eat and Enjoy!

15- Medieval Head ware

17- KNGS AND QUEENS

Object of the game- To capture the opposing teams King

Needed: Large area for running around in

Equipment- 2 ropes for bases

-2 pack of cards shuffled- 1 team all reds – 1 team all blacks

  • The group is split into two equal groups
  • The pack of cards are shuffled
  • One person remains in the base and deals out the cards, however a king and ace (Assassin) are chosen.
  • When in play individuals challenge opposing players to reveal their cards by tagging them. The person whose card is lower, loses their card to the opposing team. They both must return to their base to: offer the winning card to their base master, or to gain another card. (This continues until all cards are gone, then players without cards must sit within their bases.)
  • The King can only be captured by the Queen or lower. If an ace or another king tags the opposing king they just bounce and the king’s identity is revealed.
  • If a card of the same value tags a card of the same value then they just bounce. Nobody loses a card.
  • Only a King can assassinate the Aces!

For other resources such as medieval wordsearches, vocabulary and Quizes please visit