Get ready for summer adventures
We know that adventure builds confidence and believe that everyone should have access to it, whoever or wherever they are. To help you enjoy your adventures this summer, we've added some new outdoor-themed clothing to our growing casualwear collection and pulled together some outdoorsy activities to try! When you shop with us, 100% of profits goes back into guiding.
Adventure ideas & activities
From camping to a penny hikes, canoeing, climbing or doing a bug hunt in the garden, adventure comes in many forms and is something that enables girls to move into a brave space and have fun. To help inspire and fill your summer days, we've gathered a selection of activity ideas and outdoor tips.
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UMA activities
Rainbows
- UMAC1 (Secrets of Survival) – Trails and trackers – work as a team to learn how to make & follow trails
- UMAC3 (Captain’s Orders) – Birdie builders - use natural materials to make a birds nest
- UMAC4 (Guiding and Me) – Tree-mendous senses – understand trees are different from
- each other & how animals use them
- UMAC5 (Snacks for Quacks)
- Bug hunt – practice investigations skills; find out about minibeasts & where they live
- Hidden nature – challenge yourself to recognise things you see every day in nature, using only your hands
- UMAC6 (Snowed In) – Catch me if you can – work as a team & discover tactics in sport
- UMAC11 (Chant for Change) – Campfire singsong – get outside & gather around the campfire to discover some campfire songs as a unit
Brownies
- UMAC5 (Rule Makers)
- Hedgehog home – making homes for hedgehogs & learning about caring for local wildlife
- Citrus feeder – create a bird buffet by making an appetising citrus feeder to hang outside
- UMAC8 (Call me, maybe?)
- Finders keepers – Work as a team & discover strategies used in sport
Guides
- UMAC1 (Help)
- Litter lotto – litter picking bingo
- Warm in the wild – work as a team to learn how to build a fire for warmth
- UMAC3 (Equal Everything) – Plastic planting – create your own ecosystem
- UMAC5 (Wild Wax) – A-Z of nature – scavenger hunt to find out the A-Z of nature
- UMAC7 (Animal Advantages) – Burning ball – discover a new game to play with your unit; practise catching & throwing skills
- UMAC8 (Instruction Disruption) – High Flyers - create your own flying disc, discover different throwing & catching techniques
- UMAC9 (Make Your Mark)
- Penny Hike - get outside & be active, explore your local area
- Capture the Sun - explore the outdoors & use tactics to win this sunny wide game
- UMAC11 (Huddle and Waddle) – Adventure Sounds – girls explore a local outside space & experiment to create music from natural objects
- UMA Guides (Have Adventures) – Sneaky s’mores – you swore you had put your s’mores ingredients somewhere safe…but where have they gone? It looks like someone has pinched them.
Rangers
- UMAC1 (Gutted) – Sow it, grow it - making seed balls to provide food & habitats for bees & insects
- UMAC2 (Campfire Cookout) – Campfire cookout - practise fire lighting, develop outdoor cooking skills & Explore fire safety
- UMAC3 (Anything Goes) – Land art - understand your local landscape, learn about land art, & be resourceful with natural materials
- UMAC5 (Think and Throw) – Speedy scavengers - explore the nature in your local area & complete a quick-fire scavenger hunt
- UMAC7 (Equality vs Equity) – In the zone – practise throwing & catching, work as a team & discover how important strategy is in sport
- UMAC8 (Intersectional Identities) – The great guiding games - create a sports day for your community that everyone can take part in
- UMAC11 (Animalia Inventions)
- Diversify your garden - campaign for local biodiversity & create a wildflower paradise
- Fireside games - rangers build & gather around a campfire & play some musical games
- UMA Rangers (Have Adventures) - Mission to moth - find out how to attract moths by mixing up a moth feast – and see how many of them you can lure to you.
Skills builders
Rainbows
- Have Adventures (Camp) Stage 1 – Caring campers – learn how to camp without harming the wildlife
- Take Action (Make Change) Stage1 – Growing cups of kindness – plant a plant to say thank you to someone in your community
- Have Adventures (Camp) Stage 2 – Fire starter – build & light a fire, learn how to use different wood & understand which wood burns well
Brownies
- Have Adventures (Camp) Stage 2 – Fire starter – build & light a fire, learn how to use different wood & understand which wood burns well
- Have Adventures (Camp) Stage 3 – Best fire for the job – practice lighting fires & build fires for different purposes
- Have Adventures (Camp) Stage 4 – Fireside feast – cook a meal on the fire
Guides
- Have Adventures (Camp) Stage 4 – Fireside feast – cook a meal on the fire
- Have Adventures (Camp) Stage 5 – Wild cooking – make and cook using a camp oven
Rangers
- Have Adventures (Camp Stage 6) – No pans, no problem – cook without any pans
- Theme Award – Bushcraft - bushcraft is all about living outside just using natural things to survive; Challenge yourself to go back to nature.