Well, for the "campfire badge" we learned how to build a campfire. There were three standard designs: teepee, log cabin and ? Forgive me for forgetting the third. Well, after asking for a while, I discovered only two standard shapes. I guess this Israeli style could be called the third:
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These pictures were photographed by me at the entrance of Beit El. The kids there have been getting ready for their Lag B'Omer campfires since Passover.
Davka, the article I linked to about Lag B'Omer was written by Rabbi Pinchas Stolper, former head of NCSY, the organization which taught me about Torah Judaism. And the very first NCSY activity I attended was a Lag B'Omer trip to Bear Mountain State Park, NY, in 1963.
4 comments:
I was a girl scout too. We had badges when we were brownies but they had disappeared when I moved up to girl scouts. However, years later, when I was a leader in both England and Scotland all age groups seemed to have kept the badges.
I suppose it depends where you are.
Interesting.
Actually, I think the badges were a good educational idea.
They certainly were. and the kids loved trying to get them. I fear some "educator" had felt they encouraged too much competition...
A little competition is fine; it's the impetus to try harder, and there were so many badges, for all interests and talents.
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