Drawing dragons

Approximately half of the Brownie Guides are currently working on their Junior B.P. award, the peak achievement award for girls aged 7 years and older.

The award requires 12 challenges to be completed, two from each of the seven Fundamentals of the Australian Guide Program:

• Promise and Law
• Guiding Traditions
• Service
• Outdoors
• World Guiding
• Patrol System
• Leadership Development

One of the Promise and Law challenges is to "think about something you are good at and share your talent with your Patrol. It may be music, cooking, writing or something else."

Not every girl selects this particular challenge, however those who have completed it over the past few years have chosen a great range of talents to share, including telling jokes, craft, baking and playing hockey. 

The latest talent that was shared was extremely unique and you may have guessed by the title of this post that it was... drawing dragons!

Miss 10 years (with a little Leader prompting), led her Patrol through a dragon conversation, discussing appearances of dragons in books and movies and the various types and their features, strengths and weaknesses. She then went on to teach the Patrol how she draws dragons and then assisted them to create their own. It was definitely an original topic and her Patrol had a great time working together for 40 minutes, before I finally had to stop them to do other activities. I was really impressed with how they worked together - it was the most cohesive i've even seen them!

There were over 20 dragons drawn, here are the few I managed to capture in a photo.