ALBERTA ARTS CHALLENGE 2014
Theme: Beauty
Purpose: The goal of this challenge is to look at beauty in different ways. This can be
looking at inner beauty, which is the character traits that make us unique. This can also be
looking at beauty within the world around us.
Sparks and Brownies: Complete 3 of the sections
Guides, Pathfinders and Rangers: Complete 4 of the sections
Section #1: Music
Learn 3 songs for Sparks and Brownies
Learn 5 songs for Guides, Pathfinders and Rangers
 Brownie Smile Song (Sing a Song for Sixes, pg 18)
 This little Guiding light of mine (Our Chalet Song Book II, pg 33)
 Sing for Joy (Our Chalet Song Book, pg 82)
 You Know We’re All Feeling Happy (Celebrate with Song, pg 17)
 You Are My Sunshine (traditional)
 Cherry Trees (Songs to Sing and Sing Again, pg 85)
 By the River (Our Chalet Song Book, pg 24)
 I Know A Place (Our Chalet Song Book, pg 88)
 It's A Small World (Our Chalet Song Book, pg 38)
 Land of the Silver Birch (Our Chalet Song Book, pg 16)
 All Things Shall Perish (Our Chalet Song Book II, pg 58)
 The Happy Wanderer (Jubilee Song Book, pg 23)
 Magic of Campfire (Jubilee Song Book, pg 6)
 Alberta Hiking Song (Celebrate with Song, pg 63)
 I Like the Flowers (Celebrate with Song, pg 54)
 Listen to the Earth (Celebrate with Song, pg 54)
 The World is Such a Lovely Place (Celebrate with Song, pg 51)
OR
• With your unit, find 3 songs that are popular today that promote inner beauty. Have a group
discussion about the lyrics and/or video and why you feel they promote inner beauty.
Section #2: Craft – do one of the following
 Make a collage of what you think beauty means to you
 In partners, have one person describe themselves while the other person draws what
they are hearing.
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Section #3: Dance
 Play songs of different genres (jazz, swing, rock, classical, techno, etc) and dance “like
no one’s watching”. You can make this in to a dance party.
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ALBERTA ARTS CHALLENGE 2014
Section #4: Photo Essay – do one of the following:
 Take or draw pictures of all the members of your unit (girls and guiders). Have every
girls in the unit write a word or phrase that describes the inner beauty of that girl. At the
end of the meeting, each girl can take home her picture to hang in a prominent place to
remind her.
 Make a “word cloud” using your name as the base word and using at least 10 other
words describing your inner beauty (what you like about yourself)
There are resources on the internet such as www.wordle.net
Section #5: Drama: do one of the following
 Create your own play/skit about inner beauty.
 Create a commercial to promote inner beauty to your peers and record it.
 Create a play about something that you find beautiful. Try to do this around something
in your environment that you find beautiful or someone who you feel has inner beauty.
Program Tie-Ins:
Sparks: Being Me (Additional Activities), Being Healthy (Moving to the Beat)
Brownies: Key to Me (Self Discovery), Key to the Arts (Act it Out, Around the World in Song
and Dance, Canada Sings, No Talking), Write On interest badge, I Can Be interest badge,
Share Your Talent for Dance interest badge
Guides: Discovering You - Discover What’s Important to You( #2), Discovering You - Stay Fit
& Healthy (#5) Creative Craft interest, Feeling Good interest badge, Dancing interest badge,
Music Fan interest badge, Performing Arts interest badge, Art Production interest badge,
Picture This interest badge, Singing interest badge, Music Fan interest badge, Writing interest
badge
Pathfinders: My Music, My Movies and More – Get Musical, The Arts from A to Z,
Camera Crazy, Relationships, Values & Choices
Rangers: Explore Your Creativity – Let’s Dance, Photo Essay, Theatre Sports, Being
Crafty, Your Interests
Girl Guides of Canada – Alberta Council - Alberta Arts Challenge 2014 Created by the Alberta Program Committee Fall 2014