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There is something about a nice woggle.

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 "Dear O., please find the last two badges I owed you (Community Impact lv 1 & Moving on to Scouts Award) and this woggle[*] I handcrafted especially for you. Each leaving Cub, A., L., E. & you got one customised with your names. I couldn't give you yours in person. It has been a pleasure & a privilege to be your leader. You are a great person, funny, kind and smart too. Keep up the good attitude and smile! Well done for all your hard work, see you at District Camp! Yours in Scouting, Bagheera" This is what my note to a leaving Cub says. I'm sending this to him through the mail as he could not attend our last Pack meeting of the year last Wednesday and he is moving on up to Scouts in the next term. Two customised leather woggles made by Bagheera As it says in the note, I made each leaving Cub a woggle out of leather on which I engraved their name with a beveler. I painted the incurved letters with a golden acrylic paint marker. I sat the Cubs d
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Scout Badges and where to get them.

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Every time I pull out my camp blanket in the presence of my Cubs, I get the same questions: where and how did I get all of those badges, can they steal the Minecraft ones, can I please give them my badges and when the answer to these last two question is no, where and how can they get badges? Now, as a leader, the first answer I will give you and a quite obvious one at that, if you want badges, you can earn them by meeting the requirements! But what I will also tell you is that you can buy and swap many badges with the help of the internet and social media and of course you should bring your spare badges at camps to swap with other scouts you meet from around the world! There even is an annual European Scout and Guide Collectors' Meeting ! Every year in Autumn, the Scouts and Guides Museum in Leuven organises this international meeting where Scouts and Guides from all over the world come for the day to sell, buy and swap badges and scouting memorabilia. If you really get into colle
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