What can you think of for your Arts Badge? You could
write, draw, make, illustrate, design, share, perform, learn, improve...
Here are some example challenge:
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Draw a few cartoons.
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Learn about primary and secondary colours and use them to
paint some pictures.
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Improve your dancing skills or skills at a musical
instrument.
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Choreograph your own dance or create your own song.
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Review a movie.
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Take a photo of a silhouette.
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Make a design using potato cuts and use it to cover a book.
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Learn some new songs and sing them to your unit.
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Write your own new song.
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Write a poem.
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Name the main parts of a camera
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Find out about the different types of flash and what they're
for.
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Take photos with different lighting (eg. in direct sun, with
side light, with back light, on a sunny day but in the shade, on a cloudy
day)
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Learn how to get photos printed.
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Learn how to change the batteries in a digital camera or
film in a film camera.
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Investigate the fashions of 3 times in history at least 20
years apart, What do you like/dislike?
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Design your own fashion.
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Create an item of clothing - belt, scarf, skirt, shorts...
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Investigate tie-dying and give it a try.
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Create an artwork with wire.
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Find out about Art Therapy
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Create a 3D piece of art that represents you.
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Identify different parts of an instrument
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Investigate where a chosen instrument is placed in an
orchestral setup
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Research the history of your instrument
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Investigate what treble, bass and alto clef are.
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Create a mobile
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Learn how to sing the national anthem of another country (eg.
God save the Queen, O Canada, God Defend New Zealand, Star Spangled Banner,
Das Deutschlandlied...)
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Make and play a home-made musical instrument
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Make some puppets and put on a puppet show for family and/or
friends
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Find out about different types of puppets
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Present 3 different magic tricks to your unit
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Give origami a try.
Or any other challenge or group of challenges that relate to arts and mean
you are achieving your personal best.