Mucky March is a Leicestershire Scouts Litter Picking Project. We are aiming to clear up Leicestershire by taking action, picking up litter and raising awareness of the issues litter creates.
We will start by litter picking at Cubs on 1st March, and will be encouraging Cubs to continue these efforts at home and in your local areas. Record your efforts at https://www.muckymarch.org.uk/ and see how many bags of litter Scouts have collected across Leicestershire.
Things we will do at Cubs
- Our World Challenge Badge – As a Pack, identify and complete an activity that benefits your local community. How did it help others? How did the activity help you? What could you do next?
- Our World Challenge Badge – Take part in an activity about the environment.
- Our Adventure Challenge Badge – Take part in an outdoor activity.
- Global issues activity badge – Monitor the waste you produce as a Cub Pack and make a plan to reduce, reuse and recycle your Pack’s waste.
- Naturalist Activity Badge -Learn the countryside code and how to follow it.
Things to do at home
Community Impact Staged Badge – Spend four hours personally taking action. This could be litter picking and contributing to https://www.muckymarch.org.uk/. This could be completing the badge criteria below and taking photographs / creating posters to evidence your work.
Community Impact Staged Badge / Environmental Conservation Activity Badge – Learn how to separate recyclable and non-recyclable rubbish ready for collection. Create a poster or take photographs of you recycling at home.
Environmental Conservation Activity Badge – Find out how to reduce the energy and water you use in your home. Show how you have encouraged your family to reduce water and energy use over four weeks. Create a poster, record a short clip or take photographs of you completing this at home.
Environmental Conservation Activity Badge – Find out about one type of renewable energy. Create a poster or record a short clip of you completing this at home.
You might find these websites helpful: https://www.wildlifetrusts.org/things-you-can-do-climate-change
Naturalist Activity Badge – Learn how to identify six different living things from two of these categories:
- trees
- garden birds
- water birds
- minibeasts and insects
- wild flowers
- pond dwellers
- fungi
- butterflies and moths
That means you should have 12 examples in total. You could take photographs of them and count it towards your photography badge too!
You might find this website helpful http://www.treetoolsforschools.org.uk/. or download
Naturalist Activity Badge – Over three months, visit the same natural area at least four times. Take a note of the changes in the plants and wildlife that you see. You might visit a garden, hedgerow, canal, river lake or park. Make sure that you have an adult’s permission for the visits.
Naturalist Activity Badge – Complete one of these activities