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Activity Description: Scouts draw animals in motion and explore how different animals move by acting them out.

• Fulfills Step 2 of GSUSA Daisy Animal Observer badge requirements.

Info Needed: Explore how animals move, hide, and behave by mimicking their actions or observing how they blend into their surroundings.

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Items Needed:

• Paper
• Crayons or markers

Instructions (Estimated Total Time: 20 min):

1. Scouts draw a picture of an animal in motion. (5 min)
   • Encourage them to show movement like flying, jumping, or crawling.
2. Scouts share their drawings and describe what the animal is doing. (4 min)
   • They can explain how the animal moves and where it might be going.
3. Talk about different ways animals move. (4 min)
   • Give examples like walking, swimming, flying, slithering, or climbing.
   • Ask scouts which animals can climb trees or swim underwater.
4. Scouts act out animal movements. (7 min)
   • Stretch tall like a giraffe, sway like an elephant’s trunk, curl and stretch like a cat, or jump like a frog.
   • (Optional) Scouts come up with their own animal moves and take turns guessing each other’s movements.

“Walk like an elephant, wriggle like an inchworm, flap your arms like a bird, or hop like a bunny.” – GSUSA VTK