The Badge Archive

• Citizenship & Civics: Badges that help youth understand how communities and governments work. Includes civics education, voting awareness, local government, social awareness, and learning about community roles.
• Communication, Writing, & Expression: Badges that encourage youth to use their voice and build strong communication skills. Includes letter‑writing campaigns, journalism, storytelling, and communication used for community impact, as well as everyday communication skills such as sign language basics, public speaking, active listening, and expressing ideas clearly.
• Cooking: Badges focused on basic cooking knowledge and safe kitchen practices. Includes simple recipes, measuring, food prep, kitchen tools, and beginner cooking techniques.
• Emergency Readiness: Badges that teach youth how to stay safe and prepared in everyday situations. Includes home safety, weather awareness, emergency planning, and knowing when and how to seek help.
• Financial Literacy: Badges that introduce youth to money skills and responsible financial habits. Includes saving, spending, budgeting, needs vs. wants, and understanding basic financial concepts.
• First Aid: Badges focused on age‑appropriate safety skills and basic first‑aid awareness. Includes household safety, outdoor safety, emergency readiness, simple first‑aid concepts, and knowing when to ask for help.
• General Life Skills: Badges that build practical everyday abilities. Includes household skills, organization, time management, personal responsibility, and basic problem‑solving.
• Health: Badges that help youth understand how their bodies work and how to care for them through healthy routines and daily choices. Includes hygiene, sleep, growth basics, time management, screen‑time balance, rest and relaxation, and building habits that support overall well‑being.
• Kindness & Character: Badges that help youth practice kindness, empathy, and positive behavior toward others. Includes acts of kindness, respect, anti‑bullying, gratitude, being a good neighbor, and other character‑building themes focused on relationships and community.
• Leadership: Badges that help youth build confidence, responsibility, and leadership skills. Includes decision‑making, integrity, teamwork, goal‑setting, and everyday empowerment skills that support personal growth and initiative.
• Literacy: Badges that build practical reading and learning skills for everyday life. Includes book exploration, reading comprehension, research basics, study habits, library skills, and activities that support strong literacy and lifelong learning.
• Performing Arts: Badges exploring performance, expression, and the art of bringing stories to life. Includes drama, acting, improv, puppetry performance, dance, movement, music, spoken word, and other activities that encourage confidence and creative expression on stage or in front of an audience.
• Social Skills: Badges that help youth build positive connections with others. Includes communication skills, friendship building, teamwork, conflict resolution, kindness, and understanding boundaries.
• Writing & Storytelling: Badges focused on creative writing and expressive storytelling in all forms. Includes poetry, short stories, journaling, scriptwriting, character creation, zines, and other projects that help youth develop imagination, voice, and creative expression through words.

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