Rainbow Guides

My daughter has been a Rainbow guide for nearly a year now, and I too have attended several meetings as a helper and been impressed with what is on offer. Rainbow guides are a relatively new organisation on the scale of guiding, which is celebrating its centenary this year; Rainbows came to being back in 1987 and is for younger girls of 5-7. It can be a heavily oversubscribed activity, so if it sounds of interest to you and you have a baby/toddler I would suggest getting your name on a list if there is a unit in your area. Details can be found at www.girlguiding.org.uk. What do Rainbows do? Rainbows generally meet once a week in term ...  Read the complete review

My eldest daughter, Rachel, is five and ever since the start of this year she has been attending a local Rainbow guide group. Rainbows are the pre-runners to Brownies and ultimately Guides. I was really pleased that she got a place as it is quite heavily subscribed and there seems to be quite a long waiting list. I really wanted her to be a Rainbow though because I do think that in this busy high tech sometimes materialistic world that our children are growing up in, the guiding movement stands for some really good old fashioned values. Any girl aged five or over can become a rainbow and they usually remain so until about the age of seven when they can move on ...  Read the complete review

Rainbow guides is the youngest of the guiding sections and is available for girls aged between 5 and 7 (after which they move up to brownie guides). They are not a christian organisation, although sometimes they are linked as one. Rainbows often meet for around an hour once a week in which they play games, have storeis, make things and do all sorts of other fun activities. They complete challenges called rainbow roundabouts in which they can earn badges to be sewn onto their uniform. Rainbows can also go on trips, like bowling, or to the pantomime or the local farm, and some units even have special sleepovers! The uniform used to be a ...  Read the complete review

Rainbow Guides is a club that little girls can do before they are old enough to join Brownie Guides. They can start from their 5th birthday, and usually move up to Brownies the term after they are seven. It is for girls only, which is quite nice for this age group, when the girls are often slightly more mature than boys of the same age, and more able to concentrate too. Hmm, maybe that doesn't just apply to 5 and 6 year olds? The group that my daughter goes to meets once a week for an hour, in the local Guide Hut. There are about 10 children and 2 adults. Typically they play games, do some kind of craft activity, and sing some ...  Read the complete review