Camp Blankets
Camp Blankets are worn around camp and particularly around the campfire. They may double as a sleeping blanket or pillow.
Camp Blankets are a history, a display of your scouting life - what you have done, where you have been and who you have met.
They are not part of the kit, they are not uniform and they are not always blankets!
They can be cut as ponchos, capes, cloaks, coats, waistcoats, blankets, whatever you like.
The badges may come from:
- past sections (beavers, cubs…)
- jamborees, celebrations and commemorations
- camps and trips
- past packs
- swapped with friends.
Other badges may include:
- Swimming, Duke of Edinburgh, sailing, canoeing, first aid…
Duplicates of current scarves, from previous groups, or celebratory scarves may be either sewn flat to the blanket like this:
or opened out into a large triangle as shown in the picture at the top.
If your design requires a clasp, it could be personalised using buttons, button knots, toggles, ties or cloak pins - use your imagination.
The layout of badges, scarves etc. is entirely up to you. By shape, colour, size, date, section; to make a picture; to fill a map….
Camp Blankets: They grow with you!