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Activities - Electronic - Communications - Craft -
Electronic
	Flashing Nose or Promise Flame Using a 35 mm film canister, a flashing LED (light emitting diode), 9 volt battery and battery snap produce a creature with a flashing nose to fit in with your theme.

MW Radio
This MW radio, taken from the UK Novice Amateur Radio course, uses 3 amp terminal block and with a little prior work requires no soldering

AUDIO AMP
An audio amp to connect to personal stereo systems and allow their use without headphones. We produced these in one hour with girls aged 10 to 18 in groups of 5 with 2 instructors plus an important fault finder!

Morse Communicators

We produced sets of morse sending equipment which have various uses. At Guide and Scout events pairs of children can send messages or their name to each other in morse code through headphones (to keep the noise down!!)	the first sets used small 12 volt batterys and morse keys which were mounted on handcrafted boards
Revised version. The original version relied on being able to find morse keys at a reasonable (cheap) price. The revised version uses push buttons as the morse key and a pic controller. Instead of handcrafted boards, the circuits are attached to coasters with double sided sticky pads. All instructions are another page, click here
	Information about Morse Code available here

Communications
International Guide Signalling
	On e-Bay recently I bought this wonderful 1935 pamphlet entitled International Guide Signalling by A. M. Maynard. I have to admit I paid slightly more than the original twopence! I originally obtained the pamphlet out of interest in Guiding memorabilia, but feel the activity detailed in the text could still be used, especially as a related activity an amateur radio event, but maybe when working on Traditions of Guiding badge.


Phonetic Alphabet Jigsaw
An idea from one of our Young Leaders. It consists of the individual words of the phonetic alphabet, laminated, then the first letter cut off like a jigsaW. For a full phonetic alphabet go here
World Time Wheel
Adapted from an item in ARRL "Now You are Talking" and used with their kind permission. This produces a means of finding out the time in any other country in the world.

Craft Ideas

Ideas from the CLARA site

A Phonetic Friend

	Radio Rita
Go to the CLARA GOTA site for written instructions

Snazzy Jewellery

Surplus components can make interesting earrings, especially resistors



Morse necklaces or bracelets
Another idea from the craft page of the Canadian GOTA site. Use long bugle beads to represent dashes, round beads to represent dots with one colour ie. black to represent spaces between letters. Thread onto jewellery wire or thread to form the persons name. Use the resulting pattern to complete the required length. You can make this as fine or as chunky as you require, for younger girls they could use pony beads with one for a dot and three for a dash and threaded onto round elastic.
	Can you decode the name and initial? 1pink bead is a Dot 3 blue beads a Dash 1 white bead a space Start at the top of the picture and work clockwise

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