Interest badges
Costumes
Express myself
An outfit’s worth a thousand words.
What you wear each day says a lot about you. Costumes can provide belonging and escapism and everything in-between.
Getting a Rangers interest badge
There are 36 interest badges for you to earn at Rangers, and 3 fun challenges to do for each badge.
You can do these badges at any time, anywhere and in any way you’d like. You can do them on your own or with units, during unit meetings, at home or even on holiday.
How to complete this badge
1. Cultural moments
Find out about 3 different countries’ or cultures’ fashion and what they mean and symbolise. Present what you find creatively.
You can explore national dress, or clothes and accessories worn for celebrations or festivals. From Chinese New Year dragons, pearly kings and queens, the use of traditional fabrics such as Sierra Leone’s lapa fabric, Caribbean carnival costumes, beefeaters, kimonos, kilts, flamenco dresses, hanbok, dirndl, sari, dashiki… it’s up to you!
Share it in a scrapbook, moodboard, digital pinboard or make tiny versions.
2. Costumes in art
Can you imagine a stunning ballet where all the dancers just wear everyday clothes? Would it be as spectacular?
Explore costumes from 1 art form. It could be from a play, ballet, musical, traditional dance, performance, circus or from your favourite TV show or film. Pick your favourite piece and reimagine it as an accessory like a patch, mask, bag, headpiece or piece of jewellery. Use fabric from charity shops or something from your own wardrobe. Remember to make it eye-catching!
3. Cosplay it
‘Cosplay’ is a Japanese portmanteau (blending of words) of ‘costume’ and ‘play’. It involves dressing up, taking pride in becoming a character and taking on their role.
Look online or in books for examples of cosplay costumes – you’ll see the characters are often from comics, sci-fi, fantasy or gaming.
Choose a character and design or create at least 1 element of your own cosplay costume. They could be from a TV show, film, book, comic or video game. If you’re confident, why not go the whole way and make the full costume?
Internet safety
To keep safe online, I'll…
- Not share any personal information on the internet (my full name, my home or school address, my phone number or my email address).
- Only download files on to my devices with permission from my parent or carer.
- Always ask permission before uploading photos or videos online. If I send pictures, I'm aware that these can be forwarded onto others.
- Tell my parent or carer, teacher or leader if something online worries or upsets me.
- Only add people online that I know in the real world.
- Be wary of emails that contain unknown links. I know clicking links can download viruses or other harmful files onto my devices.
- Treat people online with the same respect as I would in the real world. I'll never write anything that might hurt or upset someone.
- Not meet up with someone that I've met online and if someone asks me to do so, I'll tell a parent or carer.
- Think carefully about what I read, hear and see online, and not trust information unless I've checked it on other websites or in books, or have asked an adult about it.
