SUMMER OF SOMETHING 2024 Edition!!!!! Don’t do nothing, do something!
Here are six challenges from Tom to make this a Summer of Something!
BADGES CAN BE COMPLETED AT ANY TIME IN ANY ORDER! No time limits, no rush, no pressure! Do the ones you want and skip the rest!
When you complete one, submit it to Webmaster Sam with your SF name and BADGE # in the title. Like this:
WBSam Badge 1
Then you can print out the badge and color it in, if you want to show the world that you did SOMETHING. And if you do all 6, you can print out this special ALL SIX badge!
AND you can always try Badges of the Past and MORE Badges of the Past and ORIGINAL Merit Badges if you missed them!
Have fun!
BADGE 6: Make a VERY LOCAL Pet Map!
One of the authors I follow, the wonderful Clyde Watson, recently wrote about a map she drew when she was a little girl.
It was a map of her neighborhood and she still has it. It’s an amazing artifact!
Well, I want YOU to create an amazing artifact like that, too.
BUT HERE’S THE CATCH!
We don’t allow ANY private info to be posted on this Website. So your map cannot have ANY road or street names or well-known landmarks. (Example: If you live next door to the Washington Monument, don’t put it on the map.)
What I DO want you to put on the map are animals. Your pets, your neighbors pets, critters you’ve seen, imaginary creatures of the night, whatever you like!
BADGE 5: MAKE A Murkyism!
Murky and his Murkyisms are still one of my all time favorite parts of the OY series. It doesn’t even seem like I “wrote” Murky and his weird words. It’s more like they were always there and they just popped into my brain one day. I have ZERO idea where “Stooky” came from!
FIZZPOP and WUG, however, were invented by SFs! (If I recall correctly)
And now it’s YOUR turn to invent a Murkyism!
Create a new word AND it’s definition. It should be easy to pronounce and be fun to say.
Type it up and submit it to Sam. If you want, write it HORN OK PLEASE style and send in a photo! (See Badge 1, below.)
BADGE 4: CANTINA CREATIONS
It’s the tastiest badge ever! Or maybe the grossest! It all depends on what you put in your drink!
Hopefully, it’ll keep you cool even if you’ve got twin suns shining down on you!
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Here’s my offering:
Padme’s Purple Parfait!
Fill glass halfway with frozen blueberries. (Rinse blueberries to remove freezer burn.)
Add vanilla ice cream so that glass is now 3/4 full.
SLOWLY pour in fizzy water. You should get a nice stack of foam on top!
Spoon recommended.
To earn your badge, make your drink, write a recipe, take a photo and SUBMIT to Sam. Maybe get a friend to taste it and give it a review!
Badge #3 — Make some paper flowers for somebody nice!
My mom is turning 80 so we made her 80 paper flowers!!
You don’t have to make 80, but is definitely fun to make more than 1 because you can experiment with different colors and add ons.
Hint: have a piece of tape ready for when yiu finish rolling it up and just roll the tape around the bottom of the paper.
BADGE#2
Quavondo’s Wallet!
OR Quavondo’s Pencil Case if you’d rather have a pencil case.
And OF COURSE You’re welcome to use ANY kind of snack you want! Quavondo loves them all!
Let me suggest trying this out on CHEAPER snack bags first! The Cheetos Bag cost me $5! While the Cheez Doodles bag cost $1.25 at Dollar Tree.
For the wallet, you need a 8.5 ounce bag of Cheetos and this video:
For the pencil case, you can use different size bags and this video:
BADGE #1:
The HORN OK PLEASE badge!
FIRST: Learn about Horn Ok Please by watching this music video! Trust me, it’s awesome:
SECOND: So know you know that HORN OK PLEASE is what the paint on the back of trucks in India. The artists who paint these trucks are amazing! Wouldn’t you love to be able to paint like that?
Well…
3. Time to paint something yourself! I used cheap paint on a paper bag, but you can use magic markers, crayons, even duct tape! But instead of painting HORN OK PLEASE, paint your SF name! OR if your SF name is too long just paint YODA or OY or STOOKY!
You might need to experiment to figure out how to do some of the letters. The main thing is to keep them big and blocky and simple! If you’re stumped, try this video of the whole alphabet!
BONUS BADGE:
Try this:
It may look too hard, but I followed along with the video… pausing and repeating a bunch… and I got a decent tiger out of it!
So if you had fun making letters, try the tiger!
