Camp Fire Girls - Honor Beads
Honors - a quick reference to the meaning of all those beads!
Larger beads of same shape and color are Big Honors - earning several honors in one category.
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Home Craft Honor Symbolizes the fires of the hearth
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Health Craft Honor 1957- Sports & Games Honor
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Camp Craft Honor 1957 - Outdoors Honor Symbolizes earth
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Nature Lore Honor 1958 -Frontiers Honor Symbolizes new horizons of knowledge
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Business Honor Symbolizes harvest
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Hand Craft Honor 1957 - Creative Arts Honor
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Patriotism Honor (3 sided bead; red, white & blue) 1938 - Citizenship Honor
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Progress towards rank |
Aqua Beads are honors in the Needlework Guild
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Project Handclasp (1965 Gifts Abroad)
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Project Contact (1965 Pen Friends)
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Project Involvement
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Project Good Earth (introduced in 1965 as Keep America Beautiful)
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1965 Edith M. Kempthorne Fund - in memory of "Alaska" the first national field staff person. Girls sent in pennies equal to their age.
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Swimming Honors - these designs barely changed over the years.
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Polliwog - Beginner |
Frog - Intermediate |
Fish - Swimmer |
Flying Fish - pass the Junior Life Saving and Water Safety test given by the American Red Cross |
Dolphin - Advanced Swimmer |
National Honors - 1915
Special decorations for ceremonial gowns were awarded on a national level for original ideas, stories, song, poems, plays, drawings and photographs. UTA honor (the smallest size) was given for any effort, however humble. KEDA was given for deep thought and excellence. SHUTA was given for material that may have use in the national Camp Fire Girls. WAKAN was given for material that could be used in the handbook, Wehelo (the magazine), etc.
