HUNDREDS of Brownies descended on Royal Wootton Bassett at the weekend to celebrate World Thinking Day.

Every February 22, Girl Guides and Girl Scouts around the world celebrate World Thinking Day and celebrate friendship, advocacy and fundraising.

In Wiltshire, Rainbows, Brownies and Guides took part in the division event at the Memorial Hall in Royal Wootton Bassett, travelling from across west Swindon, Minety, Lyneham and surrounding villages.

The annual day seeks to remind young people of others in the world around them, how they may be living and also remember Olave and Lord Baden Powell, who founded Girlguiding.

Forming teams, Brownies made new friends as they visited the Indian themed area trying on colourful saris and thinking about projects helping communities become self supportive in Sangam, before moving onto creative arts that saw them work intricately with beads to form the Swiss national flag and taste their highly prized chocolate.

Guides tucked in to a feast of exotic dishes to determine the spicey treats’ origins, melted cheese in a fondu experiment and created their own clocks from wood, adding individual design elements with a burning tool and felts.

Even the Rainbows got involved, dancing and shaking their home made Mexican maracas and creating the perfect miniature cup of English afternoon tea.

The afternoon was rounded off with a giant campfire sing-a-long conducted by the leaders.

Alice, 14, one of the Guides from Purton, said: “We had a choice of activities to do and I loved tasting the Indian food.’’ Meanwhile 10-year-old Megan, from the Penguin Patrol at 2nd Royal Wootton Bassett, said: “It was brilliant, my first one as a guide and I really enjoyed making the clock so I can tell the time in my room.”