Did you get a Blue Peter badge? Do tell - fame and fortune await (well, possibly)

That would be the same competition as LadyWellian

I've got one, just a little round pin-badge, for getting my Goldie Limerick published in the book. I can still remember it too... I think I've got the badge tucked away with my Brownie badges.

I had (still have!) a blue and a silver Blue Peter badge. I am 48.

I got the first one for writing and telling them how to make pompoms out of wool and cardboard doughnut rings (like they wouldn't have known, like it wasn't a staple of their sticky backed plastic drawer).

I got the silver badge for writing and telling them about my cat. I'm sure they were fascinated.

I got a bit cocky at this stage, thought this was a piece of piss. So I tried for the gold badge by writing again and telling them about something so awe-inspiring that I have completely forgotten what it was. Ignoring all evidence that you have to do something impressive (like pluck a dying puppy from the seething sea, or raise zillions of pounds for the Blue Peter appeal by picking old bottle tops out of the gutter).

I also wrote to Edward Heath to tell him off for how my mum's chicken shrivelled in the oven . I was that kind of child.

I got one when I was 7. But I lost it :-(
I was so proud. I had to draw a picture of what I thought I'd look like and what I'd be doing in 30 years time. Only almost 20 years have passed currently but if I have the same hair style as I do now then I got it spot on! I don't live in new York yet surrounded by floor to ceiling bookshelves but there is still time I suppose.

My badge was a small White plastic round pin badge with the blue ship on. I never wore it, I wasn't allowed my mum kept it with the letter in a safe place. So safe I didn't ever see it again after about the age of 10 or so

I got one for entering the 'Karens clothes' competition. I designed a very fetching fuschia skirt suit with wide brimmed hat and stilettos for Karen Keating, I was made up still am

I got one for making a dog bed out of a cardboard box according to their instructions and writing a long letter to them about why it hadn't worked.

Got a lovely letter and badge back.

But my best Blue Peter moment was when John Noakes brought a lifesize Loch Ness monster to the block of flats next door to our school (why?!?!) and we were allowed out of school to watch. I was a little bit in love with John Noakes.

I got one - I LOVED Blue Peter - I wrote in to tell them Goldie - one of the dogs had the same birthday as me - I was a very sad child - I was delighted to get a badge back and still have it

I announced the Smarties Book Prize gold award winner in 1996, live on air (it was Oops by Colin McNaughton). Our class got the day off school, think the filming was done at London Zoo. We all got goodie bags and those of us who announced the bronze / silver / gold got badges.

It was awesome

Still have my badge.

I've got one. Must have been in the early 80s.

I wrote in to ask for the instructions to make something (as seen on TV) and then the page looked a bit empty so I added a load of blablabla about me and my cat and dog etc etc.

It turned into a 2 page letter and I was totally at getting a badge back from them (white with a blue ship).

I was proud of it but felt secretly guilty (over-riding emotion in my life!) because I felt a bit of a fraud and thought I didn't deserve it.

I did too! I'm sure I've still got it somewhere too. It was a green one, because my class at school wrote poems about recycling and sent them in. I think we all got a badge. I was very pleased and still am. I can still remember roughly what the poem looked like - I did an ever-so-original design round the edge with the letters R E C Y C L E in a circle with arrows between the letters. I seem to remember you got discounts off entry to places like London Zoo with it.

I remember my teacher was Mrs Bridgeman, I was about 9 or 10, so this was about 1988 / 89, in the days of Mark Curry, Caron Keating and Yvette Fielding.

Looking at this list of all Blue Peter presenters it seems that Mark Curry stood down as a presenter on my tenth birthday!

I used to watch it every week, after Newsround with John Craven. I liked the garden, and the pets, and the making-things, and the performances of dance / singing etc, and the daring deeds they did (like jump out of an aeroplane), and the Blue Peter appeals with the totaliser, and the bring and buy sales, and the campaigns about things like acid rain and CFCs and the ozone layer (what happened to acid rain?!).

According to Wikipedia, they only introduced the green badge in Nov 1988, so I must have got mine in the first few months.

I got one! The white shield-shaped one with the blue ship on it. They got four labrador puppies and named them Val, John & Peter and had a competition to name the fourth one. My mum I came up with 'Biddy' because Biddy Baxter was the producer and it won!

But I think there were probably about 93 million people who suggested 'Biddy' and got badges. But my mates didn't know that! Not sure of the year, but maybe about 1975 or a bit before.

I had a round blue and white one, from the early 70's. I think I had a recipe published in their cookbook competition.

I have one too! The white one with a blue ship on.

I seem to recall writing a letter in about my parents fostering and my role as goody two shoes welcomer to the children, and how I tried to make them feel at home etc.

My mum still fosters, maybe I should write in again and see if I can get another one?!

Like GiraffesMum I got a runners-up badge for the Train of the Future competition. It was going to be the last competition I was eligible to enter so I went all-out in my attempts to finally secure a badge.

I got two a normal one and a green one.

The normal one was for writing a letter about lambing when I was about 10 I think. I had gone up to the local farm during lambing season and helped deliver a lamb - an experience which I described in graphic detail (and I mean graphic - those poor researchers or whoever read the letters )

The green one was for setting up a club when I was about 8, imaginatively named 'The Green Gang'. The club was made up of me, the girl next door, my little sister (when she wasn't being annoying) and a couple of other kids up the road. Our mission was to save the world and we did this by producing a newsletter which my Dad photocopied at work, lucky Dad. Said newsletter was distributed to all the neighbours (lucky neighbours) and was basically preaching to them about the importance of being green (can't quite remember what being green consisted of at that point in my life, but I was very earnest about it).

I went on to work in the international development sector, continuing my quest to 'save the world'. My parents find it hilarious to remind me of the reams and reams of paper wasted as a direct result of my saving the world age 8. My Dad even mentioned 'The Green Gang' in his speech at my wedding - don't think he mentioned the Blue Peter badge though.

I never got one but dd2 has- for a drawing of Barney the dog and writing a letter about her dyslexia and her experience of bullying.

Yep I got a Green one, when John Leslie, Diane Louise Jordan and Yvette Fielding were the presenters (so around 1990?1991?) I got their autograph and a nice letter too. I think it was printed on the inside front cover of one of the annuals.

It was for a poem, I was at Primary School. It was called "Save the World"
I can remember how it went but it was disgracefully bad and embarrassing.

I know my Mum has my badge somewhere, and I did used to feel very impressive going to the front of Museums and getting in for nothing. The Science Museum even gave me a free programme.

Would love to take part!

Yes, i won one when i was 7, for a 'design a dress for Val competition', unfortunately i lost it years ago - Well it was a looong time ago!..
but i do still have the accompanying letter from Biddy Baxter dated 1970 and did go on to do a degree in Fashion and Textiles many years later.

I never got one. I did once pretend I had one after a few gins to impress somebody at a party.

I had a poem read out on Tony Blackburn's 30 second theatre and won a load of radio 1 goodies.

I got mine like catsrus. It was a competition in the BP Annual to find as many words as you could from 'Blue Peter'. Possibly they sent badges to everyone who entered but I told my friends that I'd won with the most words. Liar.

Yes, I got one in must have been 1984 as I wrote in after seeing the Ethiopian famine on the news asking if BP would raise money for that year's appeal. I still have the letter and envelope somewhere. Sadly my oh so trendy habit of wearing many badges on my denim jacket in sixth form meant that the badge disappeared during the early 90s :(
I am still deeply traumatised that I lost it so if any of you Blue Peter lt are reading this could I possibly have a replacement? Pretty please.

Mine are shield shaped greenapples they gipped you!

I had three blue peter badges! The normal one, the green one and the silver one. The silver one has gone missing but I still have the normal one and green one. The normal one was for a poem, the green one for a save the seals poster. I also have the letters they sent me, the booklet of places they got you into reduced and all in the envelop they sent them in (which is marked as "recycled paper')

My husband has one he did a tandem bike ride from Oxford to Bristol with his dad for charity. I think his mum still has the episode on a VHS tape somewhere