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

I got one for a drawing I did in the mystery objects competition. It was a round white one. I was quite disappointed really (I was only 10), I thought it would be shield shaped like the presenters wore.
On the plus side, Portsmouth Dockyard Museum were pleased that I got a badge from their mystery object... And sent a load of goodies too!
I used it for quite a few years to get in places like Wookey Hole.
Was there ever an age limit on it?

I got one in the late eighties, it was green with a white ship which I vaguely recall was an environmental badge. I sent them a story about a gnome who looked after animals, and some treats for the dog at the time. I loved my badge.

I got one - it must have been mid 60's - I entered a competition in the back of the BP annual - I got one every Christmas and remember it was a huge deal to tear out a page from it for the competition (no photocopiers in those days), Maybe they just gave a badge to everyone brave enough to desecrate their precious annual .

I was very upset when Christopher Trace left and it took me a good while to get used to Peter Purves the interloper. I thought Valerie Singleton was totally wonderful and I wanted to be her - not because she was on TV but because she got to do such interesting things and was surrounded by animals . The BP pets really were surrogate pets for me, my mother didn't much like animals so I had to make do with a budgie and the odd newt which always escaped from the jar . I was devastated when Petra died . One day when offspring have all left home and no longer have a vote on these matters I will have a dog called Shep, just so I can say "down Shep" and smile at the memory of a totally out-of-control Shep and a desperate-looking John Noakes.

Am now smiling at the memory of him jumping out of a plane to do a Sky dive . Oh, and the infamous poo-ing elephant, and PP being very embarrassed when John got all soppy when PP was leaving the show - priceless!

I have never got over obsessively saving loo roll insides and plastic bottles just incase I need them to make something one day. Luckily I have a very artistic friend who does make wonderful things with them because my dds think my home made bird feeders make the garden look naff .

I had hoped the long lost badge would surface when my parent's house was cleared out - but no luck

Taker I had one of those, yes play away with duh der derrrrr Jeremy Irons!!!

I got one :) For writing a letter in to the programme - I think with a poem and picture complaining that there was no Blue Peter on when Wimbledon was running. I gave it away to my best friend who was moving away and then regretted it ever after

DD also has one - she was actually on the programme when we lived in a housing co-op and two of the children there were featured in the 'Being Me' segment (identical twins, hence why two of them). She was only about 5 at the time though so I don't think she appreciated the honour!

I also used to have a card from Playaway (? think that was the programme name, would have been early 70s) signed by all the toys - I wonder whether my parents still have it tucked away somewhere . . .

I have two [proud] . A white one and a green one. I got the green one for writing in to blue peter and giving them an idea to do on their program for homemade bird food. I actually can't remember how or why I got the white one , but I was very very proud of them OK, I still am . I remember getting into some tourist attractions discounted or free when I was younger with them (do they still get you in to places?). I've still got them

I didn't but my younger sister did. Her and her primary school class performed on the programme sometime in the early 80's (playing instruments and singing I think, might have been a Christmas thing?). She had a signed photo as well iirc, but I've no idea if she still has them!

I didnt get one but my dad did. Sadly i dont know what happened to it. In 1984 Dad did a charity gypsy caravan drive from Suffolk to Epsom via two London Breweries (who had drays) and The Royal Mews. The Gypsy Caravan and Horse (not Dad) appeared on BP with Janet Ellis and Simon Groome.

I've got a little round white one with a blue ship that says 'Blue Peter Competition Winner' round it. I got it for writing a limerick some time in the late 1970s. I can't remember how it went, except the first line probably had 'Blue Peter' in it as I seem to remember the last line being something about a cat ending up under the heater. I also got a signed photo of Simon Groom and Goldie. I never used it to get in anywhere as I was never quite sure it was the right kind to get you into places, and I couldn't have dealt with the humiliation if it wasn't.

DH has a blue shield-shaped one with a silver ship that he got for writing in (in the late 1960s) saying he and his sister had probably the youngest pop band in the world (though I don't think it involved any actual instruments) and could they come on the show (no). I had no idea it was so easy to get one of the shield-shaped ones - I always assumed they were for real feats of specialness.

Ooh I must have got lucky: three letters, three badges. Must have been between 1987 and 1991. Perhaps it was my outstanding penmanship...

I've got a white shield shaped one. I was about 5 or 6 so it must have been very early 90s.

They were filming in Crystal Palace park and when I was them I whispered "look Mummy, they're making telly. Shhhh" and made my mum creep past behind the camera. The producer (I assume that's what she was) turned round and gave me a big thumbs up and a beaming smile and a badge! I guess they'd had a lot of interruptions that day!

Yep, I'm proud

And it wasn't easy to get one by writting a letter (in the mid-90s): I sent 3 or 4 before I got the badge.

I got one! A standard one after I wrote a letter about dropping my mum's breakfast on the bed on mothering Sunday.

Remember using it when we went to Joderel Bank.

Fortunately I haven't dropped a meal on bed since.

And yes, it is much easier to get them these days cocolepew.... My nephew got one for writing them a letter

I got one for being a runner up in a competition to design a new logo for the NSPCC. I still have it, and a letter signed by Simon Groom, Tina Heath and Chris Wenner, and a very old perished green NSPCC balloon which was in the envelope and is now stuck firmly to the letter. It would've been around the late 1970s (no doubt will say on the letter which is upstairs in my treasure box )
I was always really proud of it, mostly because my older sister never won one, probably the first time I ever achieved something she didn't! Can you tell we were rather competitive?!

X-posted. I feel your pain maybe.

No. And I collected shed loads of bottle tops and even organised a bring and buy sale.

The bastards

No and I organised a Blue Peter Bring and Buy sale and everything! not at all bitter

I got one for going on the best school trip ever! We had managed to persuade our cdt teacher to take us to chessington to 'study the structure of the rides' (!) and bp were filming something about 60s fashion that day. Got to dress up in a particularly lovely monochrome number and go round and round the runaway train screaming like idiots! Whilst carefully taking note of the fine engineering of course...

My brothers and I got one each when we wrote to them to tell them how utterly tedious thrilling some museum or other was, after they had featured it, and our mum thought it looked interesting. They were the original blue ship on white background, none of those fancy gold ones back then!

I got one for writing and telling them that they grew runner beans up teepees not wigwams. I was 8 I think and we were learning about native indians at the time.

How come some people got two and I couldn't manage one ?

They give them away like sweeties now .

I got a white one for sending in a recipe, a green one for writing about how we made a wildlife corner in our garden, and finally a silver one for writing about what it was like to live in the USA. Always dreamed of getting a gold one but unfortunately no one every fell in a pond or had a heart attack in front of me so I could save them, and am not good enough at anything to represent the country!
I loved Blue Peter when I was younger. I have an almost- complete collection of BP annuals and had a massive crush on Tim Vincent when I was in my early teens (cringe)!! When we moved to the US I was just 10 and got my cousin to video all the episodes for me, I missed it so much!

I am going to stamp my foot that no one is even vaguely curious about my BP experience

I had a green shield-shaped one - I was sooo proud. We got ours for taking part in a recycling project at school and then writing about it. I went to loads of museums etc using it for entry that oerhaps we wouldn't have gone to for financial reasons. It got left in the hotel where we stayed in Portsmouth when we went to visit all the ships and I was devastated. I hid it in the fridge for "safe-keeping" and forgot to take it out again . We rang and asked but it was never found