Girl Guides from New Brunswick and P.E.I. are in the process of making 8000 friendship bracelets, in an effort to beat the current Guinness World Record for longest chain of friendship bracelets. The current record, created on May 1st, stands at 7,507.
Deb Maber of Girl Guides Canada tells CHSJ News the group of 600 has been making the bracelets over for the last few months, and they'll continue to make them until a summer camp near Sussex on August 11-17. On the last day, everyone in the camp will make a large circle and they'll join all the bracelets together to form one giant loop. The loop will be counted and measured, then the documentation will be sent off to Guinness.
Earlier this year, the Girl Guide World Centre in India put out a call for the bracelets, which they sell in shops to fund programs. Maber says that sparked the idea to attempt breaking a world record as a way to get people excited about making them.
