KAPER CHART
I may have had a little too much fun preparing for our first Daisy meeting. I saw a bunch of cute kaper charts online and used some ideas from various ones to make our board. The Girl Scout Daisies have each of our twelve girls' names on them and they can be moved around to different flower pots (all of which have different jobs). We added an American flag, The Pledge of Allegiance, the Girl Scout Law and the Girl Scout promise, which are all used for the opening of our troop meeting.
OUR FIRST MEETING
As the girls started to arrive they each pulled a colored bracelet from our crate. We had three tables each with a colored flower (green, yellow and pink). The color of the bracelet determined the table that they would be sitting on for that meeting and who their bathroom buddies would be.
Next, they had two coloring sheets for them to color on while they waited for their Girl Scout sisters to arrive.
Our next activity was an ice breaker. We purchased a ball from the dollar store and wrote simple questions all over it (i.e. favorite candy, what do you want to be when you grow up, something fun you did over the summer). We had the girls pass the ball to each other; when they caught the ball they told us their name and they answered the question that their hands landed on. It was a fun way to learn a little bit about each girl.
I should note that it took the girls about 10 minutes to have a bathroom break before the ice breaker, so I would suggest letting all your parents know that they should have their daughters use the bathroom before the meeting starts.
After our ice breaker, we came in to do our opening ceremonies for our meeting. After that, we started our Daisy Circle for troop business. For this first meeting we voted on the movie for our upcoming "Drive In" movie night as well as the concessions. No surprise, Frozen is their movie of choice!
The next activity was did was a Girl Scout law bracelet. We purchased a bag of pony beads from the dollar store (which had each of the petals colors except for the dark purple which we bought at Walmart). We had the girls put on the beads one by one and told them what each color of the petal stood for as we put them on their bracelets. We lucked out and had two parents who stuck around to help the girls tie on and clip the ends of their bracelets.
I thought we wouldn't have enough activities for our first meeting and to my surprise we were running behind schedule.
We had to have our girls quickly hand out drinks and cupcakes, we sang Happy Birthday to our Girl Scout sisters who had summer birthdays and faster than we know it we were having the girls line up to go outside. We handed their binders to their parents since we were running behind schedule and we gave out Birthday in Bag to our summer birthday girls (this included a box of funfetti cake mix, funfetti happy birthday icing and a happy birthday patch from Snappy Logos).
Next meeting we will practice better time management and we will have our snack outside if the weather permits it. Our Brownie troop meets right after, so I felt bad that I cut into their time. Otherwise, the girls had fun and they were well behaved and they participated so I think our first meeting wasn't too bad :)
Now to start working on our concession stand for our first troop event!
