Farm Tour

During one of our Service Unit meetings we heard so many rave reviews about a local farm tour that we decided to take our troop and their families on a tour there before they stopped giving tours until spring. Our girls enjoyed learning about the process they go through to make the milk and butter and they especially loved seeing the newborn baby calfs and then going to pet the older cows. After their tour they were treated to milk samples and a soft serve. This was definitely a fun family event and our girls retained so much information and definitely impressed with their "pop quiz" at the end of the tour. 

Daisy Troop: Friendly & Helpful Petal

Our friendly and helpful petal activity was probably one of the girls' favorites so far. We had the girls help their Daisy sisters paint their hands. Once their hands were painted they had to leave a handprint on their friendly and helpful cards. Their cards said "a friendly and helpful Daisy was here". The girls were instructed to leave their cards at home or at school when they felt they did something that was friendly and helpful without being told to them. The next meeting we discussed what type of things they did :)

Brownies Fall Camp

In May, we ended our Girl Scout season with an overnight at camp and we had enough remaining camp credit that we were able to kick off our new Girl Scout year with another overnight at camp.

 Our camps are always Girl Led with adult supervision. Our Brownies and Daisy tags were responsible for their belongings, the cooking, serving and cleaning. Our new camp volunteers probably did not expect how independent we require the girls to be.

Our first night of camp it stormed for a little while so after dinner we spent the night having the girls make dreamcatchers and they had a lava lamp STEM project. Once the rain passed, they were also able to go on a mini night hike before we spent the remainder of the night around the campfire roasting s'mores.

We had a great menu this year and the girls were able to do a lot more cooking in the kitchen. Usually when the weather permits it, we have the girls cook at the campfire, but since it stormed we ended up utilizing the kitchen more this year.
My two favorite items on the menu were nachos and pancakes! Yum!

Our second day at camp the girls hiked to the vehicles at the parking lot and loaded their belongings and then we took our annual picture by the camp signs. After that we had them make a circle around the flag pole and say the Pledge of Allegiance and Girl Scout promise.

We spent the remainder of our day at the camp's splashpark (which I'm sure was one of the girls' favorite activities) before we all made our way back home. After fall sales we have learned that the troop made enough camp credit for another overnighter and to think they'll still earn credit after cookie sales. Sounds like our troop will be camping a lot this year!

Update

My, oh, my!

I really thought I would have the time to keep up with this blog, but apparently I am the type to overbook our schedules and with Girl Scouts and soccer three times a week plus work I think I met my match.

Now that soccer season is over, I can finally play catch up on this blog.
Be prepared for a dozen posts of all the fun events we have done throughout the months of September and October.

Promise Center Achievement

Our Daisy troop is going to have a little ceremony at the end of our meeting where we will take the time to hand out certificates to all of our Daisies for earning their Promise Center. Half of our girls already have certificates from our Growing Daisies event, but I wanted them to have a special certificate from our troop as well.

We have one second-year Daisy in our troop, so she will be the one handing them their certificates and doing the Girl Scout Handshake with them. 

I found this certificate on Pinterest. The original had a different type of font that I didn't care for so I cut all the text out and replaced it with two KG fonts that I adore.

Brownie Troop

All of my recent posts have been about our new Daisy troop, but here's one of the little gift we have for our Brownies tomorrow. Our troop funds purchased their journey book for them (they will be working on A World of Girls journey and I custom made some dollar store dry erase boards for them.

Board Games & Pajamas Day!

We couldn't think of a better way to introduce the girls to their first petal (Honest and Fair) than with a Board Games & Pajamas Day!

Like we do for our regular meetings we had the girls pull a colored bracelet out of a bag when they walked into the room to determine which table they would sit at. We're hoping that this a way that will allow them to meet new friends throughout the year :)

Then we had the girls recite the Girl Scout promise (because routine with this age group is key!). Then we started discussing with them what they thought Honest and Fair meant. We followed up with asking them how they could practice being Honest and Fair while playing board games with their Girl Scout sisters.

We had four different tables set up with different board games. For this event and age group we chose: Candyland, Hedbanz, Zingo and Chutes & Ladders. Myself and my co-leader helped out at two games that we thought the girls couldn't play without a little assistance and we always have a little Brownie help (a sister to our Daisy) who helped the group that she tagged along with.

Half way through our event we let the girls have a snack (best time to start buying snacks since it's nearly Halloween and they offer everything in small portions!). Then we followed up with a group potty break.

After that, we had another hour of playing. We wrapped up 15 minutes before pick up time. We had each girl tell us an example from their games of someone being honest and fair. Some of our girls were able to give us specific details including names and what they did, while others said that everyone they played with were being honest and fair. 

Then we got them all together to do a friendship circle and sent them home with a fun patch to go on their new uniforms that they all received at today's event.

Now we just have to think quickly of something else to do at our next meeting that also relates to the Honest & Fair petal!