Girl Scout Campfire and Sing Along!

Over the weekend, a few of my Daisies and I headed to meet with other Girl Scouts for a campfire and sing along. It was so much fun.  We brought blankets to sit on.  We got songbooks and a snack of "walking smores" which was marshmallows, chocolate chips, pretzels, and golden grahams in a baggie.  It was yummy!  We got to sing all kinds of fun songs and many of them brought back to many memories of my younger Girl Scout days.  The girls had fun singing and moving along to the songs.  We discussed of having our own campfire.  We can't wait to to teach our other friends all these new songs and get our patch for our tunics.  Gracie, Addison, Marin, Kate, Allison, and Melanie had a blast though!  I think their moms did too!

Being Responsible!

We kicked off our second Girl Scout meeting of the year by earning our patch on how to be responsible!

We read the story of how our flower friend Mari was responsible and we talked about how we can be responsible at home and at school.  We made door hangers that will serve as chore charts to help us at be responsible at home.

 

We met with each girl and talked about chores that they do or can do at home to be more repsonsible such as helping do dishes, feeding our pets, cleaning our rooms, and doing homework.

 

The girls got to decorate their charts and find sticky letters with their names.

 

They had so much fun doing this.

 

We also talked about our fundraising projects on how we can sell things like candy and magaizines to help our troop earn money.  It's not cookie time yet people.  Soon!  The girls were super excited about the prizes involved.

 

We wrapped up our meeting by letting the girls pick up clothespins.  On one side of their chart it says "do" and the other side says "done." They start with their clips on "do" and after they do their chore each day, they move it to "done." Simple and easy and fun.

 

Plus they turned our really cute.

 

I hope all our little Daisies will be repsonsible and put their chore  charts to good use!  I know mine will!

Couregous and Strong!

We're back!

First Daisy meeting of the year!

 

We started our first meeting of the year by working to earn our red petal to be couregous and strong!  We talked about being brave and trying something new like new foods, riding a two-wheeler with no training wheels.  We also talked about being brave and standing up for others which was the lessoned learned in our story about Tula  the Tulip.  We talked about how to be brave in an emergency and to call 911, listening to our feelings, telling trusted adults, using our super powers, and using the buddy system.  We also made beady bracelets in which our parents are going to write their cell phone numbers on and we can not only wear them to learn the number, but to wear when we go places like the park, the store, the zoo, etc.  That way if we get lost, we can find a trusting adult and they can help us find our parents.

 

And then we had some real fun.  We talked about how to be strong, not only with our feelings, but with our bodies too.  We had our friend Mrs. Weibye come and do a little Zumba with us to get our bodies a little bit stronger.

 

The girls totally had so much fun with this.

 

And it was super cute to watch them.

 

They even did a little cooldown to one of my favs, NKOTB!

 

We are excited to be back with our troop and excited to have fun with these girls!  A few didn't come back from last year and we gained 2 more new Daisy friends, Marin and Emily.  

We have the best Daisy troop on the planet!

Juliette Went On Vacation!

Looks like Juliette had a great summer! She traveled with Emmalne and Evelyn on an airplane!

 

She arrived at the hotel with them too!

 

She even made it to the beach....

 

but oops, she forgot her swimsuit!  

Thanks for taking her along girls.  I'm sure she had a ball!