Campfire and Sing-a-Long!

Last weekend, we had great plans for having our troop get together for a campfire and sing-a-long.  Well, the weather didn't exactly cooperate but we made the best of it anyways.

First up, we made sit-upons.  This was something Holly and I were super excited to do from the start. They were easy to make.  We bought tablecloths and cut them into squares.  We hole punched around the square and had the girls take straws to finish punching out the holes.  When they were done, we showed them how to take yarn and lace around it.  As you can see, the girls enjoyed this.  We stuffed them with newspapers so that they were comfy when we sat upon them!

We were even lucky enough to have some extra helpers.

The sit-upoons took some time but we managed to get everyone's done!  

Since it was rainy outside, we sat on our sit-upons inside and all the girls received song booklets.  We taught the girls all kinds of fun songs.  We sang "Herman the Worm", "Boom Chicka Boom", "The Princess Pat", "Bubble Gum", "The Bear Song", and even some we already knew like "Make new Friends."

The girls really liked the songs and I had fun teaching them all the songs we used to sing as scouts as well!

And again since there was no campfire, we still had s'more, they just weren't cooked.

Yum!  It was a fun night.  We will try another campfire in the spring!

Connecting and Discovering on our Brownie Quest!

Sorry, I am a little behind.....a few weeks ago, we earned our Discover key as part of our Brownie Quest.  We made stars about ourselves and talked about what we are good at. At this meeting, we connected with each other by sharing stars about our families and talked about why it's important to work together as a troop.  We played some team building games for this.  For one game, we had to form a circle and move the hula hoop around without letting go of each others hands.  The girls worked very well and had fun doing this.

An example of our family stars.

After breaking into groups, we made one big circle and had several hula hoops going around at once.

Our next team building game was to pass a ball back and forth without touching it.  The girls thought this was great fun too.  

As one last part of our Brownie Quest, we voted on what our Take Action project should be. We voted to encourage others to read.  At our next meeting, we will be starting to carry out that project.