World Thinking Day 2015!

Yesterday was World Thinking Day! It's a day to remember and think about Girl Scouts all over the world. We participated in this event last year but we kept it small and did it only with the girls in our school. We were going to do that this year and even picked out our country.....but unfortunately it got cancelled so we opted to tour the countries at the service unit function.

Only about half of our troop came as it was a busy weekend for everyone.  There were lots of countries to visit and we learned some neat facts, saw pictures of scouts in those countries, tasted some food from the countries, got SWAPS, and even played a few games!

We visited Canada.

Brazil.

India.

Ghana.

France.

Ireland.

Japan.

We stopped to eat our fortune cookies from Japan.

Germany.

China.

WE played a game at Poland.

Italy.  They even served pasta here!

Mexico.

And New Zealand.

We played a game here too.

I think the girls had a lot of fun!  Next year we hope do be able to be a bigger part of this event!

Zumba!

Last week, our girls had chance to participate in a school Girl Scout event......Zumba!

The girls came in their workout gear and were ready to dance!

There were lots of other troops there from our school.

Our Zumba instructor took things slow so the girls could keep up.

Even Baby Charlie came to check out all the ladies.

We danced to lots of songs including "Shake it Off", "Roar", and "Dark Horse." 

When the girls were done, they got a water bottle and a patch.  I think they all had fun but they were pretty tired too!

Money Manager!

So I totally haven't been keeping up with pictures as I usually have at our Brownie meetings...Sorry!

We did great selling cookies this year and we sold over 1100 boxes!  We have been working on the Money Manager Patch.  So for this week's meeting, we headed to Target!

The goal was to see if we could spend out money wisely.  It was all about thinking of needs and wants and staying within a budget.  We divided the girls into 3 groups.  At the food section, they had to buy food to last the weekend with only $30.  They had to keep track of what they bought and how much it cost. (We rounded the prices up and didn't worry about tax).  We had conversations about whether or not we really needed certain food items.  We also made sure that we had breakfast, lunch, and dinner accounted for.  We had a little left so we added a healthy snack.

After some food shopping, we headed to the toy department where we had to pretend that we had $25 to buy birthday presents for a twin boy/girl.  W figured we had about $12 to spend on both.  We learned that Barbies and Legos are not cheap so we opted for some games and a My Little Pony.

After that, we headed to the clothes department where we had $25 to spend to buy a  new outfit for a party!  This was pretty fun! The girls enjoyed this.  Some even made sure to include some new undies!

And some girls had a little extra so they added in some socks!

We met back up to calculate what we spent and if we stayed within our budget. The girls had a chance to share what they learned and were pretty happy with how they did that some asked if we could do this again!  

Here you go moms!  Time to start letting your little money managers help you shop!