Hear a Story, Change a Story!

Today was our 2nd meeting of the year and we continued to work on our World of Girls Journey!

The girls got passports as we set sail! Last time we went to the desert and played games from around the world.  Today we traveled to Thailand and learned about clues to helping us change stories for the better.

First up we thought of girls from some our favorite books.  We wrote them on an index card and then wrote one word to describe that character on the other side.  The girls had to find the word that they thought best described themselves.  Then they got to see what character they are most like.  These three were good and evil (Mal from Descendants)

Olivia was sleepy as was Sleeping Beauty.

Jackie and and Evelyn were bossy like Junie B. Jones.

Next we read a story from our journey book and discussed ways we could have changed parts of the story for the better.

That led to doing some story relays.  First one was having the girls come up and turn over a card.  After a few cards had been turned over, it was their goal to put together the Girl Scout Promise.  

After that, then they had random words in which they had to put together a story they made up.  Each girl got to turn over 2 cards this time and they had to build a story.  It was harder than it looks.  Each girl had the chance to change the story as it was their turn.

Here is one of the stories that was being built.

Here is another one.

Next we talked about the two stories we read from our journey books and each pair got a different clue to work on coming up with a change that they could use to make the story better.

Our last game was "Circle Round the Story."  We sat in a circle and one girl started the story by saying a sentence.  After that, the next girl added a sentence.  It went around the circle, each one adding to the story.  The girls had fun.  Our story was about Claire and Addie going to the beach.

Welcome Back Brownies!

Here we are already starting our second year of Brownies! Wow! It's hard to believe we are going into our 4th year of scouting!

We started our first meeting of the year by staring a new Brownie Journey-A World of Girls.  For our first meeting we had fun together playing some games from around the world.  

First up was a game called Banyoka.  It's a game from Africa and it means "snake."  The girls had to be in two teams.  They had to sit with legs out and arms on shoulders and slither to reach a destination.  They had fun doing this and did pretty good at it too.

After that, we played a game called Rescue Mission.  It's not from another country but they had to use teamwork to make it work.  The parachute that they are on is their boat.  Well they had to pretend that a big wave came and knocked all the animals overboard. They had to stay o their "boat" and rescue all the animals.  They couldn't touch the floor or they fell in the water too.  It took lots of teamwork to save those animals but they did it!

Next, we moved outside to play Escargot, which is a French version of hopscotch.  The girls hopped around the numbers as you would in a normal hopscotch game. But after one round, three girls picked a number and then when they went around again, they couldn't hop on that number or they were out.  We played until it was impossible to hop anymore.

The last game we played was called Cencio Mollo, a game from Italy.  The girls stand in a circle and you are supposed to use a scare but we used a stuffed animal.  You had to go up to girls and try to make them laugh out loud.  If you did, they were out. If you couldn't make someone laugh, you moved on to another girl until you got someone to laugh.

It was a fun meeting and we even gained a new Brownie this year....meet Kaylynn!