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.