First Aid!

With our Key Lime Cove trip coming up and summer too, we figured it might be a good idea to learn a little first aid. We did this as Brownies but now as Juniors, we are older and have a bit more to learn about it. So we invited Marin's mom, Mrs. Colton in to teach us about it. She is a nurse so she is a pro! She talked to us about different things that are used when administering first aid.  She told us about calling 911.

 

We talked about different scenarios and what we should do if ever in that position.

 

We even made our own first aid kits!  They were filled with bandaids, gauze, tweezers, a handkerchief, and more.  

The girls thought this was pretty great.  We made smaller ones as Brownies that were little necklace ones and the girls all wore them to school.  These are in Tupperware containers and would be great to keep in the car or take with in a bag if going somewhere. 

 

Then Mrs. Colton had the girls act out different scenarios.  She gave the situation and had one person be the victim and the rest be the people who needed to help.

 

Thank you Mrs. Colton!  The girls learned a lot!

Detective!

We finally got back to working on some patches. We worked on the Detective patch. This one was so much fun! First we worked on the art of observation.  The girls had to look at these pictures for 1 minute.  Then I collected them back and they had to write down as many as they could remember.

 

Next we talked about fingerprints and made our own fingerprint ID cards. 

 

We talked about how everyone's fingerprints are different.

 

Next everyone took their index finger and printed it on a card.  We had to use their ID cards to match up whose fingerprints were whose.

 

The girls really loved this part!

We even got out the magnifying glasses to get a better look.

 

Next we made teeth impressions using a Styrofoam plate.

 

The girls did not think this was as cool as the fingerprints.

 

But then again we tried matching these impressions with some mystery ones. 

 

Next we put our fingerprints all over a mirror and dusted them with baby powder to see how investigators uncover fingerprints.

 

And last I read a mystery story and the girls had to use clues to figure out who was the thief. 

 

This was a really fun meeting!

Take Action Project and Bronze Award!

So this meeting was a little different. We had to figure out which direction we should head in order to start working on our Bronze Award, which is the highest award a Junior can get! We learned about some programs we could get involved with. 

One of them being the Ronald McDonald house.  We could work on collecting pop tabs and work with donating items to help the nearest chapter.

 

We watched a video about the importance of collecting tabs and why it is done.

 

Our school does collect and we are taking it over.

 

So we split up into teams based on what our talents are and what we can contribute to it.  We had 2 teams of artists, one for making posters to display and the other to make containers to decorate to collect the tabs.  We had some actors who are working on putting together a short video on the importance of collecting tabs that the teachers at our school can play for the classes.  We also have a techie group who is busy making a power point on why pop tabs are valuable to collect that can also be shown.

The girls got busy decorating the cans.

Our techie group started working on the power point.

These girls were busy making posters.

 

And these girls started working on video.

We still have lots of work to do in order to put this plan in action!