Tuesday, March 19, 2013
Use Resources Wisely
Our first activity was to reuse the empty toilet paper rolls to make seedling planters. The girls came to the meeting with toilet paper rolls and a shoe box to carry their project home. This activity took longer than expected, so we didn't get to the other activity today.
First cut the paper rolls in half.
Cut four slits in the bottom, and fold like a box. See TUTORIAL below...
Fill each with soil.
Label each planter and cover a few seeds with soil in each.
Once the seedlings sprout, the cardboard planter can be planted in the ground whole.
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TUTORIAL for TOILET PAPER ROLL PLANTERS
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| 1. Start with empty toilet paper rolls. |
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| 2. Cut each roll in half. |
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| 3. Cut four slits across from each other on one side, |
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| 4. Fold the four slits down, like you are folding a box. |
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| 5. Press flat to form bottom of planter. |
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| 6. Fill with soil. Label. |
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| 7. Bury a few seeds into each planter. |
Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Honest & Fair
The second story was Ruthie and the (Not So) Teeny Tiny Lie by Laura Rankin. This was a great story of a little girl, and how she feels and deals with telling a little lie.
Before the meeting, I bought several items from the local dollar store - stampers, candy, balls, barrettes, small toys. To help the girls understand how to be fair, we gave each girl a goodie bag. Some of the goodie bags were stuffed full to the top, and some others just had a few little items. We sat in a circle and went around as each girl opened their bag and shared what they received. It was quite clear that the goodie bags were not equal in their contents. After obvious disappointment from the girls who didn't receive the big loot bags, we talked about what we could do to make things fair. The girls all thought they could share their stuff with everyone. We went through each type of item and pooled them together for each girl to take turns picking an item. All the girls were super happy to get equal amounts of goodies to keep.
What was great was that even before we discussed how to balance the loot, there was some sharing from a girl who had a big stash to her neighbor Daisy who didn't receive much.
We then made Leprechaun Finger Puppets for St. Patrick's Day. This was a lot of fun for the girls, although they needed some help with the glue.
Click here for the instructions for the Leprechaun Finger Puppet.
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Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Friendly and Helpful
Each girl had a Helping Hands Coupons sheet to cut apart. (If you want to modify your own Helping Hand coupons, here is our Word doc version.) The coupons were each glued on a piece of construction paper.
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| Helping Hands Coupons |
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| Helping Hands Coupon Book |
For our second activity, we made our own version of Helping Hands Calling cards. Each time they do an act of kindness, they can leave their calling card behind.
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| Helping Hands Calling Cards |
The girls had a sheet of hand prints, and a sheet of Helping Hands Calling cards to cut. (We had pre-cut the hands as circle-shaped pieces before the meeting.) The girls colored the hands, and glued one to each of their cards. They took these cards home along with a Calling Card coloring sheet.
We sent the girls home with our own version of a Kindness Keeper. We cut a 2"x18" strip of white craft foam, and wrote the girl's name on the bottom of their strip. We punched a hole at the top, reinforced it with hole reinforcement labels, and tied a piece of plastic lace to it. We gave each girl a pack of daisy gems (found in the $1 bins at Michaels).
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| Sample Kindness Keeper |
The girls are to hang their Kindness Keeper from a door or cabinet. Each time they do a good deed, they get to stick a daisy gem on their keeper. It make a pretty display of their kindness. ☺
See all the photos from today here.
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Tuesday, February 5, 2013
Be A Sister to Every Girl Scout
First, we had a little Valentine fun, and decorated sugar cookies with pink icing and Valentine-inspired decors. The best part was eating them, of course.
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| Decorating Valentine Cookies |
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| Decorating Cookies |
We handed out the goodie bags we received from Troop 344 in Ohio. We had made the Ohio troop Valentine cards at our last meeting. This tied in well to our being a sister to other Girl Scout theme for today.
We had a request to do an exchange with anther Daisy troop in Arkansas. So today, the girls made little critter bookmarks to send to this troop.
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| Making little critter bookmarks. |
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| Little critters ready for a trip to Arkansas. |
The final task for today was to write notes to the girls in this troop. We will bundle the cards and critters, and a couple other goodies, along with some information about our Virginia locality to send to this troop.
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| Making cards to send to another troop. |
The girls earned their violet petal patch today for all their hard work. We definitely needed all mothers' helping hands for today's activities.
See all the photos from today here.
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Tuesday, January 15, 2013
Responsible for What I Say & Do
For our project, each girl made their own Daisy Responsibility/Kaper chart. We used the GS Daisy from makingfriends.com and had the girls cut out the daisy and glue it on a piece of card-stock. I made copies of job/responsibility magnets from a chart I had. Each girl chose 10 of their favorite tasks, cut them out and glued them next to a daisy petal.
When they were done, they got a sheet of "Helping Hands" stickers. Every time they complete one of their tasks they are to put a sticker on their petal. The girls can bring their charts back at our next meeting to show off how filled their daisy charts are.
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| Completed Responsibility Chart & Helping Hands Stickers |
We also created lollipop treats and Valentine cards to exchange with another Girl Scout troop in Ohio.
The girls earned their orange petal for Being Responsible for What they Say & Do.
We also have a new puppy at our meetings!
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| Meet Shadow |
See all the photos from today here.
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Tuesday, December 18, 2012
Holiday Meeting
We had a little food - something salty, something sweet, something healthy to eat. Tortilla chips, cookies and grapes.
For a craft, the girls made wreath photo-ornaments for their family.
We passed out the cookie sale info to the parents too. Being our first year as Daisy Girl Scouts, selling cookies will be optional. The girls are welcome to sell some boxes to friends and family if they are interested, but no pressure.
Happy Holidays!
Tuesday, December 4, 2012
Courageous and Strong
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| Holiday greeting cards for our military. |
This activity tied into our Courageous and Strong patch for today. We talked about who we think of when we think of men and women who are courageous and strong. People in our military serve as one easy example. We also discussed how being courageous also means getting past your fear to try something new.
We did a couple of fun activities to see if we could be courageous. The first game was called emotions. The girls pick out of a paper bag a piece of paper that had an emotion on it, like Happy, Sad, Mad, Glad, Excited, Hurt, Surprised, etc... Each girl had to stand in front of the group to act out the emotion without talking. It could take quite a bit of courage to do this in front of everyone.
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| Mystery bag for testing courage. :-) |
The second game we played was a fun one to see "Who has enough courage to put their hand inside a container if they don't know what's inside?" For this activity, each girl was given a brown paper bag that was bunched up closed at the top with a narrow opening (held by a rubber band). They couldn't see what was in it, but we asked if anyone was Brave enough to put their hand inside. They were all a bit nervous, but they were very brave and stuck their hand in. They were so surprised to feel something slimy, and discover that it was a cup of open pudding that they stuck their hand into! Of course, the next question they asked was "Can we eat it?" Of course.
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| Enjoying their courageous efforts. :-) |
We closed out our meeting with a gingerbread/snowman foam bead necklace craft for each girl to make.
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| Showing off their new necklaces. |
The girls took home their red petal patch for being Courageous and Strong!
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