10th Meeting – Junior Troop visits!

Girl Scouts sisterhood at it’s best! A Junior Troop in our service unit came to our meeting and ran it for us.  The Juniors were working on their Junior Aide award and we are working on our Safety Award. The Juniors planned the entire meeting: they read a book to the girls about Stop, Drop,…

T-shirts! Craft: Scribble Initial T-Shirt (Tutorial)

For our last meeting in June 2016, our girls will be creating their own troop t-shirts.  (Be sure to check back with my blog to find out how that project goes!)  We’ll be creating hand-print petal shirts similar to these: Friendship Circle Tees On the back I plan to create our troop number with freezer paper…

9th Meeting – Gloria

Thankfully, snow has not kept us from meeting and we had all but one of our smiling girls attend this meeting!  Gloria, who represents Respect Myself and Others, is a very important part of the GS Law. Here is our agenda: 9th meeting troop xxx Business: I don’t always read every petal friend story from the…

Year Planning

I will attach my year plan draft here. Meeting topics may get changed around due to events that come up or even weather cancellations, but this is our draft.  We are on track to earn all our petals, Daisy Garden Journey, and the Safety Award by the end of our first year. In our second…

8th Meeting – Safety Award and Zinni

Another fun meeting!  I’m finding that as we all get to know each other more and we’re now getting in the groove of meetings, it all runs much smoother. Click here for meeting agenda. Opening: The girls are enjoying using their kaper chart and everyone getting a turn at being the flag bearer and promise…

7th Meeting – Zinni petal

It must be the excitement of being back in school after the holiday break, because the girls were full of energy at our meeting.  This was a good meeting to to start our Zinni petal and play games. Meeting agenda: 7th meeting troop xxx Business After taking dues and attendance, I shared some letters we received…

6th Meeting – Vi Petal and Holiday Party

Another great meeting in the books! Agenda: sixth meeting troop xxx OPENING Our usual opening with the Pledge of Allegiance and Promise.  I told the girls that we would not be having snacks at our meetings after tonight.  (See my post from our last meeting.)  I also shared a post card sent to them from my…

Daisy-In-Training

I don’t always ‘win’ at the parenting game, but sometimes I get something right.

My 6 year old is my Daisy Scout and my 4 year old daughter CAN’T WAIT to be a Daisy.  When I am talking about scouting with my oldest daughter, my 4 year old is always asking if she can come along and when will she get to be a Daisy?

So, I bought her some fun patches and found a jean vest at Target.  My husband sewed on the patches and we surprised her one morning with her “Girl Scout/Daisy In Training” vest!

She was ecstatic.  And wore it all day.  When my 4 year old attends scouting events with us as a tag-a-long, I’ll make sure she also gets a fun patch (which I’ll purchase myself) and she can add those to her vest.

It never hurts to get girls excited in scouting -even from an early age!

 

UPDATE:

With a few more fun patches……..my Daisy In Training loves to attend events as a Tag-a-Long and I purchase the fun patch for her.

5th meeting: Vi Petal

Our 5th meeting was fun and time flew by – it often does. Agenda: fifth meeting troop xxx We started the meeting with our usual business and this time I asked a couple girls about their activities since our last meeting.  One girl had gone to Disney World over Thanksgiving and she brought back lollipops for…

4th Meeting – Lupe wrap up and more games!

Our fourth meeting was almost a repeat of our last meeting.  I realized the girls had so much fun with games that we played more games to wrap up Lupe / the Honest and Fair petal. Reading through badge requirements in the Daisy Guide book, I discovered we had completed most of the requirements for…