Girl Scouts

One of the very first things our troop said they wanted to learn this year was first aid. So, to earn the red “Courageous & Strong” badge, we arranged for a special meeting about preparing for emergencies, basic first aid and calling 911. Agenda Welcome: Coloring name tags and tula the tulip coloring sheets. Opening…

Our Daisy Girl Scout troop has started earning their petal badges! For our first meeting in January, we worked on the orange “Responsible for what I say and do” petal. Five year olds are exactly the right demographic for the classic “card game” 52 pick-up. We had the girls work as a team in three…

Our 4th Daisy Troop meeting – our crew of nine future world leaders were in great spirits and seemed to be much more comfortable with each other. For this meeting, we continued our travel theme from last week’s passport project.  The goals this week: talking about places we’ve traveled, more about feelings, adding in lessons…

Our third Girl Scout Troop meeting was the best one yet! Although, the girls seem to no longer be intimidated by Margaret and me and are becoming a tiny bit less well-behaved. We focused on a travel theme for the start of our year’s “journey” as a Daisies. I’ve been finding that all the fun…

Ah, Girl Scouts! I loved being a Girl Scout growing up. As you can probably imagine, I was the weird kid who wore satin pajamas on Brownie camping trips. Regardless, I learned so much about camping, crafts and business (I was a tiny, ferocious Gordon Gekko with cookies and poinsettias). For almost a decade now I’ve been trying…