Girl Scouts: Meeting Recap

Hi everyone!

Just a quick meeting recap--it was a fun one!

Super thanks to Mrs. Skibicki, Mrs. Amenda, Mrs. Wnuk, and Mrs. Pintar who all helped out, and to Catherine Celsor, a Middle School Girl Scout that helped out too!  Thanks so much--without all of you, this wouldn't be possible! 

Unfortunately the chef we were going to have visit couldn't make it--one of her cooks called in sick and she had to take his work on that day too.  She feels bad about it, and we're figuring out a good reschedule for her.

So, in her place we had three other food-related activities some filled with some fun, and some with learning!

First though, as usual this year, we started by making festive placemats for Meals on Wheels.  This time we made woven heart placemats.  If some of your girls brought home "U" shaped cardstock cut outs, that's the template we used.  They can explain how to make hearts from that design.

Then we moved on to our first cooking activity:  A food and wine pairing event!  (Ok, it was actually a snack and juice pairing event!)  Every girl got to choose 4 kinds of drink (they could choose from milk, tomato juice, red grape juice, white grape juice, or Sunny Delight.)   They also each picked 4 kinds of snacks to pair their drinks with.  (Turkey snack sticks, goldfish, oreos, animal crackers, grapes, dinner mints, or cheese curds.)

Then they filled in a grid after trying each snack with each drink that they had chosen.  They recorded their results as scientifically as possible, so we could compare and use the results to pick future snack and drink combinations.  They made some interesting discoveries!  We learned that some foods go together better than others (Mints and Sunny Delight? Yuck!) we also learned that combinations that some people like, other people might not like.  We also learned that sometimes foods we LOVE when we eat them alone, don't taste as good when they're put together.

Afterwards, since time was running short, the girls got to pick whether they wanted to do a food-related craft (make S'mores snowmen decorations) or do a food related game (a popcorn relay race.)  The girls seemed to have a lot of fun no matter which wrap-up activity they chose.

Happy Scouting everyone!  We'll see you at the nursing home visits!

Aleks