Girl Scouts: What we did and what the girls are planning!

Hi everyone!

What a great bunch of girls!  We had to do a lot of last minute plan changing because of the weather, but the girls still made the best of it, and had a bunch of fun.  Here's a recap, and what they're planning for next week.  I'll get a more itemized breakdown of the homework they assigned themselves later (probably tomorrow morning) because it's getting late already, but you'll get the gist of it tonight!

We started the meeting by creating a "Get to know us" online quiz and we all raced to see how well we knew our troop, this helped our newest friend--welcome Colette!--get to know her new troopmates, and helped her troopmates get to know her too!  it was a lot of fun, and I know we all learned something about each other.  Great job girls!

Since it had been a long school day, the girls decided to snack next.  The girls that were at the wellness fair yesterday taught the rest of us proper fire-building technique but used edible components like raisins, potato sticks, different sized pretzel sticks, and dried strawberries to represent the fire ring, tinder, kindling, logs, and even flames!  Ask them to show you the right way to build a good fire--they're all experts now!

Then we took a little time and worked on our design submissions for next Fall's Green Corners Campout shirts and patches.  Some girls finished theirs right then, and some girls took their designs home to wrap up.  I need finished designs by the end of the month, so if your scout wants to be in the contest, turn the design in ASAP.  You can get it to me in person at a meeting, or can scan and email it to me too.  I've attached a copy of the design contest form in case anyone wants to start a new one or lost their started one.  Our troop has a long history of being represented in one of the two designs--let's keep that streak alive!

Then it was time to get to work planning for our next badge next week.  After careful deliberation, the girls decided to work on the "Outdoor Art" badge.  (Side note--we're really cruising on badges, in the last three months we wrapped up the Night Owl badge, are 90% done with the sportsmanship badge, and will pretty much wrap up Outdoor Art next week too!)  The 4 activities they planned out for the upcoming meeting(s) are:

Smoothie making using natural ingredients (the art of cooking)

Tie-Dying using naturally occurring things to make dyes (the art of tie-dye),

Creating nature music using soundscapes and sounds inspired by the outdoors (the musical arts), and

Creating "Paper that grows."

I'm sure looking forward to the next meeting.  As I mentioned, I'll get their self-assigned lists sent out tomorrow so they can get to work prepping for an awesome Wednesday!

Happy scouting!

Aleks