Are you ready to blast off into some summer fun? Here is a great rocket snack we made to with a group of Tenderhearts earning the Living & Working in Space merit badge.
We have just finished our 4th year with American Heritage Girls. My daughter and I love it. It seems like just yesterday Lily was a cute little Tenderheart; Now she is a Pioneer. Over the last fou…
Monkey joined the American Heritage Girls and we went to our first meeting. She loved it and decided she is joining. As part of the joining up badge, she has to memorize the American Heritage Girl Oath and Creed. I
Background: Fanny Crosby, the namesake for American Heritage Girls Pathfinder Level, was born almost 200 years ago on March 24, 1820. Due to doctor's error, she became blind when she was still just a baby; only 6 weeks old. But Fanny persevered. What does it mean to persevere? She never gave up. She kept going, kept trying, and stayed on task even when things were hard and she felt like giving up. She believed that she could do "all things though Christ who strengthens me" (Phil. 4:13). She was content despite her circumstances and praised God for her blessings. Fanny loved to write hymns, and she was very good at it. Throughout her life she wrote more than 8,000 hymns; some of which we still sing in church today. Game: Freeze Dance Before continuing with the lesson, play freeze dance to get all of those wiggles out. Use some of Fanny's popular hymns like "Blessed Assurance", "To God be the Glory", and/or "All the Way my Savior Leads Me". Discussion: If you were blind, what challenges would you face? How could you overcome them? What are you other senses and how could you use them if you could not use your sense of sight? Would it be easy? Reading is one challenge the blind need to overcome. Between the years of 1821 and 1837, Louis Braille, a blind French youth developed a system of raised bumps that represented letters and symbols so reading could be accomplished with the sense of touch. However, it was not until 1868 when a group of British men now known as The Royal National Institute for the Blind took up the cause of bringing braille to the world. Activity: Print out a handout of the Braille Alphabet. Decode this worksheet: (Answer: Did you persevere? Never give up!) I love the teamwork the girls used to solve this! Discuss: Do you think it would take a lot of hard work and perseverance to learn Braille? What would be the reward for persevering? Have each student tell of a time they had to persevere. Activity: Prepare name strips with a Braille template representing the child's name. Have them glue gemstones to form their names in Braille. With eyes closed have them run their fingers over the name tape. Discuss how it feel. Have them pass around and try feeling each other's names. If you put three names in front of them, with eyes closed, can they feel out their name? Game: Play "Fanny Crosby", similar to "Marco Polo" but on land. One child is chosen as "it" and blindfolded. For the safety of everyone, do not allow running and make sure the space is clear of hazards. Whoever is "it" yells "Fanny" and the rest of the children respond "Crosby". By listening, the "it" person will try to move towards the other children, with the goal of tagging them. When tagged, that person then becomes "it".
The Explorers are getting ready for a fashion show next week. The fashion show will satisfy a requirement for their My Style badge. Curly decided what year she was going to represent. The peasant look of the 70's. Hopefully, I will be able to get pictures next week. Tenderhearts finished their Joining Award lapbooks. This is important because new AHG have to complete the Joining Award before the can receive any other badges. This award is to help them get to know what it means to be an American Heritage Girls. Once they have received this award, they can start earning other badges. Once they earn the Joining Award, they do not have to repeat it, in the future. I would like to thank the AHG member who made this available for all the troops to use. Angel got her Joining Award last year but have a fun time making the lapbook. We added the picture on the cover and talked about the AHG Mission Statement (Satisfied Requirement #6) The left flap has information about flag etiquette. This satisfied requirement #8. I also added a picture of the Joining Award Patch. The center section had the history of AHG and the Oath. I added a little informational sheet on the requirements to be a Tenderheart. History of AHG satisified requirement #9. The girls had to memorize the Oath to satisfy requirement #1. This allowed us to learn the AHG Salute and Sign and when to use them. Satisfied requirement #3 and #4. We talked about each section of the creed. The inside right hand flap was the AHG Creed. (Satisfied Requirement #2) Wrote a Scripture reference on the inside (these are in the handbook on page 16-17). I think the girls had a good time making this. It reinforced the information to the girls that already have their Joining Award, as well as helping the other girls earn this badge.
This candy campfire activity is the perfect way to teach how to build a campfire or just a fun activity for a camp themed party!
This semester we had several new Tenderhearts join our troop. So I set out to complete their Joining Award. To help them learn the AHG Oath, we played AHG Oath Twister.
The first badge that my Pioneers have chosen to work on this year is the Outdoor Skills badge. Requirement 19 helps the girls learn axe / hatchet safety along with the parts of the tools. This pas…
You can make an awesome craft with just craft paint and paper! That's it! Just grab our free printable and check out the ideas below! GRAB IT FROM BOX.COM
DIY Straw Rockets with Free Printable
A fun spring craft to make with the kids! Using tissue paper and black construction paper, this butterfly looks like it's made from stained glass.
We have been members of American Heritage Girls , a faith-based organization that is an alternative to Girl Scouts, for over five years no...
One of our favorite beaded crafts is making a pipe cleaner snake. Pipe cleaner crafts are great for kids of all ages, even preschoolers because it is a
Create an adorable seahorse puppet using a paper roll. This fun and easy craft will inspire imaginary play in children.
An easy and cheap science project for preschool – first grade kids (age 4 – 7) is to make a constellation viewer with a toilet paper tube. I’ll describe and illustrate our method …
Our Heritage Frontier is my favorite merit badge frontier. As I have gotten older, I have fallen in love with history. As a student (even in college) I hated it. Now as a home school mom, and getti…
The teacher in me loves the science related badges. As we homeschool, I find that our curriculum often overlaps with badge work. This experiment is a classic example of one that we performed in &…
Cute full size coloring book of the seven sacraments of the Catholic Faith. Thirteen pages in this download. Pages include Baptism, Confession/Penance/Reconciliation, Communion/Eucharist/Holy Communion, Confirmation, Marriage/Matrimony, Holy Orders, and two Anointing of the Sick. Clip art by Educ...
A Fun Way to Teach Table Manners to Kids Activity --It's kid approved! We have enjoyed using it at our meal time when our kids were younger.
Paper plate string art is so easy and there's so many possibilities. I'll show you everything you need (free printables included).
