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If your looking for ideas to make your meeting more fun while teaching your girls how to be courageous and strong you have come to the right place. Using some of these activities below to help your girls try new things even if their afraid because their sister scouts will help them. Teach them that they can also be courageous by following rules even when their friends do not follow them. I recommend the following activities that will reinforce being courageous and strong: Practice with activities Be creative with a craft Get moving with a game Put into action with a service project or real life experience. Optionally: If I have a song that related, sing that as well. Below are a few ideas to get you started. Courageous and Strong Activity Booklet Do you want to skip all the planning? If so, use the Courageous and Strong Activity booklet and take your girls on a garden adventure helping a family of fairies on a mission to teach the world how to live by very important values. Using the leader booklet and the girl’s activity booklet your girls will complete lots of activities to help their fairy friends plant flowers, water gardens, and learn how to put important values to live by into action. With step-by-step activities planned for you all you have to do is gather the supplies listed, you can’t ask for a easier way to run your meeting. Learn more about the activities included and get yours today! Other Fun Activities To Try Two things that are Scary: Try new foods and singing Karaoke – Grab a mic and some kids music. Let the girls take turns singing in front of group. Taste testing new foods – Try something new. Maybe even go with a theme like “Foods that are green. Now that is Courageous and Strong “ Is the egg Raw or Boiled? You will need to have a dozen eggs. You can boil 6 of them and leave 6 raw. Mix them up in the egg cartoon and number them. Have the girls take a piece of paper and write 1 – 12 and guess which are raw and which are boiled without picking them up. Then once done, have girls take turns seeing if they are right and break the egg over their hand, its all about being courageous enough to take the chance. Stories of People and Animals Being Courageous and Strong Juliette Gordon Low was the founder of GS and she had to be very Courageous and Strong to bring Scouting to Girls. Read her amazing story to your girls: Here Come the Girl Scouts!: The Amazing All-True Story of Juliette Gordon Low and Her Great Adventure Is there things you wish you could just do without fear? We all have a hard time doing things that are new in front of people with fear of failing or being laughed at. Here is a story of a brave giraffe that never gave up on his dream to dance at a party even when everyone said he couldn’t. Giraffes Can’t Dance Few Pinterest Finds you will love too… One of my favorite sites to visit is Using Resources Wisely. She is another amazing resource for you all to be sure to follow. She shared 10 great ideas to help you earn the Courageous and Strong Petal. Check them out here What Do You Stand For? Character Building Card Game (Game) If you have read some of the other blog post for petal ideas I share this over and over, because its so great. I found this on amazon a while back and let me tell you its a great way to get your girls talking, it has amazing scenarios to work through, there are many cards that will fit into the other petals as well, so make sure to pick out the ones you want for the specific law you are working on. Get yours here: What Do You Stand For? Character Building Card Game What do we do after your girls complete the activities? Well of course give them the badge to display proudly on their vest, they earned it! Additionally If you are like many leaders we want to award our girls when they complete something even beyond just the patch. One great way to show achievement is with a certificate. Don’t worry you don’t have to make them, I found a resource that has done all the work for you and all you have to do is print them and customize the certificates with each girl’s name, badge or award earned, date, and troop leader. Editable certificates perfect for awarding girls after earning a badge. Garden Fairy Fun Patches You are going to love these cute adorable fun patches to put on the back of your girl’s vest. I partnered with a amazing company Advantage Emblems and they are producing and shipping the patches. You can buy them individually or as a complete set. The Fairy Fun Patch Complete Set Honest and fair Friendly and helpful Considerate and caring Courageous and strong Responsible for what I say and do Respect myself and others Respect authority Use resources wisely Make the world a better place Be a sister to every girl Teach your girls about integrity and values This book was wrote by my sister – Who was a Girl Scout as a girl and a Leader for many years before starting a family of her own. This beautifully illustrated book empowers kids to be nice and kind human beings. ‘The Adventures To Me ’ is an endearing story of a little elephant on a journey to becoming the best version of “me”. Equipped with nothing other than a colorful scooter, a backpack, and a map, the little elephant starts their “Adventures to Me”. Along the way, meets new friends of all different backgrounds as encounters challenges, has to make choices, and learns lessons along the way. The road to discovering the best version of “me” is paved with lessons about confidence, truthfulness, resilience and strength, respect, kindness, responsibility, accepting differences, using what you have, dreaming big, setting goals, and looking ahead towards the future with a positive mindset. For the little elephant, the journey of life is full of a wealth of possibilities –– ready to embark on a beautiful journey alongside our elephant friend? Learn about the choices we all make to be good people and explore the great “Adventures To Me”! View on Amazon

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As a Daisy leader it can sometimes be difficult to come up activities for each of the petals. Over the last 10 years I have had multiple Daisy groups; this week I want to share what I have done with my girls to earn the light blue petal: “Honest and Fair “. A great place …

If your looking for ideas to make your meeting more fun while teaching your girls how to be friendly and helpful, you have come to the right place. Using some of these activities below to help your girls understand the best gift for being friendly is your smile and the best way to be helpful is to always do what you are asked at home, school and in your troop, without being asked twice. I recommend the following activities that will reinforce being friendly and helpful: Practice with activities Be creative with a craft Get moving with a game Put into action with a service project or real life experience. Optionally: If I have a song that related, sing that as well. Below are a few ideas to get you started. Friendly and Helpful Petal Activity Booklet Do you want to skip all the planning? If so, use the Friendly and Helpful Activity booklet and take your girls on a garden adventure helping a family of fairies on a mission to teach the world how to live by very important values. Using the leader booklet and the girl’s activity booklet your girls will complete lots of activities to help their fairy friends plant flowers, water gardens, and learn how to put important values to live by into action. With step-by-step activities planned for you all you have to do is gather the supplies listed, you can’t ask for a easier way to run your meeting. Learn more about the activities included and get yours today! Role Play Being Friendly and Helpful A way to practice being friendly and helpful is to role play scenarios of people being friendly and helpful. Let the girls come up with their own scenarios as well, below are a few ideas to get you started: Helping someone who is in a wheel chair Comforting someone who has just lost their pet Your friend drops her books how can you help her? Role play different ways you can be helpful at home How can you be helpful at school, helping your teacher. New girl just started at school, how can you be friendly and helpful? Your grandpa has groceries that need carried in from car Your mom is planting a garden in backyard how can you help? Pinterest Find You Will Love One of my all time favorite sites to visit is Using Resources Wisely. She is another amazing resource for you all to be sure to follow. She shared 10 great ideas to help you earn the Friendly and Helpful Petal. Check them out here Kaper Chart For Girls What is a Kaper chart? A “kaper chart” is a tradition for dividing up troop responsibilities. A kaper chart indicates all the jobs available and who is responsible for each one. This is a great way for your girls to practice and be friendly and helpful. As part of your petal work have girls make the chart. Here is a unique kaper chart with a monkey theme. Directions to make Kaper Chart. If you want other ideas, also check out my Kaper Chart Pinterest board with over 250 ideas. Singing a Fun Song Take My Hand and Join the FunTune: London Bridge Motion: Girls hold hands move in circle, then sing again go other direction Take my hand and join the fun, Join the fun, join the fun, Take my hand and join the fun, I’m a (**say what you are) Add a SWAP craft to your meeting If you want to add a SWAP craft to your meeting while learning about being friendly and helpful. This kit is from one of my favorite websites for scouting resources Makingfriends.com. It comes with everything you need to make 30 swaps. Get Yours Here What Do You Stand For? Character Building Game I found this on Amazon a while back and let me tell you its a great way to get your girls talking. It has amazing scenarios to work through, plus there are many cards that will fit into any value you want to teach your girls. So make sure to pick out the ones you want for the specific value you are working on. Girls can turn learning into a game and the girls will want to play it. You can play it like a card game using the 10 traits: Caring, Citizenship, Cooperation, Fairness, Forgiveness, Honesty, Relationships, Respect, Responsibility, and Safety. Get Yours Here What do we do after your girls complete the activities? Well of course give them the badge to display proudly on their vest, they earned it! Additionally If you are like many leaders we want to award our girls when they complete something even beyond just the patch. One great way to show achievement is with a certificate. Don’t worry you don’t have to make them, I found a resource that has done all the work for you and all you have to do is print them and customize the certificates with each girl’s name, badge or award earned, date, and troop leader. Editable certificates perfect for awarding girls after earning a badge. Friendly and Helpful Fun Patch You are going to love this cute adorable fun patch to put on the back of your girl’s vest. This goes with the Petal Fairy Program mentioned at the beginning of this post. You can buy each petal patch individually or as a complete set. View Fun Patch This activity program was designed to fulfill the requirements for all 10 Daisy Petals and Promise Center or can be used by frontier girl leaders to earn similar badges. The petal fairy program will take your girls on a garden adventure with their new petal fairy friends who need your girls help to plant their flowers, water their gardens, and in return the petal fairies will help your girls learn how to live by the 10 fairy laws one activity at a time. See Product See Product See Product Enjoy every minute being a leader and continue to inspire your girls!

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