Here is a Quick and Easy Idea for Your Last Daisy Girl Scout Meeting Before the Winter Break

Leaders, I know that you are busy, busy, busy this time of year!  With the holiday season upon us and all of the traditions we want to continue, the parties we have to attend, the presents we have to shop for and wrap, and trying to keep it all together with our volunteer activities can be very overwhelming!

I have a quick and easy meeting idea that is both festive and fun for your little Daisy Scouts and easy for you to prep for-even last minute. You may wish to have an additional parent or two helping you oversee the two stations.

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Cookie Decorating

Materials:

Sugar cookies

Sprinkles and/or colored sugar

Confectioners sugar

Water

Cake decorating brushes (very cheap at the craft store)

Parchment paper, wax paper, or paper plates

White lunch bags

Curling ribbon

Plastic wrap or baggies

Hole puncher

Stickers

Gift tags (the girls can make these out of pre-cut paper or use the labels you have at home)

If you have time to bake cookies for the girl, that is wonderful.  But if you do not, buy some plain sugar cookies in the bakery department of your local grocery store.  Make icing from confectioners sugar and water at home and place them in containers.

The girls can work in stations. One set of girls gets to decorate the cookies, places them on parchment paper or a paper plate that has her name on it in the corner.

The other set of girls is working on decorating the white bag with markers and stickers.  They can even decorate a gift tag and make a card if you find you meed more for them to do.

Switch stations.

One volunteer can wrap the cookies in plastic wrap or place in a baggie, put in the gift bag, punch a hole in the top and tie it with a ribbon. Don't forget to hole punch the gift tag and place it on the ribbon as well.

The girls can go home with a treat for the family that they made themselves!

Optional Items to Add to the Bag

Tea bags

Instant coffee packets

Hot chocolate mix

Peppermint candy

Chocolate Kisses

Candy Canes

Adorable Daisy Baking Items!

Tis the season to bake cookies, and my children and I have already started on our holiday festivities. What got me in the mood was an email from the leader of my daughter's troop. Instead of working on our Cadette marketing badge, we are instead going to be baking cookies for the troops. I am so excited, as we have not done a service project in our troop yet this year.

When my girls were third grade Brownies, we did a cookie baking community service project. I wrote about it in full detail here. It was a lot of work but so much fun and such a worthwhile thing to do.

Young Daisy Scouts can bake cookies, or at least decorate them during a meeting (which is probably the easiest thing for you to do with kindergarten and first grade girls!).  You can make the cookies at home and at the meeting, have the girls make cards for the troops, for their families or whomever these cookies are going to. By doing it in stations, you can focus more on what each child is producing and giving assistance when needed.

Here are a few adorable items that are not seasonal, but are just right for Daisy Scouts who are creating special cookies for someone else. They can even be used for crafts during the year or even in the 3 Cheers for Animals Journey to make bird feeder cookies.

 

  Fox Run Daisy Cookie Cutter from Amazon

This looks just like the Daisy petal!

 

  Wilton Comfort-Grip Cookie Cutter - Daisy from Amazon

This one has 10 petals.

 

  Wilton Jumbo Daisies Sprinkles from Amazon

Top your regular iced cookies with these.

You can also top the cookies with blue sugar crystals or blue sprinkles.

Are you doing any service projects this holiday season?

Daisy Girl Scout Christmas Ornaments-Keepsakes

Christmas ornaments tell a personal history.  From "Baby's 1st Christmas" to her the first trip to Disney, every year when these special keepsakes re taken out of the Christmas box, a flood of memories comes rushing back.  Remembering the stories of our past and those who may no longer be with us is both a loving and bittersweet experience.

Right now, your daughter may have just embarked on her Girl Scout journey. You may not know what the future holds, but one thing is for certain, this year is special. Why not commemorate it with a special Daisy Girl Scout Christmas ornament?

Zazzle has a whole line of Girl Scout ornaments that can be personalized with your daughter's name and the year. When she is all grown up, she will appreciate this piece of her childhood history.

So get out your camera, take a picture of her with her vest or tunic on, and create an awesome ornament!

This photo ornament comes in six different shapes.

Daisy Scout Ornament by Scrappintwins
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This Daisy ornament comes with girls in different hair colors and skin tones.