Over 25 Easy Girl Scout Founder’s Day Ideas

 
On October 31st each year, Girl Scout Founder’s Day is celebrated by troops around the country. Here are some fun and easy ideas for you to do with your troop.

There are three holidays on the Girl Scout calendar each year. Depending on how you look at it, Girl Scout Founder’s Day is either the last one (if you go by the Gregorian calendar) or the first one if you go by the scouting calendar (the new scouting year begins on October 1st).

Either way, this is a fun meeting to have with your troop, no matter what level they are.

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Who is Juliette Gordon Low?

Juliette “Daisy” Gordon Low is the fearless leader who founded the Girl Scouts of the USA and was born on October 31, 1860.

For a full article full of facts that you can share with your troop, you can read all about Ms. Low here on the GSUSA website.

Easy Girl Scout Founder’s Day Meeting Plans for All Levels

Since starting my Girl Scout leader blog in January of 2010, I have written many blog posts on how my troop celebrated Girl Scout Founder’s Day. I also wrote posts with many other ideas on how you can celebrate with your troop.

In September, I went through each Girl Scout Founder’s Day blog post and updated them. All told, there are over 25 different ways your troop can celebrate during their meeting.

Check out each article and find the plans that will work for your troop!

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What is your troop planning to do for Girl Scout Founder’s Day?

Free Girl Scout Daisy Poem for Leaders

Girl Scout Daisy leaders, here is a freebie just for you!

In the fall, brand new Daisy leaders will meet their troop and start their scouting journey together. One thing a leader might host is a Girl Scout Daisy investiture ceremony. For free resources on how to create this short and simple ceremony for Daisies, you can read this post.

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In my Teachers Pay Teachers store, Leadership Made Simple, I have just uploaded a free Girl Scout Daisy poem for an Investiture or Rededication ceremony.

The resource has two different pages:

• A poem to read set against a field of daisies. This is great for scrapbooks.
• A coloring page that can be used at a later time that features the poem.

You can find my free Girl Scout Daisy poem for investiture ceremonies here.

10 Free Girl Scout Daisy Investiture Resources

Here are free Girl Scout Daisy Investiture resources for leaders to help them plan their very first Girl Scout ceremony.

There are many different ceremonies that are a part of Girl Scouting, and one of them is the Investiture. Simply stated, this ceremony is to welcome girls to the sisterhood of Girl Scouting. Many new Daisy troops hold one a few weeks into the genesis of their troop. Older girls welcome new scouts to their troop by having a Rededication/Investiture ceremony.

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This is  very simple and should not be something to cause a brand new leader any kinds of stress. You can do this towards the end of a meeting or at the very beginning, your choice. It is done with parents so they can see their daughters begin their Girl Scout career.

Hosting a Daisy Girl Scout Investiture ceremony should take place after meeting a few times simply because you do not know the girls all that well and they know very little, if anything, about being a Girl Scout. You get time to practice the Girl Scout Law and Girl Scout Promise and begin to gel as a unit. 

Before the ceremony, make sure you have purchased the Girl Scout Daisy and Girl Scout pins ahead of time. Girls should have purchased a yellow tab for this.

During the meeting before your ceremony, the girls can make a simple invitation. 

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Materials

• Blue Construction paper
• Printed Daisy flower coloring page or Daisy stickers that fit on the front of the card
• Ceremony details printed out to fit on the inside of the card
• Glue
• Crayons
• Scissors

Have the girls color in the Daisy, cut it out and glue it to the front of the blue construction paper. On the inside, have them glue the details that you have printed out. 

For example, you can write:

Daisy Troop 12345

Invites you to their 

Investiture Ceremony

on

October 21, 2021

at

6:30

Here are 10 free resources for your Girl Scout Daisy Investiture ceremoney.

Teachers Pay Teachers-A Daisy poem for you to read.

Girl Scouts of Western Washington have several short ceremonies.

Girl Scouts of Kentucky have a short and sweet ceremony.

Girl Scout Carolina Peaks to Piedmont has two pages for leaders.

Cranford Girl Scouts has a ceremony for Daisies.

Girl Scouts of Western New York has a few pages for leaders to use with Daisy Scouts.

Keeping It Easy and Simple is a blogger who shares about her ceremony.

Daisy Leader Garden is a blog post where a leader of kindergarten Daisy Scouts shares what she did. Not traditional, but her troop had fun!

Troop 2932's leader shares what she did with her Daisies.

Scouting Out Adventure is another leader's Investiture ceremony.

There are also many videos on YouTube featuring Daisy Investiture ceremonies. This will help those who are more visual.

Are you planning on having a Daisy Girl Scout Investiture Ceremony? Please share what you did and how it went!