Daisy to Brownie Girl Scout Bridging Resources

Updated October 2019

If you are reading this blog post then you must be getting ready to bridge from Daisy Girl Scout to Brownie Girl Scouts!

Here are some resources for you to use to make the job easier.

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Start here with this article-The Ultimate Daisy to Brownie Girl Scout Bridging Ceremony Guide.

These blog posts that share all kinds of resources for leaders. Videos free bridging certificates and more are available.

From my main Girl Scout Leader blog, here are some fun party decorations for your ceremony. You can also read about many other ideas on what to do for your ceremony right here.

You can read here how I did my Daisy to Brownie bridging ceremony.

A Fun Hedgehog Book to Help Earn the Yellow Daisy Petal Friendly and Helpful

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Updated October 2019

For many troops selling Girl Scout cookies this year, one of the incentives the children can earn is the hedgehog plush. If this is one your prizes, then your girls are well aware of this animal.

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Here is a wonderful book that ties in the hedgehog and will help your girls earn the yellow Daisy petal, Friendly and Helpful.

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You can start the meeting by asking the girls why having a friend is important and asking how friends help each other.

In this story, Isaac is a hedgehog who has never had a friend. Ask the girls how would that make them feel?  Is it better to have a friend or not have one?

Then read to them this delightful tale of how Isaac learns that having a friend and being a friend is a good thing.

After the story is over,ask the girls the lesson that Isaac learned...friends are good to have around when you need someone!

To tie in the friendship theme, I found this craft for a Friendship Apple Tree.  You can have the girls do this individually or make one large one for your troop.

Here is my personal twist to this craft so you can do this as a group.

Materials

Apple template

Posterboard

Black Sharpie

White construction paper

Scotch tape

Hedgehog stickers

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You will need to decide ahead of time if you want the girls to trace and cut out the apple shape or if you want to do this ahead of time. You can also decide if you are going to use construction paper to make a tree trunk and leaves or have the girls help out and take turns coloring part of it in.

Have each girl tell you one way she could be either friendly or helpful. Write it down, have her write her name on it, and have the girl color it in and cut it out if you did not do this. Have her place a hedgehog sticker on it.

When all the girls are done, then they can help each other out by taping another girl's apple to the tree.

If you have time for a healthy snack, you can bring in a few different varieties of apples for the girls to sample.

If you want more ideas on how to earn the yellow Daisy petal, you can check out these other blog posts.

Daisy Girl Scout Activities for Girl Scout Week 2016

*Links checked and updated November 2019

Now that Founder's Day is over, it is time to look forward to the next scouting holiday-Girl Scout Week. On March 12, 1912, Juliette Gordon Low founded the Girl Scouts of the USA. It is during this week that scouts of all levels commit to some kind of service activity to show their pride.

The service part involves simple activities to make the world a better place. There is no need to reinvent the wheel or to make yourself crazy trying to create something new. Most of you have just come off cookie season or at the tail end of it.

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For my troop, Girl Scout Week activities have always been optional. Our Service Unit hosts a roller skating activity for all scouts during this week. Little girls love to see the older ones hang out at the same venue. If the girls in my troop want to earn a fun patch, they can participate by doing activities that either I gave them or the service unit. For example, our service unit asked so we made posters promoting Girl Scouts during our meeting and they were hung around the schools the girls attended. That counted towards one of the activities on the checklist. Others were done on their own.

If the girls handed the signed checklist in on time-great! They earned the patch. If not, they did not get one. I did not chase parents down for this and you should not either. Parents have to own this since the Girl Scout Week activities are done independently. If they are not committed to helping their daughter int heir free time, there is nothing you can do about it.

Here are some resources for you to use with your Daisy Scouts for Girl Scout Week 2016. Ignore the dates at the top-they are not relevant. Also, I permitted my girls to do one activity from each list, but it did not have to be on the day it specified. As long as one was completed, it did not matter if it matched the date.


Girl Scouts of Rhode Island

This has several activities for any given day.

Activities for Girl Scout Week

In this blog post from 2015, I have resources listed for leaders to use.

More Activities for Girl Scout Week

This 2016 blog post has even more resources for you.


What is your Daisy troop doing for Girl Scout Week 2016?