*This post contains affiliate links. Updated November 2019 Leading a Daisy troop of kindergarten and first grade girls presents an opportunity for you as the leader, to create and environment of friendship and acceptance. The violet petal, "Be aSister to Every Girl Scout", can be earned easily and with a lot of fun by being "secret sisters".
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Materials
For this activity, you will have to go to the post office and buy two postal cards for each girl in your troop. At home, put your address label on each card, so if for some reason it does not get delivered to the Daisy Scout it will be returned to you. You will also need to print a troop address list for each child.
Prior to your meeting, send out an email to the parents explaining that the child will be earning the violet petal. Explain to them that at the meeting, the girls will draw a name from a bag and that girl will be the "secret sister". Everyone will go home with an address list and two postal cards. Once a week for two weeks, the girl will write a note on the postcard to her secret sister. The note should tell some positive attributes about the sister scout, and maybe give a clue about who her secret sister might be.
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For the meeting where the girls "reveal" themselves, each one is to bring a small wrapped gift for their secret sister. It is to cost no more than five dollars.
In your email, you will need to advise parents that the gift should be generic in nature, like a craft kit, stationery item, or small toy, jump rope or chalk. Character gifts are not a good idea, as some girls may not like what another girl does.
At the meeting, remind the girls to be gracious when opening their gift, even if it may not be something they want. Good manners and being mindful of others' feelings is important! To start the meeting, you can read a book about friendship, like this George and Martha book, one of my favorites.
This Magic Color Rainbow Scratch kit is perfect for ending the meeting. Each girl can get a heart to scratch off and then you can tie them together with the enclosed ties. Another idea is to have each girl draw another girl's name from a bag. She designs a heart for her and presents it to her person at the end of the meeting.
Start with this Daisy foam shape. Have the girls pick a color from a bag so there is no arguing over who gets purple and who gets yellow. Write their name on the back in Sharpie. You may also want to write the words "Sisters in Scouting" on the front somewhere.
Step 2 Star Rhinestones
Have the girls peel and stick the jewels on the perimeter only. Collect them and after the photos have been printed, either you or the girls can cut them out and glue the picture to the center. When it is finished, you can hole punch the top and add a blue ribbon or add a magnet backing so it can be hung on the refrigerator.
Then have the girls reveal one by one who their secret sister is. Let them open their gifts and enjoy them!
Earning the violet petal, "Be a Sister to Every Girl Scout" is fun for scouts of all ages! You can then take a picture of the girls and their scout sister for them to put in their Girl Scout scrapbook.
UPDATED OCTOBER 2019 One of the aspects of Girl Scouts is sisterhood. We are all sisters to every Girl Scout in the world. Most importantly, young children need to be taught to be kind and respectful to the others in their troop. After all, they may be together for years and years!
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Activities for earning the violet Daisy petal, Be a Sister to Every Girl Scout does not need to be expensive or time consuming. It just has to be fun!
This Daisy petal activityhas the girls in your troop becoming secret sisters, and then ending with a fun craft that will become a memento of this petal. Girls this age love to craft, so it will be successful.
Another Violet petal activity is one I created on the spur of the moment before we had our first meeting for our second year of Daisies. This is calledthe Daisy Chain of Friendshipand it only requires computer paper or white construction paper, magic markers, and a stapler for each adult. This can be done at any time during the Daisy year, but I do think it is a fun one to visually foster sisterhood. Your troop can make a Swap for a sister troop to earn this petal. Another activity is to make a troop craft that is only for the girls in your troop. You can find directions here on how to do that.
What activities have you done to earn the Violet Daisy petal, Be a Sister to Every Girl Scout?
*This post contains affiliate links. Updated November 2019 There is a sisterhood among Girl Scouts, and here is an activity to foster this and earn your troop the violet Daisy petal, be a sister to every Girl Scout. The Girl Scouts have been around for one hundred years, and core to the value system is that scouts should respect and be kind to each other.
Earning the violet Daisy petal can be done locally with another troop. Contact your person on your Service Unit who is in charge of Daisy Girl Scouts. Ask if she can send a mass email out to all of the Daisy leaders and to see if any are interested in becoming pen pals. One of the benefits of having a local pen pal troop is that at the end of the year, you can meet at a local park and meet each other! It would be a great end of the yearfield trip.
Once you have found a local sister troop, you can work on the petal at your next meeting. Since most kindergarteners and many young first graders cannot write well, you will need extra volunteers to help transcribe the letter. Or you can get an older junior troop to help you with this activity (another great way to e a sister to every Girl Scout!)
At the start of the meeting, talk about what it means to be a sister to every Girl Scout. Obviously, the Girl Scout founders were not talking about your relatives. What did they mean?
Also ask the girls if they know what a pen pal is. These days, most will not. Tell them that they are going to be pen pals with a “sister” Daisy Girl Scout troop in town. Discuss what they can write about themselves and then the volunteers will write it for them. They can draw a picture to include with the letter.
Once the letter is done, the girls can make a simple Swap. A Swap is a Girl Scout tradition that goes back many years. Troops make a little craft to give to a sister scout. The Swap can be a beading project like this one.
Girls can make a Swap with the numbers of their troop on it.
Collect the letters and swaps and trade with your “sister” leader at the next volunteer meeting. Make sure her girls have their ready for you, or your troop might be disappointed. Depending on how often your troop meets, you can do this activity a few times before meeting. Even just making a simple swap to exchange is enough.
This activity for earning the violet Daisy petal, be a sister to every Girl Scout, can be continued for the rest of the year or for years to come.
*This post contains affiliate links. Updated October 2019 Working with kindergarten and first grade girls is a rewarding and enriching experience for adult leaders, as well as a fun time for the children in your troop. One of the most important things Girl Scout leaders need to do is foster friendship among their group. More than likely, these girls will be together for many years as a troop earning patches and badges, taking field trips and doing community service projects. Getting along is imperative to avoid drama and hurt feelings, as well as makes the time you spend together more enjoyable. You will look forward to your troop meetings if everyone gets along (at least most of the time!)
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That is why the violet petal, "Be a Sister to Every Girl Scout" is one to earn once you earned the blue promise center.
An easy and inexpensive Daisy Girl Scout activity is the "Daisy Chain of Friendship".
Materials Needed
Computer paper, cut into thirds (the long way)
Magic markers
One stapler per adult volunteer
Pre Meeting Prep Work
Before the meeting, cut 8x11 white computer paper into strips approximately three inches thick. You need to make one bundle of strips for each child in your troop. For example, if you have ten girls in your troop, you will need ten bundles of ten strips (100 strips). Paper clip them together.
Note: Make sure you make an extra bundle of strips for any child who make mistakes, as well as a paper chain of three or four links to show as an example. Children need a visual to see what it is that you want them to do.
Starting The Meeting
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At the meeting, ask the girls what it means to "be a sister to every girl scout". Discuss ways to be kind to each other during the meeting, at school and at home. You may even want to read a book about friendship to the girls to start this meeting.
Show the troop your paper chain. Explain that each girl is going to decorate her strip with her own name. She can write her name in bubble letters, block letters, squiggly letters, etc, and then draw designs around her name.
Note: If you have more than ten girls, limit each piece of paper to just her name until all the names are completed. Then she can begin decorating the individual strips.
When each girl is done with her strips, place them on another table, separated into piles (ten girls, ten piles). The next child lays her strips on top of these, until each pile has ten unique names. Troop leaders and volunteers will help the girls staple them into a paper chain.
*This post contains affiliate links. Updated August 2019 Daisy Girl Scout leaders certainly have their hands full if they are starting a new troop. Here is a meeting outline for the first half of the year. Remember to be flexible and have fun!
Congratulations on becoming a Daisy Girl Scout leader! You have done what many are unwilling to do...step up to the plate and give a group of young girls an opportunity to be a Girl Scout.. Even if you were a Girl Scout as a child, being a leader is a totally different experience, as well as a big responsibility. Besides being concerned with the pre-troop meeting paperwork, you have to plan what the girls are going to do each and every time you get together.
The following is a guideline for creating your Daisy Girl Scout meetings, based on meeting twice a week from September to December. Feel free to adapt it to your schedule, as you may find some activities are better suited for your troop to do later in the year.
Photo from Pixabay
First Meeting Prep Work and Supplies
For your craft, you will need to run off this Daisy petal worksheet on cardstock. Have blue tissue paper cut into squares for the promise center and bowls to place them in. The girls will use crayons to color the petals and crumple and glue the tissue paper to the center.
Your First Daisy Girl Scout Meeting-September
Your first meeting with your Daisy Scouts should involve a "getting to know you" or "ice breaker" activity. It is a good idea to have the parents stay and see how their girls are doing and how a meeting is run. You can also have a short parent meeting while the girls are crafting to discuss the year and to answer any questions.After saying the Pledge of Alligence, the Girl Scout Promise and the Girl Scout law (which the girls will repeat after you), have the girls sit in a circle and introduce yourself and your co-leader.
Pass around an object (a silk flower daisy from the Dollar Store would be a fun idea) and have the girls tell their names, their school, and one special thing about them. Girls at this age will want to tell stories...gently remind them to keep it to one thing and then pass the daisy to the next girl.
Next, it is time for the craft.
First Meeting Prep Work and Supplies
For your craft, you will need to run off this Daisy petal worksheet on cardstock. Have blue tissue paper cut into squares for the promise center and bowls to place them in. The girls will use crayons to color the petals and crumple and glue the tissue paper to the center.
Make sure you only have crayons that represent the Daisy petals for the girls to use so no mistakes are made. The order they color them in does not matter. Have the girls color first, then glue the blue center so you avoid gluey arms. Take a picture of each girl with her Daisy as a keepsake of her first Daisy meeting.Close with the Girl Scout friendship squeeze and song and take a deep breath! You did it!
The Girl Scout Friendship Song
This is how you end your meetings. The girls stand together in a circle with hands crossed. The leader gives the girl on her right a gentle squeeze. It is passed around the circle and when it comes back to her, you sing this song.These girls sing it beautifully, and even add the final two lines!
Your Second Daisy Girl Scout Meeting-Earn the Blue Promise Center
Before you can earn any of the Daisy Girl Scout petals, you will need to earn the blue promise center first . After all, the petals are centered on the Girl Scout Promise, and they need to be ironed around something.
There aremany children's books, like Robert Munsch's pictured here, that can help you teach this concept.After reading the story, you can make promise chart. At DKTK's website, you can make a customized chore chart for your meeting.. Ask the girls what they can promise to do at home to help out. Tell them that they have to return the chart to the next meeting and see if they kept their promises.
The Daisy Girl Scout Song
At each meeting, make a song part of your agenda. Here is an adorable song sung to the tune "I'm a Little Teapot".
Start Your Scrapbook! When my troop were Daisies, my co-leader started taking pictures at each meeting. This morphed into our perpetual Girl Scout scrapbook. Now we are Juniors, and the girls love to look back at their Daisy and Brownie years!
My daughter's scrapbook has years of memories in it. Now she is a Cadette and it is fun to look back and see how all the girls have grown up!
Your Third Daisy Girl Scout Meeting-Earn the Violet Daisy Petal
Fostering friendship among your girls is essential to having a successful troop. As the leader, you are volunteering a lot of personal time, and you want the meetings to be something that both the girls and you look forward to attending. Nipping girl drama and cliques from the beginning and being firm about how the girls treat each other will lead to less drama and more harmonious meetings.Earning the violet daisy petal, be a sister to every Girl Scout, fosters this concept. An activity I created and did with my Daisy Girl Scout troop was to make aDaisy chain of friendship.
The only materials you need are markers, strips of copy paper, and one stapler per volunteer. It is a very easy and budget friendly petal for your troop to earn.
Girl Scouts have many reasons to celebrate during the month of October Founder's Day is one of them! Here is how to earn a Daisy petal and learn about Juliette Gordon Low.
Learn how to earn the Violet Daisy Girl Scout petal!
Add a Girl Scout SWAP to Your Meeting!
Girl Scout Swaps are tiny crafts that Girl Scouts exchange with one another. For Daisies, they should be simple and easy to assemble. There are many Girl Scout SWAP kits that you can buy for very little money.
Daisy Scouts cannot have a very complicated craft. If the degree of difficulty is too great, it will frustrate the girls as they try to make it. No need for tears while you are doing a fun Girl Scout tradition!
Your Fourth Daisy Girl Scout Meeting
Celebrate Girl Scout Founder's Day!
Juliette Gordon Low
By Edward Hughes (1832-1908), painter. (Daderot (I took this photograph)) [Public domain],
via Wikimedia Commons
On October 31, 1860, Juliette Gordon Low, founder of the Girl Scouts of the USA, was born. Scouts of all levels celebrate her birthday at a meeting during the month of October. "Daisy", her nickname, came from a world of wealth, so she could do anything she wanted. When she began the Girl Scouts, she included everyone, no matter their financial status, color, or religion. In fact, three of the original Girl Scout leaders were Jewish, and this was in the South in 1912. In my article Girl Scout Founder's Day-Activities for All Levels of Scouts, I wrote detailed plans on how Daisy Girl Scouts can celebrate.You can also double up and earn the orange Daisy petal and celebrate Girl Scout Founder's Day. You can accomplish two things in one meeting!
This is a simple craft. Buy blue and white paint and a few black Sharpie pens. Girls can write their name in Sharpie on the rim and then paint a picture. While waiting their turn, girls can work on a coloring sheet or another small birthday project you have planned for them, like decorating cupcakes you made for this occasion.
Your Fifth and Sixth Daisy Meetings
Go on a Field Trip and Earn the Magenta Daisy Petal
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Going on a field trip is fun. To earn the magenta Daisy petal, Respect Authority, visit a firehouse or a police station. These trips are free and a great way for these community helpers to interact with your girls.
Contact your Service Unit to learn how to fill out the forms and get the needed permission to take a trip. You need to give a minimum of two weeks notice, more is even better. Foryour sixth meeting, the girls can write thank you cards. This can be tied into "giving thanks" and the Thanksgiving holiday which is right around the corner. Read a book about The holiday and do a fun Thanksgiving craft to finish up the meeting.
Field Trip Tips
Plan your field trip at least four weeks in advance. Get your trip approval number and the required number of volunteers to accompany your troop. All paperwork should be handed in to you one week prior to the trip. As I tell my girls, "No slip, no trip!"
Thanksgiving Crafts
Once November comes around, the holiday season is in full swing. Along with your usual festivities, you have added planning Daisy meetings to your personal agenda. You can make meeting planning easier by doing a craft with a ready made craft kit. These can then be donated to a senior center when they are completed.
This is an easy service project and is just one to incorporate any of the Daisy petals that inspire kindness and making the world better.These easy to make Thanksgiving craftsare perfect for Daisy Girl Scouts and easy for you, their leader!
Your Seventh Daisy Girl Scout Meeting-Do a Community Service Project and Earn the Rose Daisy Petal
As you enter the month of December, people tend to be in a jollier mood, as the winter holidays are arriving. Chanukah and Christmas are a time for celebrating, but not everyone is able to due to difficult financial circumstances.
These are the items the girls placed in a decorated gift bag along with a card they made. A washcloth, socks, soap and candy were what we included. Photo by Hannah Gold.
Before your meeting, find a local charity that needs some help and see what your girls can do to help make the world a better place and earn the rose Daisy petal. My troop made gifts and cards and donated snack foods to a group of homeless men who travel to different churches and synagogues in our area until they are back on their feet. It is a wonderful interfaith project that we participate in almost every year.
Girl Scout Law Song
Children can remember a lot from a song. Many adults can sing the Preamble to the Constitution because of School House Rock!
Your Eighth Daisy Girl Scout Meeting
Make Gifts and Have a Party
For your final Daisy meeting before the winter break, the girls will be super excited. To keep with the holiday theme, have them make gifts for someone in their family. Be sensitive to what holidays the girls in your troopcelebrate. Making ornaments is not appropriate for those who do not celebrate Christmas.
What can you make?
Any kind of kid friendly craft will work. Some ideas are:
These eight ideas for Daisy Girl Scout meetings should get your first few months off to a great start.
One Final Tip-Shop the Sales
The week after Christmas is one of the best times to shop for craft materials for your Girl Scout troop. Holiday items are normally 50% off for a few days after Christmas, then right before New year's they go way down to 75%. Red items can be for Valentine's Day, green for spring projects. Snowmen and snowflakes can be used for winter crafts.
In this blog poston how to earn the Violet Daisy petal, Be a Sister to Every Girl Scout, I shared how we made a Daisy chain of friendship by writing each of the girls' names and then linking them together. There is another activity for your young girls to do that will also help them earn this petal.
Instead of making a paper chain, why not make a paper doll chain instead? Each girl can write her name on the dress or shirt, then decorate it. These can get passed around. The original owner can have her name written on the back and have her name be the first doll chain she decorates.
Here is a link to a variety of templates that you can use.
*This post contains affiliate links. A part of creating a brand new Daisy troop is to create a sisterhood among the girls. This is especially true if you have a group that comes from different area schools. You need something that unites them as a troop. That is where the earning the Violet Daisy petal, be a sister to every Girl Scout, comes in.
Doing a craft that everyone in the troop will have, and can wear or bring to every meeting identifies the girls in the troop when they are in school. It can be a part of their uniform! Beading is an easy craft for girls to do. It promotes fine motor skills and most girls this age enjoy doing something like this. You can create a troop necklace, bracelet or keychain that every girl can go home with. Materials Letter Beads Pony Beads Gimp Keychain S&S Worldwide is great place to buy your beads because they sell each letter individually. No more leftover beads! You can create something that says "Troop _____" (add your number).
Add a bag of pony beads to be used as spacers, put it on blue gimp and you have an easy craft for your troop to do! Girls can wear their troop jewelry any time and others will know that they are happy and proud to be a Girl Scout!
Daisy Girl Scout leaders certainly have their hands full if they are starting a new troop. Here is a meeting outline for the first half of the year. Remember to be flexible and have fun!
Congratulations on becoming a Girl Scout Daisy leader! You have done what many are unwilling to do...step up to the plate and give a group of young girls an opportunity to be a Girl Scout. Even if you were a Girl Scout as a child, being a leader is a totally different experience, as well as a big responsibility. Besides being concerned with the pre-troop meeting paperwork, you have to plan what the girls are going to do each and every time you get together.
The following is a guideline for creating your Girl Scout Daisy meetings, based on meeting twice a week from September to December. Feel free to adapt it to your schedule, as you may find some activities are better suited for your troop to do later in the year.
*Please note that during the COVID-19 pandemic, you will have to made adaptions in order to make it work.
First Meeting Prep Work and Supplies
For your craft, you will need to run off this Daisy petal worksheet on cardstock. Have blue tissue paper cut into squares for the promise center and bowls to place them in. The girls will use crayons to color the petals and crumple and glue the tissue paper to the center.
Your First Girl Scout Daisy Meeting-September
Your first meeting with your Daisy Scouts should involve a "getting to know you" or "ice breaker" activity.
Here are some resources to find one that you would like to do (these also make a fun activity if you find yourself with a few extra minutes at the end of a meeting.
It is a good idea to have the parents stay and see how their girls are doing and how a meeting is run. You can also have a short parent meeting while the girls are crafting to discuss the year and to answer any questions. After saying the Pledge of Alligence, the Girl Scout Promise and the Girl Scout law (which the girls will repeat after you), have the girls sit in a circle and introduce yourself and your co-leader.
Pass around an object (a silk flower daisy from the Dollar Store would be a fun idea) and have the girls tell their names, their school, and one special thing about them. Girls at this age will want to tell stories...gently remind them to keep it to one thing and then pass the daisy to the next girl. Next, it is time for the craft.
First Meeting Prep Work and Supplies
For yourcraft, you will need to run off this Daisy petal worksheet on cardstock. Have blue tissue paper cut into squares for the promise center and bowls to place them in. The girls will use crayons to color the petals and crumple and glue the tissue paper to the center.
Make sure you only have crayons that represent the Daisy petals for the girls to use so no mistakes are made.
The order they color them in does not matter. Have the girls color first, then glue the blue center so you avoid gluey arms. Take a picture of each girl with her Daisy as a keepsake of her first Daisy meeting. Close with the Girl Scout friendship squeeze and song and take a deep breath! You did it!
The Girl Scout Friendship Song
This is how you end your meetings. The girls stand together in a circle with hands crossed. The leader gives the girl on her right a gentle squeeze. It is passed around the circle and when it comes back to her, you sing this song.These girls sing it beautifully, and even add the final two lines.
Your Second Girl Scout Daisy Meeting-Earn the Blue Promise Center
Before you can earn any of the Daisy Girl Scout petals,
you will need to earn the blue promise center first . After all, the petals are centered on the Girl Scout Promise, and they need to be ironed around something.
There aremany children's books, like Robert Munsch's pictured here, that can help you teach this concept.After reading the story, you can make promise chart. At DKTK's website, you can make a customized chore chart for your meeting. Ask the girls what they can promise to do at home to help out. Tell them that they have to return the chart to the next meeting and see if they kept their promises.
At each meeting, make a song part of your agenda. Here is an adorable song sung to the tune "I'm a Little Teapot".
Start Your Scrapbook!
When my troop were Daisies, my co-leader started taking pictures at each meeting. This morphed into our perpetual Girl Scout scrapbook. Now we are Juniors, and the girls love to look back at their Daisy and Brownie years!
Image by Hannah Gold. This is my daughter's scrapbook, and even as a 12th grade Ambassador, she loves to look through it on occasion.
Pandemic Update
Be sure to take some pictures with the girls socially distanced and masked. This is history in the making.
Your Third Daisy Girl Scout Meeting-Earn the Violet Daisy Petal
Fostering friendship among your girls is essential to having a successful troop. As the leader, you are volunteering a lot of personal time, and you want the meetings to be something that both the girls and you look forward to attending. Nipping girl drama and cliques from the beginning and being firm about how the girls treat each other will lead to less drama and more harmonious meetings.Earning the violet daisy petal, be a sister to every Girl Scout, fosters this concept. An activity I created and did with my Daisy Girl Scout troop was to make aDaisy chain of friendship.
The only materials you need are markers (remember, each girl brings her own), strips of copy paper, and one stapler per volunteer. It is a very easy and budget friendly petal for your troop to earn.
Girl Scouts have many reasons to celebrate during the month of October Founder's Day is one of them! Here is how to earn a Daisy petal and learn about Juliette Gordon Low.
Learn how to earn the Violet Daisy Girl Scout petal!
Add a Girl Scout SWAP to Your Meeting!
Girl Scout Swaps are tiny crafts that Girl Scouts exchange with one another. For Daisies, they should be simple and easy to assemble. There are many Girl Scout SWAP kits that you can buy for very little money.
Daisy Scouts cannot have a very complicated craft. If the degree of difficulty is too great, it will frustrate the girls as they try to make it. No need for tears while you are doing a fun Girl Scout tradition!
Your Fourth Daisy Girl Scout Meeting
Celebrate Girl Scout Founder's Day!
Edward Hughes (1832-1908), painter. / Public domain
On October 31, 1860, Juliette Gordon Low, founder of the Girl Scouts of the USA, was born. Scouts of all levels celebrate her birthday at a meeting during the month of October. "Daisy", her nickname, came from a world of wealth, so she could do anything she wanted. When she began the Girl Scouts, she included everyone, no matter their financial status, color, or religion. In fact, three of the original Girl Scout leaders were Jewish, and this was in the South in 1912. On my main Girl Scout blog, Girl Sout Leader, I have dozens of ideas for you to choose from to celebrate Girl Scout Founder's day. I wrote detailed plans on how Daisy Girl Scouts can celebrate.You can also double up and earn the orange Daisy petal and celebrate Girl Scout Founder's Day. You can accomplish two things in one meeting!
This is a simple craft. Buy blue and white paint and a few black Sharpie pens. Girls can write their name in Sharpie on the rim and then paint a picture. While waiting their turn, girls can work on a coloring sheet or another small birthday project you have planned for them, like decorating cupcakes you made for this occasion.
Pandemic Update
Leaders should write the name in Sharpie so the girls are not touching the same pen. Paint can be squited onto individual paper plates. Brushes can be labeled for each girl or it must be disinfected with a wipe after they have been used.
Your Fifth and Sixth Daisy Meetings
Go on a Field Trip and Earn the Magenta Daisy Petal
Going on a field trip is fun. To earn the magenta Daisy petal, Respect Authority, visit a firehouse or a police station. These trips are free and a great way for these community helpers to interact with your girls.
Contact your Service Unit to learn how to fill out the forms and get the needed permission to take a trip. You need to give a minimum of two weeks notice, more is even better. Foryour sixth meeting, the girls can write thank you cards. This can be tied into "giving thanks" and the Thanksgiving holiday which is right around the corner. Read a book about The holiday and do a fun Thanksgiving craft to finish up the meeting.
Field Trip Tips
Plan your field trip at least four weeks in advance. Get your trip approval number and the required number of volunteers to accompany your troop. All paperwork should be handed in to you one week prior to the trip. As I tell my girls, "No slip, no trip!"
Pandemic Update
More than likely, there will be no field trip. If you can have a police officer, firefighter, or some other authority figure come and speak to the girls, that will help them earn this petal.
Thanksgiving Crafts
Once November comes around, the holiday season is in full swing. Along with your usual festivities, you have added planning Daisy meetings to your personal agenda. You can make meeting planning easier by doing a craft with a ready made craft kit. These can then be donated to a senior center when they are completed.
This is an easy service project and is just one to incorporate any of the Daisy petals that inspire kindness and making the world better. Theseeasy to make Thanksgiving crafts are perfect for Girl Scout Daisies and easy for you, their leader.
Your Seventh Daisy Girl Scout Meeting-Do a Community Service Project and Earn the Rose Daisy Petal
As you enter the month of December, people tend to be in a jollier mood, as the winter holidays are arriving. Chanukah and Christmas are a time for celebrating, but not everyone is able to due to difficult financial circumstances.
Image by Hannah Gold
These are the items the each of my girls placed in a decorated gift bag along with a card they made. A washcloth, socks, soap, and candy were also included.
Girl Scout Law Song
Children can remember a lot from a song. Many adults can sing the Preamble to the Constitution because of School House Rock!
Your Eighth Daisy Girl Scout Meeting
Make Gifts and Have a Party
For your final Daisy meeting before the winter break, the girls will be super excited. To keep with the holiday theme, have them make gifts for someone in their family. Be sensitive to what holidays the girls in your troopcelebrate. Making ornaments is not appropriate for those who do not celebrate Christmas. You can read more about this and how to be sensitive during the holiday season here.
What can you make?
Any kind of kid friendly craft will work. Some ideas are:
These eight ideas for Daisy Girl Scout meetings should get your first few months off to a great start.
One Final Tip-Shop the Sales
The week after Christmas is one of the best times to shop for craft materials for your Girl Scout troop. Holiday items are normally 50% off for a few days after Christmas, then right before New year's they go way down to 75%. Red items can be for Valentine's Day, green for spring projects. Snowmen and snowflakes can be used for winter crafts.
