This week the Guides used their creativity to make their own inventions as part of the Inventing Badge!
The evening started out with 30 minutes of Patrol Time, and each patrol worked on a different activity:
- Trillium Patrol - "Starry, Starry Night" - realized that it wasn't dark enough to go stargazing and substituted an activity on finding directions using the sun and shadows
- Rose Patrol - "Stretching" - did individual and group stretching and yoga exercises
- Pansy Patrol - "Poptastic" - attempted to pop popcorn in tinfoil dishes over tealights (they were unsuccessful - but we popped the popcorn in a paper bag in the microwave later on)
- Daffodil Patrol - "Quizzes" and "Fashionista" - worked on quizzes about health and laundry, and then created their own newspaper fashions
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The main part of the meeting started with our usual opening, followed by a game of "Rose Tag" - invented last week by the Rose Patrol.
Our first activity was the Inventing Jeopardy Game from the Quebec Inventing Badge Instant Meeting. The game has questions in four categories - Inventors, Communication, Travel and Other. We had fun playing the game and the questions had a good balance of easy to more difficulty - some of them really challenged the girls to think!
The remainder of the meeting was spent inventing and building prototypes! The girls were provided with a variety of craft supplies, recyclable materials, newspaper, tape, scissors, rulers and markers, and let their imaginations go! At the end of the evening, the girls shared their prototypes with the rest of the group. We closed with reminders and Taps.
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