Girl Guide Day 2017!

Friday, April 28th was a PA day for area schools, so we held a Girl Guide Day! 6 Guides took part in the program day, and later on 5 3rd Year Guides and 1 Ranger had a bridging sleepover.

Our morning started off with sanding and painting wooden plaques for making string art later, and then moved on to perler bead creations.


We then had a snack (popcorn) and talked about some of the items in the Hiking and Outdoor Adventures Badges:

• How to behave on public and private property
• What information should be left with someone when you set out on an outdoor adventure
• What you should take with your on an outdoor adventure (and why)
• Minimum impact/leave no trace hiking and outdoor adventures

After drawing templates for our string art, we headed outside. We decided to have lunch right away, and ate on the front steps of the church, watching the people arriving at the fairgrounds for the dog show on the weekend. Once we had all eaten and cleaned up, we played a massive game of hide and seek, followed by Crows and Cranes. In Crows and Cranes, there are two teams - one is crows, the other cranes. The game leader calls out one team, dragging out the crrrr... part. The team that is called, chases the other team to the end of the playing area. Anyone tagged joins the other team.

We had a bit of a STEM experiment afterwards, seeing if plastic eggs can really be used in place of film canisters for rockets. While the rocket part was unsuccessful, we had lots of fun making the chemical reactions with baking soda and vinegar!


Going back inside, we finished up our string art projects by hammering in nails using the templates made earlier, and using embroidery floss to create the designs.


Clean-up followed, and then we headed into the kitchen to make a fruit salad for snack - apples, oranges, plums, grapes, pears, pineapple and berries. We then headed back outside. While we ate, we learned a bit about Guide History and looked at some artefacts from Guiding history, including Michelle's youth awards and camp blanket, a 1970s uniform, program books, brochures, cookie cutters and pins. As we were already sitting in a circle, we also learned how to make a braided blanket and completed a blanket to be donated to a women's shelter as part of the Action on Poverty National Service Project. The day ended with final perler bead projects and a game of Everybody's It tag.