Program Planning & Active Games

Our first meeting of 2019 was spent brainstorming and making plans for our meetings until March Break - and also playing some active games!

As the girls arrived, they were asked to fill out a slip of paper with four questions for ideas for Guide activities:

• Something I would like to do ...
• Somewhere I would like to go ...
• A topic I would like to learn more about ...
• A theme I would like to explore ... 

This generated some really good ideas, and encouraged the Guides to come up with their own ideas rather than copying or agreeing with other people's. 

We had our usual opening ceremony, followed by an active game led by one of our Patrols. 

Each Patrol was then given two sheets of paper with four broad themes, based on their earlier suggestions:

• Girl Guides Go Tropical
• Girl Guides in Space
• Art-tastic
• Build. Create. Invent.

Patrols then brainstormed ideas for activities related to those themes. 

We then had a break for an active game, then sent the Patrols off to separate parts of the room to come up with a theme for a partial meeting to be run by the Patrol. Once their theme was checked out by the Guiders, the girls came up with activity ideas to fill 45 minutes of meeting time. Working back and forth, with Guider input as needed, each Patrol came up with a unique plan for their program time, including activity instructions and supply lists. In February, we will be exploring memes with the Forget-Me-Nots, pets and animals with the Thistles, and global cultures with the Daisies.

We finished with a final active game, reminders for next week, and closed with Taps.