The Ranger year started off with a barbeque on September 6th. We made chicken kebabs, baked potatoes and chocolate brownies. After we finished eating, we made a list of activities to do this year and also planned the menu for fall camp.
Our first regular meeting of the year was held the following week and we reviewed the camp menu and planned camp activities (Minute-To-Win-It Activities, Geocaching, shelter building, and the Camp Orenda Challenge). We also looked into local geocaches and talked about planning a day to visit them. Later in the evening, we started planning a new cookie display board as the current one has photos from when the Rangers were Guides!
September 20th to 22nd was our Fall Camp - see this post.
October started with a planning meeting to plan meetings for October, November and December. We looked at the badges available from the UK as part of the Badges for Thinking Day program and decided to work on the Chocolate and Confectioner's Badges. One of the planned meetings is a craft night and the chosen crafts are dry erase boards made from paint chips in a frame and toothbrush/toothpaste holders made from washcloths - both ideas found on Pinterest.
Saturday, October 19th was Cookie Day at Sears and we teamed up with the Pathfinders to sell 6 cases of Spring Cookies and 14 cases of Fall Cookies.
Our last meeting of October was a Global Awareness Night where we explored strange but true laws and laws around the world that impact women. Discussion included how various laws affect women's lives - for better or for worse and what it would be like to live in a country with various laws.
