Our first meeting in February was devoted to creativity and creative expression. The girls were allowed to choose from a variety of activities and to do as few or as many different activities as they wished.
Each activity area had a theme and some activity suggestions (with badge connections) to help the girls create their own activity options. We provided a CD player, paper, markers, and assorted craft supplies.
Dance
- Create a dance that expresses a mood. Think about how people act and move when they feel a certain way. (Dancing #8)
- Make up your own dance routine. (Dancing #5)
- Chose a piece of music that you like and make up a dance to go with it. Explain why you chose that particular song. (Music Fan #2)
- Tell a scary story. (Make sure your audience knows this before you start!) (Folklore #8)
- With a group of people, take turns having each person make up part of a whole story. (Folklore #6)
- With a group of friends, write a fun story. The first person writes down one sentence and shows it to the second person. That person writes down one sentence and shares only that sentence with a third person. When everyone had had a turn, read the whole story aloud. (Writing #8)
- Think about something funny that has happened to you. Make up a story about it and tell it to others. (Folklore #7)
- Create a work of art based on a dream or fantasy that you have had. Create a picture of collage that relates to your dream. (Art Production #1)
- Design a package for a product such as a breakfast cereal, a CD, DVD or a product you invent. (Art Production #5)
- Experiment with colour by learning about primary and secondary colours. Practice mixing colours to develop new colours. Make a picture that uses what you have created. (Art Production #3)
- Create a piece of art in 3-D that represents your heritage. (Creative Crafts #3)
- Make a craft that you would be able to display in a room in your house. (Creative Crafts #8)
- Create a poster for a movie, play or other performance (Performing Arts #4E)
- Make a piece of jewelry using materials that are not precious metals or gems. You might make a pin, necklace, bracelet or hair ornament. (Creative Crafts #4)
- Write and produce a skit or puppet show demonstrating at least two emotions. (Performing Arts #1)
- Perform a solo poem, monologue or public speech for an audience. (Performing Arts #4F)
- Create a unique character, such as an actor from the movies or TV, an animal, a clown, or a rock star and tell a story or act out a scene from their live and have others guess who or what it is. (Performing Arts #8)
- With a group or on your own, perform a song for an audience. (Performing Arts #6)
- Make a puppet and use it for a performance. (Performing Arts #7)
- Create a cartoon based on a funny incident from your life. (Reporting #7)
- Write a 250 to 500 word story on any subject. (Writing #1)
- Write an imaginary interview between you and a famous character in a book. (Writing #2)
- Choose a well-known story and write a different ending for it. (Writing #5)
- Write an account of an event you have attended and report all the details. Use the five W's: who, what, when, where and why to describe the event. (Reporting #3)
- Write a verse, rhyme or poem. (Writing #4)
- Create three different story starters such as - opening lines of a story, play or poem. (Writing #6)
- Write an exaggerated story that would be fun to tell at campfire. (Writing #2)
- Write a letter of not less than 100 words describing a humorous incident or exciting event that happened to you. (Writing #3)
- Write a brief announcement for a future Guide event, such as Guide-Scout Week, camp, registration, enrolment, advancement, etc. It should be either suitable for publication in a newspaper or to be read on radio or television (100 words of less). (Reporting #2)
