November & December with the Pathfinders & Rangers

The arrival of November meant it was time for Enrolment! The Pathfinders took part in the Guide Enrolment Ceremony and receives badges and Membership Pins. They have chosen to have 'unique' enrolments, which will be unannounced and in interesting locations (past enrolments have included Canada's Wonderland and the top of a slide - in winter - at midnight). See more on the Guide Enrolment here - caledoniaguiding.blogspot.ca/2015/11/guide-enrolment.html

The second meeting of November was themed "Colourful" as we started work on our Crayola Colorcycle Service Project. The girls reviewed the information about the program, designed an information flyer to send home with the Sparks, Brownies and Guides, prepared a short talk to give to the other units about the project, and decorated large zip-lock bags for the units to use to collect their used markers.
More information about the program can be found on the Crayola website - www.crayola.com/colorcycle.aspx 

Friday, November 13th was a PA day for everyone, so we had a 'Pathfinder Day'. Read all about it here - caledoniaguiding.blogspot.ca/2015/11/pathfinder-day.html

The last two meetings of November could be called "Outdoors Indoors" as we worked on the Finding Your Way, Out on the Trails, Survivor Girl and Outdoor Know-How Modules by building on our existing outdoor skills. The first week we played an active living board game using giant dice and learning exercises that would help us prepare for a hiking trip, explored different scenarios that could occur while hiking, played a map symbol memory game and did a map creation activity (using map symbols and compass directions). The second meeting was spent exploring different survival situations and what could be done to help you survive the elements, followed by a session of shelter building outside.

At the end of November, one Pathfinder joined the Guides for their 'Heritage Home Skills Badge Night'. Read more about that event here - caledoniaguiding.blogspot.ca/2015/11/heritage-home-skills-night.html

For the first two weeks of December, the Guides and Pathfinders met together, including cookie selling on the Saturday in-between!
Diversity Night - caledoniaguiding.blogspot.ca/2015/12/disability-awareness.html
Cookie Selling - caledoniaguiding.blogspot.ca/2015/12/cookie-selling.html
Holiday Craft Night - caledoniaguiding.blogspot.ca/2015/12/holiday-craft-night.html

Our final meeting of December was a Holiday Party. We made glass ball ornaments by pouring nail polish into the empty balls and letting it flow around to coat all the glass inside, then letting them drain in plastic cups with paper towel to catch the drips. This was followed by chocolate fondue (1/2 cup of whipping cream heated to steaming in a double boiler then 2 x 200 gram bars of chocolate melted into the cream and stirred until the mixture was a creamy chocolate) with fruit and cookies. We ended with a gift exchange ($5 maximum) and talked about everyone's plans for the holidays.

We had a sleepover planned for the last Friday of school that wound up with just one Pathfinder and one Ranger attending. The girls sponge painted glass candle holders, baked cookies, ate pizza, watched movies and talked most of the night.