Occasionally, in place of a regular meeting, we have an 'Odds & Ends' night. This means there is no single theme for the evening, and we do a variety of different activities!
As the girls arrived, they were introduced to their new Patrol Notebooks. These books will be used for arrival activities and gathering ideas and information from each Patrol. This week's activities were to write down some ideas for different careers/jobs they were interested in for our Career Awareness night later in March, and to come up with some ideas for when the 2nd Year Brownies visit us at the end of March. Some patrols were more successful at this than others, but we will keep working at it.
After opening, we moved into our first activity - the Postal Badge. Information signs were put up around the room with details about postage rates, package weights, and special services. Each Patrol was given a worksheet (from Bluenose Guider) and was challenged to find the answers to a variety of questions. Their final task was to address an envelop to themselves. While we waited for everyone to finish, the girls worked on making birthday postcards to send to the UK for the Rainbow 30th Birthday Celebrations. We then played a game - Everybody's It Tag.
Our Pathfinder led the next activity, a service project to make Birthday Boxes for the local Food Bank. Each Patrol had to wrap their box to finish up the Postal Badge, and to also make a nice container for their birthday supplies. The boxes were filled with the supplies needed for a child's birthday party - cake pan, cake mix, frosting, candles, balloons, streamers, plates, and napkins.
The remainder of the meeting was spent working on the Learn How to Plan section of the program. As the Patrols finished making their Birthday Boxes, they were given a list of activity themes with descriptions (Go For It's! from Girlguiding UK). Each Patrol choose a theme and was given the Go For It! pack that matched. They were then asked to choose 4 activities that could be done as a Patrol, each activity to take about 20 minutes. A calendar was provided in their notebooks, and the Patrols scheduled each activity over a 4-week period, made a list of supplies needed and decided who would be responsible for each item.The Patrols will have the first 20 minutes of each meeting from March 21st to April 11th to do these activities.
| The Daffodils decided to try Go For It! Lifewise.
"You’ll find out about ways to keep
happy and healthy, to stay safe and be independent.If you’ve ever fancied living on your
own or making more decisions for yourself, this is the Go For It!
for you.By the end, you’ll be cool, calm and
able to deal with anything (well, almost anything!), and to look out
for your friends, too."
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| The Pansies will be working on Go For It! Camp Out.
"Sample the fun of camp without leaving your
meeting place! Go For It! Camp out features a great range
of activities, from wide games to camp cooking and useful things to
make.A great way to enjoy the fun of camp all year
round or share your camp adventures with others in your patrol."
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| The Roses chose Go For It! Fitness.
"You all know it’s important to keep fit. Go For It! fitness will
give you a go at all sorts of different activities.Whether you do loads of fitness activities already or try to
avoid them, there is fun to be had with this Go For It!"
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| The Trilliums picked Go For It! I Will Survive.
"Survival isn’t just about using your shoelaces
as a belt or eating raw worms for dinner! Whether you’re rural rascals or urban urchins,
there are more important things to sort out. Go For It! I will
survive shows you how."
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The meeting closed with Campfire, Announcements and Taps.
