3rd Year Guide Sleepover

Taking advantage of a Friday PA Day for all schools in our area, we planned a Bridging Sleepover for the Thursday night for our 3rd Year Guides, Pathfinders and Rangers. Unfortunately none of our Pathfinders or Rangers were able to make it, so we went ahead with three of our 3rd Year Guides and finished up some work on the Lady Baden-Powell Challenge and the UK Guide Mixology Badge!

For the UK Guide Mixology Badge, Guides need to do three things:

1. Run your own taste-test.
2. Design a mocktail menu.
3. Hold a mocktail party.

We provided Orange Juice, Lemonade, Cranberry Punch, Fruit Punch, Berry Punch, 7-Up and Ginger Ale and slices of lemon, lime, orange, red apple, green apple, and blackberries for experimentation and let the girls try out different flavour combinations. For our Mocktail Menu, we came up with:

• Sour Cranberry Citrus (Cranberry Punch and Orange Juice with Lemon and Lime wedges)
• Bubbly Lemonade (Lemonade and 7-Up with Green Apple slices)
• Berry Lemonade (Berry Punch and Lemonade with Lemon wedges)
• Juicy Mix (Orange Juice, Lemonade and Fruit Punch with a Lemon wedge)
• Sour Citrus Fizz (7-Up, Ginger Ale, and Lemonade with Lime wedges)

The Guides will finish up this badge by preparing mocktails for our Advancement Ceremony in May. 

After cleaning up the kitchen, the Guides played a game of King of Tokyo and a game with flashlights. We then headed back into the kitchen to make pizza for a snack. 

Armed with pizza and drinks we settled down to do some work on the Lady-Baden Powell Challenge. We started out with a potted history of how Lord and Lady Baden-Powell met and married and how both Scouting and Guiding were started and spread around the world. Next, we talked about the different types of service projects they have taken part in as Guides, with their families, at school and through their churches (as applicable) and created a list of ways to help others (random acts of kindness). We also created a poster to encourage Brownies to join Guides by sharing their favourite Guide activities and started a list of things they are looking forward to as Pathfinders. 

We cleaned up and the Guides settled down with boardgames and books until they were tired. Friday morning came bright and early with the arrival of the other Guides at 7.30am for breakfast!