MARKETING BADGE

Cookie time has arrived!!

Our troop participated in our council Cookie Lock-in event last weekend. I had 2 girls at 4 different stations leading the station. The stations were painting fingernails in colors representing each cookie, making a paper code book, selling safety finger hop scotch, cookie necklaces. I got a kick out of them getting frustrated with the little girls, now they know how it feels trying to get a group of girls to all concentrate on one thing at the same time.

After all the stations the little girls were given GORP and watched a movie. The Cadettes and Senior girls talked me into a 10pm Mcdonalds run... We were staying in a local church and our 2 troops stayed in one of the smaller classrooms. It was pretty cold since they turn down the heat at night but not nearly as bad as I thought it would be.

At our weekly meeting we started the Marketing badge. I should have planned better but live and learn. We went over the first 3 steps together and i asked them to make a poster or video of a marketing ad to sell cookies. I also asked them to write a social media ad on their parents FB page and tag me in it. I have had 1 girl do it so far. :( 

The older they get the harder it is to keep them interested!!!

OUR YEAR IS ON THE CALENDAR

For our 2nd cadette meeting this year we planned out our year. All meetings, trips, etc. I took all the badges, places the girls want to go, my own ideas and more put them on post it notes. Stuck them all over the room and let the girls put stars on the ones they want to do. Then we started with the one with the highest number of stars and put them on the calendar. We were able to fill 90% of our meetings, community events, holiday events and service unit annual events.

The girls chose them all, they are all becoming better at leading. I was missing 3 girls so they will have to live with what the other 4 chose for the year.

At the end of last year we started having each girl lead one badge for the troop. We only made it through one New Cuisines and we need to finish the last 2 requirements. Most of the girls have been excited about this.

I added a couple of "theme meetings" like pajama night, backwards night and western night where we will wear pjs to our meeting, conduct our meeting from end to beginning. Even at 13-14 they thought these would be fun.

We also have all the girls working on there Silver Award projects. Looking forward to seeing how these work out.

Cadette Woodworking

 

Tonights meeting we continued work on our

Woodworking badge.

I bought some 1x6x4 boards at lowes.

A few boxes of nails

and small hammers for each girly.

 

My husband came to the meeting and brought several different saws to show us how to cut wood.

 

We only had 2 out of 5 that were brave enough to

try the saw.

 

We cut the boards to 18 inches.

I printed out hearts and the state to give them a choice.

A couple of the girls did their own designs but the hearts and Arkansas turned out really cute.

As you can see above.

 

I used 1 skien of cross stitch thread for my Arkansas.

 

The whole project cost about $2.50 per girl if you use your own hammers. I paid the $3 bucks so that each girl would have their own. They can use it later on projects, silver and gold awards, etc.

 

It was a great project and they enjoyed it.





COOKIES COOKIES COOKIES

I have to admit  I am already sick of cookies

luckily i have an amazing cookie mom so i don't have

to do much of anything except with my girl

the problem may be

that my spouse and i have over indulged in the cookies

as cadettes my girls seem to be having more trouble

getting in those pre sales and even cookie booths are

not as easy as when we were brownies or even juniors

people seem to have a misconception that girl scouts are

just little cute girls 8 and under

our first cookie booth was this past weekend and we sold

over 100 boxes but just in my 2 hour shift there were more

people that past on by than stopped to purchase.

1 more booth sale and we will be done for this year.

JAMAICA

Saturday we held our World Thinking Day Event.

Our troop represented Jamaica

 

our booth

2 of our girls did the flag ceremony and said hello in

native Jamaican

Jamaica SWAP beach in a bag, sand drink umbrella

sea shells and a label

Besties

Haiti- really cute booth, the leader had spent

a while there studying and had lots of authentic items

France was such a cute booth with little Brownie girls

saying Bonjour

England with their very own Queen.

The leader had made a red telephone booth

from duct tape that was brilliant!!!

Mexico- the table cloth, sombrero's, and little dolls were

actually mine and the leader had borrowed sometime

ago. She got more use out of them than i have.

I bought them on our honey moon to use as

table decor for special mealtimes. I think I did that once in 13 years.

 

Hmong dancers came and performed for us.

they did a harvest garden dance

I loved this photo of this Daisy handing out

drinks for Nicaragua. Precious

 

It was a fun but tiring day traveling to so many countries.

I did ask one of our service unit leaders to allow us

to pick our country earlier in the year

so that we have more time to plan and prepare.

We picked in January for a February event.

 

 

MERRY CHRISTMAS

 

AND

 

HAPPY NEW YEAR

 

FROM

 

OUR TROOP

 

TO YOURS!!!

FOOD DRIVE

 

Our troop held a food drive on Saturday to collect food for Girl Scout Families in need.

 

I was so proud of my girls, they stood for 4 hours in front of our local market asking for donations. Our community is AWESOME! We had probably 10 carts full of stuff in just 4 hours. Awesome!!

 

A local church allowed us to set up and Sunday Girl Scout families will come fill their cupboards with groceries.