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.

 

 

Happy Birthday

Happy Birthday

Juliette Gordon Low

 

GIRL SCOUT DANCE

Tonight was our Annual Girl Scout Dance.

This year Bringing Back the 80's

It was a great time the girls

really enjoyed it.

I enjoyed seeing all the girls dressed up. it is funny how 80% of them all dressed like my girls below.

 

 

One of the ladies made a photo booth with the neatest props ever. My girls had a lot of fun in the booth.

 

Of course we would choose the crude line :)

 

My girl is the one in the middle with the unibrow!

 



 Very clever centerpieces

 

 

Even celebrities showed up!

JK this is one of the Dad's dressed up like Slash

Our dances used to be Father/Daughter but that has changed to include all.

 

The boom box was one of the photo booth props. My Coco really wanted to bring it home but it was promised to the makers daughter. Funny how they want something that looks so old.

I actually had one that looked like this.

 

Glad it was a fun night.

I am working on some "fun" things to keep the girls interest. We may have to move things around with our meeting times etc to accommodate the girls personal lives.