Outdoor Art Creator
10/20 Meeting Agenda
As girls arrive, we’ll have an Outdoor Art Creator word search. Girls can also decorate a cardboard tube with stickers and markers, we’ll use the tube as a nature viewer during our outdoor nature walk.
Once all girls arrive, we’ll say the pledge of allegiance and the girl scout promise. Then, we’ll break the girls up into groups (number of groups will depend on number of adult volunteers.)
Each groups will get one nature detective checklist and head outside. The goal is to check off 4-5 things from the list by looking through our nature viewers. We’ll spend 15 minutes outside, then meet back inside for our craft.
Rules: Stay with your group. Stay on church grounds, not in the parking lot
Craft: Leaf Rubbings
Have you ever really looked at a leaf? Look closely. What do you see? It has veins, a stern, and it’s own unique shape. It’s like nature made it’s own work of art.
To prepare for this activity we will ask girls to gather a few whole leaves they find in their yard before the meeting.
We will pass out sheets of paper and crayons.
We’ll demonstrate how to make a leaf rubbing by laying a leaf on a peace of paper, laying another piece of paper on top, then gently rubbing a crayon over the paper until the leaf’s features appear.
Ask brownies: What art could you make with your leaf rubbings?
Make a Wind Chime
If there is time for another craft, or if some girls finish the leaf rubbing activity early…
Materials: dowels, twine, bells, beads
Instructions to come
We’ll end the meeting by cleaning up, passing out Outdoor Art Creator badge, and the Brownie friendship circle.
Home Scientist
10/6 Meeting agenda:
As girls arrive, we’ll have women in STEM coloring sheets.
Once girls all arrive we’ll stand to do the pledge of Allegiance and girl scout promise, then introduce special guest author Julia Sooy. Julia will read her book, Everyday Chemistry.
To earn the Home Scientist badge, the girls need to complete three steps: create static electricity, dive into density, and make something bubble up. We will divide the girls into 3 groups. The groups will rotate in between 3 tables for ten minutes each.
Group 1: Static Electricity
Make pepper dance. See what happens when electric charges jump back and forth.
Instructions:
We will pour some salt and pepper on paper plates. We’ll give each girl a blown up balloon, and have them rub it on their hair. Then, they will hold it over the salt and pepper and watch it dance!
What happens?
After you rub the balloon on your hair, it gets a negative charge. When you bring it close to the salt and pepper, the charge attracts the pepper first because it’s lighter than the salt. The pepper is attracted to the balloon, where it gets a negative charge, then it bounces back down to the paper.
Extra fun:
Use the same idea to make tissue paper figures dance!
Group 2: Dive into Density
Dancing Raisins. Can you make raisins move without touching them?
Instructions:
We will pour some 7-up in a tall glass. Then, drop 6 or 7 raisins into the soda and watch what happens.
What happens?
At first the raisins will sink. They are denser than the soda. But then, the bubbles from the soda will fill the wrinkles in the raisins, lifting them up. Then the bubbles reach the top and they pop, the raisins sink again.
Extra Fun: If there is time, we’ll try the floating an egg in salt water trick
Group 3: Bubble Up
Blow up a balloon without using your breath. When you mix certain materials, like vinegar and baking soda, they make a gas that will expand. Gases like this will try to find a place to go when they expand.
Instructions:
We will have balloons filled with 1 tsp of baking soda. Each girl will take the balloon and with our help, attach it to the neck of a plastic bottle with 2tb of vinegar. We’ll instruct them to try to dump the baking soda down into the vinegar and watch what happens.
What happens?
The baking soda and vinegar create carbon dioxide when they mix. There is not enough room inside the bottle for the extra gas, so it will enter the balloon.
We’ll end the meeting by cleaning up, handing out badges, and the friendship circle. The girls have earned their Home Scientist badge!
September 15
It all begins with an idea.
Meeting agenda:
As girls arrive, we’ll give them their brownie vests and pass out coloring sheet, along with a folder they can decorate with girl scout stickers.
Once all girls arrive, we will stand to say the Pledge of Allegiance and Girl Scout Promise
This year will introduce a “Kaper chart” and give girls jobs. Every meeting we will have one girl lead the pledge and another girl lead the promise, then two girls lead clean up after crafts (rolling the garbage cans around). We can keep track and go by alpha order by first name.
Next, we’ll have girls sit in a Brownie circle on the floor, and listen to the Brownie story.
WHAT IS A BROWNIE?
After we read the story, ask the girls, what is a Brownie?
ACTIVITY: Act out the story
We’ll bring out a round green rug, with a mirror in the middle to represent the pond. We’ll have the girls take turns playing the main characters. The girls will stand in two rows and connect hands at the top (they are the forest of trees, leading up to the mirror pond). Two at a time we call their names, each pair will pass through the forest (under the girls arms), then kneel by the edge of the pond, look inside and say:
“Twist me and turn me and show me the elf. I looked in the water and saw . . . myself!”
Once each girl has had their turn saying the brownie rhyme into the pond, they will receive their Brownie membership pin.
GAME:
First we clean up the tables, then we can play Brownie Bingo! (These are all patches that the Brownies can earn)
We’ll end the meeting with our Brownie circle and the friendship song.