Brownie Bowling
Brownies will meet up for a morning of bowling at San-Dee Lanes in Malverne. Permission slips will be handed out in December. Please RSVP to a leader by 1/4/26 and bring signed permission slip to event or drop off prior. Fees to be paid with troop funds, no payment needed.
Ice Skating
Join us for an evening of ice skating and cocoa at Grant Park rink in Hewlitt. Permission slips will be passed out in December, and should be returned to a leader with RSVP no later than 1/12/26. Fees will be paid by dues, no payment needed.
Reindeer Games
Brownie Troop 2568 will join together to celebrate our last official meeting of 2025! As girl arrive we’ll have a Christmas coloring sheet:
Once all girls arrive we’ll stand for pledge of allegiance and Girl Scout Promise. Next, we’ll dive into some crafts and games.
Craft: Pipe Cleaner Mini Trees
For our first Christmas Craft we will pass out small pipe cleaner trees that the girls can decorate with pom-poms and beads to take home.
Group Project: Girl Scout Law Christmas Tree + gift exchange
Next, we will decorate a large paper Christmas Tree (this will hang up flat tree on wall) with the Girl Scout Promise and the Girl Scout Laws. We will pass out paper ornaments, each with parts of the Girl Scout Law and Girl Scout Promise written on the front. Once each girl hangs her ornament, she can choose a small gift to open and take home.
Reindeer Game
We’ll end the meeting with a Reindeer Game! Have girls pick a partner, stand across from them and try to throw rings at each other’s antlers.
Girls can take these home with them, and will have earned a Reindeer Game fun patch.
December 1st Meeting
Memorial Sloan Kettering Toy Drive
As girls arrive, we will collect donated gifts for pediatric patients at Memorial Sloan Kettering. Once all girls arrive, we’ll stand together to say pledge of allegiance, the Girl Scout Promise, and go over our Brownie meeting rules. For the first half of the meeting we’ll work on making holiday cards to donate along with gifts. For the second half of the meeting we will finish our Outdoor Art Creators badge:
Outdoor Art Creators - Part 2
Brownies will be completing two final steps to earn their Outdoor Art Creator badge.
Craft: Create Music Outdoors!
We will be passing out supplies for girls to create outdoor wind chimes: leaf shapes, metal chimes, string, bells, and beads.
Homework: Nature Detective Checklist!
Towards the last 15 minutes of the meeting, leaders will pass out white cardboard tubes for the girls to decorate and take home. These cardboard tubes will be used as DIY telescopes!
As girls are packing up to leave, we will pass out the Outdoor Nature Detective checklist and ask that the girls complete the scavenger hunt with a parent or grandparent on an outdoor walk at some point over the winter, along with finding a space to hang their wind chimes outside.
We’ll end the meeting with the friendship circle and pass out Outdoor Art Creator badges.
Holiday Decorating
HOLIDAY LIGHTING KICK-OFF & DOWNTOWN DECORATING
Join us in kicking off the holiday season by helping to decorate downtown Malverne. Our troop will be responsible for decorating a small portion of the lovely downtown area near the train station. Parents and siblings are welcome to join! There will be live music, crafts, and refreshments. Bundle up and spend some time with Brownie friends!
Party!
Juliette Gordon Low Party
Join us for a special celebration hosted by Junior Troop 2101. The 5th grade Junior Girl Scouts will teach our troop all about the original founder of the Girl Scouts in the United States, Juliette Gordon Low. We will also be joined by special guests, the new OLL Daisy troop. There will be games and treats!
Please note time change from regular meeting, the party will begin at 5pm.
Girl Scout Karate
New Generation Karate Class
Dave Herman from New Generation Karate joins the troop to teach us about martial arts.
Please be sure to wear comfortable clothes!
Spooky Fest
Join us for a night of spooky fun! Brownies will meet at Spooky Fest on Sunday at 6pm for an enchanted walk, face painting, crafts, and dancing.
Please purchase tickets in advance: Spookyfest
Outdoor Art Creator
10/20 Meeting Agenda
As girls arrive, we’ll have an Outdoor Art Creator word search.
Once all girls arrive, we’ll say the pledge of allegiance and the girl scout promise.
Meeting Rules
After the girl scout promise we will gather girls to sit on the rug.
We plan to go over Brownie meeting rules with the girls (respect the space, respect each other, respect the leaders)
We’ll ask girls if they have any other ideas that will keep us safe
At the end of the chat we’ll explain the first activity to earn our Outdoor Art Creator patch: leaf art!
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?
Show examples of things they can do with their leaf rubbings (cut them out and put them on a card, for example.)
Craft: Leaf Creature Art
If there is time for another craft, or if some girls finish the leaf rubbing activity early…
Materials: leaves, glue, paper, black pens, googly eyes
Girls can choose leaves to glue down on their paper, then add legs, arms, and eyes to give their characters life.
We’ll end the meeting by cleaning up 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. Gases like carbon dioxide will try to find a place to go when they expand. When you mix certain materials, like vinegar and baking soda, you make a gas that will expand. (This might work better as partners)
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!
Hempstead Lake Park: Bug Buddies
Scouts will uncover the world of bugs and insects through outdoor discovery, games, and artistic expression. Scouts will learn the important role that insects play in our environment and will be able to identify common insects.
Brownies will meet at 2pm at the Environmental Education and Resiliency Center.
Welcome Back!
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)
