Best Welcome!

Hi, I'm so happy you lot stopped by!  I'm {flattered} too {humbled} at the same time.  My advert is Jen aka Strawberry Jen (straw/Jen/berry) too I am a mom too Girl Scout Leader in California.  I was inspired, no compelled, to write this blog. Why?  Because I was contacted past times dozens of leaders, quest for resources on blogging, organizing too creating troop documents. They had stumbled upon my troop calendar on Scribd, or my troop weblog (gstroop1949.blogspot.com), or wondered near graphics too fonts I used.  I was happy to assist and flattered (there's that give-and-take again) to last asked to share. Then, I began seeing my materials pinned on Pinterest! {honored!} I love, love creating graphics, logos, spreadsheets, templates, etc. for every facet of my life, but most of all for Girl Scouts. 

In my four-going-on-five years beingness a leader, I scoured the spider web for ideas...ideas to brand badge earning streamlined too time-efficient. Ideas for how to select activities that lucifer into the range of time, budget too effectiveness of my troop.  Most of us are mothers, receive got jobs too other interests with Girl Scouts beingness simply 1 component division of the whole pie. From the beginning I felt bogged downwardly inward detail.  There is a wealth of data too resources available from council trainings, the web, other leaders, etc. but what was the best trend to get together too weed through it all?  As leaders, nosotros all receive got dissimilar strengths too weaknesses.  Some of us are goodness at camping, some at sewing, some at community service too others at mentoring.  I asked myself, "where is the nitty gritty?"  What is the best trend to care troop fourth dimension betwixt outings earning participation patches too meetings earning badges?  How many council activities should nosotros participate in? How create you lot engage parents to participate?  How create you lot bargain amongst conduct issues that resurface?  At times I felt similar I was flailing inward the dark, finding out things randomly through word-of oral cavity or stumbling upon something at the final minute.

I don't claim to last an goodness at anything other than doing my best.  I was a Girl Scout Junior for 3 years too I can't count the multitude of ways it enriched my life.  I came from a family amount of dysfunction, my parents had issues amongst alcohol abuse. Girl Scouts (along amongst church building too loving grandparents) filled the gaps that were missing.  Girl Scouts made me believe inward myself too inward plough believe inward Girl Scouts!  That's what this weblog is all about, a trend for me to plough over back.  Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 trend for me to assist leaders, inward whatever modest trend I can.  I promise that visitors volition notice something helpful to accept away from "."  Or, fifty-fifty better, if you lot receive got something to contribute, I welcome invitee bloggers. 

As a woman nurture of a 9-year-old immature lady too 2 older sons, I'm honored to conduct on the tradition of leadership.  I love Girl Scouts! I alive Girl Scouts!  ...and too hence are you.  So are the many women, girls too families that are a component division of such a great institution.

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My service unit of measurement honored us at the concluding Leader

 

 

Today is Girl Scout Leader Day together with footing Day! Two days inwards one.  What's non to love?  The really fact that this twenty-four hours exists, makes me experience appreciated together with honored.   I wishing that for all leaders.  How practise you lot experience today? My service unit of measurement honored us at the concluding Leader's Meeting amongst cards together with pens!  Any piffling token agency together with hence much.  So, from me to you, Happy Leader Day!  You are appreciated <3

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Best My First Freebie!

It's taken to a greater extent than fourth dimension than I ever imagined getting this weblog launched!  But hither nosotros are amongst my firstly freebie for troop leaders.  Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 milestone!  Recently I began planning for my Brownies to duet to Juniors.  While doing this I realized that later on 4 years of beingness a leader, my rear participation was waning too yet my troop had grown bigger.  And yesteryear waning I hateful that fifty-fifty though I had parents who were active inwards PTA, schoolhouse functions, & the community, I was finding it hard to fifty-fifty larn drivers for champaign trips.  I couldn't fill upwards chair/management positions inside the troop too I was doing equally good much--co-leader, treasurer, recordkeeper, etc. I didn't mind, all the same I realized the to a greater extent than I did the less I did well.

At the same fourth dimension I was aware that many of my girls were getting older, becoming active inwards sports too extra-curricular activities too developing interests similar trip the lite fantastic too gymnastics.  Those girls were kickoff to "age out"...literally equally good busy or non interested inwards beingness a Girl Scout. I used to last distressing when a miss would quit or lose interest, too then I realized atrophy is a part of the natural ebb too catamenia of a troop. I ever larn novel girls who real heighten the troop equally a whole.  So when boundary registration started a calendar month or hence ago, I sent out an electronic mail indicating it was "that fourth dimension again" too that parents should receive got a conversation amongst their miss almost continuing equally Juniors.  While I would always accept a miss dorsum who gave notice, I needed to fix for the futurity equally best equally I could.

So I came upwards amongst the see of a Girl Scout handbook for parents that would outline the dynamics of troop functions.  I began searching the spider web for a handbook of sorts that would essentially "reinvest" parents inwards Girl Scouts.  Most notably that Girl Scouts is to a greater extent than than an extra-curricular activity.  I emphasized that the fourth dimension commitment for Juniors should last taken into consideration when making the determination to motility on.  I also instituted a mandatory release of volunteer hours per family.  I constitute such a handbook on the Girl Scouts, Hornets’ Nest Council website inwards Charlotte, NC.  I adapted it slightly, prettied it upwards amongst fonts too graphics too sent it out inwards the registration email.

The results?  The exact v girls I knew were undecided, made the determination to pursue other interests.  I didn't receive got to verbalize to the parents almost the lack of volunteerism or to the girls almost what it way to last a Girl Scout.  Instead, provided amongst the information, the families made the determination that they couldn't commit to the side yesteryear side degree of Girl Scouts. And that's okay! While I had hoped to expire on the bulk of my girls for equally long equally possible, equally the troop grew, the dynamic became to a greater extent than difficult.  In 3 years nosotros went from vi to 8 to 10 to thirteen girls.  I stressed almost having plenty drivers to volunteer.  I handled electronic mail communication, curriculum, crafts too planned trips.  I gathered permission slips, downloaded forms too attended leader meetings.  The same parents who never volunteered were also the most probable to RSVP for an trial too and then cancel at the concluding infinitesimal because something came up.  It got hence bad I had to inquire for reimbursements for council activities because I was required to pay ahead. 

So I adapted too added to the master rear handbook from GSHNC hence that it spans all ages too levels.  Feel gratis to personalize it for your troop, peculiarly areas marked yesteryear [brackets].  I used the Girl Scout Omnes font, which tin sack last constitute on the web.  The graphics for uniforms too programs at each degree are inwards the dorsum of the manual.  You tin sack delete all the ages that don't apply to you.  If  you lot would rather receive got a pdf copy, I tin sack take away all personalization too render a pdf re-create if I larn plenty requests.

 {Click hither to download the [pdf] Troop Parent Handbook}
 {Click hither to download the [Word] Troop Parent Handbook}

Enjoy!

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Best Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Troop Thank You!

My Brownie Troop was rattling ambitious alongside cookie sales this year.  So ambitious that halfway through the sales menses nosotros {me} began to panic that we'd bitten off to a greater extent than than nosotros could chew (which nosotros did--but that's closed to other post service completely!) I reached out to folks inwards the community that I had relationships alongside together with my old employer, a bloom shop, agreed to create a permanent "booth" sale for us.  This took the shape of shelf infinite displaying boxes of cookies.  As customers came inwards to purchase flowers, they were asked if they were interested inwards buying Girl Scout cookies.  Many customers added them to their bloom deliveries equally an extra gift, equally a become good detail or bought them for themselves.  It was a win win.  The community was able to purchase cookies inwards a consistent place together with the bloom store had a special, seasonal process to offering their bloom customers.  It helps that the possessor is a Rotarian together with his married adult woman is a Soroptimist.  They sympathise together with believe inwards organizations similar Girl Scouts!

The display stayed upwards until the halt of site sales.  I'm happy to study the bloom store sold over 100 boxes of cookies!  Next came fourth dimension to tell THANK YOU inwards a big way.  So I arranged to accept a troop mom human activity equally lensman together with create a photograph shoot alongside the girls (we also took private portraits of the girls for my Bridging Scrapbook gifts--yet closed to other post!).  We cutting the letters T-H-A-N-K  Y-O-U-! out of 12X12 glitter scrapbook paper.  Then each daughter held a missive of the alphabet (and 1 daughter held a silk Strelitzia aka Bird of Paradise) together with wammo a photograph give cheers y'all card.  I purchased a mat together with had the girls sign it together with add together cookie stickers.  Add a quick frame together with voila! H5N1 Thank You bill of fare is born!  I wrapped it inwards kraft paper, added ribbon together with the Strelitzia.

For the privacy of the girls, kitty faces were added to mask their identities =^.^=

Such a uncomplicated means to give a personal troop give cheers y'all that tin endure hung on the business' wall, seat upwards at the cash register or on the owner/manager's desk.  They've already asked us to come upwards dorsum adjacent yr together with create a cookie rally exterior the store--which only happens to endure across the street from a Target together with TJMaxx. Can't wait!

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Best Did You Notice?

I did! Looky these novel bridging arcs!  The arcs supersede the onetime stylized bridging rainbows that accept been a staple on the Girl Scout uniform for years.  Out amongst the onetime too inward amongst the new!  My troop of late bridged from Brownies to Juniors too later on I saw these, man child did I desire to run out too purchase them.  But for now, nosotros are going to remain Old School.  Once the girls couple to Cadettes, we'll accept the lovely arcs.  Something to await frontwards to. 

I'd honey to request heed your thoughts on the newborn arcs!  I intend they are exactly adorable.  Will you lot purpose them for your troop this twelvemonth or at the adjacent bridging?

Announcement!  I've opened a shop on teacherspayteachers.com.  More information to come!

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Best Off too Running!

Update:  As of 11/11/15 my resources are available on Etsy or yesteryear straight download.  Freebies are forthwith a straight download as well as for sale resources are upwardly on Etsy inwards my shop here.  For a consummate listing of resources, delight click here.

Between working at an agricultural pedagogy center, running my ain troop as well as household unit of measurement of five, I've finally managed to drib dead a few resources upwardly on Teachers Pay Teachers.  If you lot haven't stumbled upon this wonderful site yet, drib dead over at that topographic point now!  Teachers Pay Teachers is similar the Etsy of the pedagogy world.  In add-on to lots of freebies (fonts, lesson plans, etc.) at that topographic point are likewise resources that volition travel for Girl Scouts.

My troop calendar has been floating unopen to on Pinterest for the lastly year, only it was my troops as well as it was inwards PDF form.  Now I've converted the template to an slow to purpose Word file, customizable for your troop as well as level.  Download here. Did I advert it's a gratuitous download?  I likewise convey the calendar available inwards Excel if you lot prefer the predictability of spreadsheets to Word tables.

Find them inwards my Etsy shop here. If you lot prefer your troop set out as well as twelvemonth to live personalized, it's available for a small personalization fee {please note: the fee is for personalization non the graphic}. 

I convey lots of other resources upwardly my sleeve for the future, only if you lot convey a resources that you'd similar to see, drib me a comment!

Download your gratuitous historic current score graphic {click on graphic below to download} or drib dead 1 personalized from my Etsy store.

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Best Let's Talk Fonts!

Since I dear making graphics, it's solely natural that I dear fonts too.  If I run into a graphic I love, it's fun to lay the font that's used.  There are a span of actually skillful font identification sites on the web.  I role myfont.com/whatthefont generally only for slow idents (simple fonts that are non fancy) I role identifont.com.  What does this bring to practise amongst Girl Scouts you lot ask?  Wellll...the novel Girl Guides to Girl Scouting role dissimilar fonts for each historic menses group.  Having headings to role for a number of projects is as well as then helpful, specially if you lot brand a lot of your ain resources equally I do.  I went through as well as identified each of the fonts Girl Scouts used on the books.  Fun, right?  Surely I'm non the solely 1 that noticed that all the spines together brand a tree as well as a occupation of girls at each historic menses flat together?  Great particular Girl Scouts!

The Daisy font is called Zalderdash.  I dear it's playfulness as well as simplicity!

The Brownie font is called Kari.  It's pretty, partial print, partial handwriting way is bully for 1st as well as 2d graders.

The Junior font is a fleck to a greater extent than tricky.  I had to describe out the stops to lay this one, pregnant I had to postal service a sample on a board.  The number was a font called Éclat, only the problem:  it wasn't exactly the same font amongst the spacing as well as alignment of the lettering. So I combed the spider web as well as came across a font called Creampuff.  Creampuff was easier to notice free, which makes it skillful to role inwards a pinch.  The primary standout is that the lowercase "r" is a bit different.



The Cadette, Senior and Ambassador fonts were to a greater extent than mutual fonts so easier to identify.  Cadette is Rockwell, Seniors is Bodoni Poster ssi as well as Ambassadors is Helvetica. November 14, 2013: In my zeal at getting these fonts identified as well as up, I misidentified the Senior font.  It is indeed Bodoni Poster, only it is Bodoni Poster Italic.

 Stay tuned for what this all agency for iamgirlscouts...



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Best Junior Badge Tracker! Updated for Girl Guides to Girl Scouting

Updated for 2014-2015!  The all novel Junior Tracker tin flaming endure constitute here.


The former badge tracker post:  In an crusade to endure to a greater extent than "girl led" alongside my novel juniors, I wanted them to endure involved inward every possible determination that affected their Girl Scout experience.  As a crazy, happy pinner, I came across a wonderful badge tracker past times Sylvia at http://www.gouldspace.com

I decided to conform together with recreate it.  I added all the badges from Girl Guides to Girl Scouting including the fiscal literacy, cookie job concern together with all the Journeys.  When it came to putting them all together, I initially mounted them on cute cardstock together with butcher newspaper then that I could conduct maintain it to Kinko's to endure laminated.  The length ended upwards making this prohibitive for transporting together with storing (since out coming together room is at the schoolhouse together with this twelvemonth nosotros don't conduct maintain permanent storage).  So instead I printed the sheets double-sided, inward color, on 32 lb. 98 brightness character copier paper.  I laminated each double-sided canvass together with used a binder clip to concur it all together.

At our coming together yesterday the girls had fun looking through the badge choices together with deciding what to start on first!

The entire package of 26 badges tin flaming endure downloaded gratis hither [pdf] or [Word].  The Word MD tin flaming endure personalized together with the pdf cannot.  Happy Trooping!

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Best Snack Calendar Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 must have!

Not create to tackle a troop year-long calendar in addition to simply shout out for a template to produce a quick snack schedule for parents? Or are you lot looking for a agency to proceed rail of snack that's non on your troop calendar? This snack calendar is simply what you lot need! Reusable from yr to year, this calendar tin flame hold out personalized to your needs but delight run out the copyright banking concern complaint intact in addition to credit dorsum to iamgirlscouts.blogspot.com! This template requires the Girl Scout Omnes font, which is available online for complimentary at diverse font websites. Enjoy!

{ Troop snack calendar [doc] type-in or [pdf] write-in }

Coming soon, Brownie in addition to Daisy Badge Trackers! Any requests? Send them on over in addition to I'll hold out happy to regard them for hereafter projects. 

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Best Happy New Year! Let's Talk Activity Overload...

Recently I had a really embarrassing matter happen.  With all 8 of my Girl Scouts every bit good every bit ii parents inwards tow, I arrived at a council action an hr after it ended.  I had gotten the fourth dimension wrong.  My telephone too planner said 1 p.m. - three p.m. too the action was genuinely from 10 a.m. - 12 p.m.  I was mortified. I kicked myself, shed a tear or ii too tried to plow it into a positive every bit an illustration to the girls.  I seat on a brave exterior, bought them all "Girl Scouts Rock!" patches too allow them browse the Girl Scout store.  They couldn't accept been happier.

Although our troop was able to reschedule the consequence for a afterward date, I did NOT desire that to hap again.

Then something else happened. At the foremost of the schoolhouse twelvemonth at our troop raise meeting, I had my parents sign a contract of sorts, stating that they would move responsible for whatsoever events that were paid for that their daughters ultimately did non attend for whatsoever argue except for illness.  All my parents signed willingly too were on-board.  Now delight proceed inwards mind, I'm a prolific communicator.  I proceed my troop informed through emails, Shutterfly too newspaper calendars. Last calendar month I paid for an expensive council overnighter inwards total amongst troop funds.  When I began collecting the coin for the raise portion for the aforementioned activity, I had a mom e-mail me that her miss did non desire to go.  Mind you, this mom hadn't RSVP'd yeah or no.  She's busy, plant difficult too is a bit...well...flighty.  I assumed her miss would become because she was my troop overnighter mom.  Did I shout she's also my co-leader?  I graciously sent her an e-mail too reminded her that if her miss didn't go, she would owe the troop a reimbursement. She apartment out said she wasn't going to pay.  {What?} She said she hadn't RSVPd too thus was non responsible for the money. {I grumbled too stomped my feet!} Then I had a lightbulb minute (think Gru).

I ran the stance yesteryear my troop treasurer too voila! a novel policy was born.  From directly on parents pay for all trips too activities inwards advance too are too so reimbursed when their miss attends the event.  I was advised to adopt this policy from several leaders I had met at a representative council meeting, precisely I stance my contract would suffice. After all, my parents had all signed too understood the policy, right?  In an endeavour to salve my sanity too to avoid this happening, I created an action log.  The creation of this log came correct along amongst my conclusion to call each of my vii parents too teach verbal confirmations on trips too activities.  Seven telephone calls volition salve me lots of fourth dimension too headaches.  So I designed this planner page to move used when I telephone band the parents or teach e-mail notification of their RSVPs.

As presently every bit I made it, I was inwards love, so I knew I had to portion it amongst yous all!  I know it's non the cookie resources I've promised (or the Brownie Tracker--yikes! Did I shout I operate full-time? No excuses!)

Here is how I seat it to purpose land making telephone calls:

It fifty-fifty has a location for the appointment of the call/email too for notes.  Using this method, which goes straight into my Martha Stewart planner, I don't accept post-its, emails too verbal RSVPs inwards my caput (or an empty infinite where non-RSVPs lurk inwards the shadows of ambiguity).  I modified the Excel template too it's directly laid upward for download straight here!

Please e-mail me if yous accept whatsoever needs or ideas for Cookie Sales!  I started researching to discovery out what leaders needed too didn't genuinely discovery whatsoever holes inwards the resources out there.  Please add together your suggestions to the comments below!



xoxo

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Best National Convention Here I Come!

Yikes! Where lead maintain I been?  I'm fifty-fifty bespeak myself that!  I've been living together with loving Girl Scouts!  Here is what I've been upwards to:

• Took my troop girls to an overnighter inwards the mountains to earn their camping ground badge together with larn nearly john safety.  Separately the girls finished their
• Planned together with executed 3 Daisy, Brownie together with Junior sessions at the ag teaching farm where I work.  It is a pleasance to function amongst my Girl Scout council to seat on these workshops that break the girls to the farm to table, species conservation inwards farm hedgerows together with corridors, together with watershed teaching every bit it relates to the WOW Journey.  Juniors earned the Energize constituent of the Get Moving! Journey.  
• Took my troop girls to an overnighter at the Monterey Bay aquarium where the girls earned their Animal Habitat Badge.  It was an amazing sense that my girls enjoyed really much (me too!)
• I attended the Girl Scouts Heart of Central California Annual Meeting inwards February.  I had been to a few annual meetings inwards my fourth dimension simply never i for Girl Scouts.  It was an laurels to heed to a Gold together with Silver Award recipient utter over their projects.  I also got to witness a Girl Scout Alumnae have a 45 yr pin!  Something to strive for!
• The troop had a rigid complete to cookie sales!  We did 3 booth sales together with individually the girls reached their sales goals together with earned their Cookie CEO badges.  This year's in-store cookie booth ship service to follow.  Here is terminal year's in-store booth sale.
• Last simply non to the lowest degree {drumroll} I applied, interviewed together with was selected to go a National Council Delegate!  I'm going to Utah for the convention inwards October.  Whoop!

I'm together with then excited together with honored to lead maintain the chance to stand upwards for Girl Scouts Heart of Central California together with the Davis Service Unit at the National level.  I'll lead maintain the chance to vote on Girl Scout policy that volition go seat into consequence the adjacent 3 years.  I was able to sign upwards for pre-session together with I'm adding or together with then personal move to the trip.  I excogitation to blog, Tweet together with Facebook throughout the Convention together with then I tin john lead maintain all of you lot amongst me.  More to come upwards every bit the appointment rolls closer.  For to a greater extent than information, see the convention website.  Pick a strawberry together with follow me together with then you lot don't miss a thing:

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Best aMUSE Journey inward a Day - My experience

I'm ambitious together with well, maybe a combat crazy when it comes to challenging myself to accept on tasks inwards Girl Scouts.  Personal challenges equally a leader is what keeps it interesting for me!  So I decided to accept on the aMUSE Journey inwards a Day.  aMUSE seemed the best jibe for the venue nosotros chose together with for my girls' personalities.

Logistical details:  Held on Apr 27th from 8 a.m. to v p.m.  Seven girls inwards attendance from the same troop (originally 8 signed up).  The session was held at a non-profit, amongst a large coming together room, breakout room together with kitchen.  I was the solely adult overseeing the session.

I knew if the girls were going to piece of occupation for 8 hours, it had to last interesting.  There are a pose out of resources on the spider web for doing a journeying inwards a day, journeying inwards a sleepover, or a journeying inwards a weekend.  I would remove hold loved to create it inwards a sleepover but was express yesteryear the fourth dimension of yr together with my girls' busy schedules.  It took me four days (several hours per day) of intensive planning together with nearly v hours of inquiry to pose together the day.  Then an additional 3 hours to store for supplies. I would guestimate that total prep fourth dimension is 25-30 hours.  I bought the bulk of supplies at 3 places:  Michael's, the Dollar Tree together with Party City.  Pinterest was an invaluable resources inwards putting this hateful solar daytime together.

Seven of my 8 Juniors attended the session which was held at my work, an ag didactics non-profit amongst an share (a converted farmhouse) on 200 acres. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 school, church building or community edifice would piece of occupation simply equally well.  We also had access to a kitchen together with a divide breakout room.  You demand lots of space!  Originally the atmospheric condition was supposed to last moisture together with rainy but the Sun came out together with thus exterior fourth dimension was non solely possible but necessary.  Remember that the adult book, "How to Guide Girl Scout Juniors Through aMUSE, It's Your Story--Tell It! Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Leadership Journey" is simply a guide.  Think of it equally an outline, or a mass of ideas, rather than a lesson invention or curriculum.  You create non remove hold to consummate or adhere to every unmarried activity or thought inwards the book.  At many of the Girl Scout leader retreats together with trainings, the mind advice service unit, council together with seasoned leaders give:  "don't larn bogged downwards inwards the details."  The books are total of ideas, but are non "requirements."  Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 journeying also doesn't remove hold to accept half dozen months to consummate or experience similar "school" to the girls.  Get creative, speak to your girls together with invention what industrial plant for your troop.

The aMUSE Journey Award has 3 parts:   Reach Out, Speak Out, Try out. The Reach Out Award is nearly agreement the many roles women together with girls play inwards the basis or thus them together with the leadership skills used to play them.  The Speak Out Award an awareness of how stereotypes could concur people dorsum from trying on roles, together with and then taking activity to assistance halt stereotypes; together with the Try Out Award encourages the girls to remove hold the courage together with confidence to travail out novel roles.  Below are pictures, anecdotes, hints together with do-overs from the day. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 detailed outline of how I did the Journey inwards a Day to follow soon.

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Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Flurry of Roles!

Observation:  I was surprised yesteryear how strongly some girls responded to existence assigned roles they thought weren't correct for them. One exceptional girl, whose mom runs a daycare business, did non desire the businesswoman role.  I encouraged the girls to intend exterior of what they know nearly themselves together with visualize themselves inwards a role, no affair how unusual it may seem.

Ultimately they chose 1 operate they actually wanted to last "when they grow up".

Team Prop Box!

Do-over:  I would remove hold the girls pose downwards combat mass newspaper start to encompass the box, together with then add together the pictures together with letters.  I would also remove hold provided to a greater extent than varieties of magazines.  Time:  45 minutes

Take the Stage

Rather than writing "active" roles on index cards (page 31 adult guide), I downloaded the bill of fare game from:  http://forgirls.girlscouts.org/print-play-character-cards/

Role Models

Rather than brand operate model dolls, (page 20-21 inwards the girl's book, each daughter was given a prepainted canvas.  I instructed the girls to remove an activity phrase "I am", "I can", "I will", "I love", etc.

This activity took an hr together with was a favorite of the day!

Breaking the Mold

Do some words brand you lot experience powerful, similar you lot tin create anything?

Once they thought of their intelligence each daughter decorated a pennant on the pennant of power.  Because I remove hold a laminating compulsion {squeal} I laminated each pennant, including the extra spacers, scored them at the top together with strung them on rainbow yarn (pics are non great...sorry!) 

 

Panel Discussion

 

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Sharing Our Accessories

 

This is my Story! Where Will it Go?

 

Present Speak Out! Project

 

Celebrate Us!

Summary of the Day

If it were whatever other journey, completing it inwards a hateful solar daytime would non last possible inwards my opinion.  Many of the journeys require activity projects that accept to a greater extent than fourth dimension together with planning than the "How to Tell Your Story" element of aMUSE.

The biggest limitation for me was evidently time.  In the journeying planner that I was using, most of the activities were solely supposed to accept fifteen minutes.  Most of them took thirty minutes to an hr (the canvases together with squad prop box took over an hour).  

In my personal opinion, many of the journey's themes together with lessons overlap to the request of repetition.  I was able to consolidate some of the sections yesteryear doing unlike activities than those outlined inwards the adult guide that jibe multiple lesson objectives.  

Would I create it again?  It was a hard hateful solar daytime inwards that the girls were restless.  Although the activities were fun the girls were aching to expend energy.  I was express yesteryear the atmospheric condition inwards the morn but inwards the afternoon the Sun came out.  I would remove hold planned to a greater extent than outdoor activities together with maybe done some of the theatrical elements exterior if I had known the atmospheric condition would improve.  

My master copy invention was to render Journey inwards a Day workshops to other troops.  The strenuousness of the hateful solar daytime caused me to reconsider, or at to the lowest degree postpone the plan.  Logistically this would require a pocket-sized daughter to adult ratio.  Stations would remove hold to last planned out to the nth degree, run apace together with efficiently, which is non ever predictable.  It would also last somewhat hard to remove girls together who don't know each other equally they may non experience comfortable plenty to create the to a greater extent than dramatic elements of the journey.

We did some things out of order, such equally nosotros had our panel give-and-take at the halt of the day.  We did to a greater extent than fine art together with creative play, rather than mass work.  Our Speak Out! Project was partly digital together with volition last presented online through this weblog together with Facebook equally good equally inwards video cast at our halt of the yr political party together with awards.  The girls also presented their discoveries together with accomplishments to parents at the halt of the day.

Is it doable?  If you lot are ambitious enough, absolutely!  Most troops embark on a Journey inwards a Day thus that they are able to earn the Journey Summit Award.  For us it was to larn a journeying done thus that nosotros could piece of occupation on our Bronze Award Project.  

If you lot remove hold whatever questions nearly doing a Journey inwards a Day, delight experience costless to enquire questions inwards the comments department below.  I volition answer them together with and then generate a FAQ.  

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