Key to My Community: Your Day with Spark Guests

Guider Janice has been a long-time commenter on this site and the other day she e-mailed to ask for my opinion on how to make a talky meeting more fun.  I was honoured to be asked (she is Guider Janice of ”It Sticks” fame, after all) and I asked if she’d mind if we posted the final version here for [...]

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Busy busy

It has been a busy couple of weeks and the blog has suffered a bit for it.  I am moving house at the beginning of May, so my life has been consumed by that.  And it will continue to be.  But I’ll try to post later in the week.  I’ve got plenty of things to [...]

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Change of Plans

We had an awesome meeting planned tonight. We were going to go to Loblaws Cooking School. Unfortunately, there was a power failure and we’ve had to come up with a whole new plan on the fly. How do you communicate with your parents? What would you have done? When Snowy Owl called me with the [...]

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Fun Meetings: Backwards Day with a bit of Leap Year thrown in

Some meetings you just have to have fun.  One of our favourite fun meetings – aside from Ice Cream – is Backwards Day.  The purpose?  By switching up the routine, it sheds light on the different aspects of our meetings that has become routine.  This year we’ll also celebrate a bit of Leap Year too.  Thanks to [...]

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Christmas Crafts Meeting

Our last Brownie Meeting before Christmas was last week and boy was it fun!  We enrolled two girls, and we had Tracey come in to lead a craft that we think is the Best Craft Ever.  6:30  Game (Girls choice – they picked a Line Tag/Freeze Tag combo they made up).  Brown Owl went over [...]

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Key to Brownies – Enrolling a new girl mid-year

When we started in September we weren’t quite full.  But now we’ve reached capacity and there are two girls who must be enrolled.  Dilemma!  The original girls got a nice big ceremony focused all on them.  These new girls deserve the same attention, but there just isn’t time. In a perfect world, here’s how I’d [...]

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Remembrance Day Resources

In years that we do Key to my Community, we aim to have the Canada meeting around Remembrance Day.  Here is the meeting plan for November 2010.  You may also find the Simple Flag Ceremony Script useful. In opposite years (like this year) we are usually in the middle of Key to STEM so we do a [...]

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Key to STEM: Power of Power

We start STEM tonight – Science, Technology, Engineering and Math.  Here’s the plan: 6:30 Arrival – Captain’s Coming (the regular one) 6:40 Inspection (we have two new girls tonight) 6:50 Brownie Circle 7:00 Program Part 1: Talk about Badges – Keys are badges that we earn together.  Interest Badges are ones you can earn on [...]

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Halloween Party

Tonight is the Brownie Halloween Party. I can’t say that I love dressing up, but the kids sure do.  Here’s the plan: (Sparks and Brownies) 6:30 Arrival – Halloween Tag (Freeze Tag where “it” scares the victims so that they freeze in scared positions.  Other people can un-scare them by giving them a hug). 6:40 – [...]

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Key to the Arts: I wonder if Brownies could make this…?

I saw a tutorial for making a spider lace loom and I wonder if this would be too complicated for Brownies?  This particular pattern might be too much, but the concept should be 7-8 year old friendly.  Check out http://blog.craftzine.com/archive/2011/09/how-to_spider_loom.html to see what I mean. Hm.

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