Advancement: Building a Campfire

Our district advancement is tomorrow night (technically, we don’t have districts anymore in Ontario, but what do you call them?  Communities, I guess?).  Anyway, you know what I mean.  Sparks, Brownies, Guides, Pathfinders and Rangers will be gathering for a big advancement ceremony… this is where 2nd year Sparks become new Brownies, 2nd year Brownies [...]

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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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Giveaway: 30,000 Hits!

Holy Cow!  The counter just rolled over to 30,004 hits.  In celebration I have some Ottawa Area crests (Ottawa Area doesn’t exist now so these aren’t available anymore) that I will mail to a random commenter. To win… leave a comment including where you’re commenting from (but not your address!) and your name below by [...]

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Valentine’s Day

I’m not big on Valentine’s Day myself (lots of reasons…too commercial, we should say I love you all the time, and I’m single so it is a bit of a downer to see everyone all gushy about each other) but this year, I’m kind of excited about it.  V-Day falls on Brownie Night. Here are [...]

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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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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 Brownies: Enrollment Prep

This is our fourth meeting of the year and Enrollment is next week.  This year we are doing a joint enrollment with the Sparks so we’re working closely with them.  But our standard Brownie enrollment can be found here – we like tradition and don’t go too far off our favourite one with stepping stones.  [...]

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Brownie Enrollment Ceremony

This ceremony is one we’ve tweaked through the years – but it started from something I found on the internet somewhere (if you find something similar – please let me know where I should give credit) and it is based on the Toadstool Story in the Brownie Book. Enrollment ceremony schedule: 6:30 Arrival game for [...]

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Simple Flag Ceremony

This is an update to my previous post on Flag Ceremonies which is getting a lot of hits.    I have added a printable one-pager here which I hope will make it even easier to include flag ceremonies into your unit meetings and events.   If you use this, please let me know how you do.

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Key to My Community: Flag Ceremony Script

I’m not sure if flag ceremonies are falling out of favour in Guiding units, or maybe they’re deemed “too complicated” for Brownies, or if we just don’t know how to do them anymore, but I haven’t seen a flag ceremony attempted in a couple of years.  I wonder if it is just in my little circle, [...]

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